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Ch. 3...............................

Sodapops P.O.V.

We've been waiting on news from Hayden for about two hours now. We just sat there in silence, wondering what could be wrong with her.

"Curtis" asked a female nurse.

"Is she ok?" Darry blurted out.

The nurse set down in the seats in front of us.

"Yes she will be perfectly fine"

"Well then whats wrong with her?" Ponyboy asked.

"Well, she has a few deep cuts that had to have some stitches, but the main problem was her left lung had collapsed due to a broken rib. So we had to incert a chest tube into her side, to reinflate it." She said

"Whats a chest tube? I asked

"All it is, is a small tube incerted between her ribs and into her lung. It can be taken out whenever we've seen some improvement."

"Shes still asleep but she should be waking up any time now." The nurse finished.

"Can we see her?" Asked Pony

The nurse nodded and told us what room she was in. We all three imediantly got up and headed for her room.

"Boys" The nurse said, and we all turned around to look at her.

"Shes a very lucky girl, you know, and shes very lucky that you had brought her in when you had."

We all had a confused look on our face.

"What do you mean?" Darry said.

"Well if you hadn't of came in when you did, she probably wouldn't of made it through the night."

"How so?" asked Pony

"Well she only had one lung working and her heart rate keep increasing and she would have had heart attack in her sleep." she said

"Oh thank the good lord above" I said to myself. "Were so lucky we brung her in."

"Thank you" Darry said

"No problem, just remember worse things could have happened to her." and with that she left.

"I shivered at the thought. When I looked up at my brothers Ponyboy had shed a tear and Darry look worried. I put my arm around them as we headed for Haydens room.

Ponyboys P.O.V

When I entered Haydens room with Soda and Darry right behind me. I looked around. The room was pretty small, Hayden was laying down still sound asleep. She looked more confortable and better than she did before. She had a black eye and a bandage on the side of her face. I could see the chest tube in her side, it connected to something in the floor.

I walked up to her bed side and grabed her hand. She looked so fragile. Soda and Darry were on the other side of her bed.

"How could someone hurt her." I asked.

"I don't know Pony, but one ting is for sure. She will never go nowhere alone again. And I'm going to find them socs who did this to her." Darry said angerly.

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After a while Darry and Sodapop were sitting in old hospital chairs beside the door, and I was now sitting beside Hayden still holding her hand.

Later on I must have fallen asleep because I felt something squeeze my hand. I looked up meeting Haydens eyes.

"Hayden" I said softly

"Hi Pone"

I stood up and kissed her forehead and pushed some strands of hair out of her face.

"How are you feeling" I asked

"Soar........Where is Soda and Darry?

I looked over my shoulder were they were asleep.

"Soda, Darry guess whos awake."

Before I knew it, they were on her other side.

"Hi Honey, How are you doing?" Darry asked

"Good I guess...... a little soar though." she said weakly.

Well I hoped you like it and remember I ONLY wrote this story for fun and so please no flames, This story was only for my enjoyment. Please review .....thanks =)