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. But I do own everyone else.
Chapter 19:
Pony POV:
"What?!" I was outraged to say the least.
"It's for the best. It's obvious that Malvina doesn't want to live with her mother and you aren't a good enough guardian." The judge said. She seemed pretty calm for the fact that Jaime had broken down crying, I was pretty much spitting nails at her, the gang was furious and Mally was crying too.
"Mr. Curtis is the perfect guardian." My lawyer argued.
"We have reason to believe that he beats his daughter." She simply stated.
"What? Where the hell did you come up with that?" Dally spat from behind me. I looked over at John who had a smug smile on, even though he had just lost. Then all of a sudden it all clicked together, John had told the judge I had beaten Mally.
"I've never laid a hand on her, just ask her!" I yelled. Darry put a hand n my shoulder, trying to keep me from going over and punching the judge in the face. I could see the judge sigh, as if taking it into consideration and then nod her head. She took Mally from the bailiff and took her into the other room again.
Mally POV:
The judge took me to the other room again and asked if daddy had ever hit me.
"Malvina? I know it's hard but I need you to calm down, and tell me if your daddy has ever hit you." She asked, trying to be nice and sweet but she was frustrated and it came out in her voice. I just shook my head no, seeing as I couldn't stop the tears.
"He hasn't?" I just shook my head again.
"Are you sure?" this time I nodded.
"Not…. Even… after me and … and Mason broke his… trophy." I told her as tried to calm down. I knew it was my fault this had happened in the first place. I hadn't told I wanted to live with daddy, I had whispered that I guessed I wanted to live with him.
"Has anyone ever hit you? Or beaten you?" She asked. I nodded my head.
"Who?"
"Mr. John."
"Mr. Fletcher?" she asked and I nodded my head.
"When?" She asked.
"When I had to stay with them."
"Do you remember why? Did he give you a reason?" she asked and I nodded.
"What was it?" she asked.
"I wanted to call my daddy in the middle of the night." I told her.
"So he hit you cause you wanted to call someone?" she asked, and I nodded.
"Alright, come with me sweetie." She said as I followed her back to the court room. When we came in I had to stay with her. When we came John was trying to get my mom to stop crying and uncle Darry and daddy's lawyer were trying reason with daddy. I wanted to run to daddy and tell him it was all my fault but I couldn't. instead I started crying again. If the judge hadn't changed her mind, my daddy would be sad forever and I'd never see him again and it'd all be my fault.
Pony POV:
"Ponyboy if you don't calm down whatever John told them they might begin to really believe no matter what Mally tells them." Darry told me. Darry and my lawyer were both trying to calm me down. The rest of the gang was pretty much working on calming themselves down. Just then the judge came back with Mally beside her, and I saw Mally burst into tears again when she saw me. my heart broke every time I saw another tear come down her face.
"QUIET!" the judge said, and everyone shut up. "I have decided that sole custody of Malvina Linda Curtis will, in fact, be granted to Mr. Curtis…" the whole gang started to shout and whoop as Mally ran over to me.
"And Mr. Fletcher, I sentence you to 1 year in jail and 1 year house arrest for child abuse." She finished, and left the court room while the bailiff went over to John and put handcuffs on him. Jaime was hysterical, she was crying cause she lost Mally and because her husband was going to jail, it most certainly wasn't one of her best days.
"Alright Ponyboy!" Two-Bit shouted. I just stood there hugging Mally as she cried into my neck. I wondered why she was crying but I let it go and just decided that it was probably because she was so overwhelmed.
And just as I had promised Mally, the gang and us went out for a late lunch. It was already 2:00 by the time we got our food and by now Mally had calmed down. She and Mason were having a straw wrappers sword fight while everyone talked. After the lunch Soda thought that we should play a football game to celebrate the occasion so we all drove over to the lot and played football while the kids played tag. The teams were Darry, me, Johnny, and Jason, against Dally, Two-Bit, Steve and Soda. Steve and Soda wanted to be on the same team so they could try out their new 'brilliant idea' on how to win. Of course it didn't help seeing as my team was winning 14 to 8.
The girls had decided to go to the house and start dinner, Darry had insisted that we all stay at the Curtis house for the night. While we were taking a break I looked over at the kids who were now sitting on the abandoned couch, watching us play.
"Alright let's go up to 16, cause we should be going back soon." Steve announced.
"Come on! You just wanna quit cause your team's losing." Darry teased but we ended up agreeing.
It was our ball this time, Darry passed me the ball, I caught it and threw it to Johnny who scored our next touchdown.
"Steve I told you to cover Johnny!" Dally screamed.
"I tried, the kid's hard to keep an eye on!" Steve complained.
"Come on! Let's finish the game before the kids fall asleep." I said.
This time Dally's team had the ball, Steve threw it to Soda but I intercepted the throw and threw the ball to Jason who threw it to Darry, who scored the winning touchdown.
"YES!"
"AWWWW, COME ON!" Steve complained.
"Not fair you had Darry and Pony on your team! Darry's the football star and Pony's the fastest runner from the whole gang." Two-Bit whined.
"You're just jealous cause you lost." Johnny said.
"Come on, let's get to the house before the girls go mad." I laughed.
Hey! Here's my next chapter, I'm trying to update as much as I possibly can now. My grandparents are coming on Tuesday so I'll probably have at least one more chapter up but then I'm not sure how it'll go. Please R&R.:)