We all go the drive in when I get better and of course Dally is trying to pick up some Soc, "are you a real read head?"

"C'mon Dal," Johnny warns as I snuggle into Pony's chest half asleep not really caring what happens.

"Are you real?" He asks putting his feet up on her chair then falling sending everybody around us into a fit of laughter. "How can I find out if this is your real read hair? If this is the same red hair you have on your uh....these eyebrows, too?"

"Cut it out Dal," Johnny defends the Soc chick.

As Dally puts his feet on her chair she snaps, "get your feet off your chair and shut your trap!"

"Who's gonna make me?" He asks shrugging.

"I'm gonna get a coke," Johnny concludes.

"Who your boyfriend?" Dally continues to annoy this poor girl.

"Leave her alone," Pony pleads.

"That's the greaser who just got out of jail," the other girl whispers into the red head's ear.

"Whatever you say," Dally rolls his eyes.

"Better leave us alone or I'll call the cops," the soc girl threatens.

"Oh my my," Dally says sarcastically then turns to Pony and I. "You got me scared to death. What am I gonna do guys? This girl's making me shake."

"Why don't you be nice and leave us alone?" The girl begs. "Be nice and leave us alone!"

Dally chuckles a little, "I'm never nice. Can I uh interest you in a coca-cola or a 7up?"

"Get lost hood!" The girl yells losing her cool.

"I'm sorry," Dally says not meaning a word he says. "I didn't know you had this problem with yelling in my face. Alright I'll go, I know when I'm not wanted." 

Dally storms away and I drift to sleep as the boys scramble to their feet for god know what.

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Strong arms pick me up and I cuddle into the chest taking in the scent of Ponyboy Curtis, "Pookie?"

"Shh go back to bed Brookie," Pony whisper into my ear.

"I love you," I mumble tiredly not even knowing what I'm saying.

"I love you too," I hear a whisper making a smile appear on my face. "I'll always love you Brookie."

Pony's P.O.V.

"Pookie?" Brooke mumbles tiredly as she snuggled into my chest getting comfortable after I pick her up.

"Shh go to bed Brookie," I whisper into her ear as I stare down at her gorgeous face.

"I love you," she mumbles once again and I can tell she's really tired because, she's never tell me that, but still a huge smile appears on my face.

"I love you too," I respond a huge smile appearing on her half asleep face. "I'll always love you Brookie."

"You two make a cute couple," Cherry comments.

I look down at Brooke and smile, "I wish we were together, I love her, but she's afraid of getting hurt."

"You guys love each though," she mentions.

"We do," I sigh. "She's my Brookie and I'm her Pookie. We've been close since we were little."

"We all want them to date though," Two-bit pipes in.

"Although he gets mad at my relationship with Brooke sometimes," Johnny chuckles.

"Why?" Marcia asks. "What's your relationship with Brooke?"

"She was my first love and she's my best friend," Johnny smiles looking over at Brooke in my arms. I swear Johnny still has feeling for her, but I don't thinks she feels the same.

"Oh," is all Cherry says before a Soc car pulls up. "Oh no, Marcia!"

"Oh god, what do they want?" Marcia sighs as she stands next to Cherry.

"Cherry! Marcia!" Bob yells. "Just because we got a little drunk doesn't mean you have to hang out with these bums!"

"Oh you call wheeling and passing out in the middle of the street a little drunk!" Cherry yells angrily.

"It doesn't mean you have to hang out with these bums!" Bob retorts.

"Who you calling bums pal?" Two-bit asks stepping up to Bob.

"You!" Bob screams.

Two-bit quickly flips out his switch, "you're looking for a fight!"

"We ain't looking for a fight!" Bob replies even though we all know he is.

Two-bit breaks a bottle handing it to me even though I have a passed out Brooke still in my arms, "lets go!"

"Right now!" Bob screams right back.

"C'mon!" Two-bit snaps.

"Stop!" Cherry yells breaking up the fight between the two boys. "I hate fights okay? I'll come with you! Ponyboy, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Sure," I nod, I gotta admit she sure is pretty.

"I'm sorry," she whispers.

"It's okay, I wouldn't of used this anyways, I could never hurt somebody," I chuckle honestly.

She smiles, "oh yea and if I see you in school and don't say hi, please don't take it personally."

"I know," I sigh sadly.

As she walks away she turns back for a second and says loud enough for everybody to hear, "I hope I never see Dallas Winston again if I do I might fall in love with him."

Brooke's P.O.V.

I wake up in the lot to Ponyboy jumping on top of us, "Ponyboy?"

"C'mon lets go!" He yells.

Johnny and I stand up, "what's wrong Pookie?"

"Darry he hit me!" He gasps. "Can I have a smoke?"

"Sure," Johnny nods handing him one.

Pony is all jittery and nervous, "god I'm scared to death!"

"Well calm down your scaring me too,"Johnny admits.

"Me too Pone," I speak up.

He pulls me into a tight hug, "I'm sorry Brookie."

I rub his back softly, "it's okay Pookie, it's okay."

"Did you mean what you said earlier?" He asks.

"What did I say?" I ask back not remember.

"That you loved me," he informs. "Did you mean it?"

"Of course," I smile as we pull away smiling, at each other. "Lets go for a walk to the park, it'll calm your nerves."

He nods, "okay."

As we get to the park we all sit on the a weird thing at the park reminiscing old times as Pony points out a Soc car, "Uh-oh look whats coming. This is our territory."

"I bet they're looking for us," Johnny sighs I just stay silent since the other night I've been terrified -more than usual- of socs.

"Wanna split?" Johnny asks.

"Stay cool," Pony whispers looking at me, but talking to both of us.

"Well, well well," one of the guys, that jumped me the other day comes out and my whole body freezes. "What do you guys know?"

"They're drunk," I whisper as I blink back tears.

"It's that guy with the rings man," Johnny speaks, he's the one who jumped both Johnny and I.

"It's the greasers, who uh tried to pick up on our women," Randy speaks clearly even though he's drunk.

"Hey you're out of your territory now, you guys better watch it," Johnny warns.

"No pal you better watch it," Randy retorts before Johnny and Pull climb down, but I stay up.

"You guys know what Greaser are?" Bob asks and I just shake my head slightly even though I know they're looking at the boys. "White trash with long greasy hair." Then he splashes his beer on Ponyboy.

Pony looks pissed, "you know what a Soc is?"

"What?" Randy asks through gritted teeth.

"White trash with mustangs and madras," Pony spits and I mean spits. He spits right on the Soc, Randy.

"Get him!" Randy yells and the Soc run after him, but two stays back. "Wanna get her?"

"Yea," the other guy, Bob smirks. "They mess with our women we mess with theirs."

I hear Pony yelling at Johnny, "Johnny get Brooke and run! Run!"

"Help me!" I shriek as they start climbing up to me. "Ponyboy! Johnny! Help me!"

Bob grabs my arm tearing me down to the ground, "having fun Grease?"

I shake my head and my voice comes out in a small squeak, "help me Ponyboy. Help me."

"Awe how cute?" Randy laughs a wicked laugh. "She wants her little greaser puppy dog. Lets get her!"

They drag me over to a water fountain before I go under the rest of the Socs come to help, "Johnny! Ponyboy!"

"Stay down pal," I hear a soc say faintly as I fight against the Socs.

They dunk me down under the water once more and I breathe in a mouth full of water coming up gasping for air as I cough. As they dunk me back under I grab one of the Socs bringing him down with me.

"Son of a bitch!" The Soc swears and I recognize him as Bob. Every time I come up I hear Bob yelling, "drown her! Drown her!" He dunks me down, but I come back up once again to hear him ask, "somebody got a drink for this greaser?" A guy with a blue shirt hands him once and he grabs it happily, "here give me that!"

"Joh-" is all I get out before I start chocking on alcohol hot tears streaming down my cheeks.

"C'mon have a drink pal," Bob says evilly.

I get dunked under the water once more and it's become harder for me to fight back. I stay under here until I can't take it anymore, I have to breathe! I fight back, but I can't get up. This is it, I'm gonna die. I open my mouth as I feel my lungs collapsing taking a deep breathe of water. I muster up all my strength to pull myself back up and take a quick breathe coughing loudly, but they dunk me back down once more. I get dunked under the water as I take in a deep breathe water filling my lungs, but I come back up once more coughing and gasping for air. I get dunked under trying my best to fight back, but I have no more strength left. There is water in my lungs. I'm submerged under freezing water trying not to breathe as I feel my lungs collapsing. I'm in so much pain, but I don't have enough strength. I fight to get back up, but they're too strong. 'This is it, I'm dying,' that's my thought before everything goes black.

I wake up next to Johnny who is shaking back and forth as Pony tries to comfort him. I sit up slowly staring at the boys curiously. "I-I....I killed him...I killed him...I killed him," Johnny whispers quietly.

I look over to see Bob laying there blood surrounding him dead as a door nob. Immediately my stomach starts doing black flips and I feel sick to my stomach. I'm gonna throw up, "Johnny, Pony, I think I'm gonna be sick!"

"Go-go ahead man, I-I-I ain't gonna look at ya," Johnny says once then repeats lowly. "I ain't gonna looking at ya."

I turn my head and silently throw up until I hear Pony ask walking over to me, "Brooke, you okay?"

"You really did kill him, huh Johnny?" I ask and they both walk over to me.

"Yea," Johnny sits in front of me. "I had to, they were drowning you, they might of killed you.....They were gonna beat me and Pony up."

"What happened to the other guys?" I ask.

"The-the-the-they all ran....they all ran off after I stabbed him...they all ran," he says stumbling over his words.

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We bang on Buck's door knowing Dally spends all his nights here partying and sleeping with girls, Buck answers a few minutes later, "what do ya'll want?"

"Dally," Johnny answers because, I'm so cold my lip is blue and I'm shivering. Pony on the other hand is shaking he's so cold. "We gotta see Dally."

"Really?" Buck asks.

"Just tell him it's Brooklyn, Ponyboy, and Johnny, man. He'll come," Johnny begs. "C'mon!"

Buck shuts the door and a few minutes later Dally comes to the door, "what do you guys want?"

"Johnny killed a Soc," Ponyboy speaks up for the first time since I woke up, his voice still trembling.

"What?" Dally asks until it registers. "Alright, good for you. Let's go."

"We'd figure you could get us out if anybody could Dall," Johnny speaks up once again. "I'm sorry I got you away from this party and all, but I just don't know what to do man."

"Nah, it's alright I was just trying to get some sleep. I got in a fight with uh Shepard tonight. Now lets see what we can do about this mess, get in her," Dally says dragging us in by our shirts. "Brooklyn are you wet?"

I nod slightly shivering before I say something softly, it comes out barely above a whisper, "yea, but I'm alright. I thought we were on nickname bases."

He stifles a small chuckle as Pony starts walking into the actual party, but Dally grabs him by his arm, "hey, hey, hey Pony c'mon, man. She'll die of pneumonia before the cops get here." When we get into his room he starts talking again, "c'mon, stupid take your sweatshirt off. Will ya man? You'll freeze to death."

"Uh is there a restroom I can change in?" I ask softly my blue lips quivering as I talk and my teeth chattering.

"Nah Brooke, sorry," he speaks. I sigh as I pull off my sweatshirt exposing my soaking wet bra.

"I wish I had a weed now,"Johnny sighs as I dry off, focusing on my hair.

"Here," Dally says handing Johnny a gun. "Don't point that thing at me, will ya? It's loaded. C'mon!" Then he hand Johnny some money before turning to Ponyboy, "there ya go it's fifty bucks. Look I'm not itching to be the one to tell your big brother about this."

"Then don't tell him!" Pony yells his voice once again steady.

Dally hands me a huge over-sized guy shirt, "here, it might be a little big on ya, but it'll do for now." He walks over to Pony and Johnny whispering some stuff I can't hear as I get this huge shirt buttoned up and continue to dry my hair. The only thing I hear from the whole conversation is Dally saying, "god I thought New York was the only place I'd end up in a murder wrap...Jesus Christ!"

We all walk back downstairs walking out the last thing I hear is, "okay take care kids and watch out for Brooke, she ain't looking too hot." Right after we leave we sneak on a train to god knows where. How did this happen?

Uh-oh, we all know what happens next, but will I make them die? He-he-he, the world may never know! I posted three days in a row! Well what do you think of the oh-so familiar chapter? Let's talk it out in the comments below.
-Beth