Chapter 15 - Hospital Vist

Ponyboy decided to come for the trip. Which I'm glad cause I feel safe most of the times with him. Also I didn't want to be alone with Darry still. We didn't make it far before Darry went back to what happened last night.

" So what made you want to slash Tim's tires?" Darry asked.

I couldn't think of an answer that quick.

" Ummm I don't know, I was just looking for fun?" I said not sure if that was a good answer.

" Why does the things you do fun seem to be stupid and dangerous to me?" Darry asked trying to hold his anger down.

" I...I...uhh" I didn't know what to say.

" You don't always have to be tough and mean Angel. I know who you really are. You have too much anger in you baby, and I'm just afraid one day you will let too much out. That's why I'm so hard on you all the time." Darry said sounding like he was going to cry.

I looked at Ponyboy who was staring at Darry. We both didn't expect that.

" Darry I'll be fine." I didn't know what to say. My mind was going through too many things at once.

We finally arrived at the hospital. I had cold chills go through my whole body. I hated hospitals. Darry came to the side of my car and carried me.

" Put me down Dar, I can walk."

" I don't want you to make it worse." Darry said gripping me tighter.

We waited in the waiting room for like 45 minutes. I fell asleep in Darry's arms and Ponyboy was reading a book.

We finally got called back there. We started walking back there when Tim came out one of the doctors room's infront of us. I started holding Darry tighter.

" Well well well look who it is" Tim snickered. His nose was bangadged up, it must have been broken. I can feel Darry muscles tighten. Darry put me down and moved me to Ponyboy. He stormed over to Tim.

"If you ever lay a finger on my sister again I will make sure your nose is not the only thing broken." Darry said practially screaming it. I knew he was holding back so much to not hit him. Ponyboy and I could tell Tim was scared. Darry ain't called Superman for no reason.

" Your lil sis slashed my tires, you kno how much that will cost me?"

" I'm sorry for my sisters stupid idea but that's no fucking reason for you to try to hurt a girl, especially being a Curtis, I didn't know you were that dumb" Darry's fist were balled real tight like usual. It seemed like Pony was holding his breathe.

Doctors and Nurses started crowding around us. Someone was trying to call security.

" Drop it for now Darry, Angel got to see a doctor." Ponyboy said walking slowly over to him.

Tim started grinning staring at me.

" You better teach your sis some proper manners. She's a tuff lil one but not tuff enough. No wonder Curlys so crazy about her." Tim said grinning walking backwords. He waved and turned around walking toward the exit. The last thing he said made me want to throw up. I couldn't tell what Darry was thinking.

" son of a bitch..." We heard Darry mumble with a couple other words I won't repeat.

People in the lobby were talking and staring at us, Ponyboy grabbed me and started walking toward the doctor's room. Darry got the hint and followed. We were all quiet sitting in the doctor's office. I wanted to crawl under something and die. Darry wanted to kill someone, and Ponyboy wanted to hurry up and get out of this mess.

Finally a old scruffy man walked in.

" That was quite a show out in the lobby," he said looking at Darry. Darry looked embarrased.

" Sorry about that." Sometimes I forget Darry isn't really an adult either. He's still young. He just had to grow up real fast. The doctor seemed to forget about it and soon went to the main problem which was me. He examined it, took an x-ray, and gave me some medicine and the usual remedy which was "stay in bed". I wouldn't mind that at all. Being off the streets, not going places for awhile was fine with me.

It was almost pretty late on the ride home. I sat in the back with Pony and he fell asleep in my arms. I tried to stay up too but pretty soon my eyes got heavy myself.

I woke up with Soda picking me up and bringing me in the house. The whole gang was here watching TV. They made sure I was alright and well. I was still really tired and decided to crash for the rest of the night. I told Soda to take my room for the night cause I wanted to sleep with Pony. Pony was asleep already without changing out of his clothes. I took off his shoes and pants and limped my way to my side of the bed. He woke up and put his arm around me.

" You need to stay out of trouble lil girl" He mumbled. I started to laugh.

" Night punk."