Bye-Bye Mr. Soc

We were sitting in the waiting room to hear how Johnny and Dally were, and there were reporters everywhere. They were swarming us and kept firing question after question at us, but I wasn't in very good shape to be questioned so Darry was keeping the reporters off of me, but Soda was having fun pretending to be a reporter and running around writing notes and such. After a while the reporters started to go away and slow down the questions, and Soda was tired of playing around so he just curled up on the bench, so the doctor finnaly told us how they were doing. Dally wasn't too bad, his arm was burnt and he'd be scarred for life,but he would be ok a few days. I was relly scared for Johnny though, his back had been broken from the timber falling from the church, he was in severe shock, and he had third-degree burns all over his body. We had to go home so we all piled into the car and drove away, I was so tired that as soon as I got into the car I had drifted off to sleep.

I got up first so I had to make breakfast. Just as I got the eggs and chocolate cake out of the fridge Two-Bit and Steve came in and grabbed me and spun me around which made the eggs in my hands fly across the room and shatter. This made me prettymad, but I got over it. They told me about how all of the newspapers were saying that we were heroes! I was really excited and I couldn't put the newspaper, it explained everything that had happened to us, it even mentioned what was hapening back at home with Darry and Soda and how they had to drop out of school and get jobs just to support me. Darry and Soda had to leave for work so Two-Bit stayed back with me. We went down to the conveniance store where we grabbed some Cokes and sat down to have a smoke. Just as we sat down the blue Mustang that had been trailing us earlier pulled in. Randy came out and said that he wanted to talk to me, so since there wasn't allowed to be any fighting until the rumble I want over to him. He told me all about how he didn't want to be a Soc anymore and he reinforced what Cherry had told me. Then he told me that he was just going to run awayand get out of all of this mess. So then I said goodbye to the no-longer Soc, Randy Adderson.