Chapter 9 - Time for a fight

When i got home from work Ponyboy and Two-Bit weren't back yet but that was alright because then I could make supper, some nice baked chicken i made two because we all eat like horses and could eat that much easily. At around 6:30 Ponyboy came home and we sat down and ate some chicken he barely ate anything so i knew something was wrong so now i had to keep him out of the fight, he went to go and take a shower we always got spruced up before a rumble i already had i just had to change clothes which i figured i should go do now. I would put on a nice tight black t-shirt that should be good for the rumble. When i came out of my room i saw that Soda and Steve were playing cards and blaring the music super loud. Ponyboy cam out and started asking people about whether or not they liked to fight. When he asked me i wasn't sure what to say but Soda piped up "He likes to show off his muscles" this was true but i wasn't going to say it "I'll show 'em off to you in a minute little buddy, if you get any mouthier" then Soda ran to the door and did a flip out the door, i chased him to the door and did a flip away. Then everybody else followed doing some sort of acrobatics then we walked to where the rumble was set.

When we got to the rumble place Shepards gang and Bromly's gang were there waiting for us all the other people here looked so weak i figured i was probably the strongest guy there so when Shepard called me over and asked me to start the rumble i wasn't surprised at all. The Soc's got there they came in 5 cars there was about 22 of them and around 20 of us so we were pretty well even i went up and said "Come on all take any of you BRING IT!" then my old friend, Paul, stepped up and i knew we could fight on almost even grounds it wold be a bit of a challenge. He started towards me and the next thing i knew it was an all out fight and we were in heated battle i loved it. he tried to get me with a punch from the right i parried and gave him a hard blow to the ribs i knew it must have broken a rib or two it took him down though and that was good enough for me i looked around for Ponyboy and saw he was fighting someone small but they had the upper hand so i came over picked him up and punched him so hard he went sprawling along the ground by then Paul was back up from the ground and ready for a fight so we resumed fighting, through some miraculous thing we won and the Soc's started to leave. I saw Dally who must have gotten there after the fight began grab Ponyboy and put him in the car, so i figured they were going to the hospital to see Johnny. I found out where Soda Steve and Two-Bit were and we all started to walk back toward our place then we sat there and started joking around a bit.