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 7:
Pony POV:
A baby? No way! I couldn't be a father, not now! How could this be happening to me? what's the gang gonna say, much less think? What will Darry and Soda say?! Those questions were the only questions running through my mind as I picked up the basinet and brought it into my dorm room. I don't even know how to take care of a baby! Wait…does this dorm allow kids? Of course not! Great now I'm also gonna have to get an apartment, and I can't ask Darry and Soda to pay for it all, meaning I'm gonna have to get a job. But how do I take care of a baby and have a job and go to school? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This isn't going to work. Maybe if I just tell Soda and Darry about the baby then they'll understand and pay for most of the rent, and I'll just pay the bills, that way I don't have to work as much and I can actually take care of this baby. Wait! No, that won't work, cause I can't tell Darry or Soda.
At this point, I was making myself sick from all these negative thoughts, that only added up to one thing…I'M SCREWED!!
"waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" the baby started crying. Great, just what I need! I thought as I went over to my bed, where I had put the baby and tried to stop her from crying. Just tehn something hit me… I still had to name her. I, of course, wanted carry on the Curtis tradition of original names, so I named her Malvina (Mally for short).
Two months later:
Johnny POV:
I was at my apartment one night with Nancy, after a date, when the phone rang. I got up from the couch, where we had been watching a movie, and picked up the phone.
"hello?" I answered.
"JOHNNY! You gotta help me man, I'm dieing here!" it was Ponyboy, and he sounded nervous, and impatient.
"calm down Pone, what's going on?" I asked. not only did he sound nervous and impatient, but he also sounded frustrated, tired, and angry.
"I can't take it anymore! I thought I could handle it but I can't! it's impossible, I thought I'd take care of her and graduate college, get a job and show Darry that I could do it, but I can't! it's only been two months and I'm already dieing!" he replied.
"take care of what? Pony you need to be more clear."
"I'm a… a… a father, Johnny." He stammered out.
"WHAT?" I couldn't believe what he had just said! I mean when Dallas had told us a year and a half ago that Silvia was pregnant and it was his, we weren't that surprised. But Ponyboy a father?
"Jaime left cause she was pregnant, and when I came back from summer vacation there was a baby in front of my dorm room with a note saying it was mine. That's why I talked Darry into letting me get an apartment! I thought I could keep it a secret and graduate and come to Tulsa and surprise everyone, but it's been two months and I'm ready to go insane!" he explained.
"wow, Ponyboy I don't know what to say. Shouldn't you be talking to Soda and Darry about this?"
"no, I can't! I don't want them to know! I wanna do this the way I planned, I just need a week or so off!"
"Pony, I can't help you."
"why not?
"well, one cause I don't know nothing bout babies, and two I'm all the way in Tulsa."
"oh, ya. Man I'm really loosing it, aren't i?"
"what's the baby's name?"
"Malvina Linda Curtis. Jaime said she couldn't choose so I got to pick her name."
"original, I see."
"course, what else did you expect? Brittany, Mary, Katie, Amy, or something?" I laughed at how relaxed he sounded all of a sudden. It's as if as soon as he started to talk about her he forgot about his problems.
"I wonder what the gang will think."
"no! Johnny you have to promise that you won't tell them! I know that this is a hard secret to keep, especially from the gang, but you have to promise!"
"I dunno Pone…"
"please Johnny."
"alright, fine. But you'll owe me in two years when you graduate and move back to Tulsa." I said.
"thanks so much! I gotta go, Mally is starting to stir, bye Johnny."
Well there you go, like I said it's not very good, next chapter will be up a.s.a.p. but I can't guarantee soon cause I've got exams coming up so all my teachers are giving out extra homework. Next chapter will be two years ahead, when Mally is two and Ponyboy is graduating college, and yes Maddie, and Jason are still in the story I just didn't mention they in this chapter. Please R&R.:)