From Bad to Worse

We talked for a little bit in the Dairy Queen and learned that the Soc Cherry was sort of our spy. When we were ther we both decided to turn ourselves in, but while Dally was against our plan he still started to drive us back to the city. Just when we got to the top of the hill we saw that there was a bunch of people around the church and that the church was on fire! We ran over to the church and asked a man what was going on. Apparently they were they were having a school picnic and then all of a sudden the church was on fire. The man didn't seem to worried about the whole situation, but then one woman rushed over and told him that some of the children were missing. We heard some screams coming from the church and dashed into action without even thinking. There was about four or five little kids in the back, so we pushed out the window and started picking them up and dropping them out. Just as we finished I hopped out the window, I heard a whoosh of flames behind me and Johnny screaming, but when I turned to go back and help him Dally hit me hard across the back.


When I woke up I was in an ambulance and the man from before was with me. I found out that my back had been on fire and Dally hit me to try and put it out. He also told me that Dally would be OK, he just burnt his arm a bit, but Johnny wasn't doing very well, he had gotten severely burned and a piece of timber had fallen on him and probably broke his back. He kept telling me over and over about how grateful he was that I had saved those kids. When I got to the hospital I sat in the room to wait to hear how Dally and Johnny was, but then Darry, Soda, and Two-Bit came in the door. They were all happy to see me and were telling me how worried they were, but then I saw that Darry was crying and I realised what the others had been trying to say to me. Darry really did love me.