The Outsiders

Chapter 9

Ponyboy POV
We finally got to the school and we went inside to get to are lockers and head to class. I got my algebra book and headed to my class. The school day drag on slow and it finally became lunch I waited for Johnny and Ashlyn at the doors of the lunchroom. Ashlyn came first and Johnny came behind her and they came up to me and we walked in to the lunchroom together to get a seat and get are food. We talked for a little we sat down getting are food and we began to eat.
Ashlyn POV
I am really happy that Ponyboy and Johnny let me set with them at lunch. After a little while later the bell rang for us to get to are other classes. The day still went slow after lunch and it's the last two periods and I'm in the hallway and I'm heading to the door to get out oh this hell hole of what we call school. I went out of the doors and I started to head toward the DX. I made it to the DX not long after I went out of school I went inside the doors of the DX to find Steve at the counter reading a car magazine.
"Hi how may I help you?" Steve said without looking up from the magazine.
"Hi to you to Steve I'm here to see soda."
"Oh hi Ashlyn thought you were another Customer."
"Well that's fine, what are you reading?"
"I'm looking at a car magazine."
"That sound fun I like to work on the cars I use to at in Indiana."
"You use to work on cars in Indiana?"
"Yeah is that hard to believe?"
"Well sort of not all girls like working on cars like you."
"Well I ain't like other girls so that ain't going to be hard to believe now would it."
"No it ain't going to be hard to believe now you look me like a tomboy if you ask me."
"Well I'm sure ain't a girly girl and I'm might as well call me a tomboy since I would say I act like it and we're is soda at."
"He's in the garage, if you follow me I'll show you were he is."
"Okay I will follow but he better be in there or I'll hurt ya you hear."
"Yeah I hear and he is in here so I won't get hurt yet."
He went in to the garage I guess it was called and I followed him inside the garage to see soda under a car working on it. Steve went back to the counter and I waited until soda notice me in the garage.
"Hey Steve could you hand me the wrench from the toolbox and hand it to me."
"Yeah I will." I said in a manly voice.
I hope I did put perfume on this morning or that will blow my cover.
"Hey Steve do you have perfume on it smells like Ashlyn's perfume she had on."
That made me smile at that cause he thought of me but shit he probably thinks it's me. Soda rolled from under the car and he got up and had his back towards me so I went up to him and put my arms around his torso and I laid my head on his back. Soda turn his head to see who it was and when he saw it was his face lite up and he turned around to give me a hug. He got grease on me from the car he was working on.
"Oh sorry I got grease on your face I forgot to wipe it off before I hugged you."
"It's fine it's like the last time I got grease on me in Indiana."
"You worked on cars in Indiana?"
"Yeah I did is that hard to believe."
"Well kind of cause not all girls are like that."
"I'm not like the girls here I'm more like a tomboy cause I like football and basketball and the sports and I like rodeos and drag races and fights, I love to swim because I went to my aunts house when she was still alive I went over there I swam there every summer."
"Oh well it's almost time to close up."
"Well let's go see what Steve is doing but first
lets get the grease off of the both of us."
"Okay but you look good with the grease on you."
"Here is a rag over there."
He went to grab the rag and he cleaned his hands and his face then he gave me the rag. After I got cleaned up all the grease I kissed sodas check and I went to see what Steve was doing. He was still looking at that damn magazine.
"Well let's get going Ashlyn." Soda said
"Where are you too going." Steve said
"We're going to my house cause my dad wants to meet soda after he walked me home."
"Well you two head to Ashlyn's house and I'll lock up." Steve said
"Thanks Steve." Soda said to Steve
We headed to my house after we talked to Steve. We got to my house a little bit after we left the DX and we went in to the front door and my dad was not home yet since it was 4:19 in the afternoon and he gets off at 4:30.
"Hey soda my dad doesn't get home until 4:30 so we can hang around here if you want to."
"Yeah we can just hang around here and watch tv."
"Would you like chocolate cake we still have some from this morning and chocolate milk."
"Yes that would be great since I been at work all day."
"Okay I'll go get the cake and milk for the both of us."
I went to the kitchen and got the cake and I grabbed a glasses of chocolate milk and went back to the living room and headed the chocolate cake and milk to soda and I went to seat on the ground when soda said "why don't you set up here with me." "I guess I'll set up there with you even though I think the ground is more comfortable than the couch."