Hey y'all! Well here's the next chapter to this story…hope you are enjoying it! Oh and as a little heads up I'm updating one of my older stories, A Whole New World, yea took me a while to get that going again, so don't forget to check it out!

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Soda's POV:

The way home was quiet, even I couldn't think of anything to say. I was afraid that if I would mention anything about Johnny I would get something thrown at me.

Pony and I had been through a lot these past few months. Losing Johnny was probably the icing on the cake.

When we arrived at the house I had to prepare Pony for something.

"Hey Pone, um, I have to tell you something. No one has been in the house since the incident, so there's still going to be some stuff in there, okay?"

He sat in his seat starring his hands, shaking his head, he got out and starting for the door. When he reached it he stood there waiting, apparently the detectives had locked the door.

I reached the door and unlocked it. We stood starring at the dark doorway, we didn't move a muscle. Pony scared me when he spoke up.

"Oh come on Soda, it's not haunted," he stepped through the doorway and I followed. I closed the door and turned around, only to run into Pony.

"Ah, Pone what…"

I couldn't talk, or barely breathe for that matter. I knew it was bad, but not this bad. The house reeked, one from us not cleaning it and two, well you know. There were stains on the floor and couch, Pony stood motionless not daring to take another step forward. He then closed his eyes and started walking towards the kitchen, feeling his way around. Why he was doing this blinded, I have no idea.

"Pone, what are ya doin'?"

"I don't want to see it Soda, I can't…"

I followed, carefully watching the back of his head, "Why don't you put your stuff in your room. I'll…I'll start cleaning," we were definitely going to throw stuff away; I wasn't going to sit here and clean it.

As I started getting the month's old garbage together I heard Pony scream my name…

"SODA! Soda come here!"

I ran to the back of the house and found him in Darry's old room by the closet. He was sitting on the floor with his knees to his chest.

"Pone… Ponyboy what are you doin'?"

"I…I wanted to get one of Darry's shirts, to…to remember, and I accidently looked at the bed, oh Soda, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he started crying into his knees.

"It's ok, Pony, come here it's not your fault. Shh, just take a deep breath, it'll be okay," I walked over to him and knelt down. I took him into a hug and lead him out of the room.

"Come on, I think we need to get outta here. Let's go to the park,"

He nodded his head and we left. We stayed in the park until the sun started setting. This was going to be hard, harder than I thought. Pony was an emotional wreck, and I was on the verge of giving up and leaving Tulsa for good. Actually…that was a good idea…leaving.

I turned to Pony, who was sitting on the bench to the right of me, "Hey, Pony, I have an idea. Why don't we move?"

He looked at me like I was crazy, "What? Move? Soda, I don't want to move! I grew up here, I can't leave this place, and there are so many memories, I…I can't," he watched the sunset in front of us. I forgot about how much he loved Tulsa. Not the whole soc and greaser thing, but I remember him telling me he liked it for the sunsets, and how he probably couldn't see them anywhere else like he could here, "Plus where would we get the money?"

Oh, I hadn't thought about that. So much for that plan, too bad we didn't have any family members here…

Wait, we didn't have any here, but we did somewhere else, "Pony, what about...Aunt Nancy?"

"Are you serious? Aunt Nancy, Soda, she's um kinda…weird."

"Pone, she's family, and she's not weird, Aunt Nancy is just…different. Plus I don't think either of us can handle staying here another minute. We can leave as soon as we call her; I bet she would love for us to live with her. I mean she's been lonely for some time now, come on Pone, what do ya think?"

"I don't know Soda, I kinda wanted to stay here, incase Johnny, you know ever wanted to come back. Plus you like her because she likes your weird pizza stuff."

"Pone, I really don't think Johnny's comin' back. His foster parents live across the state, not very close to here. Pone, it'll be a nice change, please consider it," he looked angry when I mentioned Johnny not coming back, and I think that's what changed his mind.

"You know what you're probably right; Johnny doesn't want to see me again. Alright Soda, let's go, I wanna live with Aunt Nancy," he turned to me with a genuine smile. I knew this would be a good idea. We could get away from everything. The social battle, the pain, and the tears, were all about to be left behind.

We stayed at the house for another long, hard week. The day after our conversation I had called our Aunt…

Ring. Ring.

"Hello?"

"Hey. Aunt Nancy, it's Sodapop, um I…"

"Soda! Oh my goodness, how are you? I haven't seen you since your parent's funeral. Oh dear, it's so good to hear your voice. What brings you to the phone to call me?"

Good ol' Aunt Nancy…

"Well, did you hear about, Darry and our friends?"

"Oh dear, yes, I'm so sorry about it dear it must be hard. Is there anything I can do for you?"

She always knew me too well…

"Actually yea, um Pony and I are having a really hard time with everything…"

This was harder than I thought it was going to be.

"Aunt Nancy, we need a place to stay, well more like to live. I don't want to be a burden or anything, but we could help. I can get a job, and Pony will be in school, but he is definitely going to college. So…Aunt Nancy?"

She was quiet for a while. Great I blew it and Pony is going to be so mad at me. We were packed and everything.

"That dear, is a very good idea. Of course I would love it if you guys stayed with me. I've been so lonely since Billy died...oh when will you be here?"

I knew she would come to…

"Um, well we were going to leave at the end of the week. It would take a while to get there, but it won't be too much longer."

"Oh that's wonderful dear, and I have plenty of room. The schools here are great and…wait aren't you still in school?"

"Um...no I dropped out; I had to help Darry with the bills and stuff."

"Oh well that's too bad, well I am so honored that you asked me Soda. I can't wait to see you boys."

"Thanks a lot Aunt Nancy; this means a lot to Pony and me."

"Anything for you dear, well I'm going to let you go so you can pack."

"Alright, talk to you soon, bye."

"Bye dear."

Click.

So, this is it, this is the end of Tulsa. This is the end of all our memories here. We would be leaving them here and creating new ones in California, where my Aunt Nancy lives. We would be living in a nicer place, a house by the beach. Pony and I were going to slowly get into the swing of things. This was one of my greatest plans yet. I even think Pony was excited, he actually started talking about a college he liked in California, and since we would be living there; there would be an in-state intuition. I was excited, a new life, it's what I always wanted.

Well there it is I know it's kinda short. I realize this story is kinda all over the place, but that's what I picture when I think of a situation like this happening. I actually can't wait to introduce you to Aunt Nancy; she's going to be so fun to write about! Hehe

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