Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit offer the girls a ride home, but their boyfriends arrive and the girls stop a fight by leaving with the Socs. Ponyboy and Johnny lie in the park, looking at the stars and dreaming of a world in which violence and stereotypes don’t exist. Ponyboy wakes around 2:00 a.m., and goes home. Darry, furious, slaps him and Ponyboy runs off to find Johnny. The two walk around the park and encounter the Soc boyfriends, who attack them. When one tries to drown Ponyboy in the park fountain. Johnny stabs and kills him. The two boys go to Dally for help, and he gives them a gun, some cash, and the directions to an abandoned church in the country. Cherry says to Ponyboy, ¨”yeah, we need to change but I ain't going to do it.¨
