Disclaimer- I do not own any of the characters or plots from the book The Outsiders but we can thank S.E Hinton and her staff for the creation of the book! Thank you and enjoy! –Author0114

There was noise every where, I wanted it all to stop. My head was pounding and there was some ringing in my ears. I opened my eyes to see six faces all standing over me. I guess they have not realized I was awake yet because they kept talking about how I was so beaten up. After a while I decided to make my presence be know by stating that I was hungry. They all instantly stopped talking and looked at me with excitement in their eyes. They just continued standing over me and staring at me so I decided to repeat my self. The oldest looking one disappeared and returned with a pice of chocolate cake and told me not to tell his mother that he had given me chocolate cake for breakfast. Since he told me not to tell his mother I instantly connected the women I met last night and decided that he must be Darry. We all sat in silence watching Mickey Mouse on the television until I looked at the boy I thought was Darry and called his name. He instantly turned around with confusion written all over his face and asked hesitantly how I knew his name. I just told him that his mother told me so we could drop the conversation. Darry got up and walked over to sit with me on the sofa he extended his hand and said nice to meet ya, and he asked me who I was. I did not want them making fun of my name Dallas so I told him it was dally. I had many people up in New York that picked on me because of my name that my mom dearly loved. I mean since I was starting over I might as well just go by dally from now on, no one will know the difference. Darry and I shook hands and introduced me to the gang. The gang in total had six people in it. There was Darry who was 13, his brothers Sodapop who was 11 and Ponyboy who was 5 then there was Johnny at the age of 6,Steve who was 11, and two-bit who was 14. When I was done with my cake I place my plate on the table next to me and headed for the door. I was about to walk out when Darry put his hand on my shoulder and asked me to stop and consider becoming part of the gang, I flat out told him no thank you and with no hesitation walked right out the door. I could hear him yell at me from the porch saying their front door was always unlocked and that I would be welcomed anytime. I was thankful for his gratitude but I could not just walk right into their house and expect them to be so welcoming considering how rude I was. I was walking down the street when I hear a car slowly trail behind me, I started to panic on the inside because this was bringing flash backs of New York and I was here to get away from all that. I stopped walking and turned around to ask what their problem was and why they were following me but right when I stopped four big guys jumped out of their car and ran up to be and started beating me just like my dad used to do to me. I tried to fight back but they were just so much bigger than me. If I had to guess they were probably about 20 years old. Growing up in New York helped me become a good fighter but when four guys ten times older than you is coming at you your doomed from the start. I wanted to cry so badly when they were done because I was still sore from my dads final beating and now it's even worse since I just got jumped. I did not want to cry just for the physical pain though I wanted to cry because I had run away from New York to try and get away from all this mess and the world just can't accept that, no matter where I go I am just destined to get beaten up and picked on. I might have been able to run from my dad but there are just some things you can't run from and this was one of those things. Since I could not run from this I decided I will fight it. I already had a really good build for my age my muscles were big and strong from playing football so every day I would just walk to the park from my ally that I lived in and work out. After a couple of weeks my muscles were even stronger, I was ready to take them on.

I was walking down the street of sneak into the drive-in movie theater when I heard a lot of commotion be hind a couple of trees. I decided to see what was going on, when I got there I could see that the same four guy that beat me up were beating up Johnny and his friend Ponyboy. I ran and tackled one to the ground, I wrestled with him for a while until one grabbed my shirt collar and threw me into the tree. It hurt like hell, trust me but I had made a promise to my self that I would protect these two kids and I would keep my promise. I slowly got up and punched a guy in the eye while I quickly turned and kick one of them where I knew it would hurt. I turned around to try and find someone else to punch but right as a turned someone punched me hard in the head, I fell and I knew I was down for the count. I kept thinking how I failed to keep my promise but not moments later did Darry and his gang showed up to finish beating the guys for me. Every thing started getting fuzzy until it went black. The last thing I remember is two-bit picking me up Darry telling me I will be okay.

I was laying down on something nice and soft so it was definitely not a park bench. I was trying to think where I could be and how I got there. I opened my eyes and saw Johnny and Ponyboy staring at me and all this afternoons event washed over me. I saw Ponyboy leave the room to come back moments later with , she came over to me and told me about all my injuries and how I need rest. I know she said that I need rest but I feel bad that she already has to take care of three boys I would just get in the way so I got up and was about to walk out the door when I heard Johnny ask me not to leave, I turned around and saw him crying and so I walked over to him and told him that I would stay for him and never leave. At this Johnny Smiled and led me over to the sofa. I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was going to make me rest, I could not help but to smile at this. It's nice being able to smile I have not smiled since my mom was alive. Happiness is such a stranger in my life I forgot how to feel it until now. Johnny sat by my side for hours with me watching tv until Darry walked in the front door, Johnny got up and jumped into Darry's arms. After a few moments Darry put Johnny down and he turned to look at me, he walked over to the sofa and he told me about how thankful he was that I stepped up to the socs and protected Johnny and Ponyboy. I was about to tell him thank you when I realized what he called the boys, he called them socs. I guess he could read me and see that I was confused so he started explaining who the socs were and what we were. Apparently we were greasers. Greasers were the kids on the east side of town the ones who wore leather jackets and greased back there long hair. And socs were the clean cut favored by the law kids who got everything they wanted by just asking for it. When he made the comparison it made it sound like being a greaser was a bad thing but I was proud of it and I could tell he was too. When Darry was done explaining it to me he and looked me in The eyes and asked me to please become a part of the gang. I did not know what to say we just stared at each other for a few moments I looked around the room and saw Johnny staring at me with watery eyes just begging me to join them, I looked back at Darry and without hesitation told him I would join them. Johnny ran and jumped into my lap and Hugged me so tight repeating the words 'thank you" over and over again. I was not real comfortable with all the touchy emotions but I let it slid since it was Johnny. Darry laughed at Johnny's antics and asked me if I had a place to stay. I told him I did but he did not believe me so he got up and disappeared around a corner to come back later saying that I could live with them. I silently thanked him and continued to watch Mickey Mouse. I was no longer paying attention to the cartoon but I was thinking about how my life was finally taking a turn for the best and how I could finally be able to smile and joke around with people that I love.

I used to always think that having friends would make me soft and weak but I found that it can also do the opposite, my friends that I have just made have actually made me stronger. The gang relies on me just as much as I rely on them. We protect each other as if we were family. We don't let anyone mess with our siblings. I am so glad I have meet these people and that we have become friends because my life has gotten so much better with them around, ever since my sister and mom passed away and my dad started beating me I had forgotten what friendship and happiness was, to me these emotions were strangers that wanted nothing to do with me, most importantly I had forgotten what love felt like until I meet Johnny and the gang. I may never admit it out loud but I will love and protect the gang for the rest of my life.

There is chapter two! I hope y'all liked it, I have really enjoyed this series so far and I have some really good ideas for chapter three, stay tuned and I will update tomorrow. Thank you and I love you all –Author0114 : )