Another chapter of the popular story: Touched. Thank you all for the reviews, thank you so, so much! Sorry that up-dating is so slow now. I'm in high school and I've gotten a job! ^.^ Thank you all for the support.

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Chapter 5

"UWWAAAAAAAA!" Soda screamed. Darry gave an unbelieveable shocked look as Ponyboy wimpered. Soda ran over to the fourteen-year-old and slapped the blade out of his hand.

"Ponyboy! What are you doing?!" Soda screamed. Ponyboy didn't answer, he just held his head in shame, ignoring the pain his bloody arm was feeling. Darry backed away, slowly and darted to the bathroom to grab a few towels. Ponyboy's wound was patched up, but in an uncomfortable silence. Ponyboy tried to leave, but Darry and Soda didn't dare let Ponyboy leave their sights.

"Ponyboy...why were you cutting yourself? Do you know how dangerous that is?!" Darry screamed, he hadn't meant to scream, he was just so scared.

"Stop yelling at me, Darry" Ponyboy whined.

"Yell at you?!-" Darry boomed. Soda stepped in.

"Ponyboy...don't ever do that" Soda shakingly said. "Ever."

Ponyboy nodded, though he wasn't making any promises.

Ponyboy really started to regret the wrist cutting. Because currently he was sitting at the table trying to eat breakfast but Sodapop on his left and Darry on his right, glaring at him watching his everymore with their arms crossed was somthing that made him loose his appitite. When he hadn't taken a bite of his food, don't get him wrong it wasn't because of him not being hungry.

He looked up. "Can I eat now?"

Soda smiled, nodding his head, picking up Ponyboy's fork. "Open wide!" He smiled, preparing to spoon-feed his brother.

Pony groaned, turning his head. "I'd rather die"

Soda frowed. "Come'on Ponyboy, it's good for you" said as-a-matter-of-fact, not really seeing the embaressment or the problem with spoonfeeding a fourteen-year-old.

"I'm not a toddler, I can feed myself." Pony said.

"yup...you can cut yourself too" Darry said. Ponyboy glared.

"So, this is what it's all about? Because of last night?!"

"Ponyboy, we were worried!" Darry said.

"Well you can stop, because it's over!" Pony shouted, getting up from the table, stomping away to find his bookbag for school. Soda and Darry gave each other a look, knowing fully well that it was not simply "over".

Darry had given Ponyboy a ride to school, to keep an eye on him. Soda sat next to Pony in the back seat while Steve (who they picked up at his house) sat in front. All was quiet, Ponyboy stared out his window, while Soda stared at Ponyboy, Darry kept his eyes on the road and Steve slightly smiled.

"Well...this is fucking awkward." He said.

Darry sighed, but it was more of a warning with the added growl.

Steve gulped. He remained quiet for the rest of the trip, Darry stopped at a stop light and Soda's door opened and hopping in the back seat was Two-Bit.

"I'll just hoppers rights in here's" He smiled, at his own gibberish. Darry turned around.

"Two-bit!" He screamed.

"What? I saw you guys and I needed a ride" Two-bit smiled, hopping over Soda's legs. He looked over at Ponyboy who ignored Two-bit.

"What's the long face, Pony? HA!" He laughed. "Get it? Pony...long face!"

"Two-Bit!" Everyone shouted, accept Pony who ignored the Greaser. even though Two-bit had cheered everyone up, even Darry, Ponyboy still felt...ashamed.

Someone help me. He cried inside.

"Ponyboy Cutris!" A snap came, awakening the sleepy greaser. Ponyboy's head shot up and he was greated with a bunch of snickering Socs and a grumpy teacher. She placed her hands on her hips.

"Why are you sleeping during my teaching!" She demanded to know. Ponyboy wasn't the one to get cocky, but Two-bit had rubbed off on him during the summer.

"Why are you teaching during my nap-time?" He asked her, the class "Oooed" and giggled as Ponyboy was yanked out of his chair and told to sit in the hallway. He sighed, he had been so tired that he fell asleep in his third hour class, he really needed to sleep at night.

"Well, well well, what do we have here?" A laughter called out to Ponyboy. "Looks like a Grease-ball needs a pounding"

Ponyboy looked up. "Fuck me." He started in a dead run as two Socs chased him down the hallway and out the back door, Ponyboy ran as fast as he could, he even ran with the kids who were in gym class ignoring the "what's going on" "who's that guy?" "isn't that the track star? he's not in our gym?" remarks from confused students as they saw Ponyboy run past them. Ponyboy ran down the street, leaving school campus. The Socs were still on his tail, Ponyboy knew that this was wrong to leave school, but he wasn't techincally "skipping" just being chased.

Ponyboy knew that the DX was close by, he could have Soda hide him and have him possibly beat up the Socs.

Ponyboy jumped in a barrel of huge truck tires as the Socs looked around for him.

"Just leave it, he's gone." One blonde said.

"Fuck you little Greaser-shit!" The big one screamed, both the socs ran back to the school.

Ponyboy gasped for air, popping out of the tires.

"Ponyboy?"

Ponyboy turned.

"What are you doing here?" It was Soda.

Ponyboy leaped for Soda and hugged him tightly.

"I'm sorry, Soda. Don't be mad at me." Ponyboy gasped, out of breath and scared. Soda held Ponyboy back. "I was chased by some Socs, they chased me out of the school."

Soda sighed, stroking a few pieces of hair out of the way.

"Well, my manager already came here for the day, you can stay as long as you sit in the Garage." Soda said. "I'm not sending you back to school if you were chased this far."

Ponyboy sighed. Today was not his day.

Well, well. Ponyboy went on an adventure, lol.

Review please, sorry this took so long.

-Kylelover101