Cherry Valance: Johnny Cade →

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Cherry nodded her head. She gigged at how descriptive Johnny was, “You sure know your friends real well huh?” She loved the fact that Johnny knew the boys so well, she could tell that he really loved his friends “I can tell how much you care for them.”

“Yeah, I guess I know ‘em pretty well. I spend all my time with them. And I really do love them. They’re all I got. They’re more a family than my parents.” Johnny started thinking about the gang. He probably knew them better than he knew himself. He knew them better than his actual parents that for sure.

Cherry wondered what he meant by “They are more of a family to me then my parents” but she did not dare to ask. 

Cherry wished she had friends as great as Johnny’s. “Yeah, well I wish I had friends as great as yours, one who really take and take time outta their day for you, Ya’ Know?” Cherry looked into his puppy dogs eyes and waited for his reply.

“Yeah. I know. The gang is always there for me. They help me with everything. I bet you have friends like that too. Maybe not exactly or as many but you have some.” Johnny looked at the screen. There was just some guy trying to look tuff sitting in a mustang.

“You’re thinking about my parents aren’t you. You’re confused about what I said while describing the gang.”

Cherry forced a fake smile. “No, i don’t really have any friends like yours, well maybe Marcia,” Cherry dropped the smile from her face, “And yeah I am a little confused about what you said, but you don’t have to tell me if Ya’ don’t want to ill understand,” Truth was Cherry really wanted to know what Johnny meant by what he had said.

“Marcias nice.” Johnny saw the smile fade from Cherry’s face. “I meant that… Since I was a little boy, my parents were drunks. They always try to hurt me. Mostly my dad. Whenever in home he beats me. That’s why I stay at the lot.” Johnny stated.

“Ever since I met the gang, they have watched out for me. Dal mostly. If anything even comes close to hurting me, he’s there. Ready to fight. Two-Bits
even attacked my mom once. Then there’s the Curtis brothers. Especially Pony. They always take care of me. Food. A place to sleep if its too cold or something. And Steve. He watches out for me too. He was there when I got jumped. He’s the one that went to get help. But Sodas the one that stayed with me the entire time. To make sure I was ok. Helped me stop crying. Soothed me.” There was more to the story but he felt like he was boring Cherry with this.

Cherry looked at him and saw fear in his eyes, she felt tears build up in her eyes. “I wish I could do something to help. Your such a sweet kid you don’t deserve this.” She tried to hold back her tears but couldn’t and they started to pour down her face. Johnny did not need the abuse from his parents let alone the Socs.

“Maybe I do deserve it.” Johnny watched Cherry cry. “Come on Cherry. Dont cry. It’s not your fault. And I’m fine. All I have is a scar and it’s not too big. I’m alright. Please stop crying.” Truth was. Johnny hated seeing girls cry.

“No, Johnny you don’t. Why would you say that?” Cherry wanted to know what Johnny thought he deserved it, the poor kid didn’t do anything to his parents yet they use him as a punching bad.

“Maybe if there was something I did as a child that caused then to do this. Something I didn’t do.” Johnny has always taken the blame for the way his parents were. It didn’t seem to wrong. His parents blamed him for everything anyway.

“Still, that don’t them them an excuse to treat you like this Johnny, you are worth more than you think.” .

Cherry wanted him to know how much Potential she saw in him. she did not want him to think of the negative. she once had a friend that was going through similar things and killed himself, she did not want the same thing to happen to Johnny. It made her cry more thinking about it. 

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