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Cherry and Marcia didn’t know the way home, two bit asked them if they want to go to his house and he would drive them from the house to theirs. They were both scared because of the difference of the two groups they first wanted to call their parents but after a while they agreed that Two-bit will drive them home. Ponyboy also had a conversation with cherry about Soda’s horse, he never talked about it because he felt it was futile and with Cherry he felt comfortable to talk about it. The outsiders summary chapter 4 When Ponyboy was finally home his brother was mad on him for acting like a Buffoon then he hit him and Ponyboy decided to ran away. When he and Johnny got to the park in the middle of the night they saw the girls boyfriend and
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