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52S.E.HINTONyou," Johnny said simply. "It just ain't the same."I was beginning to relax and wonder if running awas such a great idea. I was sleepy and freezing to dand I wanted to be home in bed, safe and warm undercovers with Soda's arm across me. I decided I wouldhome and just not speak to Dany. It was my housemuch as Darry's, and ifhe wanted to pretend I wasn't alithat was just fine with me. He couldn't stop me from liviin my Ownhouse. ."Let's walk to the park and back. Then maybe I'llcooled off enough to go home.""Okay," Johnny said easily. "Okay."Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't glworse. I was wrong.Chapter 4THE PARK WAS ABOUTtwo blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and asmall swimming pool for the little kids. The pool wasempty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily.Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark, and itwould have been a good hangout, but we preferred ourvacant lot, and the Shepard outfit liked the alleys down bythe tracks, so the park was left to lovers and little kids.Nobody was around at two-thirty in the morning, and itWasa good place to relax and cool off. I couldn't have gottenmuch cooler without turning into a popsicle. Johnnysnapped up his jeans jacket and flipped up the collar."Ain't you about to freeze to death, Pony?""You ain't a'woofln'," I said, rubbing my bare armsbetween drags on my cigarette. I started to say something''''-.-.