Darry's Girl

Pony's POV

I woke up in the middle of the night and got out of bed to get a glass of water. I walked into the kitchen and saw a dark figure sitting at the kitchen table. I looked more closely and noticed that it was Darry. He looked up and attempted to smile but it didn't work. I sat down across from him. I didn't know what to say. I was glad Darry spoke.

"Pony I am so sorry"

"Darry what are you sorry for?" I said smiling. I remembered what Soda had said earlier we need to make him know that we are not mad at him for what he did and that we are there for him.

"Pony you can try to make me feel better about this but you can't!"

"Darry what happened? Why did you leave her?"

"What other choice did I have? To raise you two, a baby, have a wife, and try to keep food on the table? Pony how could I handle all that responsibility?"

"I understand" I did I had not thought about how hard it would be.

"I did love her, I didn't want to leave her I really loved her" Darry said with a single tear running down his cheek.

"Darry you did what you had to do if she didn't realize your position she will soon enough."

"How do you know?" he said

"Well the note did say see you soon" Darry put his head in his hands and started rubbing his temples. I didn't know how Darry felt but I knew that it must be pretty bad.

"What am I going to say to her? I left her when she was going to have my baby! I should have been there when she had it! She needed me! I feel like such an idiot!"

"Darry, why did you make her pregnant in the first place?"

"It was an accident of coarse I would never do that to her" I nodded.

"Pony are you mad at me?"

"No not at all" he smiled and this time it was a real smile. I smiled to and walked to bed.

"Good night Darry"

"Good night Ponyboy"

In the morning I woke up and turned over to see that Soda was already up. I glanced at the alarm clock and saw 6:30! The gang (or should I say Two-Bit and Steve since there is only two of them) wouldn't be here for about an hour! I got up put on my jeans and walked out into the living room and then I saw it Soda was on the floor with Anna and Anna was laughing! I looked over and saw Darry smiling. I smiled too as Soda looked up and said,

"Good morning Pony!" he made the funniest face I have ever seen him make and Anna howled with laughter. I went into the kitchen and poured myself some milk. Darry came in and said to me

"Soda is really good with babies" I laughed

"Yeah he's that kind of person" Darry nodded

"Uhm Darry? What are we going to tell the guys?" the smile that was on Darry's face vanished.

"The truth of coarse" I nodded he was right but I didn't know if they would understand.

It was 7:00 and I heard foot steps coming up the stairs. All of a sudden Soda jumped up and quietly ran to the door.

"Hey guys be quiet!" he said.

"Why Soda you know we can't be quiet" said Two-Bit trying to push Soda over. Soda did not move.

"Yeah what's up?" said Steve I could see that he was getting ticked off.

"Just come and see…quietly!" Two-Bit cocked his eyebrow and walked in and saw me on the floor with Anna.

"What the hell!" said Two-Bit. Anna started crying. Soda gave Two-Bit a nasty look and walked over and picked up Anna and started to rock her.

"Whose baby is that?" asked Steve. Darry looked down at his feet. And then said,

"Mine" the two boys stood there in total shock.

"What!" said Steve and then Soda told them the whole story from start to finish. After they sat there in total shock for a couple minutes until Steve said,

"Well I guess Superman aint Super is he?" we were all quiet. But I knew I had to say something.

"Of coarse he is he did it for us and the baby and Emily he had too much responsibility to have already he did them a favour!" they all sat there in shock. I am not the type to speak up like that. Darry smiled and mouthed thanks Pony I nodded.

It turns out that Two-Bit has the same way with children as Soda because both of them sat on the floor with Anna while she was giggling, it was quite a seen. Steve doesn't like kids so he sat there and looked at the baby miserably. We ate breakfast and Anna had some mashed bananas that Soda got for her. It was really funny watching him try to feed her, lets just say he had to change his shirt after. Anna really loved Soda. We all did.

I went and sat beside Darry. He smiled and said,

"Two-Bit seems to like her" he looked over as Two-Bit was sitting making funny faces and every once in a while you would hear this huge burst of laughter from Anna, Soda and Steve.

"She looks just like you." I said with a smile. He looked up and smiled the biggest smile I have ever seen.

"You think?" he asked

"Yeah except for the eyes…" and I was cut off

"There Emily's eyes" I nodded

"Anna is so beautiful" Darry said

Even though I liked the morning I knew that it would never be a typical morning in the Curtis's ever again.