Once Ponyboy was donw with the dishes, Darla got dressed in a white t-shirt, jeans, black leather boots, and her leather jacket. She put her hair in a Ponytail and greased it.
Ponyboy put on a sweatshirt, Two-Bit put on his jacket and they left.
Once they got to the road, Two-Bit put up a hitch-hikers thumb,
"I would drive, but the breaks went out on my car. Almost killed me and Kathy the other night."
"-You were with Kathy?" Darla asks. "Yep. jealous, doll face?" Two-Bit smirked. "No. It was just a question." Darla shrugged. "You outta meet her brother. Now there's a hood. Boy, he's so greasy he glides when he walks."
Darla snickered as they continued to walk. She coughed a bit.
A car came by and Two-But flipped it off. "He goes to the barber shop for an oil change not a hair cut."
Darla started to hack up a coughing storm to stop herself from laughing. "Breath, kid." Two-Bit said, patting Darla on the back.
They walked up to a Tasty Freeze to grab a coke. As they walked up to the restaurant, the blue mustang started to draw near to them. Very near. "Stay close.' said Two-Bit. "What do they wan?" Ponyboy asked. "I don't know. How many were in the car?" Two-But asked. "Four or five." Ponyboy replied. "Come on. Let's hurry up inside." Pony opened the door to the Tasty Freeze.
"Wait a minute. Let's see what they want." Two-But said, holding up his arm. "Why?" Darla asked. "Just stay here." said Two-Bit.
They socs in the mustang came out of the car and walked up to the three teen. Darla noticed one of them as Randy he was there the night Johnny killed the soc.
"No jabs before the rumble. You know the rules, ape face." Two-Bit snapped. "We know." Randy replied. "I want to talk to you two." he said, pointing to Ponyboy and Darla.
Ponyboy and Darla exchange looks with each other, then to Two-But. "Go ahead. Ill keep my eye on him." Two-Bit said.
A few other greasers from Tim Shepard game showed up too and started to blab about the rumble.
The three teens walked over to the mustang. "I read about you in the paper. Why?" Randy asked. "I don't know." said Pony. "i felt like playing a superhero or something."
"-It was the right thing to do." Darla cut in. "I wouldn't of. I'd let those little kids burn to death.
"-Well then that proves what kind of person you really are." Darla said angrily. "And how would you know. You weren't even there! I would've been horrified if were one of those kids. Scared to die a painful death. I ran in and almost died. But, it was worth it." Darla coughed.
"I don't know." Randy shrugged. "I just don't know anything anymore I guess." Randy shrugged.
"I guess I just never would believe Greasers could pull something like that."
"-Greaser don't have anything to do with it." Ponyboy snapped.
Two-Bit and Tim Shepard's Greasers were being loud and obnoxious. "Wanna talk inside." Randy asked.
The three teens went into the car. Randy on drivers seat, Ponyboy had shotgun and Darla sat in the back.
"I couldn't tell this to anyone else because my friends would think I was off my rocker or something." Randy shook his head. "You know that friend of yours who got burned-he might die?"
"-HE WILL RECOVER!" Darla screamed, then had a coughing fit. "Is she okay?" Randy asked Ponyboy. "She inhaled a lot of smoke at the fire." Pony explained. "But, yeah."
"-And tonight, people will get hurt at the rumble, maybe even killed." he sighed ans shook his head. "You can't win, you know that, right?"
Darla clenched her fists.
"-It doesn't matter if you beat us. You'll still be where you were at the bottom. And we'll be the lucky ones with all the breaks. It doesn't matter. Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs. It doesn't matter."
A small moment of silence. "Anyway thanks, Greasers." Randy said to Pony and Darla. The two kids opened the doors of the mustang. "-Hey, I didn't mean that, I meant thanks, kids."
They both stopped.
"Been nice talkin' to you, Randy. My name's Ponyboy." Ponyboy outstretched his hand to Randy who took it. "Darla." Darla outstretched her hand to him as well and shook hands with the Soc.
Randy honked his horn for his friend to come back. The socs passed by Darla and Ponyboy talking about the rumble.
"So what did Mr. Super-Soc have to day?" Two-Bit asked. "He aint a soc." Ponyboy said. "Just a guys who wanted to talk, that's all." Ponyboy replied.
"Yeah." Darla agreed.
The two kids started to walk away. Two-Bit shook hands with the two Greasers from Tim Shepard's outfit and went to join Ponyboy and Darla.
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From Weakness to Strength
FanfictionA young girl who was bullied, finds herself orphaned after a couple of boys saved he from bullies. She was a sensitive one, but then she became raised by the gang, But, here's lesson this fanfic teaches: Even the weakest at first could become the st...
