Pocket Knives

Chapter Twenty Six

Mitch's POV

We all went to the ice cream place down the street, getting something to eat, afterwards we went to go see Johnny, Dally, Neda and Hailey. When we got there the nurse refused to let us see Johnny but after about twenty five minutes of arguing, the doctor allowed us in, Johnny laid down on a stretcher like bed, I guess it was straightening his back or healing it cause he was layin down face first. Johnny could hardly talk but some how we understood what he was saying.

"N-Ned-a" his voice was hoarse, I looked at Angela, she nodded before leaving to get her, Two had gone to get a paperback copy of 'Gone With The Wind' I heard it was a good book but I didn't get a chance to read it. A nurse came in.

Storm's POV

"Johnny your mother is here to see you" she said, our eyes widened as another nurse moved Johnny to his actual bed.

"I don't want to see her" he jumped, his voice was still hoarse and but he still raised it as much as he could.

"But she's your mother" she talked back, in a questioning tone. Johnny shook his head nearly in tears, just then Neda walked in and Johnny calmed down a little bit. She kissed Johnny's forehead, he smiled lightly before the nurse asked if she could see him, Johnny shook his head again.

"I said I didn't want to see my mom! She's probably just here to tell me how happy she and the old man will be when I'm gone!" He yelled, his breathing became faster before he collapsed into his bed, breathing slightly. The nurse pulled us out just as Two came running in, he gave her the book before we walked past Johnny's mom I guessed, she was throwing a tantrum.

"He's so selfish! He wants to talk to these hoods and not his mother?" She screamed, I lost it, NO ONE talks about Johnnycakes that way. I snapped.

"Maybe if you stopped being such an abusive attention whore then he would actually like you" I mumbled , my head down, bangs covering my face and tears pricked in the side of my eyes, everyone went silent, until his 'mom' spoke up, if you can even call her that.

"Excuse me? I gave him a home, I carried him for 9 months I think I deserve to see him more that you do" she said back, my nails dug into my palm, I smirked and looked at her. This was war.

"At least we actually care about him, you're nothing but a selfish bitch, here it is that your son could die and your a attention whore smoking a cigarette" I said, I felt a cold hand slap across my cheek, my eyes widened, seeing his mom smirk at me, everything went still, until Two wrapped a arm around my waist protectively an glared at her, nearly in tears.

"No wonder why he hates your guts" Two said, grabbing my hand and kissing the cheek she slapped, pulling me away from her, we walked to Dally's room to see him awake and arguing with a nurse cause, well that's Dally. Neda and Mitch were arguing with Johnny's mom to leave and Pony and Angela followed us.

"You ain't participating in the rumble hey?" Pony asked, Dally nodded, then he looked and Two and I.

"Do you have switch blade and pocket knife?" He asked, we nodded, he sighed. "Give em here" he said, we looked at each other, confused but handed them to him, he opened both at the same time.

"We gotta do this, do it for Johnny" Dal said, we smiled a little and said goodbye as Hailey walked in, kissing Dal. We laughed and left.

Angela's POV

I held Pony's hand as we exited, I didn't realize how warm his hand was until we got outside, I put my hand on his forehead.

"My gosh Ponyboy, you're burning up" I said, he huffed, I knew he didn't want to miss the rumble.

"No one say anything to Darry or Sodapop, I'll take a few aspirins before the rumble and I'll be fine" he said, I wasn't sure but we went along with it anyways. We walked back to his house, seeing Darry was home, Mitch smiled

"Hey y'all, where ya been?" He asked, Mitch spoke up.

"Ice cream" she smiled, making Darry chuckle.

"Well I gotta pick up Pony's homework, you wanna come?" He asked, we all nodded, it was mid day and it was lunch so why not go now?

We got to the school, parking Darry's car in the parking lot.

Mitch's POV

We ran into the school, getting weird looks and whispering from the students, but we ignored it. We got into a hallway when I realized something.

"Hey Ponyboy I just came up with a pickup line that your girl here could use" I said, Pony looked confused. "So your name is Ponyboy huh? Well I bet she'd love to see how you ride" I winked, Angela and Storm got it immediately, Angela's face went red, so did Pony's when he realized what it meant, Two and Storm laughed.

"Don't act like you haven't you two" Darry pointed to Two and Storm whose faces immediately went as red as a tomato.

"Yeah but so have you two" Storm said to Darry and I, Darry blushed and I just nodded in agreement. It was hilarious, Storm and I had a friendship like Sodapop and Steve. Strong ass friendship right there!

Darry rolled his eyes and walked to the teachers room while Storm and I ran into a different hallway to explore.

We walked around when we saw two really weird looking, marshmallows? Nope those where just Socs... Now that I mention marshmallows, I'm kinda hungry.

"Hey babes, what you two hotties doin at a dump like this?" One asked, Storm growled but answered politely.

"Oh we are just waiting for our boyfriends" she said nicely, that's when the started to close in on us...

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Sorry for the cliff hanger :P
What am I talking about? I'm not sorry XD I shall make you wait