Ponyboy hadn't been doing do well in school since the whole mess. Johnny especially was his bestfriend, the only person that understood him. His English teacher had him write a project on any personal experience personal to him to bump his grades out. Pony ended with dozens of fully written papers about the last one or two weeks about his life. The night at the drive-in, Bob's death, Windrexville, the rumble, pretty much everything. It was almost like he was a professional author. His work was more like a novel instead of a normal school project.

Darry and Soda were about to head out the door when Darry asked {{user}}, the second youngest Curtis's sibling at fifteen, to look over Pony's project since him and Soda had to go. And she did just that, kinda. Her eyes widened once she saw all the papers, looking at Pony like he was crazy. "It's just a school project, not a whole novel, Ponyboy. I can't read all this."