Disclaimer: I am not S.E. Hinton; I do not own the outsiders. I only own Carrie and this plot.

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"What's wrong Sodapop?" Ponyboy asked sitting down next to his older brother Soda who had a sad expression on his face, he was holding a letter that he had just got from their mailbox.

Soda shook his head and put on his movie star to try and cover up the sadness, but Ponyboy saw right through it.

"Nothing Pony… just another letter from… Sandy." Soda thought up quickly tucking the letter in his pants pocket. He would have to tell Darry when he got home, the eldest brother of the Curtis house. "Talking about her being pregnant and all… wants me to send up money for her saying it's my baby, when she's been two timing me this whole time hell no."

Ponyboy glared at his brother but chose to ignore his stupid excuse and go into his room and write.

About two hours latter Darry walked through the door just coming home from work. He scanned the room and saw Two-Bit sitting on the floor watching TV, Ponyboy and Johnny watching from the couch, Steve in a corner eating cake and drinking bear, and Dally smoking a cigarette by the window. But something was wrong; Soda sat at the table with a sad distant look in his eye, staring ahead daydreaming.

Darry being curious walked over to Ponyboy and tapped him on the shoulder lightly. Looking up Darry smiled at his older brother and looked over at Soda.

"What's wrong with Soda?" Darry whispered, Ponyboy shook his head and then shrugged his shoulders.

Darry walked over to Sodapop and tapped him on the shoulder making him jump out of his skin.

"What's wrong?" Darry asked pulling him into the hallway away from all the noise.

"This." Soda mumbled sticking his hand in his pocket and handing Darry the paper and read it carefully. "I can't get out of it even if I wanted to ya no I have to have a police record… and I would have to be still in school to get out."

"Oh man Sodapop… I can't let you go, they'll take me instead." Darry said angrily glaring at the note. He walked into the room where the rest of the guys where and sat on his chair followed by Soda who stood by his side watching his brother not to cry.

Ponyboy and Johnny looked between Darry and Soda and could see Soda's eyes glisten in the light he was by and looked at each other confused.

"Darry what's wrong?" Ponyboy asked making all the heads in the room to Soda and Darry. Soda now was biting his lip to keep from crying and clenching his fist at his sides. "Soda are you okay?"

"No." Soda croaked out. His eyes where getting really red and puffy and you could see the tears threatening to fall. Even Dally looked kind of worried as he looked at his gang member, the person he considered a part of his family was trying so hard not to cry.

"What's wrong Sodapop?" Steve asked putting down his plate of chocolate cake and walked over by Sodapop who had now closed his eyes.

"Darry you tell them." Soda muttered putting one of his hands on his face and letting a tear out.

Darry looked up at Soda and his face looked depressed and even his eyes started to glisten. If he weren't so angry he would probably be crying too.

"Guys." Everyone directed their attention to Darry as he spoke. "Sodapop just got his draft notice… he's going to war."

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