Chapter 2- Meeting everyone and Keeping a secret

I pulled up to The DX. I was pretty sure one was going to remember me. I need to get gas. I look up when I pull in. There probably is a guy about eighteen. He ask what I need, and I told him I need gas. He started to flirt and I started back, and he told me his name was Soda. I pretty sure that was Darry brother it is hard to forget a name like that. Well I got done with business and I decided it was time to go to Darry's.

I got there and it looks like no one was home. The house looks the same. All beat up and stuff. I decided to go in but I knock and when there is no answer I go inside and decided to wait. I pretty sure Darry gonna be the last one home. I find a book gone with the wind and starting reading it. I have never read it before, but I usually read the same book like hundred times. Then that when a boy about sixteen walks in and looks at me.

Pony ask "Who are you"?

I respond "I am Danielle, an old friend of Darry's.

Pony say "okay" and walk into the kitchen.

Then Two-Bit whom I remember walk in, but he does not seem to remember me. It had been about three or four years since I had been in Tulsa. Two-bit just looks at me. Then goes into the kitchen and grabs a beer.

I just sit on the couch and watch everyone and no one seems to remember me. Soda and Steve whom I meet at the gas station come in and stop in their tracks.

Soda ask "what are you doing here"?

I responded "Waiting on Darry to get home. I am an old friend of his". Hoping they would not recognize me a Winston. My brother did not have the best reputation around. They did not seem to notice.

Soda asked me if I wanted something to drink

I said "yea"

He offered me "Pepsi, water or beer"

I always go for a beer. He looked at me with surprise. I guess something's are never going to change.

We sat around and talk, they played cards, and the TV was on. Ponyboy was reading gone with the wind. Then that when Darry walk in the house and he look tried.

He looked around and when he seen me, he looked confused. Then he pick me up and hugged me. It felt good to be back in his arms. We started talking and everything like I had never left. Everyone was surprised at us. He was sitting in his chair and I was on the coach but that did not last too long, pretty soon I was sitting on his lap. It seemed to me that it was unusual for Darry to be with a girl. Then Two-Bit and Steve left. Pony and Soda decided to go to bed. I was just going to sleep on the couch, so I ask Darry.

I said "Darry care if I stay on the couch, because I really don't want to go home."

He said "yea, but if you get cold you can always come to my room".

I thought about and decided I was cold so I went into his room and crawled into bed with him.