Ponyboy's Point of View
The car ride home with Darry was the longest and the most awkward thing I have done in a long time. I had a massive hangover from drinking and the cocaine of the night before hand. Neither of us knew what to say, he was really angry of my behavior but at the same time extremely happy that I was coming home for good, I guess he didn't know how to handle this. I didn't want to say anything to him, why should I? He and Soda abandoned me in my mind.
"We've really missed you Pony, I can't tell you how rough this has been on all of us back home." Softly said Darry as his voice choked, he was probably fighting to cry. I didn't say anything in return, I just turned away from him more-so and looked out the window. Darry must have seen my lack of excitement of coming home. "Pony what's wrong?" Asked Darry. "Nothing" I replied sharply as I continued to look outside at the passing trees. Darry looked at me again apprehensively before looking back onto the road.
We arrived outside of our house finally and I opened the door, afraid of what I was going to come across. I immediately realized that I was letting my guard down by being afraid, so I pushed that feeling away and let my soul feel empty again, empty meant that I could not be harmed for I couldn't feel any emotion. I grabbed my bag of my clothes and shut the door to Darry's truck. Darry was grabbing all the paper work that was given to him at the Police Station after he got me out of the cell, he had to fill everything out to become my legal guardian again. I walked up to our old wire fence and opened it slowly, Darry was soon behind me. We walked up the front steps and I turned the door handle.
Soda's point of view: omg I want a Soda right now hehe (does that count as a pun?)
I was playing cards with Steve, Darry said he had to go out for a while but wouldn't tell us why. Maybe he's meeting with a girl? I donno. Man it sure is quiet around here without Ponyboy, I sure miss that kid. It's been forever since I saw him. Steve was convinced that I was cheating so I challenged him to an arm wrestling match to see who won. I was just about to pin Steve's arm when the door opened. My strength let go as Steve slammed my arm against the table. I didn't care, my eyes were on the person standing in the doorway, Ponyboy. At first I couldn't believe it, I thought that my eyes were just messing with me. After I realized that he was actually standing in front of me, I let go of Steve's arm and rushed towards Ponyboy. I engulfed Pony in a hug that was stronger than I ever have before, "Ponyboy I've missed you so much" I cried into his hair as I hugged him only tighter. I didn't feel him hugging back, I looked up and Darry was standing in the doorway behind him having a grim look on his face. I looked down at Ponyboy who didn't seem to have any reaction to being home. "Ponyboy? What's wrong? Aren't you glad to be home?" I asked him looking into his eyes. He only glared back at me, that kid may be nothing like Darry with his personality, but man if he wanted to he could sure give the same mean cold hard stare that could scare anyone off. His eyes were like ice towards me, and he use to always come to me with anything, now he wouldn't even hug me after over 3 months apart. It was then that I noticed the bruises, cuts and wounds all over his body. He had a large bruise imprint on his cheek. "Ponyboy what happened to you? What happened to your cheek?" I asked worriedly. Ponyboy turned his eyes away from me and look in the opposite direction hiding his cheek from my vision. His eyes looked watery for a split second like he was going to cry, but they disappeared after a single blink and his same cold stare came back. I gently grabbed his chin and forced him to look at me. "Ponyboy, what happened to you?" I asked more sternly.
Ponyboy's Point of View
Soda grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him. "Ponyboy, what happened to you?" He asked me more sternly. I didn't know what to say so I just snapped "Nothing! It's none of your business what happened to me! Why would you care what happened? You left me for the last 3 months and now that I'm back home you pretend to care about me?" I screamed at the top of my lungs. The whole gang who I noticed was in our living room, only about 20 feet away from me and could hear everything, Soda looked uncertain of what to do and he looked from Darry to me. "Ponyboy, we didn't" Soda began but I cut him off. "You didn't care about me before and you sure as hell don't care about me now so just leave me alone!" I hollered. I walked away from my brothers and the gang and towards my bedroom.