The Outsiders As Kids

Snakes (The Curtis Brothers)

Note** The boys are all quite young, Darry is only 17 but their parents aren't alive.

Darry's POV

"You alright, kiddo?" I lean down to look at my baby brother. Soda's got ahold of him but he's still breathing like he's almost drowned.

Ponyboy shakes his head rapidly, staring at the twisting snake in the grass a couple feet away. I still don't understand why they gotta keep moving after you cut their heads off.

Pony had walked into the backyard and immediately screamed his head off. Soda and I both ran outside to find a big snake. Didn't have any rattles so it wasn't poisonous but it sure as hell scared us like all git-out.

Soda grabbed at Pony, yanking him away from the snake, while I searched for a shovel. It started to slither away but I found the shovel and, after a couple of misses, cut its head clean off.

It kept jerking around but I figured it couldn't bite anyone so I left it and went back to my brothers, both of 'em screaming like there's no tomorrow.

Soda calmed down after a bit and we got Pony to stop screaming but he still looked shaken up.

"It-it-it almost bit my foot," Pony trembles, looking up at me.

I smile reassuringly, "I know little buddy. But it didn't get ya. That's the important part."

"Was it poisinous?" Soda asks me, stumbling over the word.

"Nah, it was just a bull-snake," I chuckle.

"See, Pone? Even if it had bit ya, nothin would've happened!" Soda tries to cheer him up.

It sort of works.

"Nothin would've happened?" Pony frowns, sitting up. "I would've had two big holes in my feet, Sodapop! Somethin woulda happened!"

Soda pouts at this and I bust out laughing.

"He's got a point, Pepsi-Cola," I chuckle.

"Well, I was just tryna look at the bright side," Soda crosses his arms.

"This is the bright side!" Pony waves his arms exasperatedly. "Nothin happenin to me!"

"Somethin happened to the poor snake though," Soda looks over at the, finally still, bull-snake. "Rest in peace."

"Poor snake? You screamed like you was dyin when ya saw it," I laugh at him as he starts to deny it.

"Nah Dare, that was all Pony. I don't scream at nothin," he looks at me stubbornly.

"Soda, there's a spider in your hair," Pony notes, pointing at it.

The loudest scream I've ever heard, more or less, escaped Soda. He bounced up and down and shook his head like he'd just been electrocuted. "Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"

I look at his brown curls to see a rock. I frown and give Ponyboy a look. The kid explodes in laughter and falls off Soda's lap.

I sigh and shake my head before removing the terrible "spider".

"It was a rock, Pepsi," I shake it in front of his face. "Just a rock."

Soda's scream dies in his throat and he stops moving so much. "Why, you little-" he springs for Ponyboy, who, in turn, shrieks happily and runs inside.

I snort at both of them and throw the rock at the snake. It hits the snakes side and the snake moves. I jump about three feet in the air then look around.
The snake didn't move, it's definitely dead. No one saw me jump.

I shake it off and run into the house after my brothers.

AN

So, there's that. I haven't written anything, it's not just Wattpadders that are suffering, in quite a while. I tried and I like it so I hope you all do too. This wasn't actually how I originally planned the ending but you can go over to my Random Headcannons book and the original ending should be there.

I've gotten back into The Outsiders recently, thanks to my wonderful friend spazfordun and the elaborate Outsiders role-play we have going. She's working on a new Outsiders book based loosely off said role play so check that out, whenever she decides to publish it.

Also, I don't know how many of you have read or at least seen my relatively new Outsiders story: Tradition For Trouble. I've been working on getting the next chapter uploaded, so please check that out as well.

Well, Oreos I believe that is all for the moment so farewell. Stay Gold,

-Serena