The Outsiders one shots (cause why not)

DMV photo one shot

Pony was really exited to get his drivers license photo taken. He spent a whole hour on just making his hair perfect, and hiding his small zit on his forehead. Then he spent another half hour deciding what shirt he wanted to wear. Then another half hour finding the perfect way to smile. He wanted it to be the best picture of him ever. Dally and Two Bit made fun of him, even though they both had done very similar things when they had their first DMV photos taken. Pony had never seen their first DMV photos, but he was sure they were perfect.

When he finally decided he was ready, he carefully made his way towards the DMV. Suddenly, a blue mustang pulls up beside him. "Oh no." He thought. "Not today!" Four socs got out and jumped him. The details were blurry, but when they left, Pony was a mess. His shirt was torn and muddy, his face was cut, his hair was messed up, and he had a black eye. He looked at his watch. Oh crap. It was already 2:17. He was scheduled to get his picture taken in three minutes. He ran to the DMV no matter how much it hurt. He got onto the stool just in time."Ponyboy Curtis?" The lady says.

"yeah." He tries to fix his hair, but the lady takes the picture before he was ready and it came out ugly. It looked like he'd just been in a car accident. "hay, ya think you could take it again?" He asks.

"you'd have to take the drivers test again."

"no thanks." He had barely passed the driving test because he was so nervous. He didn't think he could manage that again. He took his brand new drivers license without even looking at it. He put it in his pocket and walked out the door, where he met Cherry and Randy. They were his friends. They might be socs, but they were greasers at heart and didn't care who knew it.

"how'd it go?" Asks Cherry as if the 'photo shoot' was very dangerous.

"terrible."

Randy put his arm around Pony's shoulder. "It's alright. You've always got next year!"

"no one looks good in their very first DMV photo." Says Cherry. She digs around in her purse and finds her old drivers license. "This was my first one. I fell off my bike and into a ditch."

pony looked at the picture and couldn't help laughing. Cherry's hair had puffed out in all directions with leaves tangled within. Her makeup was smeared everywhere and she generally looked pissed.

Randy pulls his out of his pocket. "Here's mine. I had stayed up all night trying to look perfect."

Piny laughed at this one too. Randy was sound asleep. Mouth open and drool leaking down his cheek.

then Pony showed them his.

"yikes!" Says Cherry. "Well now you'll have a story to tell."

Randy pats Pony's back as he branches off down his street.

Pony waved bye to his friends as he jogged to his house.

the gang was in the living room in their regular positions when he came in.

"golly Pony! Are you alright?" Darry rushes over to him and examines him.

"I'm fine." Replies Pony. The pain had dulled down. "Unfortunately, the socs couldn't wait until after I got my picture taken." he took out his drivers license and showed everyone.

"wow."

"oh my god."

"ouch."

"yikes."

"I know. It's bad." Pony puts his license back in his pocket and sits down between Johnny and Dally.

"C'mon Pone. It ain't that bad." Says Johnny.

"yeah." Dally digs his hands in his pockets awkwardly until he pulls out a small plastic square. "This is my first DMV photo."

Pony looked and chuckled. "They caught ya mid-sneeze!"

"This was mine!" Johnny shows Pony his first drivers license. In the picture he looked very distracted. He hadn't smiled and had looked fearfully somewhere behind the camera. As if the socs had shown up right as the picture was being taken.

"mine wasn't so great either." Darry says as he digs through some drawer. "I'll show ya if I can find it.........."

Soda looks at Johnny and Dally's old photos and chuckles. "Those are pretty bad. but mine was worse." He hangs over and shows them his old one. This one was creepy. He was looking up and his eyes were rolled up in his head like he was fainting. "The hot chick taking it had just given me her number. I fainted, but I couldn't tell ya why."

"here we are!" Darry pulls his old license from a drawer and shows it to the guys.

Everyone laughed because it was just too hysterical. Darry had popped gum all over his face, so it was a bright pink. He had a look of surprise on his face.

Two Bot pulled his out and stared at it for a few seconds before showing it to the guys. in the picture he was smiling so hard, he looked like the joker. It looked incredibly satanic. Like the stuff nightmares were made of. And the cut on the side of his face wasn't helping. This made everyone kinda nervous as they backed away from Two Bit slightly.

"Hey Steve!" Calls Soda. "What about yours?"

Steve shook his head. "No. It's terrible."

"so are ours." Says Pony.

"fine." Steve pulls his out of his pocket. "Here." He throws it on the table and looks away.

his picture was really more embarrassing than anything else. Steve had been red faced and crying. Tears streaming down his cheeks.

"I got stung by a hornet, okay?" Steve says as he slips the plastic square back into his pocket.

"why do you guys carry your first drivers licenses with you?" Pony asks.

"'cause it's a story to tell people. And to remind us that our future licenses pcan never be as bad as our first." Says Johnny.

the rest of the guys nod.