A/n there's a really small smut scene, it's nothing serious and you can skip it. Its barely anything tbh.
Even in sleep darry's mind was racing. The imagines of what Dallas had done surrounded his thought and suffocated any trace of a good dream.
Soda and pony came inside and found him bleeding from the mouth on the livingroom floor. Soda's voice broke as he shook the gentle giant. Tears ran down his face as he began to scream with so much emotion. Pony stood on while watching in terror.
Darry could hear his screams but they seemed distant. Great he thought to himself, you have a concussion. He managed a meek and quiet laugh which seemed to scare Soda and pony more than anything else.
Darry opened his eyes and was met with something he has never seen before. Anger lied behind soda's usually happy, lively, eyes.
"Do you have any idea how much you scared us!?!" Soda's voice echoed loudly. It didn't sound like soda at all. Darry looked away in regret and shame but soda turned his head aggressively to look back at him and pony.
"We thought you died! We already lost mom and dad. Losing you is not something we want! For God sake look at Pony! Did you even think? Always saying use your head, use your head. But did you?" Soda started crying again as he hugged his older brother tightly. He was shaking with fear. Pony followed shortly, he sat down on the cold wooden floor and hugged his brother. The three men sat there and did not say a word.
Hours past before darry tried to move his brothers to their bed. Soda was practically dead to the world as he carried him over his shoulder to his bed and plopped him down as best he could. Pony on the other hand was far different.
Darry grabbed him and he stirred gently awake. "Dont die okay?" He asked him, his voice was barely there.
"I wont die, not for a while anyways."
"That's what mom said the week before she died." Pony's words hit darry worse than any punch Dallas got. Darry almost dropped pony but snapped out of his somber moment just in time.
He set pony down and immediately soda wrapped himself around the small fragile looking teen. Darry was so angry that there was things in the world that would hurt them. He was angry at his parents for leaving but he was more upset and angry that he scarred them.
The next morning pony found darry sleeping on the bedroom floor. Pony shook him awake and decided it would be best to make breakfast himself and darry agreed. Both men dragged themselves to the kitchen, darry slipped into a chair lazily and was pretending to read yesterdays papers.
"Why did you do it. Who did you fight?" Pony asked.
"It was dallas....it was over adult stuff." He whispered into the tense room.
"I wanna be an adult one day! Let me be an adult! You almost died and I deserve to know." Pony unlike soda did the night before did not seem angry. His voice was nervous.
"Dallas got drunk and raped a girl I loved! I hid her from this family because she doesn't know I'm poor or my parents are dead! As soon as the words left his mouth he wished they hadn't.
"So you're ashamed about us..got it." Pony sounded hurt and darry knew he wouldn't talk to him for the rest of the day.
Soda was unaware of their moment and came down stairs happy and smiling wider than ever. Soda hummed as he took each step. He ran into the kitchen and hugged pony tight before attacking him with kisses on the cheek.
"I have work and I'm gonna be late but I love you both!"
He hugged darry before slipping out the door, followed by pony heading to school.
