Who would've thought

Last night

"Well, I guess we're disguised now." Johnny stated. "I guess so..." I sighed. "Oh, shoot! It's just hair." Johnny exclaimed. Pony snapped back. "Shoot nothin'! It took me a long time to get my hair just the way I wanted it. Then you had to go and chop off all my hard work!"

"Hey! It's not like Johnny and I had a choice, you know. We're being chased after. By. The. Damn. Police. It's either them or your looks. So calm yourself and get over your damn hair, 'cause we don't feel too great about this, either!"

Ponyboy started crying and I immediately felt bad. "I'm sorry 'bout your hair, Ponyboy." I apologized. I was being hard on him, the situation was already stressful as it was. He shook his head.

"It's not that. I mean, not all of it. I'm just a little spooky." He explained. "I really don't know what's the matter. I'm just mixed up." Johnny and I nodded our heads in understanding.

Johnny started shivering, so I put my arms around him and gave him a warm hug. "Two-Bit shoulda been in that little store. Things were just laying wide out in the open, waitin' for someone slick like him to come and pick 'em up."

I continued. "He coulda walked out with half the store." Johnny started trembling, and I knew he was thinking about home. Pony didn't seem to notice.

"Remember how Two was wisecrackin' last night? Last night... Just last night we were walkin' the girls over to Two-Bit's. Just last night we were layin' in the lot, looking up at the stars and dreaming..."

"Stop it!" I turned to look at Johnny, who had tears streaming down his cheeks. "Shut up about last night! I killed a kid last night. He couldn't of been over seventeen or eighteen, and I killed him."

Tears started falling from my eyes as well. "How'd you like to live with that?" Johnny asked Pony. He then sat quiet. "I didn't mean to! But they were drownin' you and he-" Johnny hesitated. "And he was touching my girl!"

Pony was shocked since we didn't explain to him what happened while he was drowning. "He what?!" I quickly stood up and went to look out the window. I had my back turned to the boys, but I could still hear everything.

"When the others were drownin' you, Bob cornered Aiden and he- well," Johnny gulped. "He started touching her, a- and I got real mad so I went over... and then it happened."

I tried to wipe the tears from my face, but they kept streaming down. "There sure is a lot of blood in people..." Johnny whispered. I went over to Johnny, who had gotten up and started pacing. He wrapped his arms around me comfortingly.

"I'm sorry." I cried into his shoulder. "I'm sorry this happened. I'm sorry you got involved with what happened in the park, I'm sorry for you making an enemy of him, I'm sorry I dragged you guys to the movies when Dal and I wanted to go, I- I'm sorry-"

I couldn't speak anymore because I had fell to the ground, Johnny hugging me from behind. We leaned against a wall, letting all the tears out. Pony came over to us and he leaned his head on Johnny's shoulder.

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"This is all my fault." Johnny whispered. "For bringin' a little thirteen year old kid along, for bringin' you along, Aiden. You both ought to go home. Y'all can't get into any trouble. You didn't kill him."

Pony jumped to his feet and yelled. "No! I'm fourteen! I've been fourteen for a month! And I'm in it just as much as you are! I'll stop crying... just give me a minute."

"I didn't mean it like that... Ponyboy, don't cry. Please-" Johnny started tearing up again. Pony sat back down the way he was before. I leaned my head back and rested it on Johnny's shoulder.

"Johnny," I whispered. "Don't even think for one second that we'd ever leave you. We've all got somethin' to do with this mess. Pony's right, we're in it just as much as you are."

I wiped away my tears and stared at my shoelaces. I untied them, then tied them again, then untied them once more. "Yesterday..." I sung quietly. "All my troubles seemed so far away." Pony raised his eyebrow at me.

"Now it looks as though they're here to stay." Johnny continued. "Oh I believe in yesterday." We all sung together. "Suddenly..." Ponyboy whispered. "I'm not half the man I used to be." I stared at Johnny. "There's a shadow hanging over me."

"Oh yesterday came suddenly." I sniffled. We stopped singing since it was getting too emotional for us. "The song fits the situation perfectly." Pony stated. I nodded my head. "I guess it's our song, huh?" I thought.

Johnny sobbed as I turned around to give him a warm hug. All three of us cried for what seemed like forever. I fell asleep, listening to Johnny's heartbeat. 

Johnny's POV

Aiden rested her head back on my shoulder and cried silently. This is all my fault, I thought. All of this is my fault. I was the one who killed Bob. Not Pony, not Aiden, me. I killed him and I deserve whatever happens when they find me.

If I get the electric chair, or a life sentence in prison, then I get it. I didn't mean to do it, I really didn't. But that's not an excuse anyways. I killed a boy and that's that.

I sobbed loudly and Aiden heard me. She turned around and gave me a consoling hug. She fell asleep soon after. "It's gonna be okay. We're gonna be okay." I reassured myself. Pony and I were the last ones to fall asleep.

This is a shorter chapter, but the next few will be a bit longer since its my own ideas for the days they spent in the church.
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