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Thx to anyone who reviewed!!! Your reviews make me so happy! I also want to say thx to ali101 for taking time to help me with my grammar and pointing out mistakes so I know for next time, hopefully this chapter will have all of the things you pointed out fixed! :) This chapter is in Sodapops POV
I watched my older brother slump over to the front desk to ask about a phone and I realized just how guilty he felt right now. I'll comfort him later I thought to myself after realizing that I was in no condition to be comforting him. I was so shaky that I had a feeling that me comforting Darry at the moment wouldn't be of any help. I heard him sit back down beside me and out of the corner of my eye I saw him put his head in his hands. For once I was at loss of words, I had no idea what to do or say, we both sat in an awkward silence.
After about 15 minutes of total silence, we heard the squeaks of shoes running across the hospital tile and rushed voices. Darry took his head out of his hands and looked up, probably just as curious as I was as to what the commotion was. As the voices neared I recognized them almost instantly. The gang was here I thought as relief washed over me. Just as the thought came into my head, the door burst open and the gang appeared before us.
"Is the kid okay!? After you phoned I went and gathered everyone up and headed straight here!" Two-Bit said panting for breath due to running through the hospital "Darry just said that he hit Pony an' he fell an' broke his arm. Is he okay!?"
"We don't know," Was my quiet response
"Why don't you know Soda? It's just a broken arm, not like he'll die or nothin'" was Steve's response, I knew he was trying to comfort me, but he didn't know how bad the circumstances were. Steve saying this calmed me down a little... Before I remembered what Pony had looked like while being carried away on the stretcher. I felt all the color drain from my face as I remembered the horrid incident.
"He... he went into shock and had to be rushed into emergency surgery," Darry responded before I had the chance, his voice was husky from trying to hold back tears and more quiet than his usual strong, low voice. I knew he would break pretty soon.
The whole gang had paled when they heard this and Steve's mouth popped open in shock. Darry took one look at everybody and burst into tears. If it hadn't been such a serous matter I would have laughed because, lets face it, a big muscular guy like Darry bawling like a baby? It's pretty funny. Instead, I put an arm around him.
"It's a-all m-my f-f-fault," He managed to choke out between sobs. Thats when Johnny spoke up, He had been standing the farthest away from everyone and now took a step forward.
"It's not your fault Darry, you let your anger get the best of you and weren't really yourself," Johnny's voice was stern and it shocked me a little. He had never been one to take control in situations such as these.
A doctor then opened the door to the waiting room.
"Relations to Ponyboy Curtis?" The doctor said. He was a short man with red hair and a bald patch on the back of his head, with bright blue eyes. He was decked out in green scrubs.
We all stood when we heard this and the man seemed overwhelmed. Darry, seeming to have gained back his control and took a step towards the doctor.
"I'm his eldest brother sir, Darry Curtis" He stuck out his hand for the man to shake. The man shook his hand before beginning to speak.
"oh, um, I'm , your brother is, um, in surgery but, um, I was sent to ask you a few question about how this, um, incident happened," He said, looking nervous, eyes shifting around looking at all of us.
"Ask away," I said, realizing that there was no way out of this.
"Um, okay, were you all witnesses of the accident?" He asked, seeming less nervous than before now that he knew he had our permission to interrogate us.
"Yes," I responded nice and firm, Don't get me wrong, it's not like I wanted to lie, it's just that in these kind situations the more witnesses, the better.
"Oh, OK, How did he break his arm?"
"He fell," This time it was Johnny who spoke up
The questioning went on for at least 20 minutes and then he decided to give us a lecture of what shock was and how it was caused. I love Ponyboy, he's my brother and according to this Roberts guy that meant I needed to know about shock. I strongly disagree. 45 minutes later, Roberts was still talking and I was bored as hell. I looked around and saw Dally was sleeping (along with Johnny and Steve). Darry was pretending to listen politely, but I could see that everything that this guy was saying was going in one ear and out the other and Two-Bit.... Had found a non-permanent marker and was now taking the opportunity to draw a mustache on Steve. He was caught in the act though when Steve woke, up and I stifled a laugh. Roberts looked at me (and I was pretty sure he was about to start a new lecture about respect) when the intercom came on telling him that he needed to see one of his patients. As he scurried away, everyone let out a sigh of relief (Steve made such a commotion of washing off the marker that everyone woke up).
"That was so boring that it was scary," Dally announced
"You fell asleep in the first ten minuets of it, I had to pretend to be interested," argued Darry.
"Guys, it's like 4:00 in the morning don't you think you could keep it down for a little while so those of us that want to sleep can?", Johnny groaned sleepily.
After that, silence. I tried to stay awake, but soon succumbed to sleep.
So there you have it, ch3, please review! I also love suggestions on how to improve!
Thx Artemis for editing to make sure I didn't screw up too much XD
