When I woke up, it was by Two-Bit and Soda jumping and shaking me. "Come on, get off me!"I tried pushing them off but it didn't work. "You heard him, get off, he ain't the one you gotta wake up cuz he isn't going to the rumble."Darryinformed them. "Sorry darry."Sodapop and Two-Bit jumped off. "Ponyboy, we're going to go get your hair cut in 30 minutes. Better be ready." "Darry, I don't feel too good. Can we wait to get it done?" he walked over to me and felt my forehead.I didn't really feel bad, I needed some time before the rumble. If I was going to go through with my plan, I would need time. "You don't feel bad. Anyway, yeah ponyboy, we can wait as long as you want.I made some eggs. Help yourself, for now you can go back to sleep. Well, we're going to go now then I guess. See you around."With that, they were gone. And as soon as I heard the screen door slam, I hoped up and inforced my plan. I hadn't caught where the Rumble was supposed to be, although I assumed it was in the lot, I had to know if I was going to sneak in there.I threw some pants on and was gone out the dorr, following from a safe distance from the howling boys. Of coarse, they went straight for the lot. Well that was great, I had a hole hour to myself. I dcided to take a nap until the rumble started. I knew it had started whenever there were shouts. So I lied down behind a tree and decided to go to sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I woke up, I heard them explaining the rules. There were no weapons, something none of us knew. No one had brought a weapon, but we weren't going to use them anyways, even if we could have. I stood up and saw a flash of a white hand and realized the rumble started. I snuck aloing the outside of the circles of I saw another guy, running and flitting about in the lot, which had more space than we were using. The guy was wearing jeans, not new, but no holes in them, a black shirt, and a ball cap on his head, along with sunglasses. I ran over to him and raised my fist, about to take aim. "hey, I ain't fighting you."Was all he said before he jumped on a Socs back. I didn't know him, and no one else looked like they did either, but the socs didn't care. One knocked him to the ground while I was fighting beside him, with a kid, looked about 11 or 12. And when that Greasers had flew off, the truth flew out. That wasn't no guy, that was a girl with her hair up in the Soc stopped mid aim. That was when I realized, this girl wasn't even a girl, this girl, was a greaser. She tore the sunglasses off and threw them away from her, revealing blue eyes. She right hooked the Soc right in the jaw and he flew backwards. "What are you doing here?" "What are you doing here?"she asked and turned, punching, kicking, flipping through the corwod, and no soc hit her because of the fact that she was a girl. I actually think that's why we won that night. Anyways, the socs ran, and I had only tangoed with one. Afterwards, darry hit me across the head, not like that night he had and I ran away, this was just a smack. "What did I tell you kid, to not come to this rumble!" "I wasn't going to, I just came to watch, but then I got closer when I saw that girl, i still wasn't going to fight, but that soc knocked me hard on the ground."I looked at the mystery girl and prayed she didn't say anything. It was only us there, Tim Shepard and his gang left, leaving me, Darry, Two-Bit, Sodapop, and the mystery girl there. "Yeah, who are you anyways and what you doing picking fights with socs?" "Yeah? Well I'll pick a fight with you if you don't stop calling me a girl." Sodapop had been smirking at her the hole time."Fine. Hey, anybody got a smoke on them?" She pulled out a cigarrette from her pocket before any of us moved. We just stood there arms folded over, waiting for Soda to take it. When he did, I smiled at her smile. "And by the way, My name is Shalyn."She flipped her hair as she turned and began to walk away. "Hey,"I yelled after her."Don't you wanna know ours?" She turned and smiled."Sorry, Ididn't mean to sound rude. I just was trying to get home before my grandmother goes crazy. But she can wait I guess." "Darry, can she come to our place?" Darry shook his head."Too messy." "Shoot, you ain't seen my room then."she smiled. I knew that Darry liked her, because he said she could stay without anything else. Two bit liked her because he was being quiet, but Soda...I knew he was having a hard time with this, because he was being quiet too, usually he would have been yaping, and, to be honest, I liked her was beautiful, brown, blackish hair past her shoulders. You coudn't not like her. When we got there, I expected her to come out of a stupor or something and realize she wasn't on her way didn't even flinch when she saw the dirty yard, and just laughed when they started yowling. When we were inside, she asked,"Can I sit down,I'm pretty tired." "Oh yeah, make yourself at home."Soda said smiling from the couch. "thanks."she said and took a seat beside him."What's your name?" "Sodapop Curtis, but you can call me Soda though." "Neah, I think I'll stick with sodapop." "But it's easier to just say soda." "But Sodapop is your real name. It's unique too, so I will stick with Sodapop if that's okay with you Sodapop."she smiled."What, what about them? Are they your brothers? What are they like? What's their names?" "Well,"Soda said looking at me and flicking the T.V to Mickey Mouse."That's Ponyboy there. He's the one that saved those kids from a fire at the church down in Windrixville on Jay Hill. I got another brother named darry, he's the one eating in there. The other one is Two-Bit. He's usualy a crack up, but I think you scared him."Sodapop laughed and Shalyn laughed also. "Does he get annoying talking so much?" "You better beleive it." "Then I think I did you a favor." "Maybe."Soda stretched out. "You got a nice house."she remarked after a minute. "Hey, I don't need no girl talking about my house, I like it the way it is and if you don't you can just leave." "Sodapop!" "Hey, i wasn't being sarcastic, at least you don't live in no trailer park!" "I'm ' know,you dig pretty good, you know?" "Most people call me white trash." "Shoot girl, just , we all get that. You don't let it get to you, okay?" "Never know, I would walk home, but I think I'd pass out on my way. Look, I hate to ask you this, but is there anyway You'd let me stay here for tonight?" Soda scratched his neck."Sure, you mind sleeping on the floor though?" "No, I'm used to it."she sighed and stood up."Will you show me where at?" Sodapop nodded and she grabbed his hand, pulling him off the couch. I almost died of jelousy, but then felt ashamed. Soda deserved some girl to like him, and you could tell she liked him more than anyone else, and the think was, I couldn't even blame her. Soda was charming, especially with his own baseball cap on his head. I lied down where Soda had been sitting, and soon, I was out of it, not even dreaming, I think I passed out.