Authors note: Sorry about this being so short, but I kind of have writers block right now. And sorry It took so long to get this up but I've been pretty busy lately. Anyways I hope everyone enjoys it!

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I woke up with sun shining through the window of our bedroom. I was in bed, it was mid afternoon. Something had happened the night before but I couldn't remember. I rolled over and saw Darry asleep in the desk chair beside me. Then it came to me. Darry was mad at me; I'd stayed out all night with Johnny, My Math teacher called Darry about me being late all the time. I must have fainted when I got home, I can remember Darry screaming at Soda, then me.

"Darry?" I whispered

He groaned but woke up and looked down on me from his chair. He looked so sad I knew that something was wrong, but I didn't know what.

"Hey Pony, How ya feeling?" He said in a very sensitive tone.

"Ok I guess, what happened? What's wrong?"

"You just fainted that's all."

"Darry I know something's wrong, what is it," He I noticed Soda was no where to be seen "Is it Soda? Is he ok?" I tried to sit up in bed. But Darry grabbed me and got me to lie back down.

"Soda fine. Pony I'm just worried about you that's all. You've been asleep for two days now, it's Monday. You really scared me and Soda."

"I'm sorry Darry, I didn't mean to."

"It's Ok Pony, I'm not mad."

Then suddenly without warning a terrible feeling ran through me. It's hard to describe it. It felt as if I was made of Jell-O, but everything hurt at the same time. I moaned. It felt as if my head and stomach were about to explode.

"Ponyboy? Are you ok?" asked Darry. Then Sodapop ran into the room, we must have woken him up.

"Pony are you ok?" Soda asked in a frightened voice

All I could manage to saw was "Owww, It hurts." Normally if you were hurt you wouldn't just complain about it in front of Darry. But this was different. I could feel something very wrong inside me.

Darry and Sodapop started talking to each other in hurried worried voices. I managed to get a few words out of it "Pail…hot…hospital….Steve and car" I can remember Darry picking me up out of bed and Soda taking two big blankets and wrapping me up with them. Then Soda disappeared he must have gone to get Steve. The next thing I remember was being in Steve's truck and people saying things like "It'll be ok Pony, You'll be fine." And "Just hang on a little longer." Then once again everything went black; I just drifted off into a kind of other world in the back of my head.

I woke up and my head was still throbbing. I was in a bed only I didn't know what bed or where. The ceiling came into focus above me. I turned onto my side to find Sodapop staring at me.

"Pony! You're awake!" cried Soda I rised my pointer finger to my mouth and the shhhing motion then I pointed to my head. It really hurt.

"Oh, sorry Ponyboy." He whispered.

"What happened?" I asked which was a bad idea, it made my head hurt even more.

"Don't you remember? You came home on Saturday morning and fainted them you slept 'till Monday. We weren't really scared because you didn't seem sick. Then when you woke up you were fine for a little while. But then you got really pale like and you were complaining about everything hurting." He replied

"Oh, Am I ok? My head really hurts."

"I call the doctor, he wanted to know when you woke up anyways."

Soda got up and left the room to find the doc. I looked around the room; there was a case or Pepsi beside me on the night table. No one else was in the room. I wondered where Darry was; I'd ask Sodapop when he got back.

A few minutes later Soda came back into the room with the Doctor.