Frontline
Author: ILoveDally
Editor: JohnnyPonyboy
Chapter 1
I was walking down the street with my friend Ponyboy one day. It was pretty hot out that day seeing as summer had just ended.
"Hey Johnny what do you wanna do today?" Ponyboy asked with confusion in his voice as he brushed sweat from his forehead.
"Shoot I dunno Pony I just wanna do something tuff man. I mean we hadn't done nothing since summertime." I said with a bored, tiring yawn.
"Hey look their selling frozen pizza. I want some!" Ponyboy yelled, grabbing my arm.
"Ok let's go see how much it is." I replied, chuckling at the sight of my friend acting like a little kid.
"Hey fellas." Dally said from the corner.
"Oh hey Dallas What'cha been up to?" I asked.
"Just got this job here. Nothin to do. Darry won't let me hang around his place so, I wanted to keep cool back here." Dally explained.
"Never thought you'd get a job, Dal." Ponyboy said, leaning on the counter.
"Yeah, yeah. You greasers are scaring away my money." Dally said, looking passed us.
"Yeah, we're scaring away your costumers." I said sarcastically.
"So what trouble have you boys been into?" Dally asked.
"None really." I answered shrugging.
"Oh well, I need to tell you something. There is a street race today so you don't wanna go to the park cause they are having it all around those streets." Dally said in a serious, yet bored, voice.
I wasn't listening 'cause I had my eyes on the pizza behind him.
"Ay! Johnny!" Dally yelled, snapping his fingers at me.
"Yeah?" I asked, looking back at him.
"Like I said don't go near it." Dally repeated.
"Ok we won't Dally." I told him. "Now can we have a pizza or not?"
Dally rolled his eyes and got two for us. "1 Dollar and 50 cents. I gave you s discount."
"Yeah, yeah. Thanks Dal." Pony said, digging in his pocket.
Dally passed the two over to us. "Hey don't forget to cook them." He reminded us.
Ponyboy and I liked to just eat them frozen.
"Where do you want to eat these?" Ponyboy asked.
"I don't know. Anywhere." I answered, walking toward the park.
"Hey Johnny we can't go to the park." Ponyboy said, trying to grab my arm.
I just walked on.
"Johnny lets go" Ponyboy said, looking at the cars sitting n the front.
"No I wanna see this." I told him, walking to the swings.
"You remember what Dally said bout coming over here they will find us and challenge us." Ponyboy said.
"No they won't were just walking past." I told him, rolling my eyes. "Sides you're only fourteen and noticeably at that."
"Well, well, well." Said the voice from behind us. We turned around and saw some Soc behind us. Or I think he was a Soc.
"Look who came to watch the race." The Soc said, with some stupid grin on his face.
"Now we ain't looking for any trouble." I said letting my frozen pizza fall to the ground. .
"Well your gonna race for 6,000 dollars or we kill you." another Soc said.
My mind went blank. I really had nothing to lose. "Okay. I'll race." I told them, trying to look tough.
"Me too." Ponyboy said, tossing his pizza at on of the Socs.
I grabbed Ponyboy and drug him away. "No Pony. You're not gonna do this. You could get caught and jailed."
"But I want too. Just cause I'm younger doesn't mean I'll get caught!" Ponyboy argued.
"That's not what I mean. Look think of it this way. What would Darry say?" I asked.
Ponyboy bit his lip.
"Exactly."
We argued a little more when Dally found us just where he told us not to be.
"Christ! What did I tell you guys?" He said with a frown. "Hey Butt head! I'll race with 'em."
We both looked over.
After a minute of him arguing with the Soc I thought he'd forgotten about us.
"What did I tell you guys?" Dally repeated.
"Well it wasn't me Dally. Johnny wouldn't listen to me and walked right over here. I tried to stop him." Ponyboy said in a scared way.
Snitch…
"Ok, Ok. Listen we're going to race but if we get caught the first time then we have to pay." Dally said.
"But Dally, we ain't got that kinda money!" Ponyboy said.
"It don't matter Pony you ain't racing." I said.
Just then I felt a big hand on the back on my neck.
"What the hell were you two thinking?" He asked.
He looked up before I could even answer the question.
I followed his eyes to the Soc that threatened us.
"Hey! What's the idea of getting my little brother in this?" He asked.
Ponyboy looked at Darry then to the Soc.
"Well we already have a deal going here. Here at four, tomorrow. Or…"
"Or what, you freak?" Darry asked.
The Soc shrugged, got in his car and sped away.
"Look Pony! You two better be glad Dally came and told me about this! Okay, you need a team, and a car." Darry said, looking around.
"Darry, how do you know so much about this?" Ponyboy asked.
"How do you think I know?!" Darry yelled, in a bad mood of course.
"Where are we gonna get a car?" Ponyboy asked.
"Don't know." Dally said. "I could get Tim to lift me one."
"Sounds good." Darry said. "But one thing Pony. You ain't racing."
"What?! Darry I have to!" Ponyboy yelled.
"No you don't! If you got caught you and Sodapop would be put in a boy's home and Mom and Dad would roll over in their graves!" Darry yelled.
I thought that was a little too much, but he was angry about the whole thing.
"I'm gonna get the rest of the gang." Dally said, running off.
Darry sat down on a swing and looked at the ground.
"Sorry." Ponyboy sad, sitting with him.
Darry didn't say anything back.
Finally Dally came back with Sodapop, Two-Bit, and Steve. They looked angry.
"What were you to thinking?!" Steve asked making me jump five feet.
"Cool it!" Dally yelled, slapping him in the back of the head.
They all agreed to be in with us.
"No more arguing. We need to set up everything." Darry spoke up. "We all need each other no matter what our differences are."
I looked behind Darry and saw two broads. They looked like greasers, but I didn't trust them.
"Shh…"
"What Johnny?" Dally asked.
I pointed at the girls that were headed our way.
One had short cut blond hair and the other had long black hair.
The blond smiled and looked at Dally. "Hi." She greeted.
Dally smirked. "Hey haven't I seen you around here?" He asked.
"Maybe. I'm Ashlee. And you're Dallas Winston." She said.
"Been doing your homework?" Dally asked.
"More like my father's old homework." She answered.
"Your old man works at the jail?"
"He used too."
The other one walked right up to Sodapop and took his hand and shook it. "Hi I'm Rose." She said.
Rose had pretty long black hair. Sodapop stood there for a minute, like he was in a daze. "I'm Sodapop."
They had friends with them, of course. There were 3 of them one was red headed; one was brown headed, and the other one with peach-ish color hair.
The brown walked up to Darry. "Hi I'm Tiffany."
Darry gave her a weird look. "Hi. I'm Darry."
Steve decided to walk up to the peach haired girl.
"Hi I'm Steve." He said.
"I'm Rachel." she replied.
The Red walked up to Two-Bit. "Hello I am Patty."
"I'm Two-Bit." He said.
"So what are you doing here?" Ashlee asked, looking around.
"We got challenged to a street race." Dally answered, pulling out a cigarette. "What about you guys?"
"We were here looking for some action." Patty answered. "We street race too."
"Look we don't street race like every other day. We were challenged." Darry said, frowning.
"Sorry, big guy." She said, sarcastically.
"We can help you guys out." Rachel said, with a smile.
Steve laughed, "Yeah right."
"What's that mean?" Rose asked, crossing her arms.
"Nothin. Just that you're all girls." Steve answered. "You look kinda Soc-y too."
"What was that?" Ashlee asked. "We ain't Socs."
"I didn't say you are Socs. I said you look Soc-y." Steve said.
"Steve, drop it." Sodapop said, rolling his eyes.
"Okay, look how long have you guys been street racing?" Rose asked.
"I used to street race a few timed a month." Darry spoke up, making Ponyboy jump a little.
"Anyone else?" Patty asked.
No one said anything.
"That's what we thought. Now we've all been racing for a while." Tiffany said. "But, if you guys think you can just wing it then…"
"Okay, okay. You girls can race too." Steve said. "But we need a car."
"We have two. Rose's would be better." Ashlee told him.
"Me and Steve'll take a look at it. Wouldn't want anything to go wrong." Sodapop said.
Rose nodded and stared a minute too long.
This was like something coming out of those romance novels or something. It made me a little sick. But, of course I started to think about Ponyboy. I wanted to be with him like… Sodapop probably wanted to be with Rose that second. I was a freak.
"Well tell us about yourselves." Dally said, "Can't race with strangers."
"Well I just moved here with Rose a few months ago. We were in California, that's how we met. We raced each other and got caught, getting jailed for a while. When we got out we came here, we were looking for Harper, Oklahoma, but we got into some trouble here. We just decided to stay here, we bought a small place and stay there, till we met Patty, Tiffany, and Rachel, and they're triplets. They were Socs. But, after their parents found out about all trouble they got in and the stuff they were doing, they through them out. The three had a grandmother that let us move in." Ashlee explained.
"Well how did you two meet them?" I asked.
"In a drug store. They were drunk with some Soc guys that were their boyfriends at the time." Rose answered. "When we first got here, we didn't know what a Soc was or a Greaser. It was all new to us."
"I guess it would be." Darry said with a little sympathy in his voice.
"Well, I guess we all need to be getting home. We need to rest up for tomorrow." Dally said.