AN: After a long day, I figure this is the best thing to do. Not like I have anything else to keep my mind off of everything. So I write.

It's a long story, really, as to what caused this to be in existance anyway, as to why I was even listening to music at the lot when I came up with this, and well...now that I know all of it, I hate it. And I hate that this is what comes out of it, because the situation in itself is sad and this is...not so much.

I'm getting there.

But since people seem to like this for some reason that's utterly beyond me, I will continue it until I can't.

To those who reviewed:

Jsp: Glad you like it! As for if it's going to be Steve/Pony...I don't know. I didn't plan this one out at all beyond what I was using as inspiration and what line I was starting with. We'll see how it shapes out. But I have seen some really cute ones for that pairing, as crack as it may be at times. It's adorable. But...likely not. I don't know.

Phoenixx Rising: Working on that...as much as I can. It's hard, characterizing them when I base off dubs so much, and we don't have a Steve or a Dally, and one of them play a major roll here. It's hard to explain. Cosplay stuff. Yeah.. Glad you like it!
Guest: I'm working on the characterization as much as I can. Like I said above, I do focus on the dub group I have to use for personality, as I have issues dragging a full personality out of a book or movie. It's just a weird tick of mine. Working on it. Yeah.. Glad you like it!

dani-curtis-16: Glad you think so!

SaiyanPrincess: Glad you like it!

Guest: Glad you like it!

Enjoy.

The following morning, Pony woke up to yelling coming from the living room.

"What the hell were you thinking, hitting him?"

Dallas. Pony recognised that voice anywhere. Steve must have told the others what had happened the previous night.

Soda came in the room right about then. "You're up."he said absently.

"Hard to sleep with people yelling."Pony answered, getting up and scratching at the back of his neck. "What happened?"

"The rest of the gang showed up about an hour ago and Steve told them what happened. Johnny's going out of his mind worried about you."

Pony sighed. Of course Johnny was worried. He'd never heard of one of the others in the gang getting hit. It didn't happen."

With that, he disappeared out into the living room.

Steve was the first to catch sight of him. He gave an apologetic shake of the head.

Johnny's eyes locked on him and he moved from where he was situated to make sure that there wasn't any damage done.

This caught every one's attention, and it made Dally stop screaming at Darry.

Pony spoke softly. "Don't go off on Darry for it, he didn't mean to."he said. "It was my own fault, I shouldn'ta yelled at him for being concerned."

This surprised several of them, none more so than Darry.

"Ponyboy.."Darry said. "I.."

Pony shook his head, giving an easy smile. Well, as easy a smile as he could manage when faced with Darry, who was giving him a look that had him wanting to sink into the floor. "It's fine, Darry."

Of course, that didn't go over too well, either.

Soda sighed from the doorway. He hated all this fighting. He just wanted it to stop.

After a while, Steve let out a loud whistle, cutting everyone off. "Alright. Enough's enough. Soda and me are gonna have to head to work, and Darry, you're late as it is right now. This is getting dropped and we ain't gonna continue fighting about it,"

Nobody argued, not with the look that they got. They hated the fighting too, they didn't like fighting amoung themselves, because it tore their group to shreds when it happened.

Later on in the day, after Soda and Steve got off work, things had settled. Pony was curled up on the couch reading when the two came in.

Soda plopped down on the couch and rested his head in his brother's lap. "Whatcha up to, Pony?"

Ponyboy sighed. "I was reading."he said tiredly.

"Long day?"Steve asked from where he was standing.

Pony nodded. "The gang refused to leave until about an hour ago."

Steve gave an understanding nod. "They bug you about it?"

Pony rolled his eyes. "No, we discussed Mickey the whole time. 'Course they bugged me about it."

"No need to get snappish."

There weren't any arguments after that. Even after Darry came in, no arguments were heard. Steve headed back to his place after getting a call from his place that gave him the invitation back. "I'll see you guys tomorrow."

I don't have much patience with writing right now. I'm sorry. I gotta get off the computer anyways. I just figured I'd finish this chapter, since it's been sitting on my computer half finished for a while now. I'm sorry, guys.

Stay gold.