I do not own The Outsiders, even though I really want to. I've deiced to keep the POV's in Pony, Darry, or Soda's POV. Just to let you know. Thanks for the reviews.

Darry's POV

As I was filling out insurance forms for Pony I kept stealing glances at Elizabeth, and I think she could tell. She was being really flirty and doing very inappropriate things to do in a hospital. She would bend over to pick up pens that she would drop, leave her dress pulled down just a little bit to tease me and giggle at every little thing that I said. We were acting like the kids that we use to behave like, and it was fun.

"Alright, I got the forms signed, anything else I need to do?" I ask her.

"Nope, all you has to do now is wait for surgery tonight." She said. Tonight I thought, no the doctor said tomorrow.

"Doc said he surgery is in the morning." I told her. Lizzy gave me a confused look and went into Pony's room. Ponyboy was asleep and was sweating somthin' awful. Soda and Two-Bit were talking in low voices being careful not to wake Pony. Liz grabs the cart from his bed and reads it. She scrunches her eyebrows tighter and leaves the room. "I'll be right back." Is all she said.

"What was that about?" Two-Bit asks me.

"I don't know, all I did was say that the surgery is tomorrow and then she came in here." I told them. Soda just raised his eyebrows and looked back at Ponyboy. Soda brushed Pony's hair back and felt his forehead.

"Hey, Dare, I think his fever went up more. And he's really pale." he told me with worry in his voice. I felt his head for myself and Pony started to stir. I sat down on the bed and took his hand. Pony started to moan.

"Darry?" he asked me his voice hoarse.

"Yeah, little buddy?" I answer him trying to be as calm as I can for his sake.

He opens his eyes. They're glassy and hazy, the look your eyes get when you have a fever. "I feel awful." He tells me.

"Where does it hurt?" Soda asks him brushing his hair back again.

"My side." He tells us. He groans and closes his eyes.

"I'll get a nurse." Says Two-Bit walking out the door.

"Does anything else hurt?" I ask him. "Your head you said that hurt earlier"

"I did?" he asks me with confusion in his eyes. He's really starting to scare me. He doesn't remember telling me what hurt 2 hours ago.

"Hey, kiddo, ya did." Soda answers for me. Soda's eyes meet mine and I know that he knows how sick Pony is.

"You know that you're in the hospital though right?" Soda asks him.

"Yeah, I know that." He answers him.

Then Johnny, Dallas, Two-Bit, Steve, and a nurse walk in. The nurse comes over to Pony's side and I hop of the bed so she can get thru. She checks his vitals and temperature without a word. She writes something down on the chart and then leaves.

"Ok, that was weird." Dally says. "How's the kid doing?" he asks

"I've been better." Pony says.

"What's wrong with you?" asks Johnny

" The doc says it my appendix, I have to have surgery tomorrow." He says hiding his fear of needles from the gang.

"That sucks." Says Steve being as nice to Pony as he can since he's sick.

Then Lizzy walks in looking ticked. Dally and Steve are checking her out until I clear my throat. They look at me and mouth "Fine" and lay off. Lizzy checks Pony's fever and side again. He groans and tries to slide away from her. I put my hands on his shoulders pinning him down so Liz can finish examining him.

"Just stay still, Pone. Lizzy won't stick you with another needle." I tell him calming him down. He stays still until Lizzy is done. I take my hands off his shoulders and follow Lizzy to the other side of the room so the gang can't hear.

"I was talking to his doctor, the surgery needs to be tonight." She says to me.

"Why tonight?" I ask her looking at my brothers. Pony looks sick but not like he's going to die. Then I notice that he won't sit up straight like it pains him to.

"His appendix is inflamed to the point that it might burst on the next few hours." She tells me.

"Ok what would happen if it did burst?" I ask her trying not to sound nervous.

"Ponyboy could die."

Dun, Dun, Da! What's going to happen? Sorry for the short Chapter but I've been busy lately and I don't have time to write a long one. Sorry for the long update.