At first, the won't let the boys see Johnny, but then a tells them, "Let them go in. He's been asking for them. It can't now." Only Ponyboy realizes that this means Johnny is going to . Two-Bit runs off to buy Johnny another copy of with the Wind, so Ponyboy and Johnny are left alone together. Johnny tells him he's very scared, and Pony pretends he has nothing to be scared of. knows he's going to die, though, and he tells Ponyboy, "I wouldn't mind it so much if there wasn't so much I ain't done yet and so many things I ain't seen. It's not fair."
Ponyboy thinks about how Johnny's has been so hard, so full of sadness, and that he has never experienced real . Just then the nurse tells him his wants to see him. Johnny refuses to see her. Finally, he passes out from exhaustion. As Pony and Two-Bit go to see , they run into Johnny's mother in the . She all her son's problems on them. Two-Bit starts to yell at her, but stops him. In Dally's hospital room, they find him arguing with the nurses, who won't let him . They know then that he is okay. When he asks about Johnny, they soften things for him, telling him that they aren't sure what will happen with Johnny. Still, Dally understands how bad things are, and he gets very . He takes Two-Bit's fancy , planning to get even with the Socs in the that night. On the way home, Pony tells that he has a bad feeling about the fight. Two-Bit pretends not to understand. They run into , and she tells Pony that although she feels about Johnny, she can't go see him, because he killed . Ponyboy gets angry, telling her, "You're a to your own kind and not loyal to us." He knows he still likes her though--he doesn't really believe in hating someone just because they're part of a you're supposed to hate.