Hello! So I know I haven't written anything in a long time, but I'm trying to see if it's something I want to do again. This is sort of a test. So if you like it, please let me know so I'll know if I should continue to write. Thank you.

I don't own, or make money off of anything.

The front door slammed shut, and footsteps sounded on the hardwood floors, as the wind from the bitter November night air, nipped at Ponyboy's toes. Ponyboy Curtis, sat at the old, deep brown kitchen table and sighed. This homework was going to take him forever to finish, especially if he wanted to do it before the holidays officially started. Unless he wanted it hanging over his head for the rest of the long weekend, he might as well get it done tonight. Ponyboy looked down at the old, torn textbook, like the other ones they usually give to hoods, and eyed problem 3. He knew he was good at school, but math was not his strongest subject, neither was science. He did enjoy English though, but he had already finished that earlier. He sighed, and scratched his light brown, almost back to normal color, hair then looked at Darry as he walked into the kitchen.

Darry smiled wide at him as he took off his black heavy jacket.

"Hey Pone. Algebra huh?" Darry asked leaning over the table to eye the problems on the page. He smelled of sweat, and his light brown eyes gleamed with tiredness.

"Yeah. Can you help me?" Ponyboy asked, as he leaned back off of his elbows.

"Give me a minute to shower, and I'll give you a hand. What else do you have to do bud?" He asked, before opening the refrigerator, and taking out the left over chicken and dumplings from yesterday.

"Just math and science. I already finished English and History. I really want to get it done tonight though, so I can enjoy my break" Ponyboy said quickly, his brain still half focused on how to do problem 3.

"Yeah, you'd better get it done tonight Pony. Everyone will be home tomorrow, heck and you know Two-Bit and Steve will be over. So yeah, let's get it done tonight huh?" Darry asks before putting the left overs back in the refrigerator, and taking off his dirty over shirt. "Soda!" Darry yelled as he walked to the kitchen doorway, rubbing Ponyboy's head as he walked by him.

"Yea Dar?" a soft, deep voice echoed through the house.

"Don't forget it's your turn to cook tonight. We have some leftover chicken and dumplings, so just heat them up, and we'll have bread with it. And no crazy food coloring tonight! I ate blue mashed potatoes last night, I just want a regular supper tonight" he said with a smile.

"But Dar, you'll have a regular Thanksgiving meal Thursday, can't I have a little fun before then?"

"Just don't go too crazy little buddy. No blue! Pone and I are tired of seein that color! Ain't that right Pone?" Darry looked at Ponyboy with a smile, and winked at him before going off toward the bathroom.

Ponyboy smiled as he continued to look at problem 3. Ponyboy shook his head, and sighed. He then heard Darry singing from the bathroom and he smiled again. Darry sure has changed a lot in the past few weeks, Ponyboy thought as he closed his eyes. He started to think about how things were before Johnny and Dallas died, how he and Darry were total opposites, almost enemies. Now it seemed as though they were on the same page, and Ponyboy liked that.

Ponyboy then looked back at the textbook, and neatly wrote the problem down on his sheet of paper. He then looked through his notes, and tried to find the example to fit this one. He then tried to solve the problem, but ended up with the wrong answer when checking it.

Sooner than Ponyboy thought possible, Darry was walking back into the kitchen and sitting down beside him.

"Alright. Let's see baby. 2 times (x minus 2) =10." Darry began explain the problem. After a through explanation, Ponyboy began working on it, and got it right. Then he worked on the next problem, he then had Darry check it. Soon he was working on the last problem, and he had gotten all of them right.

As he finished the last problem of his math homework Soda was coming into the kitchen to start heating the left overs up.

"So what's science homework?" Darry asked, as he got up and began tidying up the kitchen a little bit.

"I have to copy a picture of an animal and plant cell out of the book, and color code the parts. It shouldn't take long" he said as he opened his textbook to the right page, and started at the small diagram of an animal cell on the bottom right.

"Do it neatly Ponyboy." Darry instructed, as he wiped off the counter where it got sticky from breakfast.

Ponyboy ignored him as he drew a larger animal cell. After he finished drawing both cells, he looked up. Soda was just taking the green colored left overs off the stove. Ponyboy shrugged, then took his books into the other room. He could color them later. He then came back to the table and sat down in his set. Darry sat down to his right, and Soda, after he put the food on the table, sat down across from him.

"So how was your day Darry?" Ponyboy asked as he dipped out two spoons of the green dumplings.

"It was good. Long, but we got the roof finished on the building we've been working on. So we get tomorrow and the rest of the week off. How was school?"

"It was classy. Not too bad. We had the last track practice of the season. Coach let us try out for next season today. I won't know anything until Monday." He said taking a quick bite.

"Well, we already know you're on the team Pone" Darry said with a smile.

"Yea, honey. That coach would be stupid not to keep you. You're the fastest runner that school's seen" Soda said with a warm grin. He then looked at his big brother, and then back to his little brother. "Ok, so I guess no one's going to ask about my day. Well, just to inform you, it was good" Soda finished with a smile, and Darry chucked before he shook his head.

"What am I going to do with you two?" Darry asked and continued eating with a smile.

Thank you for reading. Please leave a review letting me know if you enjoyed it. Should I continue?