The After Fire (Johnnyboy)

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Johnny's POV

Its been a couple of weeks since me and Ponyboy got to my old house. Ponyboy's been getting hangry because we been getting low on food. We've been getting in a lot of fights recently and it honestly sucks, I try to be patient with him knowing he doesn't mean it.

"Hey Pone how are you?" I ask, standing behind the couch, wrapping my arms around his shoulders.

"Im fine." Pony spat out, pushing my arms off of him, crossing his arms.

"Pony you can talk to me," I say, sitting down next to him.

"No! Get away from me! I thought this was gonna be amazing, but its not! All you ever to is bother me, I want some alone time!" Pony yelled, shooting up walking to the bedroom.

"Pone, just talk to me I understand you're angry, but please dont take it out on me," I said.

"Im fucking tired of your bull shit! Get the hell away from me I cant take it anymore!" Ponyboy yelled, running out the house.

A/N deja vu 🤨

I wanted to run after him to apologize, but I just couldnt move from the couch. He'll come back I told myself, he'll come back.

Ponyboy's POV

I ran out of the house I was just so angry. I shouldnt be, Johnny gives me his food and he gets skinnier by the days. I ran a couple more blocks and stopped in an abandoned alleyway.

I slid down the wall and burst into tears. I messed up bad.

A/N no shit Pony 🙄

After a couple minutes, I stood up and started walking back to Johnny's house. Something hit me, I need to go home. I don't know why I just have this feeling.

I start sprinting over to Johnny's house and in a short time I made it.

The house was in flames.

My eyes widened in fear. Not again.

I ran in the house I hope Johnnys okay.

"Johnny!" I scream, in desperate hope to find him.

I spent a good amount of time trying to find him. I looked everywhere and that's when I realized he wasn't in there.

"Pony!" I heard him scream from outside.

I curse to myself and try to run out but something's blocking the door. Next thing I know my vision went blurry.

Johnnys POV

The house collapsed on him. Oh. My. Gosh. Its all my fault.

I sprinted over and moved the boards off his body. I dragged him out, struggling. I started screaming for help.

After screaming for a while I gave up. Its time to go home. I pulled him up, putting his arms around my shoulders and dragged him to the train.

The train ride was horrible. Pony's limp body was in my arms. All I could think was, please don't be dead. I kept repeating that over and over.

We made it back to Tulsa and I practically dragged him back to his house. I knocked on the door and laid him gently down on the porch.

Soda looked up and saw me, he spirited to the door.

"Johnny! Oh my god... what happened to Pony.." Soda picked him up and laid him on the couch. "Darry come quick!" Darry came running in the room. His eyes widened at the sight of his little brother.

"This is all my fault.." Darry put his head in his hands. "Johnny let me talk to you real quick."

A/N
578 words 😨😨 sorry this is shorter then usual I just had to get a chapter out 😭😭 Also Im so sorry for the delay Ive been busy trying to get edits out on my tiktok and with the school year coming to an end soon the work has been crazy😋 Ill try updating more often 🤨Let me know how you guys are liking this story and ideas are always welcome 😨 have a good day or night 🫶