There were two cats doing the nono outside my window last night. I literally thought someone was getting murdered.
"God, you two never think!" Darry complained as he paced in front of the couch Ponyboy and I was sitting on. Me and Johnny decided to not go back home, we were able to hear our parents fighting from all the way down our street. Now, Pony, Johnny, Dally, Soda, Steve, Darry, Two-Bit, and I were sitting in the Curtis's living room. "And what in your right minds would possess you two to be out there walking by yourselves?"
"Oh, come on, Darry, lay off!" Soda exclaimed. He and Johnny couldn't stand to see Darry fuss me and Pony.
"Hey, if I want my kid brother to tell me what to do with my other kid brother, I'll ask you, alright? Kid brother," Darry stormed out of the room. He usually laid off when Soda stood up to him.
"Geez, what's his problem?" I asked as I pulled my legs onto Ponyboy's lap and laid my head on Sodapop's lap. He was sitting on the armrest next to me.
"He's just got more worries than he's used to." Soda said, twirling my long brown hair in his fingers. After the Curtis brother's parents died in a car wreck, Darry became Sodapop and Ponyboy's legal guardian, he's been working two jobs ever since.
"Hey, how about you and Sylvia come over to the game with us tomorrow night?" Steve asked Dally.
Ponyboy turned to Soda. "I wanna go!"
"No, we're taking Evie and Sandy,"
"Which means no kids allowed!" Steve shotback. He just didn't dig Ponyboy, kind of like how me and Dally just didn't dig each other. Don't ask me why, that's just how it was.
Pony scoffed. "Big deal," Deep inside Pony and I both knew that he was upset about not being able to go to the game.
"Yeah, well I'm gonna go see a movie tonight. Kids are allowed." Dally said.
"We'll go, huh, Jessie, Pony?" Johnny practically jumped at the opportunity of not being home for a couple of hours. Pony and I quietly agreed. I don't think Dally liked the idea of me tagging along, but that was his problem. If you invite Johnny to go somewhere, then you're automatically inviting me. It was the same way vice-versa.
For the rest of the day, while waiting for the sky to get dark, we all sat around and ate chocolate cake watching Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Two-Bit's favorite thing to watch on T.V., and whenever you saw him, he was always wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt. By the time 7:00 rolled around, I had turned myself upside down on the couch and was about to fall asleep. I honestly didn't even know how to get myself down from there without hitting Pony or Soda in the face. "Two-Bit," I called, "I'm kinda stuck. Can you give me a hand?" That was all Two-Bit needed to hear before he went behind the couch, grabbed my ankles, and yanked me over the couch. I let out a small yelp; I wasn't expecting him to do that.
We made it to the Drive-In in no time and climbed underneath the fence surrounding it to get in. We had enough money to pay for ourselves, but Dally didn't like to do anything legal. We sat in the second row; I sat on the end, then Dally, Pony, and Soda. I got up to get snacks a lot during movies, so we all thought it was best if I sat on the end.
"Are you sure you wanna do this?" A short-haired Soc dressed in all white said to her friend as they sat down in front of us.
"I came here to see a movie, and I'm gonna see a movie!" The red-head said. Dally leaned over his seat to get a good look at the broad. I knew exactly where this was going.
"That's some cute redhead, huh?" Dally said to Pony, making sure that he said to loud enough for the two girls to hear. Then, he started talking dirty, and believe me, Dallas could talk awful dirty when he wanted to. I felt my ears and my cheeks get red as the red head got real mad. Dally put his feet on her chair and she lost it.
"Get your feet off my chair and shut your trap!"
"Who's gonna make me, huh, your boyfriend?" Johnny excused himself to go get a coke. Johnny didn't like getting into trouble with Socs, not after we got jumped.
"Leave her alone, Dal." Pony said quietly.
"That's the greaser who just got out of jail!" The dark haired girl whispered to the red-head.
"Sure, whatever you say, honey." Dally responded.
"You better leave us alone or I'll call the cops!"
"Oh my, my, what am I gonna do now, Pony? This girl's making me shake!"
"Why don't you leave us alone, be nice and leave us alone?" The agitated red-head said.
"I'm never nice." Dally said, leaning forward in his seat again. "Can I, uh, interest you in a Coca-Cola or a 7-Up?"
"Get lost, hood!" She shouted.
"Come on, Dally, lay off." I said quietly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know," Dally responded, backing away. "I didn't know you had this problem with… yelling in my face. Alright, alright, I'll go. I know when I'm not wanted."