Disclaimer: I do not own anything from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

Ponyboy woke up about three hours after he went into surgery. He moaned sleepily to himself, and looked around the small hospital room. S

oda and Darry sat in two wooden chairs and were playing cards at the foot of his bed. Soda tossed his hand of cards down on the bed and stood up quickly when he saw that Ponyboy was awake. "Finally decide to wake up, sleepy head?!"

Ponyboy sighed, and groggily rubbed his left eye. "Yeah…I guess so."

Darry also laid his cards down on the bed, and walked closer to Ponyboy. He said, "Soda, go get the nurse out in the hallway and tell her that Ponyboy finally woke up."

Soda nodded cheerfully, spun around on his heel, and strolled out into the hallway to locate Ponyboy's designated nurse. Darry smiled at Ponyboy. "You're surgery went real well. You hurting anymore?"

Pony was silent for a moment as he contemplated the question. He finally answered, "Well, not the same way as before. I just feel sore now."

"Yeah, I guess you're supposed to. You're gonna have a scare on the left of you stomach now…just there, under that bandage. I guess its gonna look pretty tough. I guess you can tell people that you got in a knife fight of something, huh?"

Ponyboy knew that Darry was trying to joke around with him, but he just nodded lazily and said, "Yeah…When can I go home?"

"The doctor said that you'd be discharged within the next day or two…it just sorta depends on how you're feelin." Darry waited for a reply, but Ponyboy had already gone back to sleep.

Ponyboy was allowed to go home two days after having his appendics removed. His stomach still felt sore around the incision, but he was feeling a lot better.

Darry entered Ponyboy's room on Tuesday afternoon and said, "Some fat girl stopped by to see you a little earlier, but you were taking a nap."

Ponyboy looked up from the book he was reading and looked quizzically at his older brother. "Oh?"

Darry crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame of Soda's and Pony's small bedroom. "Yeah, her name was…Sally…Shirley…something like that."

"Was it Shelly?"

"Yeah! Yeah, it was Shelly. She brought you some of your books from school, and said she wrote down the homework you had missed from today and yesterday."

"Yep, Shelly is in most of my classes."

"She's pretty plump, ain't she?"

"I guess so, but she's real nice. We're not really that good of friends, though. I don't know why she would've stopped by, unless one of the teachers asked her to."

"Well, she seemed awful concerned bout you not coming to school for the past two days. She was really itchin' to know when you planned on coming back."

"Well, when did you tell her I'd be back?"

"Tomorrow."

"Darry! You said I didn't have to go back till Thursday!"

"I saw you tossin' the football around with Johnny this morning. You know full well that you're feeling good enough to go to school tomorrow."

Ponyboy just huffed and looked back down to his book.

"Oh, Ponyboy…"

Ponyboy looked up, annoyed, and moodily asked, "What?"

Darry grinned. "I read the sheet of paper that Shelly handed me that had all of your missing assignments on it and…"

Darry paused for dramatic effect, which really agitated Ponyboy. "And what?!"

Darry almost giggled as he said, "She left a little P.S. on the bottom that had her number on it, and a note telling you to call her sometime."

They were both quite, and from the living room, Ponyboy and Darry could here Soda laughing and telling Steve in an unnecessarily loud voice, "Yep, Ponyboys got girls comin' to the house now, trying to pick him up! Big'ole girls, at that! Who knew Pony would turn into such a stud-muffin!?"

Steve and Soda howled and laughed obnoxiously, and Ponyboy blushed furiously.

Darry just chuckled and said, "Yeah well, all your homework and you're little love note are sittin' on the counter in the kitchen, when ever you feel like gettin' up and getting a start on it."

Ponyboy heaved a huge sigh, and rolled over onto his side. He thought to himself, "I can't ever catch a break, can I? If its not me almost dying of an appendicitis attack, it's my friends making fun of me cause some chubby girl likes me…"

I realize that this was random and really pointless, but oh well...

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