Chapter 2: 'Kid sister'

•>"Everybody, let's rock"<•~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I walked up to the old, worn-down white house. Dallas was sitting on the steps with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. When he saw me he stood up and walked over to me. "Eliza?" He said. My name is Elizabeth, but he's barely ever called me that aside from when I'm in trouble.

I just looked at him with tears running down my face. He hugged me. "Hey, what's wrong? It'll be okay. What happened?" He took his cigarette out of his mouth and stomped it out. "The Socs pulled up at me a-and." I stuttered. "They didn't get me because I had a bottle and I s-smashed it." I wiped my eyes. I had stopped crying now. "Those little-" Dallas went on calling the Socs every word under the sun. "But you're okay?" He pulled back from the hug. I only nodded. "Come sit with me." We both sat on the step and looked at the road watching as the occasional car drove by. I took a good look at him if you didn't know him and just looked at him we would seem rough and mean. Well, he is mean, he's mean not to me but to others. Like I said me and him look the same. Except for his eyes. They were blue like mine but you could see the coldness and hate in them.

Dallas started making jokes to try to make me feel better. He picked up the jokes from Two-bit. He finally got me to start laughing and stop worrying. "Come on kid let's go inside." He stood up and I followed him inside of the house. When we got inside Johnny was sitting on the couch. Me and Johnny are best friends I became friends with him through Dallas. Johnny had big black eyes and black hair. He's taller than me by a couple of inches. He was skittish and scared of his own shadow. But he was tough and ready to fight if he needed to. "Hey, Eliza!" He said looking at me and smiling his wide smile. "Hey,Johnny!" I said sitting next to him on the couch. Dallas went into the kitchen.

I was talking to Johnny when the most handsome guy walked it, Ponyboy Curtis. I went silent and watched Ponyboy as he walked in through the door and into the kitchen. Johnny elbowed me in the side looking at me. "Oh knock it off," I said slapping him on the shoulder. Johnny knew I liked Ponyboy. Ponyboy was perfect. He has brownish-red hair, and greenish-gray eyes that sparked. He's the nicest person I've ever met. He likes reading, writing, and watching sunsets. He and his older brother, Sodapop, look like movie stars, but I like Ponyboy more than Sodapop. I would do anything to get to be alone with Pony. But he would never date me. I would f-

"Eliza. Elizaaaa. Stop daydreaming." Johnny said breaking me out of my thoughts. "Sorry, I was looking at something." I turned back to Johnny. "Or someone?" Two-bit said coming out of the kitchen with a beer in his hand. Two-bit is around 6 feet tall. He was the second oldest person in the gang. His hair is a rusty gold color. He's also the clown of the gang. He always makes jokes and plays pranks. Somehow he knew about my little crush. "Knock it off!" I said. "Just joking kid. Don't get your pants in a bunch." I rolled my eyes and continued the conversation with Johnny.

—————————————————————————PONYBOYS POV

I had just come back from school. As I walked through the door I heard Elizabeth's voice. I had the biggest crush on her but I would never tell her. She probably didn't like me, so why ruin the friendship? But I really did like her. She was perfect she really was. I was thinking about all this until Eliza left Johnny to use the bathroom and that's when I saw my chance. I walk over to Johnny and sit down next to him.

"Hey, Johnny." "Hey, Pony." He said in return. "Look I have something to tell you," I said looking at my hands. He nodded. "I like someone..." I said. He looked surprised but then he looked....excited. "Who?" I looked down at my hands. "Eliza." He went silent. "Really?" He said and I nodded. "Don't tell anyone please." I pleaded. I didn't need anyone to know I liked her.  "I won't I swear." He said. "Okay good. Imma go to the drive-in. Tell Darry." He nodded and I left.

—————————————————————————Johnny's POV

As soon as I saw Ponyboy leave I stood up to go find Eliza. "Eliza! Eliza! Eliza! Open up! I need to tell you something!"