Darry and Soda were over the both of us.
"Willa, Pony?" they asked.
I sat up and the three of them hugged me. I let go of Pony and Soda and was on my feet. I walked a few feet away from them and was violently, but silently ill. The Socs had forced nasty alcohol down my throat. I didn't feel very hot, but I went back to them and said,
"Stupid bas- never mind. I need to go home."
"Can you walk home?" Soda said.
"No."
Soda picked me up and carried me home. He sat me on the couch and gave me a glass of water.
"Pony?" I mumbled.
"He's alright." Darry said. I slept on the couch, until morning. Darry sat next to me with the newspaper on him as a blanket. I stumbled in our room and fell on the bed. Pony was already awake, he turned towards me and threw his hand over my hand. I was too hot from sleeping on the couch, but Pony was freezing cold. It made me feel like home. I heard Darry say wake up but I rolled off the bed onto the bed. I'd clutched my stomach as I walked into the kitchen. I went into the icebox and found chocolate cake. I put the whole cake on the table and fork and started eating. The house smelled like burnt bacon and eggs; I grabbed chocolate milk and had a couple pieces of bacon and sat in a chair and daydreamed. Darry said I have a habit of doing it, but it's a bad habit to smoke. Two-Bit came in tripping over his feet an falling on his face.
"He'll be alright." we all said in unison.
Later Two-Bit had woke up and played poker while he ate Soda's famous blue potatoes. I sat down and started to draw; I drew all of us: Darry, Soda, Pony, me, Mom, and Dad. There was small noise that had disturbed us. I went outside and saw a toddler and a hurt puppy, I carried them both inside. I helped the puppy's paw and nursed it. There was a knock at the door; Pony had said that it was Marcia. I gave her the toddler and carried the puppy to her Sting Ray.
"You live with the Curtis brothers?" she said.
"Yeah. What of it?" I said.
"Nothing. It's that I didn't know that you lived with them. I thought you were-"
"A Soc. I know, I get that a lot, but I'm a greaser. They think I'm 'Soc material'."
"You can be, if you wanted to."
"I don't want to cuz I'm not rich."
"OK, well, see you in school."
"OK." I went into the house and slammed the door shut.
"What happened?" Steve said.
"They think I'm Soc material." I said.
"Thinks you're what?" Soda said.
Everyone started talking all at once and I heard Johnny, and Dally.
My face was red and I stormed out of the house.
"What the-" Pony said.
I ran down the street and Darry, Soda, and Pony ran after me. I heard Darry say "... cut her off."
Pony had ran faster than them. I stopped at the water fountain and saw a reflection. It was me as a Soc. Pony was behind me; he didn't slow down and we fell into the fountain. We sat in the fountain with the water above our rib cages.
"What the hell? "Pony said.
"I can't take it. Who I am, who I'm not, or who I want or need to be." I said.
"Who do you think you should be? " Soda asked.
"A greaser." I said.
"Then don't worry abo-"
"It makes me wonder why I am the way I am, you know? I never knew that being a sister is this much work. I didn't know that Mom and Dad were going to be in that auto accident. I didn't know that I'd have to get a job at fourteen. I'm much more a mother, than s sister."
"And a wonderful mother you are." Darry said pulling us out of the water.
YOU ARE READING
Inside of the Outsider (Inspired by 'The Outsider')
Fiksi PenggemarWilla Curtis, the hidden sister of the Curtis'. It's her side of the story after the events that had changed their life. (Inspired by 'The Outsider' by S.E. Hinton)