FIRE!

Johnny was thinking of turning himself in and dally wont allow...he don want johnny to get hurt ...he said that a few months in jail ...johnny will get hardened...he don't want that to happened to Johnny like it happened to himself..... Then johnny asked dally if he rather him to live in hideouts for the rest of his life and always on the run.... and i know that if dally said yes...johnny will go back to the church without any hesitation...he figured dally know more than him and Dally words is law but we never heard dally answers as when we reached top of jay mountain..... THE CHURCH WAS ON FIRE !i was excited at the same time curious of what was happening down there and i said to johnny to check it out and i hop off the car..Dally said he will beat my head in if i get off ...i figured that he will park his car and carry out his threst but johnny went out off the car and i figured that i was safe...There was crowd in front of the church mostly little kids and i tap the nearest adult and ask what was going on.... He said that the church is on fire ....and about that time a lady came running and said that some children were missing ..she aid that the children were missing for about half an hour.... Just that time we heard someone yell inside the church...and it seems to be the children yelling .i quicky ran and i know the fire was started by us.i ran inside the church with johnny....i saw johnny for the first time without his suspicious and defeated look..he was having time of his life... i picked a kid and dropped him out of the window as gentle as i could and then i heard Dally scream.... he ask ask to forget about those kids and get out of there as the roof is gonna fall soon at any minute.. i wish i had time to take off dally jacket as it was hot in there... we dropped off the last kid as the front of the church started to crumble... Johnny shoved me towards the window asn ask me to get out..i leaped out of the window and heard timber crashing and flames roaring behind me. i staggered almost fall ing ,coughing and sobbing for breath. Then i heard Johnny scream and as i turned back to go to him Dally swore at me and clubbed me across the back as hard as he could and i went down into peaceful darkness........i was in the hospital when i woke up ...........the guy, Jerry told me that there were some people looking for me and they claim to be my brothers.... i leaped up and ran for the door but the door was already opened...soda had me in a bear hug and was swinging me around... i was so glad to see him that i could have bawled....he finally let me down and pushed my hair back and said...Oh .. Ponyboy...your tuff tuff hair... Then i was Darry ..he was standing there with his olive jeans and black t shirt ..his fist jammed in his pocket and his eyes was pleading, i just simply stood there..he swallowed and said in his husky voice ..." Ponyboy..."i let go of Sodapop and stood there for a minute... Darry didnt like me ..he had driven me away that night...he hollered at me...he had hit me..he didn't give a hang about me... suddenly i realised..Horrifed..Darry was crying... He didn't make a sound ut tears was running down his cheeks .i had not seen him cry in few years not even when mom and dad were killed in a car accident...i remembered at the funeral that i sobbed in spite of myself ans soda had broken down and bawled like a baby; but darry just stood there ,his fists in his pockets and that look in his face, the same helpless ,pleading look that he is wearing now. Darry looked down and turned away silently and suddenly i broke out of my daze. "Darry"! i scream and next thing i know that i was around his waist and squeezing the daylight out of him." Darry "i said ..." i was sorry "he was stroking my hair and i could heard the sobs racking him as he fought to keep back his tears."oh pony, i thought i was gonna to lose u just like we lost mum and dad..." That was his silent fear then-losing another person he loved . i remember how close he and dad had been and i wondered how could i ever have thought him hard and unfeeling... i listened to his heart pounding through his t shirt and i knew everything gonna to be okay now. i had taken the long way around but i know i was finally home. To stay..........