Stay Gold

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Dally, Ponyboy, Johnny, and I all went into town after the contest. Sodapop said before I left that I need check my surroundings before I go to sleep. I doubt he will do something to hurt me. Then again, I am getting older.

We are heading towards the drive in. I see that Beach Blanket Bingo is playing. I hope that is what we are seeing.

I start walking towards the entrance when Dally says, "Bee!" He never calls me by my real name or my nickname, "We ain't gonna pay to see the movie. We are sneaking in!"

What was I thinking. I am with Dally. He never plays by the rules.

We go around to the back of the drive in and find a hole in the fence. I am the first one to crawl through. No one sees me, so I yank Ponyboy through the hole because he wasn't paying attention.

"Ouch!" Yells Ponyboy.

"Shut up unless you want to be thrown in jail!" I say. I hate it when we get hauled in. I am always being blamed for it because I am the girl and I should be taking care of everyone. For Pete's sake! I am the youngest! Darry says I am too old to be playing that card. Whatever. I am going to play that card if I want to.

I pull Johnny through and Dally can get himself through. We head over towards the seats and sit in the second row. We sit behind three girls. They look very familiar to me. One has very red hair and the other two have black/Brown hair. Then it hits me. The red head is a cheer leader at our school. I also have Advanced Algebra 4 with her. I have Logic and Debate with the other two girls. I am trying to remember their names when Dally puts his feet up on the red heads' chair.

"Get your feet of my chair!" Cherry Valance! That is her name and the other girls are twins and their name are Mary Charles and Marsha something.

"Why should I?" asks Dally. Oh great. I think. Here we go again.

"Come on Dal." says Johnny. Dally just ignores him.

"I said get your feet off of my chair!" Cherry says. Ponyboy, Johnny, and I move back a row so we don't get involved.

Cherry pushed Dal's feet off of her chair and he fell over. We all laughed. Dally whipped around towards us and faked slapped us. We all reacted like it hurt us. That is what we always do. Dally puts his feet back up on Cherry's chair.

"Dal," I say, "there is no reason to be doing this!"

"Why?" he says, "Are you afraid that your reputation is going to be ruined?"

"No," I say. Even though that is one of the reasons, "just..."

"Just, what?" he says.

"JUST STOP!" Johnny finishes my sentence yelling. We all stare at him in awe. He never yells. He barely talks. Dally gets up and storms off. There goes our "adult supervision."

"Thanks guys!" says Mary Charles.

"No problem." says Ponyboy. Even though he didn't do anything.

"How about you guys come up here and sit with us. To protect us." says Marsha.

Cheesey. I think.

We all look at each other and move up towards the girls. I sit by Mary Charles. Ponyboy sits to Cherry's right and Johnny sits in between Marsha and Cherry.

We all start talking. Mary Charles starts talking to me but I am not really listening because I want to watch Beach Blanket Bingo. She says that I don't look like someone who would hangout with Dally. I tell her that he is like a brother to me and I would never betray him.