Chapter 37
Anyone POV
Inside the Curtis's house, the smoke detector in the hallway was dead. The one in the kitchen wasn't though. Darry was used to an alarm, so he woke up first. The minute he smelt smoke, he knew what the alarm was for.
He shot out of bed. His first thoughts were his brothers. He quickly went to their room, and started yelling at them to get up. He started shaking them. Soda woke up with a start. Ponyboy, not so much.
Darry supported Sodapop. He helped Soda walk. Soda was just hopping/limping on one foot.
Since they were still close to the bed, Darry reached over and shook Ponyboy again.
When Ponyboy smelt the smoke, he pushed himself up into a sitting position, which he regretted. He was suddenly hit by a wave of dizziness.
Darry helped Soda walk, and kept yelling at Pony to follow. Ponyboy tried to follow, but he felt like passing out while just sitting on the bed.
He slowly got off if the bed, and slowly started to walk out of the room. He could see through the hallway, and he noticed flames on the far wall. He got about halfway down the hallway, but didn't think he could go much farther without passing out.
Due to all of the smoke, he couldn't see his brothers.
He finally made it out of the hallway, and the smoke was thicker. He could see now that he was almost to the living room. He took another step, but he had to use the wall for support. With no fresh air, his head was killing him.
He was about to pass out. He started coughing, but couldn't stop. He fell forward, but rolled over onto his back.
There was a voice in his head, a familiar one. It started saying things, calming things.
Than it said in a calm voice, 'Come on. You gotta get up. Please get up. You need to get out of here.'
He finally recognized the voice to be Johnny's.
The same voice said, 'Come on Ponyboy. Don't give up now. You got to get out of here. Don't give up.'
Ponyboy closed his eyes. There was less smoke by the ground, so he had stopped coughing.
The last thought that went through Ponyboy's mind was 'I don't want to give up, but I don't have a choice.'
After that, he finally passed out.