Author: mikesh
Title: Why did my life have to turn out this way?
Summary: What if Darry had decided not to raise his two brothers?
Part: 4?
The Gang's P.O.V.'S
Steve, Two-Bit, Dally, and Johnny are all really mad at Darry for putting Soda and Pony in the boys' home. Their saying is nobody is left behind and stick together until the end
through thick and thin(I know kind of cheesy but where they come from you have to). Steve and Johnny miss Soda and Pony more than the others since they're known them
longer that the other two have.
Johnny's P.O.V.
I haven't seen Pony or Soda in three months. Pony and I've been friends since grade school. Yes I'm two years older than him but its like we're the same age, that's how well
we get along and know each other. Soda wrote me about three weeks ago and told me that he got adopted but Pony's still at the boys' home. I wrote Pony about a week ago and
I haven't heard anything from him yet. All the guys miss Soda and Pony but I don't think anybody misses Darry. I don't think nobody has seen or heard from Darry since he went
to Nebraska for college. I know that Dally is worried about me because I don't talk as much as I used to. He's tried to talk to me, but how do you tell a guy that's been in jail
more times than you can count how you're feeling about your best friend leaving?
Steve's P.O.V.
I miss my old buddy Sodapop. It's been lonely around here without him. He and I used to
go to the Nightly Double on the weekends and try to pick up girls. I still go over there once and awhile but its not the same without Sodapop. That kid could pick up five
women in about 20 minutes of getting to the drive in movie theater. The women were on him like flies are on honey. Soda and I've been friends since grade school. I heard Soda
got adopted from Johnny about three weeks ago. Yeah Sodapop does write to me, but if I'm going to talk to him then I want it to be on the phone not in some letter. There are
times like this that I want just leave school and go see Soda, but I can't since I need the credit to graduate this year. But hopefully this summer I can go see Soda and then we can
go pick up girls like the old days. Oh yeah if the guys tell you I drink to much they're wrong, I only have a drink every now and then. And if you tell them what I said I'll kick
your butt.
Two-Bit's P.O.V.
I know if you ask Steve how he' doing he'll tell you that he just misses Soda but he's been taking Soda's leaving harder than the rest of us. He's been drinking more than he used to.
It used to be that he only drank after he had a really bad fight with a girlfriend. Since he really didn't have many girlfriends you could say he didn't drank that often. Now every weekend he's drunk from Friday to
Sunday. His mom cares but she or any of us can't get him to stop. I heard that Soda found himself a real nice family. Pony deserves that too. They both deserve the best. Darry on
the other hand well lets just say that he shouldn't have left his own family with a bunch of strangers. The boy acts like he's a soc! He's not a soc he's a greaser just like the rest of us
are and that's the way it's going to be so he better just get used to it. I know that by now you've heard about the fight. All I can say is if someone hadn't been there to stop me
then Darry wouldn't be in Nebraska he'd be six feet under with his parents. I'm afraid that Johnny will start drinking too since I know it has to be hard on him with Pony
leaving too. I'm afraid that Steve is going to get himself killed sometime with the way he's been drinking. And I know that he drives when he's drunk too. I miss Soda and
Pony. Even though Darry's going to college its only because he had real good grades in school. No I'm not jealous its just that I don't think the boy uses common sence
sometimes. But he says that Pony doesn't! Well if that's not calling the kettle black I don't know what is.
Dally's P.O.V.
I'm not saying that Darry made the right or wrong choice. But if anybody tried to put Johnny in one of those boys' home they would have another thing coming. I know that
Johnny misses Pony a lot. The reason that I know that he misses Pony is that he used to talk more than he does now. See about 2 months before the accident he got beat up by the
socs. Pony was coming back from the movies that he likes to go and see, he heard moaning and it sounded like it was coming from the lot that we go and hang out in.
So he went over there and saw Johnny curled up into a ball. Pony went over to him and saw how blooded up he was. It was a good thing that Darry and his dad was coming
home at the time and saw Pony in the lot. They took Johnny to the hospital where he had to stay for three weeks. Since we all meet in the lot at 6:30 p.m. to just shoot the breeze
Soda went over there and that's where we all found out what happened to Johnny. He was hurt pretty badly. I and the rest of the gang wanted to go after them socs but Johnny
didn't want us to. Said it would be too much trouble. And that he wasn't worth that much trouble. I swear that those parents of his should be in jail. They're either yelling at him or
ignoring him. If I was 18 I would go and beat the shit out of them! I want to go put his dad in his place. Oh sorry just pisses me off the way they treat him. I know you're
thinking that I would go to jail and doesn't that bother me. Well actually no I've been in so many times that it doesn't anymore. Anyhow Johnny wouldn't talk for a month after
that. Then one day it was like someone turned on the light we were all coming home from the gas station that Soda and Pony's dad worked at. I went into the Curtis's house and
there Johnny was talking to Pony. I was real happy to see him talking again. I just wish that he could have come and talked to me, but I guess at least he started talking to
someone again. And now since Pony left Johnny's started acting like he did after the socs beat him up. Wish he would talk to me. I try to talk to him but he won't talk to me. I've learned that you can't make a person talk as much as you might want to. Johnny's like the little bro I never had, but if you tell anyone I said that I'll beat the shit out of you!