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: 7?

Sodapop's P.O.V.

My 4th of July started off boring. All I did was watch a bunch of grown adults get drunk out of their minds. So I decided to go over to my friend's house. I've known him for three

weeks. He told me that if I wanted to come over that I could, so I went to his house to watch the fireworks. It wasn't the same as it is back home. We'd be shooting off fireworks until midnight.

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(laughing really hard) One time Darry shot off fireworks until two in the morning. The cops came and told him that he had to quite because they were getting complaints from

the neighbors. What was really happening was Steve, Pony, Two-Bit, Johnny and I were calling the cops acting like different people and complaining about the noise. We got so

busted for it. My mom walked into the house and she heard us calling the cops and complaining about the noise. We all got grounded for six months for that. On that note I

should say that Johnny got into trouble but my mom didn't say anything to his parents because one time she told his dad what Pony and him did and for it he ended up with a

black eye and broken arm. My mom didn't tell him anything that Johnny did after that. She did call social services but when they came out to see what was going on his father

took off. She called them four or five times but every time his father was gone and Johnny wouldn't turn them in because he didn't want to end up in some boys' home. See

his mother did hit him but not as badly as his dad did. It's a good thing that Dally turns 18 this year, then he can go and get Johnny. See Johnny's like the little bro that Dally's never had. Sorry I have a habit of getting off track like Pony. For the firework prank my father thought that it was funny because it

reminded him of what he did to his brother when he was younger. Darry got so pissed when he found out but he ended up laughing about it too.

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It happened four years ago this year. For this year's prank Pony, Dally, Two-Bit, Steve and I were going to get those fireworks that are really bright and light them off in front of

Darry's room after he went to sleep. Yes we always have to pull the prank on Darry. We start planning for the prank at the beginning of the year. But we never got to put plan into action.

3 days later

I got Pony's letter today. And surprising I got a letter from Darry too. He said that he was sorry for what he did and that he hoped that I could understand why he did it and he

asked how Pony and I were. I wrote back and told him that I would never understand and if he wanted to know how Pony was he had to write and ask him himself. I was happy to hear from Pony.

Pony,

I don't know if Darry will write you but he did me. He said that he was sorry for what he did and hoped that I understand why he did what he did. He wanted to know how you were. I told him that if he wanted to know then he had to write you and ask you himself. I didn't know that Pam and Steve knew Steve and Elisa. I'll try to see why they weren't invited. My fourth was boring at first. I have a friend named Cory, he invited me to come watch the fireworks at his house so I did. It wasn't the same as it is at home. Hope to see you before the summer is up. When do you start back to school? We start the second to last week of August.

Sodapop Curtis