Dallas Winston Little Sister // Ponyboy & Johnny

Chapter 23

(Ponyboy's P.O.V)

Well Johnny and I ran away. I guess when we were with Cherry and Marcia some Socs saw us. Cause later that night they jumped us in the park. They tried to drown me. Johnny killed one of them. I still feel bad. I just can't stop thinking about last night. That might have been the last time I'll see Hannah. Gosh I miss her already. Wish I could see her. She would brighten up my day. I woke up. And next to me was a letter from Johnny. It said BE BACK SOON. I went out to the back to the water pump. Nothing would come out. Finally some water came out. I put it on my face the wiped it off with my shirt. Somewhere I heard noise so I hide. Then I saw Johnny. He was carrying a box of thing. We went inside. I grabbed a black little bottle and smelled it.

"You ain't thinking..." I started saying

"Were going to cut our hair Ponyboy. You're going to bleach yours. There going to have our descriptions in the paper and we can't fit them." Johnny said

"No sir you ain't cutting my hair."

"You're going to have to anyways if we get caught. The first thing they'll make you do is make you get a hair cut."

"I don't see why."

"I don't either. I guess a way in trying to break us. I'm going to cut mine off to and wash all the grease out."

"No sir you ain't touching my hair."

"Ponyboy is going to grow back man. It not that it won't."

I sighed. "Go ahead."

Johnny started cutting my my hair. It hurt. Why'd he have to pull so hard.

"What will Hannah think. She'll probably not want to go out with me anymore."

"Come on Pony. Hannah still loves you. She'll probably need some time to get used to it."

"Can it see now?"

"You have to bleach it first."

"Then bleach it stop cutting."

Soon Johnny started bleaching it. When he was done he went and found a mirror. I stayed outside. When I looked at the clouds they reminded me of Hannah. When we were kids we would always go outside and look at the clouds. Try to make a picture out of them. My mom would force us to come inside. But we wouldn't until we found one that spelled out both of our names. Which never happened. Ah good times. Johnny came back with a broken mirror. Great my hair was blonde. Now Hannah would think I'm weird. Now it was my turn to cut Johnny's hair. I put my air on it then started cutting. Johnny started complaining. Saying that he didn't cut off as much as I was cutting off of him. I was going to get him back for cutting my hair. When we were done both of us went inside. We sat down by the fire thing. Then I started crying.

"I'm still tried." I said

I took a bite if my chocolate bar. I was trying not to cry. Man all I could think was about Hannah. She must be worried sick.

"Look I'm sorry I cut you hair off Ponyboy." Johnny said

"It ain't that." I replied "It's just.....I don't know I'm all mixed up."

"Yea I know things have been going on so fast. Remember that one good horse story."

Then he said something about Two-Bit. I couldn't hear him because a lot of things were going threw my mind.

"Remember how we were wise cracking last night. Just last night you and Hannah were trying to get me jealous. It work. Just last night we were up in the lot looking at the stars."

"Stop it man will you shut up about last night." Johnny was mad now. He got up.

"Johnny."

"I killed a kid last night he couldn't have been 17 or 18 years and I killed him. How would you like to live with that huh? I didn't mean to. They was drowning you and I didn't know what to do." There was a silence. I walked over to him and put my arm around him. "There sure is a lot of blood inside of people."