Chapter 9: Fight time

When I got home from work it was 5:00 p.m and Ponyboy was still not home and the fight was at 7:00 p.m. , Darry started dinner at 6:00 p.m and no sign of him. I started to get ready for the fight by putting lots of hair grease in my hair to show that we were greasers and that we are proud of it. Ponyboy got home at 6:30 p.m and that's late for him but he was just in time for dinner and had time to get ready, Darry has always told us that we should always look nice for fights I got even more hair grease and Pony changed into a tee shirt. The whole gang came over so that we could all go together, we all walked to the vacant lot to see two other greaser gangs there. I herd the sound of a car and knew that they were here, there was about 5 cars full of Socs so I got nervous. Everyone lined up so we could start the fight, Darry was the first to step forward and so was Paul, one of the Socs, Darry took a swing at Paul and the fight was on I started hitting the first person I saw but he just flung me to the ground. I looked at Ponyboy to see he was on a guys back and being thrown to the ground, all I could see was people nothing else it was like a war but no one dieing. After about 5 minutes I saw a Socs run away then another one and another one we had one, the next thing I knew Ponyboy and Dally ran off and jumped in a car and grove off. When we got home we were all nervous that Ponyboy was going to get in trouble.

Chapter 8: Work

When I got to work everything was a blank I just wanted to talk to Ponyboy and see Johnny, I tried to think of good things like Sandy but when I would think of her all I could see was her telling me that she has to move to Florida or get married to me and that means she might be pregnant. Come on I would have married her even if she wasn't pregnant, I love her and will never love anyone else and every night I think of Sandy and me as the only people in the world. When my first customer came I messed up everything, I gave him the wrong gas and I spilt water all over him when he got out of the car to pay me so he drove away and made my boss yell at me and make me clean the toilets. At lunch I didn't eat anything after seeing the toilets, they were the grossest things ever and someone left a big present for me that made the toilet clog, it took me two hours to fix it. Then my boss made me fix the cash register so now my stomach because the money drawer popping out and hitting me, finally I got to do my real job and when I was out there I saw a fight going on and thought of the fight tonight and what was going to happen to me. I really hope that I won't get hurt too bad and I hope that everything is far, Ponyboy shouldn't be in it he is in to much trouble already. Today was my pay day so I was exited but then I got it, it was like looking at a deep dark pit of despair or just looking at big fat zeros. I was so mad that I kicked a thing of coka over braking all the glass, Darry finaly came and we went home to him yelling at me about my day.

Chapter 7: No more

Darry and I went and sat with Ponyboy so we could find out about Johnny and Dally, reporters and police men started to fill up the hospital and it felt like we were a bunch of golf balls all packed together. They all yelled at us and it was horrible, from Why did you kill the boy and how did the fire start, I was getting board so I took a reporter's hat and a camera and "interviewd" docters and nurses (I even tried to take an officer's gun but it didn't work.). After about an hour or so I got really board of talking to the nurses so I gave back the stuff and sat down, the next thing I knew was that I was fast asleep because I didn't sleep at all during the week. Darry woke me up so we could go home, so I got up and slowly dragged my acing legs to the car, we got home and I was so glad that I wouldn't have to sleep alone. I got up and had a shower so I could get ready for work, but I didn't want to go to work I wanted to stay home and hang out with Ponyboy because I missed him so much. When I got to the living room Steve and Two-Bit were talking to Pony while he was making breakfast and Darry was telling me to hurry up so we could get to work, Pony suddenly asked me something that I didn't want to here. He asked me if I was going to take Sandy to the party tonight but I told him that I wasn't because she left to live with her grandparents in Florida, I asked her why and she told me that it was ether marry me or move and I am to young. I almost had to be dragged to the car because I wanted to be with Ponyboy so much but I did have to go to work so that we could eat so I got in the car and left with Darry. At work I was thinking of what Pony was doing and was hoping that he wasn't doing anything bad.

Chapter 6: Burn Baby Burn

Darry should be there by now and hopefully he has given Ponyboy the note I wrote, its been forever and nothing all that has happend around here is the cops asking us lots of questions. I decied to tell Darry about the note and where they are, he freaked out when I told and he quickly was pasing around the room yelling and cursing. After about two hours the phone rang and when Darry answerd it he looked like he was going to cry, he told me that there was a old abandoned church on Jay Moutain that had catched on fire and the boys had saved some kids but got hert and they were going to the hospitle. Darry quickly grabed me and threw me into the car and started to drive super quikly, when we got to the hospital Ponyboy came running at us the second we got in the door and hugged us both. When I looked at Darry he was starting to cry and he never crys, I asked him where Johnny and Dally were but he just said that they haven't come out yet and that we will have to wait. Pony took us to the waiting room and we sat down and waited.

Chapter 5: Waiting

I woke up around 12:00 p.m because me and Darry were up all night looking for Ponyboy and it turns out that little Johnny had run off too. Once I got out of bed Darry gave me the paper and on the first page it said "18 year old boy killed by 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis and 16 year old Johnny Cade. I couldn't believe this, Pony wouldn't do that and he probably have run far after that. That after noon me and Darry went and talked to all of the gang but no one said anything, when we got back to the house the cops were there and they asked us questions but we didn't know nothin. The next day I went over to Buck's house and Dally was there so we started to talk thats when I saw Ponyboy's shirt, I asked Dally and he said that he gave them 50 bucks and a fully loaded gun plus they were going to Jay Moutain. I convinced Dally to go find them and give them a note I wrote, in the note I pored my heart out in the letter trying to tell them that they should stay the he** away from here and should stay at Jay moutain. Dally left and it felt like forever, I stared to think of all the good times me and Pony have had and if I will ever see him again.

Chapter 4: Where are they?

I wonder were he could they have been out forever but its only 10:00 p.m. he will probly come back in an hour or so, man im tired when I wake up he should be home. Whats all of this yelling, hey Ponyboy is home any its 2:00 a.m.!!!! All can hear is Darry screaming at Pony I should help Pony, DARRY JUST STOP YELLING AT HIM!! The next thing I knew Darry was yelling at me he never yells at me, Darry got aoutnd went to Ponyboy then slaped him hard. Ponyboy don't run come back come back, I hope he will come back. We waited for 2 hours but no sign of him so we went out looking for him but no sign of him, I hope he is ok. The next moring he still wasn't home so I told Darry to call the police but hey said that they might have to take us away so he can't. Im really scared of what might happen to him and no one knows where hey is.