An Outsider ( A Ponyboy Curtis Fanfic)

Oh Crap!

'What the hell is going on here!" Darry shouted. Dally walked up to Pony and punched him square in the nose. I heard a crack. Pony held his nose in pain.

"I think he broke my damn nose! Damnit Dallas!" Pony whined. Soda and Darry whispered to each other. I noticed Pony was still holding my shirt. I grabbed it and pulled it on quickly

"Okay Pony come with me. Soda watch Jasmine." Darry said. He walked Pony out.

"Come on Jazz lets go to the Dingo for something to eat," Soda said grabbing my arm. I smacked his hand away.

"No!" I screamed and ran out the door, down the stairs, out the front door, and down the street. I ran till I reached the lot. I sat down on the old beat up couch and bawled.

"Hey Ja- what's wrong?" I heard Johnny asked. I looked up at him. I just hugged him and buried myself in his arms. Wanting nothing but to make myself smaller and disappear. "Okay, okay" He told me patting my back.

I fell asleep like that. In Johnny's arms.

"Hey Jazz, wake up. Come on," Johnny said shaking me.

"What Johnny just let me sleep."

"Darry is gonna kill you if you get home any later."

"Oh crap what time is it?" I asked suddenly awake.

"Like midnight you better get going."

I ran to the house bursting through the front door. I saw Pony asleep on the couch. Darry was reading the paper. He dropped it fast. "Where the heck have you been," Darry fumed.

"I fell asleep with Johnny in the lot," I whispered sounding smaller than I wished to be.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I was crying and Johnny and me just sat down. I fell asleep."

"Hey Jazz, what time is it," said a groggy Pony. I gave Pony a look to shut up. Thankfully he got the message.

"Jasmine you live under this roof with few rules for free. Why can't you just follow them?" Darry spat.

"Few rules? Please. I can't do anything. I am sick and tired of everyone treating me like I'm some kid." I said on the verge of tears. "Don't you remember what it was like to be a kid Darry? Do you remember your first love? God why does everyone hate me? Why does Dally hate me?"

I didn't really realize what I said till I said it. I fell to my knees crying. Pony picked me up "Thanks a lot Darrel" Pony said. He cradled me and took me upstairs to my room. "Shhh Shhhh. He ain't gonna yell at you no more. I won't let him." He laid me down but he laid down next to me. He kept repeating the sentence over and over until I fell asleep.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Morning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I woke up and Pony was gone. I walked to my closet and pulled on a t-shirt like the one yesterday but for The Beatles and some black skinny jeans. I put my Yin&Yang belly button stud on and matching earrings. I applied some light eyeliner and concealer on my neck. It was slowly shrinking.

I walked downstairs, where everyone was, and into the kitchen. I grabbed a bowl, some cereal, and some milk from the icebox. I made my bowl of cereal and sat at the table. I didn't realize how silent it was till I looked in the living room and everyone was staring at me. I hated attention. Especially all the attention.

"What the heck are y'all starin' at?" I snapped.

"Geez, Jazz. Take it easy," Steve said. I gave him a death glare. I continued eating my cereal. I heard whispering coming from the living room.