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“As far as I’m concerned Johnny, I do not blush. Never have, and probably never will.” Ponyboy said
Johnny took that as a challenge.
“Oh really? What if I do this?” Johnny kissed ponyboy on his cheek. His skin was so soft. It was cold, almost as if Ponyboy was begging to be touched.
Ponyboy shook his head. “Johnny, it’s gonna take more than that to make me blush. You can keep tryin’, but it ain’t gonna work.”
“We’ll see about that,” Johnny whispered under his breath.
He decided that the next place he was going to try was pony’s other cheek.
Softly kissing Pony’s cheek, his coldness didn’t change.
“Damn Pony, how are you so stoic?” Johnny asked, thinking of other ways he could make pony blush.
“It runs in the family,” Pony answered. Johnny thought for a moment and he realized that Pony was right. Darry was pretty tuff. Although Sodapop didn’t seem that way. From what he could see, Soda was a nice guy who could make anyone laugh.
“Ok, ok. What if I hugged you?” Johnny asked, wrapping his arms around the younger boy. He even ran his fingers through Pony’s hair to double his chances of seeing that new color on Pony’s face. Nothing. But Johnny Cade didn’t give up just yet.
He had one final idea.
“Pony?” Johnny called.
Pony turned and faced Johnny. Within a split second, Johnny went in, connecting his lips with Pony’s. It caught Pony by surprise, but he did kiss back. Johnny put everything he had into this kiss. It’ll be worth it. It’ll all be worth it once Johnny sees pink.
“Didn’t work, Pony smiled at such the sudden show of affection.
“I don’t got nothing else, so I guess you win Pony…” Johnny sighed, getting up. He walked out of the room, leaving only Ponyboy and his thoughts
He took a moment to actually think about what just happened. He felt warm.
Johnny, who was in the other room, realized he left something in the room he was just in, so he went to go get it.
Walking into the room, he got butterflies.
Pony’s cold, soft skin, was a color. Johnnys new favorite color.
Pink.