Darry's POV

Brianna kept Ponyboy and me busy during the evening while Soda went to school. She just couldn't sit still. She had to explore everything in sight and in reach. And she was no longer confined to just the living room, so one of us had to keep an eye on her at all times. If we didn't there's no telling what could happen.

"Where are you going, Brianna?" I asked as she walked past me. She stopped long enough to look at me and continued to walk away. I sighed and got up to follow her. The previous day, she had unrolled an entire roll of toilet paper and got it all over the house. "Brianna, what are you doing?"

I followed her to her room where she started pulling toys out of her toy box and threw them on the floor.

"Do you want to play?" I knelt down and watched her. After a minute, I picked up one of the toys and tried to distract her with it. "Let's play with your stacking toy."

Brianna watched me for a minute, then got up and left the room.

"Hey, Brianna." I heard Pony say, he had been in his room doing homework. Now he stood in the door way looking at me and trying not to laugh. "Darry, that's Brianna's toy."

"I know that. I was trying to get her to sit still and play with it. Can you go see what she's up to before she ends up toilet papering the house again?" I said as I started putting the toys away.

Ponyboy's POV

"Hey, short stuff." I said, finding Brianna in my room, trying to climb on the chair at my desk. "What do you think you're doing?"

"Daddy?" Brianna looked at me.

"Daddy's at school. Come on, lets go play in the living room." I suggested, picking her up and carrying her out of the room. I decided to put her on the rocking horse hoping she'd stay on it longer than a minute. No such luck. After a few seconds, she wanted to get off. "You are just like your father, do you know that?"

"Pony, Soda can sit still on a horse." Darry told me entering the living room.

"You know what I mean. Where did she go?" I asked.

"Back to your room, kiddo." Darry replied. "You better go get her before she starts tearing the room apart."

"I'm going. I'm going." I mumbled. When I got back to my room, Brianna was sitting on the floor, happily coloring on her face with one of my markers which she must have managed to pull off of the desk.

Brianna grinned when she saw me. Her face had blue marker all over it.

"Hey, Darry?" I called.

"What, did she tear apart a homework assignment?" Was the reply.

"No, but she got hold of one of my markers." I yelled back.

Darry's POV

I shook my head and walked to Pony's room. When I got there, I saw that Pony was right.

"Take the marker from her, I'll go start her bath." I sighed.

A few minutes later, I was trying to wash the marker off of Brianna. During her bath, Soda returned home.

"Hey, what happened?" Soda asked when he saw his daughter's blue face.

"She got a hold of one of Pony's markers." I explained.

"She didn't get it in her mouth, did she?" Was the next question.

"No, I already checked. I think Pony caught her before she could color on anything else." I replied. "Do you want to finish giving her her bath?"

"Sure." Soda said as we switched places. I left him alone with Brianna to get the marker washed off her face.

Soda's POV

"Did you find one of uncle Pony's markers?" I asked Brianna.

Brianna just splashed water at me.

"You have a blue face." I told her.

It took a few minutes to get all the marker off. But once she was clean, I dried her off and got her ready for bed.

"Well, look who's back to normal." Ponyboy commented when I brough Brianna in the living room to say good night to him and Darry. He took her from me and gave her a hug and kiss, then handed her over to Darry who did the same.

"Let's put you to bed. It sounds like you had a busy day." I said to Brianna as I walked her to her room. Once we were in her room, I sat with her in the rocking chair and read to her until she fell asleep. Sometimes, I sing to her. but, she likes hearing a story before she goes to sleep. It's something Pony had told me since he and Darry usually put her to bed if I'm not home. As soon as she was sound asleep, I laid her in her crib, and silently left the room.