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 16: important author's note: Ponyboy works as a therapist specializing in loss(or death), not a English teacher. Sorry for the miss understanding!
Pony POV:
I had one night with Mally before she had to spend two and a half days and two nights with Jaime and her husband.
"Daddy?" Mally asked as I tucked her into bed.
"Ya baby?"
"Why do I keep having to go away?" she asked. I knew that this would come up eventually, I just hoped that she wouldn't be this young when it did.
"Well, you know Mrs. and Mr. Fletcher?" I asked her as I sat on the side of her bed. She nodded.
"Well, Mrs. Fletcher is your mommy."
"Why doesn't she live with us?"
"Because when you were born she didn't want a baby. She gave you to me and I took care of you all by myself."
"Why am I staying with her until Monday?" she had too many questions.
"Because she wants to take care of you know. And that judge that we saw today is going to decide if I get to raise you or if she does."
"Oh." She said and lay down. "Ok."
"Good night baby." I said as I kissed her on the forehead.
"Night daddy." I was at the door when she spoke up again.
"Daddy?"
"Ya?"
"I hope she decides that you should take care of me." she said, and I couldn't help but smile.
"Me too baby, me too." I told her. "Now go to bed, we gotta get up early tomorrow and get you over to your mom's."
"Ok."
I felt a little better, knowing that Mally was in her bed safe and sound for at least tonight. It wasn't too long after I fell asleep that I found myself waking up to Mally's screams. I was about to jump out of bed and run to Mally's room when she asked…
"Are you ok daddy?" I then realized that Mally hadn't been screaming because she was having a nightmare, she had been screaming because she was scared, and she had been scared because I had been screaming. I couldn't really remember my dream, but I do remember that Jaime, and her husband were doing something to Mally.
"Ya, I'll be fine baby. I just had a bad dream, is all."
"Like me?" Mally asked as she climbed into bed with me.
"Ya, just like you." I told her.
Mally POV: ( authors note: this is my first attempt at writing in a young child's POV so if it's sucky or lame( which it probably will be) don't be too hard on me.)
I woke up the next morning beside my daddy and I felt safe, like nothing or no one could hurt me. I always felt like that when I was with my daddy, but I soon realized I wouldn't feel like this for long. In about an hour I had to leave with daddy to go to mommy's house. I didn't want to go to my mom's house though, it was in the forbidden zone. At least that's what Mason and I call the socs. Thing was, now I might become one of the forbidden and I'd never see Mason or my family again.
"Morning baby girl." Daddy said when he woke up.
"Morning Daddy." I told him.
"How are you feeling today?" he asked as I started to get out of bed.
"Fine, I guess. What are we having for breakfast?" I asked.
"How bout some chocolate chip pancakes, chocolate cake, and chocolate milk?" he asked, knowing it was my favourite breakfast and his specialty.
"Ok." I said and went to watch cartoons, while my dad got dressed and made breakfast.
"Breakfast is ready!" my dad yelled from the kitchen.
We ate breakfast and then I had to get ready to go to my mom's. An hour later we were in the car heading to the 'forbidden' side of town. I found it kinda funny how as soon as you crossed the train tracks everything looked different. At our side of town it was old and beaten down looking, but here on the 'forbidden' side of town everything was nice, groomed and new looking.
"What's so funny?" my daddy asked me.
"Nothing." I told him, and he looked in the rear view mirror like he didn't believed me. he raised an eyebrow and smiled.
"Alright, if you say so." He said.
One of my favourite Elvis songs came on and I started to sing along to it the best I could when my daddy pulled up to a very nice, big, blue house.
"Well, looks like this is it." My daddy said as my mom and her husband came out of their house.
"Daddy I don't like it here, let me come home with you." I begged, even though I knew it wouldn't do any good.
"I'm sorry honey, but I can't. now come on, where's that little angel of mine that did anything and everything? You know, the one that was singing a few seconds ago." My dad smiled at me, but I just frowned.
"At home with Mason, her friends, and her aunts and uncles." I shot at him.
"now come on, you have to try this baby girl."
"No." I said.
"Can you do it for me?" I thought about it for a minute before saying…
"Ok." And getting out of the car.
"Ponyboy, how are you?" my mom asked daddy.
"I've been better." My daddy said as he glared at her.
"I can imagine." Mr. Fletcher said.
"I guess we'll see you on Monday then." My mom said, and I knew she was telling my dad to go already in a nice way.
"mhm." Daddy replied. He knelt down and looked at me.
"You be good ok? I'll see on Monday." He said.
"Ok."
"tell you what, how bout after we win that case on Monday, we go for a nice dinner with all your aunts and uncles?" daddy suggested.
"Can Angie come?" I asked. at first I didn't like how my daddy kept seeing her, but after I realized how happy he was when he was with her, I liked her a lot.
"Sure Mally Sally." My dad said, using a nickname that Mason made up a couple months ago, and I smiled.
"Come on inside Linda." Mr. Fletcher said.
"Her name's Malvina." My dad said standing up.
"Ya, ya, whatever. Come on." He said and practically pushed me inside.
"Don't forget your medicine." My daddy reminded me before my mom closed the door on him.
"come on baby, I'll show you your room." My mom said as she took my hand and walked me up the stairs to a VERY pink room. I liked pink, but only on some of my clothes and on some of my toys. I didn't really like the colour itself, when my daddy let me pick the colour for my room at home, I picked a very pretty bluey, turquoise that my daddy said was blue zircon.
"why don't you unpack, and get used to your room? I'll call you for lunch." She told me.
I looked around my room and felt sick, all that pink just made me dizzy. I took out a teddybear that my daddy had bought for me after the first time I heard the song 'Teddybear' by Elvis, and lay down on 'my' bed, thinking about home.
"Mally! Lunch!" My mom yelled from downstairs. I walked down the stairs and was met by my mom, who lead me to the dining room, where we ate lunch. After lunch I was told to go grab a jacket and after I did, we all (My mom, Mr. Fletcher, and Mac, Mr. Fletcher's son) went to a park. I didn't feel like doing much so I just sat on the swings and swung. I remember the day that my dad took me and Mason to the park and taught us how to swing. Before I knew it, a few hours later we were heading back. I was told to watch tv with Mac, until dinner was ready.
We ate Dinner at 7:00 so we finished around 8:00, after that I had to go get ready for bed, along with Mac because curfew was 9:00. I lay in my pink room which looked white in the moonlight, feeling sick and scared to fall asleep. Mac had been in my room, looking through my backpack and after he found my medicine he went and asked his dad what they were. His dad told my mom that I was to take sleeping pills and she threw them in the garbage saying that it was unhealthy for me to have such things, and that my daddy should have known better. Apparently my daddy had failed to mention my illness to them. I wasn't allowed to use the phone earlier but I couldn't fall asleep, I was scared and all I wanted was to hear my daddy's voice.
Everyone else was asleep already so I got up, out of bed and made my way downstairs to the kitchen where the phone was located. I picked up the receiver and dialled the home number. I waited and waited but there was no answer. I tried three more times before I decided that if I wasn't going to reach daddy, I could try to reach someone else. I wanted to call uncle Soda or uncle Darry, but I couldn't really remember their number so I settled on calling uncle Jason and aunt Maddie.
"Ringggggggggggggggggg."
"Hello?" Aunt Maddie asked on the other line.
I was about to answer when the line went dead, I jumped and screamed before realizing that Mac had caught me.
"DADDY!" Mac yelled, and I knew I was in trouble.
Sorry that it took me so long to update, but here it is. Hope you enjoyed it, and I'll try to update soon. Please R&R.:)