Disclaimer: The Outsiders does not belong to me
A/N: Thank you LoVeLiFe17 for your review. You're so insightful! Queen Lucy of Awesomeness, thanks for your review as well. Both of your reviews really keep me motivated, and for that I am forever grateful.
Onward…
What with work at the hospital, keeping my brothers on track when it came to school, and helping Johnnycakes, it had been a long week and I was forever grateful for the fact that it was Friday.
"Linda!" Soda yelled running through the door.
"Oh Soda you're home," I said sarcastically, "You were so quiet I didn't even hear you come in."
"Yeah yeah," He said, "something happened, I got to tell you."
"What?" I said exasperated at his yelling.
"Do you know where Pony is?"
"Soda, where's your brother?" I said now in a panic.
His eyes widened in realization, "Oh no, don't worry. He's fine, he's at the library."
I sighed, "Then why the hell are you so excited?"
Soda ignored the fact that I was now getting angry and continued on, "Guess who Pony is with?"
"Soda, spit it out!"
"Pony and Debbie are hanging out at the library. Isn't that adorable?" Soda said, "Our little dork has found another little dork friend."
I digressed into my inner teenage girl and forgot that I was angry with Soda a couple of minutes ago. Soda and I always did this when we talked about our little Pony.
"Really? Aw, that's great," I said.
Soda and I both sat there happy for our little brother until I remembered something.
"Hey where's the rest of the gang?"
"Your guess is as good as mine."
"Well, you have to go find Two-Bit, he'll ruin everything," I yelled.
"You think?" Soda asked. Two-Bit lived to make fun of others. I looked at him incredulously and Soda promptly got up of the sofa and headed toward the door.
Soda opened the door and as if on cue ran right into Two-Bit Matthews followed closely behind by Steve.
"Speak of the devil," I laughed.
"Who me?" Two-Bit asked with mock surprise.
"None other," soda laughed.
"Well, I know I'm pretty great, but what were you talking about me for?" Two-Bit asked.
I looked over at Soda and he had a blank face.
Two-Bit laughed, "Worried I'm going to go ruin things for Pony and Deb?"
I looked at him surprised.
"Oh come on, I'm not a ditz," Two-Bit laughed, "Of course I know. I've decided that my kid sister's bound to find a guy sometime. If that boy's Pony, then I won't have to worry about it none."
I shrugged knowing it was true. Ponyboy was probably the most kind-hearted greaser you could find.
"Well, I'm sure the kid'll be relieved to know you're not going to skin him once you find out," Steve said.
Two-Bit guffawed, "where's the fun in that? I'm not going to let him get off that easy, I'll make him think he's going to get it. The kid better tell me."
I laughed, "Don't be too hard on my kid brother Two-Bit."
I smiled knowing Two-Bit is probably the best friend Pony could have and that Pony was finally becoming sure of himself.
XXX
"Hey, where have you been?" I said as Pony came in the house later
"Library," he said, "I was studying."
Steve snorted.
"What's so funny about that?" Pony asked.
"Well the first thing I think when a guy tells me he's 'studying' is that he's off with some skirt," Steve said while Pony blushed, "but then I remembered that it was you talking and there was no way."
"Why are you blushing Pony?" Soda asked.
"Well," Pony said, "I'm actually glad Steve brought this up. I've been meaning to tell you something Two-Bit."
Two-Bit raised one of his eyebrows and waited for Pony to continue.
"Uhm…" he stuttered, "Deborah and I are dating."
"Deborah?" Two-Bit paused for dramatic effect, "My Debbie? My baby sister? Pony boy Curtis, you're telling me that you're dating my sister?"
By this point Two-Bit had gotten up in Pony's face and Pony's eyes had gone wide.
Pony swallowed noisily and then answered in a questioning tone, "yes?"
Two-Bit stared hard at Ponyboy for a moment, raised his arm as if he were about to punch him and then swiftly lowered his arm, clapped Pony on the back and started laughing.
"I'm glad," Two-Bit said simply.
As Pony realized what was going his brows furrowed and he said, "Two-Bit! How could you do that to me? I thought you were going to clobber me!"
"Nah, I could never lay a hand on you kid, "Two-Bit said, "I'm too fond of you. You have my blessing."
Pony sighed exasperatedly and left the room yelling to Johnny who was in the other room, "You are never going to believe what these clowns did now…"
We all looked at each other and laughed. It was times like this that reminded me there was more than just hardships on the east side of Tulsa, there were plenty of opportunities to mess with your kid brother as well as two kids experiencing young love.
A/N: This was basically just fluff, but I felt it needed to be said; there will be more heavy stuff later. Well, maybe. I want to thank Sunkissedchris for the bit about Pony being one of the most kind-hearted greasers; I think I quoted that directly from a review. Again, I love love love feedback; it helps immensely.
