Warning the outsiders and winning Johnny cade

Chapter thirty nine

"What do we do?"
Johnny asked as we both looked down at the unconscious boy. I shrugged.
After contemplating what to do we decided we had to take him back to the house to clean him up and let him rest until he wakes up.
Johnny picked him up and started to walk when we started hearing, at first distant but coming closer, loud calls for us. They were repeating the same thing over and over which was
"Anne!? Johnny!? Where are you!? Johnny we need to talk to you now!"
I ran out of the alley with Johnny and the unconscious boy in his hands.
"We're right here!" I shouted. Various members of the gang came running to us in@ different directions, all saying the same thing at very times, they all sounded very@ urgent. Every one of them said something along the lines of,@@@
"Johnny it's your parents. They were in a house fire. They're in the hospital but it doesn't look good. Go now."
Johnnys smile melted into a sad look, his big brown puppy eyes sadder than ever. He put the boy into Two-Bits arms and hopped into Dallas' car not saying a word.
I squatted down putting my hands by my head. This was all happening so fast. What should I do? Help the boy or go support Johnny? I wasn't even sad about his parents, they had it coming, but Johnny, he, well it would kill him.
I decided to go with Two-Bit, Ponyboy, and Sodapop back to the house and help the boy until he was conscious and ask him what happened. Steve and Darry decided to meet dally and Johnny at the hospital.
We got to the house and Soda set the boy in the couch while I grabbed ice and Pony grabbed the first aid kit. No one had spoke the whole ride home. Just lifeless expressions. I guess we were all speechless. We didn't really know what to say. It's not like we cared about them because of what they do over and over again to Johnny, but we cared about Johnny and we knew deep inside Johnny cared a lot, we don't know why, but he did.
"What happened?" I asked the boys as we started cleaning up the cuts and icing the bruises and swollen spots. Boy had they beat him up really bad.
"We just smelt smoke and when we went outside we saw a big thick line coming from a house so we followed it and sure enough it was johnnys house. The whole thing was in flames. We didn't see the Cade's outside so we called the fire department and sure enough they were in there." Ponyboy said
Soda added, "yeah we saw their burns when they were wheeling them out. It was nasty. Didn't even look like skin or even people. We knew you and Johnny were out so that's when we went looking for you guys and found you about ten minutes later."
"What's the story with him?" Pony asked looking down at the bloodied boy.
I told them everything that happened starting with us walking by them and ending with them running away from us and the gang finding us.
"He can't be older than fourteen why was he all alone and how come I never seen him before?" Soda asked
"I don't know soda but he looks even younger than that. Can't be younger than ten. If he was ten he'd be sold lookin ten year old"
We talked fora while about johnnys parents.
Then he started to wake up. He looked confused at first but then he said
"You're, you're one of the people who saved me right?"
"Yeah I am." I said in a real soothing voice.
"Well thanks if it wasn't for you I'd probably be dead right now."
"No problem, mind telling us what happened?"
"Well I was walking home alone since my dad couldn't drive me back from work today. See, we've lived here for about a year and a half now and I've never gone to school since we moved because we're really tight on money. I've been working all the time. It's just me and my dad. I usually don't like going out because of all the soc greaser stuff. I like to keep my dad company anyways. So that's why you haven't seen me around. Anyways I was walking home alone when here comes these super socs, eyeing me. The girl was going on and on about how she was so upset some person called her out on her rudeness, she was being very rude about it. I tried to walk faster but they kept trailing me. Long story short they eventually dragged me into the alley and practically beat me to death until you guys got there. Thanks for saving me. The reason my dad couldn't drive me today is, well because he died of a heart attack a few days ago. I'm trying to hide from everyone so they won't throw me in a boys home. I really miss my dad. It's not fair."
"Wow" ponyboy said, "I sure am sorry about everything. Our parents died a little while back and it's horrible. We'll try our best to help you out. And Socs suck, huh? How old are you anyways?"
"Twelve, I've been told I look old for my age."
"Yeah you do." Sodapop said cleaning up one of his cuts and he winced but then he said,
"Where's the other person that helped me?"
"Well he just found out something horrible happened to his parents and he's at the hospital with them, thanks for asking" I replied.