GOOD DAY MY FRIENDS! HOW DO YOU DO? Well if you hadn't noticed, my updating status isn't working. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm at a total loss myself. Well, here's a new chapter. DRUMROLL PLEASE! CHAPTER SEVEN!
Camera cuts to Ponyboy. His daydream shows his morning routine with his brothers. Ponyboy wakes up, "Johnny!" He sees Johnny's note in the sand.
"That could have been easily destroyed if he stood up." Sodapop says. "Just saying."
Pony walks outside and washes his face with the water pump. He hears footsteps and races back to the church.
"Duh dun duuuuun!" TwoBit yells.
Johnny whistles and Ponyboy races up. "Hey Johnny! Fancy...Fancy meeting you here!" Ponyboy says. "You're acting more like TwoBit everyday, huh." Johnny comments.
"What does that mean?" Ponyboy asks.
Soda looks at him pitifully, "I don't know Pony, maybe we'll have to cut your little play dates with TwoBit a little."
"I know what that means," TwoBit says. "It means he's becoming even more awesome 'cause of me."
"I don't know if 'awesome' is the right word," Steve mumbles.
"Who's acting. What'd you get?" Pony asks. "Let's go inside." Johnny tells him. Camera shows the box as Johnny puts it down. "Alright we got a loaf of bread, and a week's supply of baloney here. Peanut butter." Johnny takes the food out.
"Is there jelly?" Sodapop asks.
"Soda, jelly isn't a necessity." Ponyboy tells him.
Soda gaps at him, "Of course it is! The human race wouldn't be complete without it!"
"Then what about how people were, when there was no jelly." Ponyboy points out.
Sodapop snorts, "Well that's why the cavemen were cavemen. They were a bunch of idiots, who hit things with a stick. Jelly changed the human civilization for the better."
"Gone with the Wind," Ponyboy says picking up the book. "Johnny how did you know I wanted that." Pony asks. "I remember you saying something like that once." He says. Johnny continues taking stuff out. Ponyboy takes out a bottle, "Peroxide?" He sniffs it. He looks to Johnny, "You ain't thinking-" "We're cutting our hair, Ponyboy."
"No!" Ponyboy yells, covering his precious auburn locks. "Never! I can't!"
"It'll grow back Ponyboy." Johnny tells him.
"But the dye will stay for longer," Ponyboy says.
"You can bleach yours. We can't fit descriptions in the newspaper." Johnny says. "No sir, you ain't gonna touch my hair."
"Amen!" Every Greaser in the room yells.
"You have to anyway, if we got caught." Johnny points out. "You know the first thing a judge makes you do is cut your hair."
Soda glares at the screen, "I hate that they do that."
"Aye," Dally agrees. "It's sick. I guess since we have nothin', it's their way to break you."
Johnny goes behind Ponyboy and flicks out his switchblade. Pony jumps, "I' gonna cut mine off, too, and wash all the grease out." Johnny tells him. "No, you ain't touching my hair." Ponyboy argues. "Ponyboy, it's gonna grow back man." Johnny pleads. Pony sighs, "Go ahead." Johnny cuts of the first piece. "Ow!"
Ponyboy winces.
"Sorry man." Johnny says and drops the hair. "Ow! Don't pull so hard." Ponyboy says. "Quit gabbing." Johnny tells him. "Can I see now?" "We still gotta bleach it first." "Well, then bleach it. Quit cutting." Ponyboy says. Scene cuts to Johnny walking over to Ponyboy, "Hey Pony, this'll do it." He says. Johnny gives him a mirror and let's him see himself.
Dally, TwoBit and Steve bust out laughing.
"Oh no, Pony," Soda says, looking sympathetic. "Your tuff, tuff hair."
"Sorry about that Ponyboy." Johnny tells him.
Darry looks at the three, "Alright you three, quit laughing."
They try to stifle their snorts, but just by the sound of each other they start laughing again.
Pony's a deep red at this point, "I look like a bum." He mutters.
"Jesus! This really makes me look tuff." Ponyboy says sarcastically. Johnny flicks out his knife, "Alright go ahead. Get your jollies." He says.
"My pleasure!" Ponyboy says.
"My pleasure!" Pony replies. "Yeah I know it is," Johnny mumbles. They switch places and Ponyboy starts cutting Johnny's hair. "Hurts don't it." Pony says.
The gang winces.
"Hey! I didn't cut that much off of you!" Johnny says.
"Yeah. Come on, man! I didn't cut that much off of you!" Johnny states. "It was your bright idea, smarty." "Ow!" Scene changes to the church. "I'm tired." Ponyboy says. "Sorry I cut your hair, Pony." Johnny adds. "No it ain't that."
"Then what is it?" TwoBit asks.
Soda face palms, "Do I need to spell it out for you? I ain't even that great of a speller, and I still get it."
"I don't know. I'm all mixed up!" Pony throws a wood chip in sad frustration. "Yeah I know," Johnny agrees, "Thing's been happening so fast." Ponyboy sobs. Johnny throws an arm around the younger boy, "Man, you know that one horse store this morning?" He asks, "TwoBit, he could have walked out with half the thing."
TwoBit grins, similar to that of a Cheshire cat, "Darn tootin' I would have!"
Ponyboy laughs in agreement. "Remember how he was wise-cracking last night? Just last night we were walking Cherry and Marcia home from the movies."
"It all happened so fast..." Soda mutters.
Pony goes on, "Just last night we was laying up in the lot looking at the stars." "Stop it, man!" Johnny stands up, "Will you shut up about last night?" Pony stands up after him, "Johnny!" Johnny walks away from him, "I killed a kid last night! He couldn't have been more than seventeen, maybe sixteen years old, and I killed him!"
Johnny lets a tear fall from his face, but quickly wipes it away.
"How would you like to live with that, huh?" Johnny cries. "I didn't mean too! They were drowning you, and I didn't know what to do." Ponyboy walks up to Johnny and puts his arms around him. "What are we gonna do?" Pony asks. "Oh, man! It's all my fault for bringing a thirteen-year-old kid along!"
"Hey!" Ponyboy objects to the screen, though he's squinting a little. "I'm almost fourteen! I ain't just a thirteen year old kid!"
"I mean you ought to get along home Ponyboy. You can't get in any trouble. You didn't go kill him!" Johnny yells. "No!" Pony yells back. "I'm fourteen and I've been fourteen for a month. And I'm in this as much as you are!" He tells Johnny. "Hey don't cry..." Johnny says. They hug it out, and lay by the fire. Scene cuts to the nighttime. A sound wakes Pony up. Ponyboy looks at it, "Johnny...there's a monster outside." "What?" The camera shows a raccoon.
Steve snorts, "Oooh there's a monster outside." Steve mocks.
Soda gives Steve a dirty look. "Shut up," Ponyboy says.
Scene changes to Pony and Johnny. Ponyboy reads Johnny the book. "Gallant." Johnny exhales his smoke, creating smoke rings. "Cool guy reminds me of Dally."
Dally snorts, spinning his lighter between his fingers. "I don't think 'gallant's the right word, Johnnycake." He mumbles.
"Dally? Shoot, he ain't got any more manners than I do." Ponyboy says. "Soda's more them southern boys." Johnny shrugs, "Yeah the manners bit..charm too. But one night I saw Dally getting picked up by the fuzz, and he kept cool and calm the whole time. They was getting him for breakin' out the windows in the school building, and it was TwoBit who did that. And Dally knew it. But he took the sentence without battin' an eye or even denyin' it. That's gallant."
Dally shifts in his seat, feeling uncomfortable. Why does this kid feel like he sees so much in Dally? It's...unnerving. There's nothing in Dally that's something a sixteen year old kid should look up to. What he did wasn't that big of a deal. Definitely nothing to brag about. It was just instinct, Dally guesses. Nothing special about it.
"Come on, read on." Johnny tells Ponyboy. Johnny's asleep and accidentally drops his cigarette on the ground. "Watch your smoke Johnny." The scene changes to the early morning and Johnny walks over the field to Pony. "Golly that sure is pretty, huh?" Johnny says to Ponyboy, as they watch the sunrise. "Yeah." Pony nods. "Too bad it can't stay like that all the time..." Johnny says.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay." Ponyboy whispers.
"Huh?" Johnny says. "Nature's first green is gold." Ponyboy starts.
"Her hardest hue to hold."
"Her early leaf's a flower, but only so an hour."
"Then leaf subsides to leaf..."
"So Eden sank to greif,"
"So dawn goes down to day..."
"Nothing Gold Can Stay." Ponyboy finishes.
Sodapop looks to his little brother, "How did you know that?"
"It's a poem, Soda." Ponyboy replies. "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
"That's a really pretty poem, Ponyboy." Johnny says.
"Yeah, it's by Robert Frost. I always remembered it 'cause I didn't really understand it."
Johnny chuckles, "Well that's ironic."
"Sure is Johnnycakes..."
"You know, I never really noticed the clouds and stuff," Johnny says. "Until you kept reminding me." "I can't really talk to anybody about these stuff..." Ponyboy says, "Except you and Sodapop. And maybe Cherry Valance." "Maybe we aren't that different." Johnny says. "Shoot kid, maybe they are."
Ponyboy squints at the screen, "Maybe." He mutters.
Scene cuts back inside the chuurch. Car sound approaches. A figure comes up to the church, trying to peak through the door.
"It's the fuzz!" TwoBit declares.
"Oh shit..." Soda mumbles.
Darry gives Soda a look, but doesn't say anything, he's worried just as well to.
Dally frowns at the screen, but keeps his cool and tuff demeanor. Though no one sees the light antsy taps of his fingers.
The man opens the door, and enters the church. He comes up to Ponyboy, "Hey blondie." He chuckles.
Soda lets out a breath, "Oh, it's just Dally."
"Gave us a fright there, Dal." TwoBit says.
"Hey, Dal." Ponyboy wakes up. "How you been?" Pony asks. "Hey, Johnny, rise and shine, man!" Dally kicks the bench. "Hey Dallas." Johnny sits up. "Are the fuzz after us?" "Is he upset?" Dally looks over to them in amusement, "Wait. One thing at a time. Are you guys hungry? I'm starving, man." Johnny looks at him weirdly, "You're starving? Try baloney for four days." He mutters. Dally laughs, "I got a special delivery for...a Ponyboy Curtis." Dally hands him a letter. "Who's this from?" He asks.
"The President of United States of America." Dally says seriously.
"The President of the United States of America." Dally says seriously. "Yeah, right!" "I'm serious, man." Dally tells him. "From your brother Sodapop."
"Oh, cool a letter." Soda says sarcastically. "Now everyone can see my spelling mistakes..." He mutters.
"How did he know I was here?" Ponyboy asks.
"A brother's intuition, Pone." Sodapop says, "Naw, I implanted a tracking device in you when you were a baby."
"Yeah, sure." Pony tells him.
"I told him I didn't know where you were, but he didn't believe me." Dally peaks through the window, "He really wanted me to give that to you, man." Sodapop's voiceover, "I guess you got into some trouble, huh? Darry's awful sorry he hit you. You know he didn't mean it. Dallas got hauled into the station, and scared us something awful. And I wish you'd come back and turn yourselves in. We miss you. Say hi to Johnny for us. Sodapop Curtis."
"You want them to turn themselves in," Steve asks.
Soda looks a little on the fence, "I don't know, but it would be the right thing to do."
"Dal, what's going on with the cops? Did you hear anything?" Johnny asks. "How come you got hauled in?" Pony adds.
"Yeah I wonder." Steve says with sarcasm.
"Those boys down at the station know me by now." Dallas says. "While I was there, they beat it out of me that you guys were..." He chuckles, "Get this one. That you guys were headed for Texas, man." Dally says grinning, "Texas, man. God!" Ponyboy stands up, "Look at this guy with his hair, man. I can't believe that." He chuckles.
"Alright! Alright! We get it! I look like a blonde bum!" Ponyboy says, "Quit pointing it out!"
Dally winks, "Blondie, man." Pony says, "I know I look lousy, but don't rub it in." Pony walks out the door. Dally stands up, "You guys wanna get something to eat?" "Hey, you better believe it!" Johnny says. Scene cuts to road, "Hey where'd you get this car?" He drives it roughly, "It's Bucks." He swerves, "Watch out!" "I got it." Scene cuts to the front of the car, and Dally has his hands in the air like a roller coaster.
"Jesus, like hell you do." Darry says. "Are you trying to get an accident."
"Trying to have some fun, man." Dally lights a cigarette.
Dally cuts a person off to enter Dairy Queen, "Jerk!" They yell. Dall ignores them, "Are you in the mood for barbecue?" He pulls up to the drive in, "Can we have three barbecue sandwiches, three Cokes and a...?" Scene cuts to them pulling up and parking at the parking lot. Ponyboy and Johnny dig into their food, "You guys really are hungry, huh?"
"From the looks of it, yeah." TwoBit says.
"They both look ready to kill a man," Soda mutters. "Ow!" He yells, when Ponyboy punches him.
"That kid you killed had plenty of friends." Dally says. "It's all over town. It's Socs against Greasers. Look, I started carrying a heater." Dally says.
"Christ, Dal!" Steve exclaims, "That bad!"
Dally frowns, "It must be unloaded or something..."
"Dal you kill people with heaters." Ponyboy points out. Dally shows his heater, "Don't worry it ain't loaded." He assures. A girl comes up to the car and he jumps. "Hey mister, do you have 15 cents?" The girl asks. "Nah, I don't have any money, man." Dally looks for his sunglasses, Ponyboy and Johnny hide their faces. "Are you sure?" She asks. "Could you please go away? We're busy here." He puts on his sunglasses. "Do you have a dime?" "Go away! Get out of here!" He tells her.
"Quite famous are we, Dal?" TwoBit asks.
Dally takes off his sunglasses, "That was a close call. Tim Shepard's gang and our outfit are going to have it out in a vacant lot tomorrow."
Soda claps his hands, "Yes! Finally some action!"
Steve laughs, "I second that!"
"I third it!" TwoBit adds.
"I didn't tell you we have a spy." Dally says.
"A spy?" Ponyboy says. "Who?" Pony moves a tiny bit closer to the screen and squints a little.
"A spy? Who?" Johnny asks. "Remember that good-looking broad I tried to pick up?" Dally hints.
"Key word:," TwoBit pipes up. "Tried."
Dally threw his boot at him.
"What's her name? Uh, Cherry something... The redhead?" Dally says. "Cherry Valance!" Ponyboy tells him. "Cherry, the Soc. Yeah." Johnny says. "Yeah, she said that she'd testify that the Socs were drunk, and they were the ones looking for the fight. You guys just fought back strictly on self defense. So it's cool." Dally says. "Man that little broad sure does hate me. I offered to get her a Coke, and she told me to go to hell. I don't know." He laughs. "So you think she might like me a little bit?"
"Well apparently!" Dally says, "Since she said that to the screen twenty minutes ago."
"Huh?" Dally asks. Pony throws away his napkin, "Right."
"Awww," TwoBit says. "Pony's jealous."
"No I'm not." Ponyboy objects.
"Aww my little brother is growing up," Soda pokes at Pony.
Johnny turns to Dally, "We're going back to turn ourselves in."
"Waht." Dally says.
"What!" Ponyboy exclaims.
Everyone else stares at the screen in fearful disbelief. Then they realized that the rotating circle is back.
"Oh come on!" Soda yells.
Steve stands up with him, "I'm done. I'm done with this shit." And he walks out of the room into the kitchen.
"I'm coming with you Steve! I need a beer!" TwiBit follows Steve into the kitchen.
Dally points to the laptop, "Are you fucking kidding me? What the fuck is wrong with this shit, huh?"
Ponyboy puts his head in his hands, "I'm never gonna grow up in the future."
"Those poor people..." Johnny mutters.
Darry sighs and passes the room again, trying to ignore the sounds of loud profanities. He shut the laptop and puts it in its charger just to make sure.
"Good God..." Darry says.
Hello friends! So you may not to have noticed that I implicated that Ponyboy,s having some trouble seeing the screen. Yep, I just decided I want to give him glasses. But of course I want to know from you guys. Should Pony have glasses? I have a poll in my profile at the top center of the screen. You should just vote 'Yes' or 'No'. Anyways, as you know. Please leave a REVIEW, I will always appreciate them! FOLLOW and/or FAVORITE this story! Have a nice evening! See ya! ;)