You were Darry's girlfriend of a long time now, you'd already had him stressing about Ponyboy having more and more bad dreams, he'd been worrying for a few weeks now, it'd been worrying you plenty as well, you didn't need Sodapop losing sleep or Darry being even more stressed than usual

You're at the Curtis boys house basically everyday and night, so currently you're at their house as always, for the first time in forever Darry had gotten to sleep early, so you were just on the couch with Darry asleep on you, you had to admit while watching your show you were slowly drifting off a little as well

Well that was until you were basically snapped out of any wink of sleep you were about to fall into having when you heard footsteps and a timid voice from the hallway

"..Momma?" It was Ponyboy, you couldn't mistake that slightly high voice and cute little Southern drawl, he sounded like he was looking around the hallway, panicked or just woken up from another bad dream