changes

chapter one

Darry was sitting in class listening to the professor. It was still a few hours before he could go home for the day. Darry had gone to a local college only twenty minutes out of tulsa.  The professor was talking about different kinds of law when they heard a knock at his door. It was the school secretary.

"Mr curtis, would you mind gathering up your things and followin miss dunkin outside". Darry did as he was asked. He wasn't sure if he had done something wrong. "Ah miss dunkin,  have i done something wrong?" Darry decided it might be best to just ask. "I think it would be best if you just followed me to mr masons office"  was all she said.

They reached my masons door, and miss dunkin knocked. "Come in" mr mason called. Miss dunkin let darry step inside before shutting the door and leaving again. "Take a seat mr curtis" mr mason spoke. There were two police officers in the office. "Are you darrel shayne curtis jr?" One of the officers asked "yes sir i am, have i done something wrong?"  "Mr curtis, i am sorry to say, but your parents and your younger brother were in a serious car accident. I regret to inform you that your parents were both found dead at the scene " the officer spoke again . "What about my little brothet?" Darry asked. He was overcome with shock.

"Your little brother has been taken to the tulsa childrens hospital. They are making sure he wasn't injured too badley. He was lucky to brpe strapped in his car seat or else he may have ended up like your folks". 

After speaking with the officers darry headed over to the high school to pick up his other brother sodapop. "Whats goin on dar, i still got two periods left" sida said as he got in his brothers truck. "Soda, mom and dad were in a car wreck with pony" darry spoke tears forming in his eyes. " are they ok?" Soda asked suddenly shaking. "Mom and dad are dead, soda" soda started to ball. "What about pony?" He managed to ask sobbing hard. "He's at the childrens hospital, wich is where we are heading now".

When they arrived at the childrens hospital, a nures lead them to a room where their little brother was sitting on a bed. As soon as pony saw his brothers his face lit up "hi" he said. He would say hi only to people he new. "So he does talk" the nurse smiled. 

After being at the hospital all afternoon waiting to see if pony had any bad injuries, the doc finally told the boys they could take their baby brother home. He also told darry, it was going to be a ot of hard work taking care of the little one, as he doesn't understand yet about their parents.

That night after dinner, darry and soda went to put pony to bed "mommy do it" pony screamed. Bed time was something there mom always did with pony. Their dad tried it once but pony wouldn't have a bar of it. "I want mommy" he kept screaming. In the end darry sat pony on his lap in the lounge room as if they were going to watch tv together, soda put pony's blanky over pony, while darry rubbed his back softly.Within five minutes pony was out like a light.