Johnny
The burns hurt but I’d never tell no one but Ponyboy that though they’d all understand people always looked down on me I didn’t want the gang to do that too. Ponyboy didn’t look down on me he understood we had similar ways of thinking but if I were gone I wouldn’t be missed nearly as much as him he had his brothers Darry and Soda pop I wouldn’t be missed 의해 anyone but the gang. Ponyboy came in everyday and read Gone with the Wind to me Dally came to but only to see me. If Dally opened a book it’d be a mirical. That’s why me and Ponyboy are alike no one but us too likes movies, books, and sunsets. Dally wasn’t deep like me and 조랑말 and Soda couldn’t sit still and like Ponyboy said Darry works too hard to do any of that stuff. There was a kid kinda like us who liked are kind of stuff but Dally liked to call him hippie and his good buddy like to jump the kid. Ponyboy sat in the chair 다음 to me 읽기 the book we had started in the church before it caught on 불, 화재 which got me burned and left me in my current state. I wasn’t as bad any 더 많이 and Dally was ok though the doctor’s said I may not ever walk again. Dally sat in the corner watching me and I smiled at him and he smiled back a little and said “ 당신 good Johnnycake?” “Yea Dally.” “ You’ll be back on your feet in no time.” “ Yea I’m just happy to be alive.” “ I knew you’d be ok Johnnycake God don’t kill 히어로즈 like us.” “ Heroes” I muttered thinking about the term. “ Yea were 히어로즈 Johnny and if they don’t kill 히어로즈 they don’t throw them in jail either” Ponyboy says. “ Thanks Ponyboy.” He smiles a little and wisps his blonde hair back and I hear him say “ I guess we cut our hair for nothing huh Johnny?” “ Yea our tuff tuff hair.” He chuckles and Dally says “No one will be laughing at 당신 Johnny boy they’ll all be laughing at Blondie here” Dally says throwing his arm around Ponyboy’s neck and giving him a noogie. I laugh and say “ maybe I should have dyed my hair blonde so we could be made fun of together.” “ Na Johnny it’s ok as long as Dally doesn’t noogie me again the rumble really mixed up my head.” I smile and say “ the doctor’s say I can go in about a week.” “ That’s good Johnny” Dally says. “ 저기요 Dally that 체리 Valance asked me out ya know.” “ That’s tuff.” “ Yea she’s nice for a soc.” “ Oh don’t call them that their not all mean” I moan. “ Ok ok Johnny boy.”
Dally
Johnny is doing fine and when he comes out I tell ya he’ll have some tuff scars though if 당신 thought he was timid before the whole incident he sure is gonna be scared now. Though now that I know what its like to almost lose the thing that I 사랑 더 많이 than anything else. He’s like my little brother and he’s really my only family unless 당신 count my father but he don’t give a damn about me. Silvia has kept hanging on me the entire week saying she’s sorry but she’s just a sniving little woman. She only wants me back because she saw me in the paper. Me and Ponyboy visit Johnny a lot but we mostly hang around Soda and Steve now but I know better that 조랑말 wishes that it was just me, him, and Soda. If it weren’t for Johnny I would kill myself so I guess its not the best life. I think I’ll feel better once Johnny’s out of the hospital. Ponyboy seems to long for him too for him too because it seems as if the weeks of being in that church alone with Johnny makes them feel like brothers like me and Johnny feel for each other. I know he worships the ground I walk on and not only is Johnny timid 조랑말 is too. Two bit doesn’t sneak up on him anymore cause he turns around and smacks two bit in the face unintentionaly of course. Me and 조랑말 walk through the lot and he gets 로스트 in his moments of him and Johnny before. He has a hard time breathing when he passes the park and automatically says “ umm….can we go to the 식당 instead.” I look at him and then at the 분수 the ground near it is still stained with blood and I see the monkey bars that Johnny said they were sitting on when that blue 반 야생마, 무스탕, 무스 탕 pulled up. There’s no doubt in my mind that it will stick in our memory for the rest of are lives no matter how much time passes.
The burns hurt but I’d never tell no one but Ponyboy that though they’d all understand people always looked down on me I didn’t want the gang to do that too. Ponyboy didn’t look down on me he understood we had similar ways of thinking but if I were gone I wouldn’t be missed nearly as much as him he had his brothers Darry and Soda pop I wouldn’t be missed 의해 anyone but the gang. Ponyboy came in everyday and read Gone with the Wind to me Dally came to but only to see me. If Dally opened a book it’d be a mirical. That’s why me and Ponyboy are alike no one but us too likes movies, books, and sunsets. Dally wasn’t deep like me and 조랑말 and Soda couldn’t sit still and like Ponyboy said Darry works too hard to do any of that stuff. There was a kid kinda like us who liked are kind of stuff but Dally liked to call him hippie and his good buddy like to jump the kid. Ponyboy sat in the chair 다음 to me 읽기 the book we had started in the church before it caught on 불, 화재 which got me burned and left me in my current state. I wasn’t as bad any 더 많이 and Dally was ok though the doctor’s said I may not ever walk again. Dally sat in the corner watching me and I smiled at him and he smiled back a little and said “ 당신 good Johnnycake?” “Yea Dally.” “ You’ll be back on your feet in no time.” “ Yea I’m just happy to be alive.” “ I knew you’d be ok Johnnycake God don’t kill 히어로즈 like us.” “ Heroes” I muttered thinking about the term. “ Yea were 히어로즈 Johnny and if they don’t kill 히어로즈 they don’t throw them in jail either” Ponyboy says. “ Thanks Ponyboy.” He smiles a little and wisps his blonde hair back and I hear him say “ I guess we cut our hair for nothing huh Johnny?” “ Yea our tuff tuff hair.” He chuckles and Dally says “No one will be laughing at 당신 Johnny boy they’ll all be laughing at Blondie here” Dally says throwing his arm around Ponyboy’s neck and giving him a noogie. I laugh and say “ maybe I should have dyed my hair blonde so we could be made fun of together.” “ Na Johnny it’s ok as long as Dally doesn’t noogie me again the rumble really mixed up my head.” I smile and say “ the doctor’s say I can go in about a week.” “ That’s good Johnny” Dally says. “ 저기요 Dally that 체리 Valance asked me out ya know.” “ That’s tuff.” “ Yea she’s nice for a soc.” “ Oh don’t call them that their not all mean” I moan. “ Ok ok Johnny boy.”
Dally
Johnny is doing fine and when he comes out I tell ya he’ll have some tuff scars though if 당신 thought he was timid before the whole incident he sure is gonna be scared now. Though now that I know what its like to almost lose the thing that I 사랑 더 많이 than anything else. He’s like my little brother and he’s really my only family unless 당신 count my father but he don’t give a damn about me. Silvia has kept hanging on me the entire week saying she’s sorry but she’s just a sniving little woman. She only wants me back because she saw me in the paper. Me and Ponyboy visit Johnny a lot but we mostly hang around Soda and Steve now but I know better that 조랑말 wishes that it was just me, him, and Soda. If it weren’t for Johnny I would kill myself so I guess its not the best life. I think I’ll feel better once Johnny’s out of the hospital. Ponyboy seems to long for him too for him too because it seems as if the weeks of being in that church alone with Johnny makes them feel like brothers like me and Johnny feel for each other. I know he worships the ground I walk on and not only is Johnny timid 조랑말 is too. Two bit doesn’t sneak up on him anymore cause he turns around and smacks two bit in the face unintentionaly of course. Me and 조랑말 walk through the lot and he gets 로스트 in his moments of him and Johnny before. He has a hard time breathing when he passes the park and automatically says “ umm….can we go to the 식당 instead.” I look at him and then at the 분수 the ground near it is still stained with blood and I see the monkey bars that Johnny said they were sitting on when that blue 반 야생마, 무스탕, 무스 탕 pulled up. There’s no doubt in my mind that it will stick in our memory for the rest of are lives no matter how much time passes.
Ponyboy’s Perspective
“Dad?”
“Yeah, Scar?” I say, looking away from the football game I was watching. I was holding Ella, she was 4 months old now.
“How did 당신 and Mom meet?” The 12 년 old asked.
“I bet it was an epic 사랑 story.” Eight 년 old Rhett says sarcastically.
“Was Mommy pretty when 당신 met her?” Charlie, who was five now, asked.
“The prettiest girl I’d ever seen.” I smiled down at him. “Until Scar and Ella came along. Now I know the three prettiest girls in the world. Anyways, there’s not much to tell. I saw her one day, and I fell in love. I thought she didn’t like me…”
“Nah, I like 당신 a lot.” (Y/N) grinned from the doorway.
Seventeen.
Seventeen bottles of 맥주 I have drunk in the past 37 minutes.
Seventeen.
I pick up number eighteen, twist the 캡, 모자 off, and pour it down my throat. It’s tasteless.
I lean my head back against the 벽 from where I sit on the floor of my basement.
I see a football. Danny’s football. It used to be Danny’s football. Now it’s just some football my son used to hold, used to play with. It probably smelled like him. Part of me wanted to go pick it up, the other part of me didn’t wanted to be reminded of the last time we played football together.
I pick up number nineteen, and out of the corner of my eye see (Y/N)’s old dolls, something we thought we could use for our little girl someday.
But that’s not going to happen.
I know what happened. I saw their mangled, bruised, broken, dead bodies after their accident.
I pick up number twenty.
Oh God how was I going to say this.
The rest of my life depended on this.
She was just perfect. In every way possible. She was beautiful. Kind. Sweet. Funny. Understanding. Just (Y/N).
And I needed to tell her.
Tell her how much I needed her, wanted her, and had to have her. It was a feeling beyond comprehension. It was love.
I needed to tell her I loved her.
So here I am, sitting in the lot, looking at the stars with (Y/N). Doing something I 사랑 with the one I love.
I look over at her, her eyes gleaming from the light of the fire.
“(Y/N)?” I ask as I grab her hand.
“Yeah?” She turns to face me.
“I-I think…” I start.
“Just say it,” she smiles.
“I 사랑 you.” I blurt out.
She looks surprised for a second. But then she grins.
“I 사랑 당신 too.”
“This was my mom’s,” he mutters. “(Y/N) (Y/L/N), will 당신 marry me?”