Longest Days

. i woke up late in the afternoon.For a second i didn`t know where i was. You know how it is when you wake up in a strange place and wonder where you are ,until memory comes rushing over you like a wave. i half convinced myself that i had dreamed everything that a happened the night before.Finally i quit pretending and push myself up .i was stiff and sore from sleeping on the hard floor. Suddenly i realised that it was awful quiet. i realised johnny wasn't there. i cried out his name and that old wooden church echoed me, onny onny onny.... i felt scared suddenly and i don't know what to do......i was scared that johnny was been found and taken back to the police station....i look around wildly ,almost panic -stricken, but then i caught sight of some crooked lettering written in the dust of the floor.went to get some supplies. Be back soon. J.C...... after a while...i heard someone coming up through the dead leaves towards the back of the church, i ducked in side the door wondering who could it be ...... i heard a long low whistle ending with a sudden high note. i know that whistle well enough. it was used by us and the Shepard gang for "who's there ?" i returned the whistle carefully and then darted out of the door so fast that i fell off the steps and sprawled flat under Johnny 's nose. i propped myself on my elbows and grinned up at him." hey johnny .Fancy meeting u here." He look down at me over a big package "i swear, Ponyboy, you're gettin' to act more like two-bit every day."i tried unsuccessfully to cock an eyebrow and say "who's acting?"After that Johnny show me what he brought ....a paperback of gone with the wind, peroxide..a deck of cards...and then i realised... johnny wants to bleach and cut my hairt! i cant't bear it ! it was my pride . it was long and silky... just like soda's only a little redder.....our hair was tuff and we didn't not need to use to much grease on as our hair labelled us as greasers...it was our trademark....and i am proud of it... Maybe we couldn't have Corvairs or madras shirts... but we could have our hair.... Johnny said that we have to disguise ourselves and he said he will also had to cut his hair but he will not bleach it as he think that he is too dark skinned to have blonde hair.i went ahead and let him cut my hair.... i felt my heart pain every time he cut my hair..... it was my long precious hair....it was the most precious thing i ever had in my life.....i help johnny to cut his hair too and after that he washed his hair....... The next four or five days were the longest days i ever spend i my whole life. We killed time by reading Gone with the wind....... Johnny sure love that book even he didn't know anything about the civil war and even less plantations and i had to explain a lot to him an d he surely amazed me how johnny could get more meaning of some of the stuff in there than i could when i am supposed to be the brainy one.....One morning i woke up earlier than usual .Johnny and i slept huddled together for warmth-dally has been right when he said it will get cold where we were going.Beside careful not to wake the sleeping beauty up, i went to sit at the steps and smoke a cigarette. the dawn was coming out then. All the lower valley was covered with mist , and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds.......... Johnny wokes up and said it is pretty and he said that it cant stay like that all the times...and i told him nothing gold can stay .... and i told him a poem ...

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

Johnny was staring at me when i finish telling and he ask me where did i learnt that from...and he said that is what he meant...days by days went by by the fifth day i was sick of eating Baloney....i was daydreaming when suddenly.... a toe nudged me in the ribs it was Dally , i was so happy to see him i thought that i never live to that day when i would see Dally Winston , he told me he had a letter for me.... it was from Sodapop...it says that he know that me and johnny were in some kind of trouble....he wish that we will turn ourselves in but he know that we cant do that as johnny might get hurt....and soda said that we even got a paragraph of us in the newspaper... Dally told us that he got a spy that is from the socs.... it was cherry ...me and johnny kinda surprised by that .... Cherry was actually helping us...