The next couple weeks were Shalyn filled. She came over every day and hung out with Ponyboy. I was jelous, to be honest. I liked Shalyn. And it killed me. She was pretty, she was intelligent...too intelligent. She reminded me of Sandy. But Shalyn almost completely erased her. I didn't know how you fell in-liked someone so quickly.I had met her at a rumble, as a guy...that didn't sound right, but it was. I could tell about everyone in the Curtis house liked Shalyn. she was a guy at times, and you could forget the way she actually was a girl. She played chicken with Two-Bit, after Two-Bit getting it out of him he would get her one day from those games, she had smoke ring contests, everything greasers liked in girls I supposed. But out of all of the guys in our house, Pony liked her the most. He had told me that, even though I'd warned him not to get involved with women, which Shalyn barley was one, so I couldn't really get mad at him for it. Steve randal had gotten out of the jail, and once he met Shalyn, he had said he must haave died in jail and went to needed to get their heads out of their butts with love because it wasn't love, it was head over heals drop dead gorgeosness that made people like her. "Sodapop, when you going to tell her you love her?"Pony had asked me on e night. "I don't love her." "Aww sodapop, you can tell me the truth." "I said I don't like her okay?"I turned and looked over at Pony's watery eyes. "I'm sorry-" "Whatever Soda, you need to get a life so you can stop yelling at people everytime they do something you don't like!"Ponyboy sat up in the bed."Because that's what you do, that's what you've done ever since a year ago when Johnny and Dally died, you've sat around the house and moped, crying over things that don't matter, like the house being dirty. Anything sets you off anymore sodapop and that ain't my brother!" I was swept away by Pony's words. They were the truth, which only made it harder to stay planted."Ponyboy, I really don't mean to do that. I know I do, and that's why I cry at night because I can't control it, anything sets me off and I feel more and more like Darry everyday the way he used to always yell at you except this is worse because I yell at everyone."I had started crying, and I hurried and wiped the tear away. I didn't like to make him anymore upset than I had to. Just then the door cracked and I heard Shalyn's voice."Can I come in?" I looked at Ponyboy and he shrugged."Sure."I whispered, not really trusting my voice. "I can hear you all arguing...and what it's about. The first thing I heard was "I don't like her okay?"I don't want you all to argue over me.I hate one thing more than sardines."she chuckled."Siblings fighting.I never understood it whenever my dad tried to exp;ain it to me, but now I do. brothers are all you have left in the world, they are more your age and you'll have them longer than anyone else. Don't fight."she pleaded, and me and Pony nodded. She stood up and turned to the door, before turning her head to face us."And Sodapop?"she grinned slyly."Better whatch what you say, because somepeople, just might be listening and not like what they hear."she whipped her hair around and walked off to tghe room she was occupying. "Did...she just say what I think she just said?" Ponyboy nodded."Sounds like she is in opposition to you not loving her." And that was when, I did. I did admit;I loved her.