Ponyboy Michael Curtis - Blog Posts

Soda: Hey are we- stop screaming, its just me- are we out of cereal?

Pony: I'M IN THE SHOWER!!!!

Soda: Okay.... but are we out of cereal?

A wee bit of drawing practice

Sis: hey! Do you know wher-w, what are you reading?

Me: the outsiders.

Sis: what are you watching?

Me: the outsiders.

Sis: what are you listening to?

Me: ...the outsiders.

Sodapop: do you think I could fit 15 marshmallows in my mouth?

Darry: you're a hazard to society.

Ponyboy (not looking up from his book): and a coward, do twenty.

What if Ponyboy and Sodapop were younger. Soda would be in his sophomore year, and Pony would be in 8th grade (skipped his 7th grade year). Soda would come home and tell Pony all about his day, from girls to sports to studies. Soda would constantly tell him that when Pony gets to high school with him, Soda would show him around and teach him everything there is to know. But as Pony went into high school the following year, Soda had to drop out to help Darry with the bills. So, one of the things that Pony had to look forwards in school, just, disappeared. He tried once to bring it up with Soda, tried to tell him about when they were younger and how Soda would make that promise to him. "Really? Wow man, I can't remember a thing past freshman year." And Soda would get up and leave, probably going with Steve somewhere. Some part of Pony left him that day, but he couldn't place it on what caused it. Either the guilt of Sodas past and present and future, the saddness of his own future, the fear of being left behind, or the dread of knowing that things will never be the same- of never going back to when times were good. But if that didn't leave a mark, the glare that Steve sent Pony (a mix between 'don't try to follow us,' and of Steve knowing that soda just left his brother for him) definitely did.