THE OUTSIDERS: The Sequel

"GOLLY"-JOHNNY'S VOICE BESIDE
me made me jump-"that sure was pretty." Johnny said.
"Yeah." I sighed.
"The mist was what was pretty," Johnny said. "All gold
and silver."
"Uhmmmm." I said, trying to blow a smoke ring.
"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."
"Nothing gold can stay." I was remembering a poem I'd read once.
"What?"

"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."

Johnny was staring at me.

The next thing I knew the sunrise had faded off into darkness...

ALL CHARACTERS BELONG TO S.E HINTON. I AM NOT S.E HINTON.