As you know. I have returned. My job here isn't done yet!
"As One"
by FlipWise
Chapter 1: The Introduction
A car is coming down the road and pulls into a parking lot for a general store. After it comes to a halt in front of the entrance, it sits for a while. Inside, a grown man, in his forties or so, was shaking the young man sitting in the passenger seat. After a low groan, the young man cracked his eyes open.
"Do you need anything to drink?" asked the adult.
The young man shook his head slightly and turned over to another comfortable position while the other went into the store. After getting himself a Pepsi, and a few packages of Doritos, he went to the front desk. The cashier added his total together and announced,
"Six dollars and fifty-seven cents."
The adult checked his wallet and saw that he only had a five dollar bill and a fifty dollar bill. Reluctant to break change with such a large amount, he charged it. The cashier asked for I.D. and the adult displayed it to him. He looked at the card and looked back at it's holder.
"Ponyboy Curtis. Y'know, that name sounds familiar."
There was a slight smile on the forty year old.
"Yeah. I um…get that a lot."
Ponyboy picked up his food and drink and exited the general store. He and his only son, Gregory, were on their way to Ponyboy's hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma. His son Gregory was fourteen years old and like many children his age, had a fetish for video games. Specifically Role Playing Games, since he loved to customize his own characters for his preference. Just recently, Ponyboy's wife and Gregory's mother had died of cancer. She had been his wife of fifteen years and a very hardworking woman who kept him happy. She had golden hair, in which her son adapted from her with slight darkening to it and, as Ponyboy said, "eyes only an angel could compete with." He used this saying because every time he looked at her, he would be lifted in spirit.
Weeks after her death, Ponyboy had received news that his older brother, Sodapop, had been shot. After Ponyboy had graduated from high school, a year early that most of his schoolmates, he had gotten a scholarship to Penn State. It was far from home but his two brothers encouraged him to go. With his knowledge he could make something of himself, and he did. He received a master's degree in creative writing and has written two books and a screenplay for a major motion picture. But the distance in college away from his home gradually took effect and he lost touch with his family and friends in his hometown.
His oldest brother, Darry had eventually attended a junior college after Ponyboy graduated and continued his education at a university, causing him to move as well. While out, he started a family of his own and currently has a daughter who is attending a junior college in Tulsa and playing basketball. Darry has already returned to Tulsa with his wife,Lisa and have settled them selves in the old Curtis home.
Sodapop continued to work at the DX gas station. His best friend, Steve Randle, eventually quit after he raised enough money to open his own car garage. He eventually married a girl, who had a son from a previous relationship. He had sex withher previous to her engadgement andshe told him that he was pregnant,hence the reason they got married.Her accusation proved to be false but Sodapop still took care of her, mostly because of her cocaine addiction. She had checked herself into rehabilitation and he became the guardian of his step-son, who was currently a junior in high school. One night while Sodapop was working late at the DX, two masked robbers rushed in and held him at gunpoint while demanding that the cashier give them the money that they had received. They had already deposited the money in the bank so there was not much in the machine. The robbers took out their anger by shooting Sodapop and the bullet hit him in his spine.
Darry's daughter, Pamela, was the second family member to receive the news. She had been living with both Soda and his step-son, Willie. She informed Darry, who then informed Ponyboy in his home in Pennsylvania. Ponyboy took this as a sign. His wife was deceased and his brother had been harmed. It was time for the family to return again.