(A/N Hiiiii sorry if the end of this chapter is confusing lol! Please read and review! PM me if you have any questions! BTW guys I'm going to start working on a book with the idea that Dallas Winston had a sister during the Outsiders NOT a Mary sue! (I promise!) Should his sister name be Dakota, Denver, or Delilah! Please lmk! It will be call "The Confessions of _ Winston! PLEASE TELL ME WHICH NAME! luv you guys!)
Chapter 5
"Jackie," Someone said shaking me awake. "Jackie wake up we need to get off the train."
I opened my eyes to see Johnny standing over me. I stood up quickly, leading me to be dizzy. I looked out the side of the open boxcar. Man, was it beautiful. I've never been anywhere but Miami and Tulsa. Miami was a bustling beach city, and Tulsa was a regular town. I looked at the lush green forest with breathtaking mountains in the background. We were waiting for a big green spot to tuck and roll.
"There look!" Racheal said, pointing ahead. Johnny quickie grabbed the bag holding
the money. We all stood on the edge of the boxcar waiting for the right moment to jump.
"3…" Johnny said.
"2…"
"1!" We jumped out of the boxcar. In the few moments we jumped out, I felt something that I hadn't felt in a long time. Freedom. The wind was in my face, my feet are off the ground as if there was zero gravity. It felt like forever in that small moment. Before I knew it I felt my body slam against the wet ground. I rolled across the ground breaking my fall a little bit. Grossss! I'm all wet. I looked down at my now dirty dress. It was covered in mud and grass stains. I looked around to see Johnny, Dallas, and Rachael a few feet away from me. Something was off though. I stood up wobbly and walked over to them. Oh my Gosh. My heart dropped as I saw it. Rachael was crying. I looked at her closer and I realized something look off about her foot.
"Hey, your ok," Dallas said trying to console her, but I guess she heard the fear in his voice.
"What happened," I asked.
"I think she broke it," Johnny said examining the bone the was clearly building out of her foot.
"Man! She clearly broke it! The bone is poking out!," "So no dip she broke it!"
Poor Rachael we barely have done anything yet, we don't even know how far we are from the closest town. We all knew that Rachael foot would slow us down. We all decided that we were going to take turns carrying her on our backs. We didn't want her to push it by walking it. We walked around the forest hoping to find some sort of sign to figure out where we are. To be honest I didn't even know why we jumped off the train early. I mean I guess that city officials would be alerted that stow aways were on the train leading to a investigation that could lead to all of us getting in trouble. The forest was small. We got out of it in a few hours and found ourselves on a big grassy field that offered a majestic view of the mountains. The sun was just starting to set. Johnny and Rachael were both sleeping despite it only being sunset. I was sitting next to Dallas whose cold ice blue eyes were focused on the sun setting into the mountains. It was silent. The good peaceful kind of silent
that was a golden stillness like the setting sun.
"You know, you don't seem like a person who watches sunsets," I said quietly.
Then he said, his eyes still focused on the sky, "I'd be embarrassed to admit it to anyone."
"My mother and I used to watch sunsets together on our roof, back when I lived in Miami." I said.
He must of heard the sadness in my voice becuase he said turning to me, "She's gone isn't she."
I nodded. A small tear in my eye. The sunset really reminded me of my mother. I remember the warm nights fondly where we sat on the roof and watched the sun set into the blue ocean. The waves slowly breaking at the shore.
"You, know my Mom passed to," He said. "My dad killed her. He got drunk a lot, but he never really hurt anyone."
Wow. That was horrible, that he killed her. I looked back at the sun. I remember my mothers voice reading a poem to me whenever we watched the sunset.
"My mother read this poem to me when we watched sunsets together,"
"The sky, a canvas soft and deep. As daylight fades and shadows creep. A fiery sky and final blaze. Then twilights hush, a gentle maze. Then worlds asleep, the suns gone by, a peaceful end beneath the sky," My voice broke on the final line.
I looked at Dallas with tear in my eyes, and saw tears of his own slowly falling down his face. I didn't think that Mr. Tough Guy Dallas would ever be soft like that.
"Please don't cry," I said sniffing. "I can't stand to see people cry."
"Sorry," He whispered, while wiping his face with the back of his hand. Now the sun was behind the mountains and the sky was beginning to grow dark. Twilight's hush, a gentle maze. We just sat there watching the stars twinkle, like summer fireflies.
"Stars are like people," I said still looking at the twinkling gems in the sky.
"How," Dallas asked.
"It takes years for a star light to reach earth," I said yawning. "It takes a long time to really figure people out. They may seem different when you first look at them, but the longer your around them, the more they make sense."
I rested my chin on my knees. I looked beside me at Dallas who was deep in thought. I laid back into the grass and looked up into the sky. Dallas stood up and started to walk over to sleeping Rachael.
"Dallas, wait." I said sitting up. He turned around. "Thanks, I needed to talk to someone." He smiled in response. I don't know why I opened up to Dallas, but It felt right. I wasn't even sure we were friends or if he trusted me. I felt my eyelids slowly getting heavy. The only thing I knew was that I missed my Mother, and no one could ever fill the emptiness that her death left in me, but I wasn't sure if that last part was true anymore.