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Ponyboy's Pov

The bell rang. School was over. I started to walk out to go home when I saw a Soc that was bullying another kid.

"Hey!" I yelled to him, "You better leave that kid alone."

"Oh yeah? What are you going to do about it?" The bully said in a nasty voice.

"Just leave her alone, or I'll call a teacher."

"Oh, I'm so scared," he said sarcastically. "You'll shut your mouth, or I'll shut it for ya!" Then he punched me. I was ready to fight. A crowd gathered around us.

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" They all screamed. And we did. If we both got more guys, we could've had a rumble. It was that bad. Then, a teacher happened to walk by.

"BOYS! Stop it!" We stopped, and she told us to go to the principal's office. Crud. I've never gotten in trouble at school before. The principal told us that we have detention. Today. And he will have to call Darry. I hope that I don't get in too much trouble with him. So I went to detention. I was sitting there, doing absolutely nothing when the teacher said that my brother is here. Darry stepped in. He looked a little mad. Actually, a lot mad. I almost asked the teacher if I could just stay here. I got up and walked over to Darry. He just glared at me, and turned around. Then we walked out to his car. He said absolutely nothing.

I bit my lip and said, "Hey, Darry. So, uh, how's it going?" Still nothing. I gulped. He was probably going to chew me out when we got home. It wasn't going to be fun, but we wouldn't fight, would we? We weren't supposed to fight anymore. He would probably just yell a little, and things would go back to normal. I was wrong.