A/N you know, not mine, really S.E. Hintons, y'all know that by now though so yeah...

Fuck, my back hurts.

"Urggghhhh," I huff, cracking my back as I get off the the floor.

"Shhhhhhs, Soda I'm tryin' to sleep," Pony mutters before rolling over and falling back to sleep.

"Rough night, dollface?" Dally asks as I walk into the kitchen.

"You could say that."

"What happened to you?" Darry asks, looking up from his paper.

"I slept on the floor."

"You didn't have to," Pony says, walking in.

"Umm, yeah I did."

"No, you didn't."

"Yes, I did."

"No, you didn't."

"Yes, I did!"

"No you didn't!"

"Yes, I did!"

"No, you didn't!"

"YES, I did!"

"NO, you didn't!"

"You two, outside now, I don't want to listen to this," Darry demanded.

"This is all your fault!"

"What?"

"The fact that we are out here!"

"How is it my fault?"

"Uh, I don't know, you started it!"

"How did I start it, you were the one who slept on the floor!"

"Exactly, this is your fault!"

"You never had to sleep on the fall, that was your choice!"

"But I wouldn't have to sleep on the floor if you weren't such a perv!"

"That's not my fault!"

"Yes it is, 'cause this whole thing happened because of you!"

"Because of ME?!"

"YES! If you weren't such an asshole, this wouldn't have happened!"

"If you weren't such a cold hearted bitch, I wouldn't have to be an asshole!"

"WELL, if you weren't such an idiot, I wouldn't have to be a cold hearted bitch."

"Yeah, well, if you weren't such a loser, you would realize that you're the idiot and not me!"

"So now you're calling me an idiot!"

"I think I just did!"

"Well you're an even bigger idiot!"

"How can I be an even bigger idiot when you're the biggest idiot of all!"

"AHHHHH I HATE YOU!"

"YOU CAN'T HATE ME BECAUSE I HATED YOU FIRST!"

"NO YOU DIDN'T!"

"YES I DID!"

"NO! YOU DIDN'T!"

"YES! I DID!"

"NO! YOU! DIDN'T!"

"YES! I! DID!"

"ASSHOLE!"

"BITCH!"

"I'm sorry I called you a bitch," Pony mumbles as the sun sets. Darry made us sit out on the porch all day with no food or nothing until we apologised for out fight this morning, and I sure as hell wasn't going to give in first.

"Sorry I called you an idiot and an asshole and yeah."

"We cool?"

"I guess."

"Skin it."

"What?"

"Remember when we were all little and someone would get in a fight, usually Soda would make us skin it, like shake hands, to prove that we're cool. You might've been too young, but that's what we did. So, skin it?"

"Ok."

"DARRY THEY MADE UP!" Two-bit yells from inside of the house.

"YOU CAN LET THEM IN!" Darry yells back.

"Come in kiddies," Two-bit says, holding open the screen door.

"We already ate everything, but you guys can make grilled cheese or something, or I think there's some baloney in the fridge."

"URGHHHHH, no thanks, will make grilled cheese," Pony moans, dragging me into the kitchen.

"Soooo?"

"Soooo what?"

"Every since we were fourteen you just up and hated baloney, what the fu-fudge is that about?"

"Well, do you remember when Johnny and I like ran away for a week?"

"Yeah, vaguely, I didn't really get the hype, Steve pushed me away then."

"Well we were in this abandoned church, and before we left, Dally had told us to get all our supplies for the week before people actually started looking for us. So Johnny went and bought bread and peanut butter and stuff. And baloney. So we had a week of baloney sandwiches." He shudders.

"And?"

"And what?"

"Well, you know, a good story must have a beginning, middle, and end, and have adventure and romance. And you're missing then ending and the romance and the adventure and the beginning. But you have a pretty solid middle."

"You asked about the baloney, so I told you about the baloney. After a solid week of just baloney sandwiches I couldn't think about baloney without throwing up."

"But why did you run away, and how did you come back? And did you have this urge to return for some beautiful girl, or maybe you left because of the beautiful girl? Or you could only save the girl by leaving."

"Yeah, it's one of those."

"C'mon tell me, we got loads of time."

"I'm not so sure you're ready for it…"

"Well everyone just left sooo…." I prompt as i hear the door slam and Two-bit's ratchet ass car pull away.

"I ain't too hot about this idea…"

"C'mon, Pony, it's not like I asking you to take my virginit- shit, nope, you did not hear that, nope, nope, nope, shut up!"

"Well, if you really want me too," Pony suggests, raising an eyebrow.

"Urghhh, please, can you just tell me!"

"Fine, but lets go to my room first."

"Ok," I agree following him in and sitting on his bed as he scavenged through is draws for a notebook.

"Ok, it's all in here."

"No no no no no, I don't want you to read it to me, you need to tell it, from how you remember and feel now, like a good story, so sit down," I command, patting the bed next to me.

"Ok, where do you want me to start?"

"Umm, start it like a movie, give me enough information so I'm not lost but I don't need your whole life story."

"Umm, ok then," Pony cleared his throat. "Umm, so when I stepped out of the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. Since I'm an idiot, I started walking home, and you know how the socs were back then, before they became high as fuck hippies they are now."

"So this was like your Paul Newman phase."

"Yes, but no interrupting."

"Fine."

"So anyway, I went to the movies alone, and was walking back and a blue mustang pulled up-"

"Ohh I remember this"

"Shhs, so then you know what happens, right?"

"Yeah it was your first time getting jumped."

"Yup, so then later I go to the movies with Dally and Johnny, Two-Bit shows up and we also meet these two pretty soc girls, Cherry and Marcia."

"Yeah, I know them."

"Shhs, anyway they left their boyfriends, so we offered to walk them home, but then their boyfriends show up as we are walking and we almost fight but don't. Also Dally left because Johnny got sassy with him."

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah, anyway we got distracted and Johnny and I feel asleep in the lot."

"Oh shit."

"Shut up. Now I get home and it's late and Darry is pissed, and-"

"Darry smacked ya, I remember this."

"Yes, but be quiet. SO, Johnny and I run off to the park to cool off and then those soc boyfriends show up and start chasing us. A few of them got me and started drowning be in the fountain-"

"Ohmygod are you alright."

"Obviously, but so Johnny gets scared and stabs one of the socs. Then we get this idea to run to Buck's and ask Dally for help."

"So that part was true?"

"Yes, then Dal gives us some cash, a gun and tells a to take the train to middle of nowhere-"

"Wait he gave you a GUN?!"

"Yes, now good golly stop interrupting, so we get to this abandoned church and Johnny buys us supplies including baloney and peroxide and cards and a book. So we both cut our hair and I dye mine."

"That was the best part."

"Chrissy, shut up."

"So then Dal shows up again and takes us to the Dairy Queen and Johnny decided that he should turn himself in, so we head back to church and it was burning and there was a bunch of little kids in this burning church-"

"Oh my god, did you save them?!"

"If you let me tell my story, you would know, wouldn'tcha? So Johnny and I run into the church and start saving the kids-"

"Good."

"Shut up. So then we get all the kids out and Dally drags me out of the church and goes back in for Johnny 'cause a beam fell on his back and broke it. So we get to the hospital and-"

"I know this part."

"Right, so then you know about the rumble and I wasn't feeling too hot that day, but I still went to fight, and Dally broke out of the hospital to come fight. So then after we win, Dally drags me back to the hospital, and we were visiting Johnny and his heart just stopped, now Dal runs out as the doctors run in and try to save Johnny-"

"Which they do right?"

"Obviously, idiot. So I go out and try to find Dal but I end up wandering around the city for a while before I get a lift home from this stanger."

"Then we get the call from Da-"

"Yup. So we all run out to hide Dally, BUT you stayed home so we get to Dal and he's being arrested for like two years or some shit like that-"

"18 months."

"Yes, ok so then I got hella sick, start failing, Soda's a mess because Sandy broke it off with him, and Dar and I get in a huge fight, Soda yells at us to stop fighting. So we stop after Soda gets all upset and then become one big ole happy family. But I'm still failing English, so my teacher, Mr. Symes, tells me if I write a composition that I could pass his class. So I think about what to write about. And damn he was the best teacher ever, he let me write about this whole shit storm. When did I have him, maybe three years ago? Yeah freshman year. So I write about it, but make it fiction by having some people die. But it's all cool and I pass that class. You dig? So how was that for story telling Chrissy? Chrissy, ya still awake?"

A/N and yeah, reviews are also nice, but i gotchu if you don't