Change can be good

Summary: Ponyboy goes off to college with a scholarship but what happens in College?

Disclaimer: I don't own the outsiders. I only own Malvina(Mally), Jason, Jamie, and Maddie. I also own Katie, Kayla, Sam, and Nancy.

Chapter 5:

Ponyboy POV:

The ride to the house was pretty interesting, I found out that Dally and Sylvia had, had a kid last year. His name's Mason apparently. Dally and Sylvia weren't planning on getting married, but the whole gang thinks that they will in the next year or so. Over the nest few weeks the gang helped Darry and Kayla get ready for their wedding, which was set for June 6, and then we started on Soda and Katie's, theirs was set for Aug 10. It felt a little weird being around the gang, I felt a little out of place, everyone was happy and everything and I was only pretending to be happy. I was happy to be with the gang, don't get me wrong, but being around all of them with their girlfriends, just made me realize that I missed Jamie more than I thought.

Darry's wedding day was a little hectic. We were all in our house trying to get ready and Darry and Kayla couldn't see each other before the wedding(a myth that Soda heard somewhere) so we were trying to keep them away from each other the whole time, which was a little hard considering that the house was so small. But we ended up getting through it. Soda and I were Darry's best men, and Katie and Angie Shepard (apparently she and Kayla were good friends) were Kayla's bridesmaids.

At the after party thingy, the whole gang was dancing with their girls. Darry looked really happy, Soda said that the only thing that could probably make this day better for him was if mom and dad had been there, and when I asked him why that he said 'because… you're off in college making something of yourself, he has a good, stable job finally, me and Steve own the DX now, and he's got Kayla'.

I ended up dancing with Angie and talking with her a lot during the after party, somehow I ended up asking her out on a date. I was relieved when she said that she'd love to go out with me, and we made a date for that weekend.

"told you that Angie was a good match for ya." Sylvia said when we were back at the house. We were all sitting in the living room talking, Soda was sitting on the couch with Katie in his lap, Darry was in his armchair with Kayla on his lap, and Steve and Evie were sitting on the floor, Two-Bit and Sam took up the other part of the couch, Johnny and Nancy were sitting on the other couch with Dally and Sylvia who was holding their one year old son.

"whatcha talking bout?" Steve asked.

"you didn't notice that they danced together during the whole after party?" Dally had to point out.

"ya. You two seemed to be getting pretty close." Two-Bit joked.

"did you ask her out?" Johnny asked, he must have seen the smile I was trying to hide.

"ya." I said trying to sound casual.

"and, what's she say?" Darry asked me.

"well… lets just say, I won't be home since 8 on Saturday night." I said with a smile on my face. It was probably the happiest I'd been since Jamie dumped me that one night.

"YES! My baby brother has a date with Angie Shepard!" Soda yelled.

"are you sure that that's a good thing?" Steve said. "I mean you know what Angie's like. She's practically slept with half the greasers in Tulsa."

"that doesn't mean that Pony's gotta do anything with her." Kayla said.

"ya, plus it's not like I haven't done nothing with any girl before." I said.

"ALRIGHT PONYBOY!" Two-Bit shouted.

We spent the rest of the night talking and playing poker, pretty much any normal night at the Curtis house. And before I knew it, it was Saturday night and I was getting ready for my date with Angie.

"come on Pone, we wanna see ya before you leave." Soda shouted from the living room.

"alright, alright! God, y'all are acting like this is my first date ever." I said as I came into the living room.

"well, well, welly, well, well. Don't you look dandy." Soda joked. I laughed at his remark and left the house.

The night went considerably well, I took Angie to the Dingo, and then to a movie. When I dropped her off at her house we ended up kissing for what seemed like forever. When we finally pulled apart I watched her get into her apartment and walked to my car.

Sorry for another short chapter, but I couldn't think of anything to add and I wanted to post a new chapter tonight. Anyways next chapter will be up soon, please R&R in the meantime.:)