Chapter 11 - When Sickness Comes

After everything that happened I guess Ponyboy couldn’t take anymore of it because he just went out like a stone. He was out for a whole week!!! that’s a long time if you ask me I know he was stressed but a WHOLE WEEK! But he eventually came to and the first person I think he really recognized talking to him was Randy I thought he was apologising but I couldn’t be sure I came over and talked to Randy and told him about the court tomorrow and other things like that but eventually I he left and when he did I went in and told Ponyboy the whole thing and explained to him how he was asking for mom, dad, Soda and me while he was out which he found odd and I don’t think he actually believed me then I told him that the entire time he was complaining about th horrible taste of bologna and that made him laugh quite a bit. Although I had thought that Randy had left he apparently hadn’t he came in and asked me to leave I reluctantly agreed and I guess he must have mentioned that Johnny was dead and he had killed bob because Ponyboy freaked out and kept denying everything so I asked him to leave he did and I walked away from it.

Chapter 12 - Ponyboy's Losin' It

The court was just as i had expected it to be Ponyboy got off easy they just asked him how i was as a guardian which he said i was good which was definitely a good thing. He asked everyone else all about the murdering and everything that had happened recently, when i was asked i said "As far as I know what Ponyboy and Johnny did was spur of the moment and in complete self defense." After that the judge asked me if i thought i did a good job in taking care of Soda and Ponyboy i said "I think i do they never really get into trouble just a little while ago and everything i do i do for them." After a few more people than me went he called the case closed and that was it afterwards we went home.

After a few days of being home i began to notice Poyboy had changed, he was doing progressively worse in school and forgetting stuff every where i mean how do you forget your shoes?! Then he told me that he had a term paper to do and even though his work had earned him a failing grade under the circumstances if he did well on this he would let him pass the class with a C. I pestered him to work all the time but he just never got into it then on the night the paper was do Ponyboy spent like 6 hours in his room and afterwards he came out with a little book and told me it was his paper and wanted me to check it over I read it and it was absolutely everything that had happened in the last while and how he felt. It explained a lot about how he had been feeling about everything the last little while and it gave me a whole new understanding of my little brother the next morning i handed the book back to him and said "This will get you that C i can guarantee it Ponyboy."