Court Hearing

Randy was the first one to be questioned. Darry told me to keep my mouth shut because I'd get my turn. He asked me a bunch of mundane questoins and then the hearing was over. After that things weren't the same though. My grades went down and everything. At lunch we were hanging out and the guys left me by the car to go get drinks. Then a couple of Socs approached me. I scared them off somehow because despite the fact they were Socs I wasn't scared. I was talking to my English teacher and he siad I was flunking but if I could come up with a good symester theme he would pass me as a C. Then I thought of it. Dally. I could tell his side of the story and people like him. People like that who just have nothing left to live for. On the inside they're really good people. And most people don't recognize that. So that's what I did. Then hopefully people would understand. Dally really is a hero for all he did for other people. Not for himself. That's what I really want people to see Dally as. Not a bad person, but a good one. Who was just a little confused. Then people would understand the things greasers go through and why he did that.

This is What he Wanted

The phone rang. It was Dally and he had just robbed a store and the police were after him. He told us to meet him in the vacant lot. When we got there the police were hot on his tail. I saw him pull a dark black figure out of his pants. Then I remembered what he said about him carrying around that heater for a good bluff. When the police caught up to him they stepped out and pointed their guns at him. As I saw the bullets just rip through him and he fell to the ground in a limp heap I realized why he had done this. For Johnny. Johnny was the only thing he had ever loved and now that Johnny was gone Dally just wanted to die. Because Johnny would never be there again. Not for Dally. Not for anybody.

The big Rumble

The rumble began with Darry stepping up and saying he'd take on anybody. One of his old football buddies named Paul stepped up to him. Then we heard a voice say "Wait, wait!" It was Dally! As Darry looked over at Dally coming to fight Paul pounded him and the war was on! Everybody took somebody so I took the shortest guy but he was harder to beat than I expected. As I was getting the living daylights punched out of me Darry came over to help me. After that I decided to help Dally because he could only use one arm. Dally's Soc was harder than the guy I had but we double teamed him and that made it a bit easier. As everybody was pounding someone I heard a voice like Two - Bit's say "Look! They're running!" As I looked back I noticed all the Socs piling into their cars and driving off. We had finally beaten the Socs! After that we went to see Johnny at the hospital. When we got there he didn't look good at all. He mumbled a few things to Dally, and then this is what he said to me - "Ponyboy, stay gold, stay gold." Those were the last words I heard from Johnny Cade because he died that night, at the hospital.

Hospitalization

After we got to the hospital of course Darry and Soda came rushing in to see us. When they saw that I was okay, the were releived because the doc said I could be released the next day. But the same wasn't true for Johnny. They said he had to stay there for a while for his broken back and "if" he made it it would still be a long road to recovery for him. If - I hated that word from the moment they said if he made it through. To me it was no question that he was gonna' make it through but to the doctors it was a completely different story. They really weren't sure if Johnny was gonna make it through or not and I really started worrying about Johnny. Even when I was trying to get to sleep at the hospital on Soda's lap I didn't get to sleep because I was so worried about Johnny. I really hope he turns out fine.