"Oh no." Dallas shook his head, his heart beating erratically.
"I am so sorry." sniffed Ponyboy . He was almost in tears.
"Baby, it's not your fault." soothed Dally, his breathing had calmed. "We knew you were a carrier thing." said the hood.
"I know." nodded the crying teen.
"Soda is going to kill me once Darry kicks the shit outta me." Dally shook his head.
"Sir, are you alright?" asked the doctor.
"How far along?" asked Dallas.
"About 8 weeks, At 20 weeks you can find out the gender."
"Oh, goodness" Ponyboy sodded. "I am so sorry" he wiped his nose on his sleeve.
"Oh, Kitten. That's a new sweatshirt." cooed the tough hood, taking a tissue from the box and wiping away any stray tear.
"Would you like any information about the male pregnancies?" asked the doc.
"Thank you. We are fine." nodded Dallas. He helped Ponyboy to his feet and led his boyfriend out back to the Curtis house.
"What's wrong Ponyboy?" asked Darrel upon seeing his crying brother.
"I'm pregnant." sobbed the teen.
"What the Fuck!" Sodapop said. Both older brothers curled thier hands into fists and Ponyboy cried louder.
"Please, don't." He sobbed throwing himself at Soda, who immediately grabbed to hold up the smaller boy. "I love him."
"You can't poss-"
"I can't what!" snapped Ponyboy, turning to his eldest brother. "Dally is my boyfriend. I thought there was no one left after Johnny. and then Dally came around. And he was the only one that made me laugh, smile, live again. Don't you dare tell me I can't anything. I lost my best friend. I will not lose my Boyfriend, or Child because of you"
"Pony." Soda soothed. Pony sank to the ground and cried until he fell asleep.
Dallas paced around the room near Tim and Buck. Tim had started living at Bucks since Angela's jiv stud boyfriend moved in.
"How long ya think he will do this?" asked Buck.
"Until he decides thinking hurts too much." laughed Tim.
"We're pregnant." said Dally with a snapping glare at the two hoods.
"W-what?" Tim mumbled.
"Ponyboy is a carrier, that means when his body feels it's right, he will... in a more dumbed down wording, grow female internal organs and can carry a baby. And Ponyboy is having my kid."
"A little Dally. Oh God, have mercy. Let it be a girl." Buck looked up to the sky.
"Shut up, Buck." hissed Dally. "I wanted to tell you because I need someone supportive of us. Darry and Soda will most likely kill me, or at least hit me. And I need you there. If Pony sees, he will lose it."
"Alright, Dal." nodded the two. The three boys headed to the leader's boyfriend.
Ponyboy wasn't even showing yet, his tee covered him up. He was only a week over 3 months.
"Hey." smiled Dallas.
"Soda and Darry wanna..."
"Talk to me, I know." the hood said sadly. Tim and Buck stood with thier heads high, ready to enter the house. They all went in. Ponyboy gripping onto the hood's hand.
"Dally." Darry smiled pleasantly at the blonde.
"Uhmm. Hi." he answered. Tim looked taken aback. Buck showed no emotion.
"Are you alright, Dallas? You seem kinda uptight." commented Soda, walking into the room.
"Didn't sleep that well last night." said the hood eyeing the brothers.
"They promised they wouldn't hurt you." Ponyboy whispered in his ear, upon the blonde sitting down. Dally nods to the two larger friends he had brought with him.
"Darry, I just wanted to see if you had the paper." said Tim. The older boy looked around the room, spotting the newspaper on the table. He hands it to Tim, who leaves with a grinning face.
"Watcha need,Buck?" asked Soda.
"Ask me a different question. You won't like the answer to that." the man replied.
"What can I do for you?" tried Soda.
"No."
"Uhm... watcha here for?"
"That'll do. I can't seem to find my lighter. It was silver and it had my name carved into it. If you happen to see it, please let me know. I paid a lot for that thing." Buck said with a slight upturn of his lips. Almost a smile.
"Oh, alright." Soda nodded. Buck spun on his heels and left, putting a hand on Dallas's shoulder as he left.
"How've you been, Dal?" asked Darry once the scary men had left.
"Pretty good." answered the blonde. They had only seen each other two days ago. "And yourself?"
"Likewise." answered Darry. "How was the doctor's visit? Thanks for taking Pony, by the way." Pony tensed and Dally could feel it. Pony hasn't taken his hand out of Dally's.
"It was fine. Boring." answered the hood, knowing very well Pony told the two.
"Hmm... I remember you promising, swearing, you wouldn't have sex until you proposed. I think I recall something to that effect, Soda?" Darry looked towards the boy. "Don't you?"
"Yeah, Dar." Soda said eyeing Dally. "So where's the ring?"
"I... uh..." Dally looked to Ponyboy who was for some reason crying."What's wro-" Dally didn't get to finish, the pregnant boy had jumped out of his seat and ran down the hall to his room. Dallas immediately jumped up to follow him. Darry put an arm out.
"Might not wanna do that." offered the man.
"I need to." Dally pushed him away and walked quickly down the hall to his boyfriend's room.
Pony had chosen to stay in his own room after his fourteeth birthday, being a teenager he wanted his own room/ Soda agreed and went back to his room. Dally knew his boyfriend was super quiet in the time he was in the cooler for pulling a heater on a cop.
Dally first noticed the ring he gave Ponyboy laying out on the desk. It was plain, just the way Pony said he wanted it. He always said that marriage was about love, and all that, not about how amazing can you make the ring and how many people are at the wedding. Dally had picked the ring and had engraved 'Kitten' on the inside. It was plain gold . Dallas had a matching one. Pony and him agreed that to turn off suspicion, they wouldn't wear them. They wanted to wait to tell the rest of tha gang.
Dally was remembering the day he proposed. Ponyboy had fallen asleep in his arms. It was perfect. Except when they came back to Pony's house. Darry was so mad at them. His face had started to turn red. The man asked why they had not come home, or even bothered to call. Dally said they fell asleep watching T.V. To which Darry asked what they were watching. Upon noticing Two-Bit in the room, Pony cleverly said "Mickey" . The older teen then took Pony to the side to talk about Mickey, claiming he wanted to find his own 'Minnie Mouse'.
"Dally,go away!" snarled Ponyboy, pulling him out of his flashback.
"Baby, what's wrong?" Dally asked.
"Was that the only reason you proposed, to have sex with me?" Usually, Pony called it 'making love' so he must be really angry with the hood to call it sex.
"Pony,no." Dally sighed coming closer to the boy. "I love you. And if I would have, dontcha think I would have made love to you as soon as i popped the ring?"
"Maybe you didn't wanna raise suspicion."
"Then why did I wait a whole year and 85 days before proposing?"
"78 days." Pony corrected.
"No, our actual first date was at the Dingo. You were wearing that sexy brown leather jacket and jeans. And your black shoes. You got vanilla ice cream. A big cone. And I got a cola. You got full halfway through, so you gave the cone to me. I put it in my soda and I drank it. You thought it would taste weird, so you tried a sip. And you loved it. That was a week before the movies. And now every time we go to get ice cream, I get a cola just in case you want to make a float." Dally says.
Soda and Darry, who were listening in the hall were wide eyed and thoroughly shocked.
"Oh, Dal." Pony throws himself at his fiance, wrapping his arms around his neck. Dally pulled him to his body.
"Kitten, I love you. How many times do I have to tell you?"
"As many as it takes to get old." Pony vowed, grabbing his ring off the desk. He slipped it onto his finger, it fit perfectly. Dally's 'class ring' sat on the other hand.
Dally pulled his out of his pocket and put it on with a kiss on Ponyboy's forehead.
"Are you alright now?"
"Oh God." Pony's eyes widened.
"What's wrong?" Dallas asked.
"I am going to be terrible once I actually have all the hormones raging in my body. Oh no, I am so sorry." Pony said, burying his head in Dally's chest. The hood laughed, and the younger boy's head bounced off his chest.
"It's alright, baby. Let's get back out and spend some quality family time." Dally pulled Pony's hand. They walked back out to the living room, where the brothers had retaken their spots.
"Are you alright, Pony?" asked Darry.
"I couldn't find the ring, here it is." Pony said, thrusting his hand out to his eldest brother.
"Kinda plain." commented Soda.
"Marriage is about love, not about how big the ring is?" Pony said with a scowl. "It's perfect." He pulls his hand away, cradling it to his body.
"He wanted it like that. Plain, no diamonds, no nothing. I would have." Dally supplied.
"And yours matches." comments Soda again, looking at Dally's hand.
"Yep." he says, touching the ring.
"Now alls we gotta do is tell the rest of the gang!" Darry beams, trying to picture Steve and Two-Bit's reaction.
"Oh, damn." Dally said.