Us greasers

Chapter 18

I woke up in the bed alone, it was already 9, Soda was probably heading to work by now. I sighed at the thought of him being mad at me, but how was I supposed to know something was going to go wrong?

I rolled out of bed and walked to the bathroom. I got showered and dressed.

"Good morning" Pony said. He and Johnny were the only ones here.

"Good morning" I smiled taking my hair out of a towel and putting it back in the bathroom.

"Where is Two-Bit? He's usually with you guys" I asked sitting on the couch in the middle of them.

"He came by earlier but he said he had to head out not long ago" Pony said.

"Have uh have Dally dropped by?" I asked.

"No" Pony said after a couple seconds of silence. I sighed.

"What about Soda, did he mention anything about last night?" I asked looking at Pony.

"He never really said anything this morning, he woke up, got dressed and went straight to work, he never spoke to any of us" Pony said. "Why do you know something?"

"Last night when he came home he was crying a little and I asked him what was wrong but he just snapped at me and said he didn't want to talk about it" I said looking down. I felt so bad for hurting him like that. Pony and Johnny never said a word, we just sat in awkward silence.

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I sat on the couch waiting for Soda to come in the door. I thought my heart was going to beat out of my chest. I crossed my fingers that everything would go well with Soda once I talked to him.

Surprisingly everything was okay with Dally now. When Darry got home he brought Dally with him. Darry sat us down like children and basically told Dally off. He was mad at that but he cooled down eventually. He just left actually.

"Hey Soda" Pony said almost nervous for his reaction.

Soda nodded at him and went straight to his bedroom. I sighed loudly and looked at Pony. He rose his eyebrows at me.

"Should I talk to him?" I asked Darry.

"Your can try" He said. Darry was usually so much more encouraging than that.

I shrugged and thought whats the worst that could happen. I got off the couch and made my way into the room. The door was shut so I knocked on it quietly. No answer. I knocked again, still no answer. This time I opened the door and there he was laying on the bed staring at the wall. My heart sunk. I awkwardly stood there thinking of what to say.

"Soda" I finally said. "Can you please talk to me, I never meant to hurt you"

Soda stayed silent for a second before sitting up on the bed and looking at me.
I sat on the end of the bed after shutting the door.

"Can you tell me what happened?" I asked looking in his eyes.

He hesitated before telling me the story.

"When I went to pick up Julia, everything was fine, we had a good time driving to the Dingo, when we got there we sat down and ate. When we finished we just sat there and talked, then some socs came in and sat down with us, I asked them to leave to she wanted them to stay there, turned out one of them was her boyfriend" Soda said looking down.

"Soda I'm so sorr-"

"She reminded me of Sandy. Everything she did reminded me of Sandy. The way she laughed, how much she would talk, the excitement she brought on, I thought I would have another Sandy, but better, now I don't" He said quietly.