It's Saturday and Johnny is feeling much better.
He can walk and everything, he's just mentally hurt.
I'm at the Curtis house and I'm currently playing cards with Two-bit.
"Haha sucker I won!" I yelled and two-bit slammed his fists on the table.
"How come you always win!?" He yells.
I shrug, "I guess that I'm a master at this"
Soda came in the house and gave Darry the mail.
He took off his work hat and threw it across the room, hitting me in the face.
"Ow you jerk!" I laughed "oops" he chuckled and I threw it back at him.
"What the hell.." Darry says quite loudly.
"What is it?" Soda asks, looking over his shoulder at the mail.
"It's ponyboy's report card.. He's failing almost every class!"
"I got to go get him from school" he says and walks out the door only to come back.
"Shit I got to go to work, Ariana please go get ponyboy from after school practice." Darry says and I groan.
"Okay.. But when I come back I'm going to beat you again two-bit" I smirk and walk out the door.
I know where pony's school is, but it's kinda awkward to come and get him.
I walk down the road and see his school from far away.
There were barely any cars, since it's after school hours I guess.
When I get there, I slowly walk up the stairs to the glass door.
I open it and walk in. I see a door at the other side of the room with a sign that says after school math practice.
As I walk towards it, someone stops me.
"Excuse me miss but we can't let you go around school without permission.
I look over and see a desk with a lady sitting on the chair.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know how things go around here.." I say and walk up to her desk.
She looks at me up and down, "well"
"What are you here for?"
"I'm here to pick someone up"
"What's their name?" She asks.
"Ponyboy Curtis" I sigh and tap my finger on the desk.
She picks up the phone and calls someone.
"I need Ponyboy to the office for dismissal" she says and hangs up the phone.
Shortly after I see the door open and Pony walk out.
He looks up from the ground and kind of stumbles back in surprise.
"Oh hey.." He says and walks over to me.
"Have a good day" the office lady says and I wave before we exit the building.
"A-Ari what are you-"
"Darry is mad, he sent me over here to take you home."
"Why is he mad?"
"Because you're failing all of your classes!"
He bites his lip and looks down as we stop walking.
"Pony you're a smart boy, what has gotten into you?" I put my hands on his shoulders.
"I-I'm sorry I just.. Can't concentrate" he sighs.
"Why?"
"Because I just can't!" He says and drops his papers and notebooks.
I guess he forgot he was holding them.
We both quickly bend down to pick up the papers before they flew away.
I see a drawing on one of the pages in the open notebook.
It's a drawing of a girl.
"Ponyboy what's this-"
"Give me that!" He tries to reach for his notebook but I lean back.
"That looks like-"
"Yeah I know it's you.. Now give me it!" He says and I pass it back to him.
"You're very talented pony.." I feel myself blushing a light pink as we finish picking up the papers.
"T-Thank you, Ari." He says.
"That's probably one of the reasons I can't concentrate." He mumbles.
"Cmon pony, let's go before Darry kills us when he gets back from work." I sigh as we start walking back to his house.
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"Ponyboy why are you failing your classes?!" Darry yells and ponyboy flinches.
"You're suppose to be doin' well in school, you can't let all of your talent go to waste!"
"Darry I'm sorry I just-"
"I don't wanna hear it, now beat it" he points to his room and ponyboy's eyes get watery as he runs to his room.
