PART III OF BEFORE MY TIME SERIES (FINAL)
Born and raised in Tulsa; Goldie, Candy, and Red Curtis have been living in the comfort of their high-tech culture in the year 2038. The Curtis children are thrown back to 1965 after a game turns into real...
No one was 100% after that rumble. That is, not for about a month later. Pony was in bad shape for most of it. He got his ass kicked even though he begged to be in it. Hallucinating and everything, but he got better. Even Mom's foot has been feeling better since it's been a few months after the fire. Her black eye healed too.
Dad apparently got concussed real bad. He was bad for a few days but now he's perfectly fine. He's back to his typical happy self. Darry said that if he started to puke then he would have taken him to the hospital, and luckily he didn't. Once he felt a little better, he threw himself into caring for Ponyboy. It reminds me of when I was a kid, Dad was always the one staying home with us when we were sick. Making chicken noodle soup, checking our temperature, holding us if we cried, and rubbing our backs when we puked. He enjoys taking care of the people he loves.
The court date was scheduled as soon as Uncle Pony was healthy again. We were all a shaky mess for court, but only good news came out of it. Johnny didn't get arrested, and Uncle Pony and Dad did not get sent to a boys home. Dad, Mom, Pony, Darry, and everyone else was gussied up nice for it. They wore their Sunday best, and did their hair everyday. Dad was so happy when we heard what the judge said.
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This case had broken out throughout Oklahoma. People are really cracking down on Socs now and how bad they treat Greasers. It's causing a lot of Greasers to not be afraid to stand up for themselves anymore.
In the beginning, the amount of beatings the Socs were giving out had reached an all time high. Once the Greasers started fighting back, Socs have been too afraid to start a fight because they know that they won't be able to finish it. Even the amount of rumbles has gone down drastically, and if there is one, it's just for fun.
In school, I'll see everyone stop and stare at Mom as she walks by. She became one of the most popular girls in school, and definitely not by choice. She and the guys were the talk of the town when Bob was found dead and they had ran away. Then after the fire and they were hailed to be heroes, no one would shut up about them.
Dad was apparently a very popular guy in school. From my understanding, he was well-loved, funny, and quite the charmer. Even after he dropped out, girls would still talk about him and gush. When word got around that Sandy and Soda had officially broken up, so many rumors started circulating around him and Mom. That they were dating, that she talked Dad into breaking up with Sandy, and how they must be sleeping together since they live together. Ew. I don't know how many of these rumors made it back to either of them because I certainly wasn't going to tell them, but it was a big deal around the hall. They were teen-royalty of Will Rogers High.
I would hear girls in the halls gossip to each other when Mom was in the hallway, just minding her own business. Once I heard one girl say, "do you think she is really going out with Sodapop?"
