Hey there friends! How are you doing? So I just found out that my story is showing its updated status. So I'm not sure if you guys can see it or not. But if you can't, I guess the best way is to just follow the story, so you can make sure that you can stay up to date with the new chapters. Well enough of my talking here's CHAPTER 4!
Pony removes the wire from the Mac, "Guys! I think it's done!"
Pairs of feet ran into the room. Yeah, it turns out that none of them could wait any longer so they all decided to stay at the Curtis's until it was 100%.
Darry, using the blank square, touches the compass and clicks play.
Scene continues in the snack bar. "Come on let's get back. TwoBit'll think we eloped to Mexico." Pony tells Cherry. Scene cuts to Marcia, TwoBit, and Johnny. Scene cuts to the outside of the drive in. The Greasers are walking the girls home. "Tell me about your oldest brother you never seem to talk about him." Cherry says. "What's to tell?" Ponyboy lights his cigarette, "He's big and roofs houses." The two stop by a fence, "No really what's he like. I feel like I know Soda for as much as you talk about him. Tell me about Darry. Is he wild and reckless like Soda? Dreamy like you?"
"Oooh!" Soda elbows Pony's chest. "Ow." Ponyboy mutters.
"That's a good sign!" Sodapop says smiling, "Dreamy, dreamy Ponyboy. She thinks you're real-"
"Aw cut it out Sodapop..." Ponyboy says, though he couldn't stop himself from blushing.
"He ain't like Soda, and he sure ain't like me." Ponyboy says. Everyone stops now. "He can't stand me." Pony says, "I bet he just wants to stick me in some boy's home, but Soda won't let him." Ponyboy finishes angrily. "What are you talking about, Ponyboy?" TwoBit asks.
"Yeah what are you talking about, Pony?" Soda frowns.
"I don't know," Ponyboy shakes his head. "I never said that before."
"Pony," Darry says. "You know I wouldn't want to put you in a boy's home, just because?"
Ponyboy nods, "Yeah I know, Darry." He mumbles.
A car pulls in, and Cherry spots it. "Marcia," she calls. "Oh, look who's coming. What are we gonna do?" Marcia says.
"Shit, is it the Socs?" Steve asks.
"Who are these clowns?" TwoBit says. Bob exits his car, "Cherry! What's going on? What are you doing? Just because we got a little drunk-" Cherry looks at him, angry. "A little! You call reeling and passing out on the streets a little? Bob, I told you before. I'm never going out with you and your drinking and I mean it!"
TwoBit let out a low whistle, "Man. I said it once and I'll say it again, that girl's got spunk."
Dally frowns, "Bob. As in Bob Sheldon. That's the guy hooking up with the red head?"
Soda nodded, "Yeah and from the looks of it-" He pointed, "he's gonna be the one to start it all.
Randy walks forward, "That's no reason to be walking around the streets with these bums." "Who're you calling bums, pal?" TwoBit stares. "You!" Randy moves Marcia out of the way, "Listen we got two more of us in the backseat." He threatens. TwoBit turns and smashes the bottle he had, and gives it to Ponyboy. He pulls out his blade, "Pity the back seat! If you're looking for a fight.." "I am looking for a fight!" Randy says, "Let's go! Come on! Right now!" They start yelling at each other. Cherry steps in, "Alright stop it! We'll go with you!" She yells. "Why, we ain't scared of these bastards!" TwoBit says. "I hate fights! I hate 'em!" She says. Bob chuckles and sips out of his flask.
"Okay..." Soda says. "I officially hate this guy."
"Aye," Dally raises his newly lit cigarette in agreement. "That Bob guy ain't nothing but bad news. I'm telling you, man."
TwoBit gasps, "You said 'man'!"
Dally rolled his eyes, "Sure did." And he inhales his smoke.
"I'm sorry." Cherry apologizes to Pony. "Look I couldn't use this. I could never cut no one." Ponyboy told her. "Cherry come on!" Bob yells. Cherry sighed, "I better go with him." She says. Cherry turns to walk away, but hesitates and face back to Pony. "If I see you at school and I don't say hi, don't take it personal, ok?" She says.
Sodapop narrows his eyes at the redhead, "Damn Socs. Only care about their reputations." He looks to Ponyboy, "I'm sorry, Pone."
Ponyboy smiles at Soda, "Don't worry about it Sodapop."
"It's okay." Pony says to her. Cherry smiles and she hesitates again, I hope I never see Dallas Winston again-"
"Oh come on honey," Dally says rolling his eyes and downing his Coke. "It's what I fucking do." He mumbles.
"-or- I'll probably fall in love with him or something." She says.
Dally spits out his Coke once again.
"Stop spitting out you Coke," Soda mumbles whipping the remains off of him. "What are you, a camel?"
"WHAT DID SHE JUST FUCKING SAY?!" Dally stares at the paused screen in disbelief.
"I think you found yourself a lovesick Soc, Dal." TwoBit winked.
"But she's a fucking Soc," Dallas points out. "What does the girl want me to do? Become a another fucking Soc?" He says shaking his head in disgust.
The car starts driving away and Elvis Presley 'Blue Moon' comes up. "Boy those two are the best looking girls I've ever seen." TwoBit tells them. "Yeah." Pony agreed. TwoBit pulls out a piece of paper, crumbles it, and throws it away. "What was that?" Ponyboy asks. "Marcia's number." He answers, "I must have been out of my mind to ask for it."
TwoBit looks at the screen disappointed.
"Where're y'all going?" TwoBit asks. "Home," Pony answers. "I don't know why the hell I handed you that busted bottle. You never would have used it." TwoBit says. "I don't know, I might have."
"Nope," TwoBit told him out. "Wouldn't have."
"Hey, maybe I would have. Maybe not." Ponyboy counters.
"I don't know. Maybe I'll go play snooker or get drunk." TwoBit yells as he walks away. "I'll see you later!"
"Yup," Steve says. "There's ole TwoBit."
TwoBit grins at him.
"Okay see ya!" The two could hear Johnny's folks fighting, "I hate when my folks fight. Let's go to the lot."
Darry frowns, "You know Johnny you are always welcome here anytime."
"I know," Johnny smiles at him. "Thanks Darry."
Scene cuts to the lot and Johnny starts a fire. He lays down across from Ponyboy and they look at the stars. They talk for a bit about Cherry's reasoning and Socs. "I can't take much more of this, Ponyboy. I just can't." Johnny says.
Dally looks at Johnny with empathy, like he had gone through the same thing. Like he knew something like this was going to happen.
"I'll kill myself or something." Johnny sobs.
Dally had a quiet intake of breath. He clenched his hands so hard, his nails ripped the skin. His palms started bleeding. He looked over to Johnny, who looked completely indifferent to what was happening on the screen. Dally gritted his teeth, he isn't gonna let the kid do something like that. He isn't gonna.
"There's gotta be a place without Greasers or Socs..." Johnny says. "Someplace...with just plain ordinary people."
"Aye," Soda whispered.
Pony slowly starts to fall asleep, and enters his dream world. "Someplace like the country..." Pony says, "Away from all the big towns." The camera zooms in closer to Pony's face.
"Talk about personal space," TwoBit comments.
"Pony...Pony wake up." Johnny shakes Ponyboy in an attempt to wake the sleeping Greaser. Pony groans, "God, what time is it?" Johnny shrugs, "I don't know. I went to sleep too." Pony rubs his eyes. "You better get on home, Ponyboy." Johnny says laying back into the leaves, "I'll just stay here. Who'll care anyway?" He mutters.
Dally glares harshly at Johnnycakes. Johnny winces.
"All right I'll go," Pony says. "You get cold, come to my house okay?" He turns, "Gosh, what's Darry gonna say."
"Probably give you the lecture of a lifetime." Soda tells him, with a pained smile.
"Oh you bet your ass I would." Darry says, "I'd even double it, if I found out you caught pneumonia from staying out in the cold for too long."
Scene cuts to Ponyboy opening the gate and going through it. Pony sees through the the window Darry on the phone. Ponyboy hesitates at the door before going in.
Ponyboy winces, pauses the video, then looks up to the sky, "God, please don't let me die from boredom of Darry's totally boring, repetitive, and uninteresting kindergarten teacher speech. I'm too young to die."
Darry looks at him, with a raised eyebrow then smirks just a tiny bit. "You think my speeches are boring, huh?"
"Yep." Ponyboy says, "In fact I think that they are totally worthle- ahh!"
He didn't get to finish because Darry picked him up and turn him upside down, holding him by his feet, "Is this boring, Ponyboy?"
"Ahh please no! Darry! Gah- I'm gonna throw up." Pony says dangling in the air, laughing. Nauseous, but laughing
"Is this as boring as my lessons?" Darry asks.
"No! No it's not! This is just STUPID-AHHH!" Pony says as he is swung from side to side now.
Soda smiles at his brothers, glad that they were getting along. But unfortunately he has to break it up in order for them and the others to watch the movie. "Sorry to interrupt guys, but uhh- we kinda have a movie to watch."
Darry smirks one more time before having Ponyboy's swaying stopping to a halt. He quickly and impressively flips Pony around and has him land on the couch. Ponyboy looks up at the ceiling out of breath and his face red from the way his body was. Darry flicks Pony's forehead, "Don't fool with my lessons, boy." Darry playfully says in a voice similar to the general voice he used to do when they were younger. Huh, so he didn't forget about those.
Pony put his hand on his on his forehead, military style. "Sir yes sir." Ponyboy answers, out of breath, a small smile tugging at his lips.
Soda turns his smiling face back to the screen, but it soon fades as he sees in this scene Ponyboy and Darry are fighting.
"Where the hell have you been?!" Darry yells. Soda wakes up on the couch, "Hey Pony where you been?" He yawns. "I fell asleep at the lot." Ponyboy answers. "You fell asleep at the lot?!" Darry exclaims. Ponyboy pushes past him and goes into the kitchen. "I didn't mean to-" "I-I can't even call the cops, because you guys will be thrown in a boy's home so fast it'll make your head spin!" Darry yells. "Look," Pony says. "I didn't mean to." "I didn't mean to," Darry says. "I forgot. That's all I ever hear from you." Soda steps forward, "Come on Darry..." Soda tries to compromise. "And I'm tired of you sticking up for him, you hear me!" Darry yells at Soda. "DON'T YOU YELL AT HIM!" Pony defends. Darry wheels around and slaps Ponyboy across the face.
The gang is in shocked silence. Everyone watched struck dumb as the auburn-haired Greaser runs out of the house across the screen. Soda takes a look at Darry, who is looking at the movie horrified, no petrified. He looks down at his hands like they were sins themselves. Sodapop looks at Ponyboy, who looks like he was just struck himself. He looks like he almost wants to cry.
The beautiful, happy aura that surrounded the two Curtis's is gone now. Replaced by a horrible, betrayed silence that hovered over them like a terrible stormy cloud.
Ponyboy ran out into the lot and tripped over something covered by newspapers. "Come on Johnny," Pony sobbed. "We're running away." Johnny follows him without hesitation. They run and they stop to catch their breath. "Take it easy, Pony. You just gotta calm down, man." Johnny says. "Got a cigarette Johnny, I'm scared to death." Pony cries. "Don't be, man." Johnny says softly. "You're are scaring me." Johnny hands him a cigarette and a lighter. "What happened?" "Darry hit me!" Pony says, freaking out by the minute. "I swear we used to get along just fine until Mum and Dad died." Ponyboy told him. "Now he can't stand me!"
Darry looks at the screen sadly. They were close. Just months before, Darry was just a big brother to Ponyboy. Now he's his guardian and father figure. Gosh the only time he had a laugh with him since then was just five minutes ago. Of course it had to be this that ruined it.
"I think I like it better when the old man's hitting me." Johnny mutters. Ponyboy shakily lights his cigarette. "Let's walk to the park and back. Maybe I'll cool off enough to go home." Ponyboy says.
"No, Pony..." Soda mutters to himself. "Don't walk through the park at night."
How was it guys?! Did you like it? I know it wasn't as light hearted as it was before, but chapter three is not really a 'happy-go-lucky' chapter. I couldn't fit in very many jokes, but I hope you enjoyed the heartfelt in thins one. As always don't forget to leave a REVIEW. You can FOLLOW this story to be notified on updates. Also, if you want, add this story to your FAVORITES so you won't forget it! Alright I'l see you guys next time! Peace out!