My Chapter Sequel to Wild-Eyed Kid's "Snapped"
"Oh! What an awful break!" the hospital nurse exclaimed.
How did this happen?"
"I tripped while running and twisted my foot" responded Ponyboy.
He looks up at this brothers.
"I'm telling you I fell while running and twisted my foot and broke it."
Luckily, the nurse and all the hospital staff believed Ponyboy.
They went right to work on setting his foot.
Ponyboy knew he'd have to be in a cast for 6 weeks, but telling the white lie was all he could do to keep the hospital employees from taking Ponyboy away from his brothers, the only family he had left.
He wasn't about to let them suspect Darry of knocking him down in a fit of temper-and finding himself and Soda shipped off to some boy's home.
As it was, Darry was sick at heart to say the least.
While waiting for the doctors to set Pony's foot, he bought him an art sketch book and pencils at the gift shop plus a mega size chocolate bar to try to make it up to him-and so that Pony, quite the family artist anyway, would have something to occupy his time with while being laid up with a broken foot.
(Soda meanwhile, purchases watercolors for Ponyboy)
Darry and Ponyboy really work hard on anger management once Pony is sent back home and his injury eventually heals.