The life of love.

New Baby

Darry's POV.
We brought Evangeline home from the hospital last Tuesday. And I'm breastfeeding her. She has quite the grip. It's very strong. I like breastfeeding.  It makes me feel better. I did try to drown myself. Because it got to be too much for me. Thank God for Ponyboy. He broke our door on the bathroom. But it's okay I understand. Eric is jealous of Evangeline. I can tell. He's always trying to get my attention when I feeding the baby. Like last night for example. Dally said" Darry maybe it's time we let Eric and Evangeline bond a little bit huh? We can have him watch her for a minute." I said" Well. I don't know if that's such a good idea. Because what if he hurts her." Dally looked at me like I was stupid and said" Really. My little dude ain't gonna hurt her. He's happy to be a big brother Darry. Trust me." I said" Okay Dally. He can watch her for ten minutes. That's it okay?" He said" yes ten minutes.Got it?" So we put him in the room with her and explained to him" Eric  you are gonna be a big boy and watch your sister for Mommy and me so we can make some casserole. Okay?" Eric immediately agreed to babysit her. So we left the door cracked and started chopping up chicken. Five seconds later. We heard a smack and Evangeline was screaming her  tiny lungs​ out. We ran back down the hall and opened the door. Eric was standing in the middle of the floor holding his hand. Evangeline had a red mark on her face. I took one look at the guilt on his face and went off. "Eric Daniel Curtis! I can't believe you. She's only two weeks old. How could you hit her?" He started crying and saying" It was an accident I didn't mean to hit her. She's​ gonna take you and Daddy away! I'm scared. I don't want to be by myself." I didn't have time for this. So I grabbed Evangeline and calmed her down. Dally said" Eric why did you hit her. No go to time out now!" He said" No see now that stupid baby has got me in trouble now." Dally spanked him three times and put him in the  time out chair. I would say I felt sorry for him. But honestly I don't. I understand that. Because I wasn't Ponyboy s number one fan when he first showed up. I couldn't stand him. But over time he won me over. I'm ashamed of myself. But I turned Soda against him in the early years. We would hit him. Pull his hair what little bit he had. Poke him until he cried. We were ruthless. He has no memory of any of this. Because he was too little. For the first three years of Ponyboy s life me and Soda tortured the hell out of him. Until he was four years old. This kid pushed him down and I ran over and said" Hey Johnny why did you push him down?" Johnny said" Why not?  He was following me around and it works when you Soda and Steve hit him." I was shocked. I ran over and took Ponyboy inside. He scraped up his hands and knee. He was crying and saying" I'm sorry for bugging you and your friends Darry. I'll leave you guys alone. It's just you are cool and tuff. So I wanted to be cool and tuff like you." I cried and hugged him tight. I promised him I'd never hit him again. I was so upset.  I didn't hit him again. Until he was fourteen years old. I felt so bad.