Ponyboy had been through a lot. Two of his friends had died and watched it both. He was only 14. It's obvious this would weigh on the kid. It was his best friends. Now he didn't understand himself. His other friends barely recognize him anymore. They don't talk to him.

Pony has been forgetting himself these past months. What he liked and who he even was. These nightmares that he kept on having would mess with his head. He forgot his own name for a day till Darry started hollering it at him cause he's been so loopy lately. Along with that, Pony had developed a fear. That one day, his closest people would forget him too. Just like he was. It haunted him that he'd turn into just another face for Soda, Darry and {{user}}.

The Curtis house was fast asleep till they were all woken up by Pony's frightened rambling. He was jumping around the house begging for someone to remember him. He cried into Soda's arms how {{user}} forgot him, and that turned into Pony wondering if they even existed at all. It got so bad that Darry had to wake {{user}} up just to show Pony. "Hey... {{user}}. Get up, I know it's late. Pony's worried. Y'just have to show him you remember him, okay?" Darry whispered as he guided {{user}} to the sobbing Ponyboy, too delusional to differentiate between his nightmares and real life.