Alright first of all I’m a firm believer that Dally cares about the gang a lot more than he lets on, especially Johnny and Ponyboy.
"Get that sweat shirt off." He threw a towel at me. "Dry off and wait here. At least Johnny's got his jeans jacket. You ought to know better than to run away in just a sweat shirt, and a wet one at that. Don't you ever use your head?" He sounded so much like Darry that I stared at him.
He didn't notice, and left us sitting on the bed.
The fact that Dallas didn’t notice how brotherly he was being just proves that he cares about Pony
… and it was Two-Bit who did that. And Dally knew it. But he just took the sentence without battin’ an eye or even denyin’ it.
Dallas would rather he go to jail then someone in the gang. Dally would rather add to his record (not that he minded that, I think he was rather happy to add to it) then Two-Bit get a record or add to it.
“The president of course, stupid Its from Soda.”
Dally joking with Pony is my favorite thing
“…Kid, you ought to see Darry. He's takin' this mighty hard…”
This quote melts my heart in a way I cannot describe
"You sure can cuss good, Dally."
"Sure can," Dally agreed wholeheartedly, proud of his vocabulary. "But don't you kids get to pickin' up my bad habits.”
He gave me a hard rub on the head. "Kid, I swear it don't look like you with your hair all out off. It used to look tuff: You and Soda had the coolest-lookin' hair in town."
"I know," I said sourly. "I look lousy, but don't rub it in."
Dallas (as bad of an example as he is) wants to make sure Johnny and Ponyboy don’t end up like him, he’s just looking out for them.
Also Dally giving a compliment?! But also Dally teasing Pony and giving him shit in a friendly way :)
“…Take it easy, I don’t want you gettin’ sick on me…”
When they were at Dairy Queen and Johnny and Ponyboy were eating so fast that Dally go my worried they would throw up (what a good big brother)
When the church was burning Dally yelled at Johnny and Pony to forget about the kids and get out of there. He was so worried about his family the gang
Dally's eyes were closed, but when I spoke he had tried to grin and had told me that if I ever did a stupid thing like that again he'd beat the tar out of me.
If he’s smiling he’s not that mad (there’s his soft spot for Pony showing)
I am fully convinced that the leather jacket Dally gave Ponyboy became his favorite jacket, especially after he died. Anytime it got a bit chilly outside Pony would put it on and remember how his buddy saved him
Dally was grinning at me. "Kid, you scared the devil outa me the other day. I thought I'd killed you"
"Me?" I said, puzzled. "Why?"
"When you jumped out of the church. I meant to hit you just hard enough to knock you down and put out the fire, but when you dropped like a ton of lead I thought Id aimed too high and broke your neck." He thought for a minute. "I'm glad I didn't, though."
Dally’s happy that he didn’t kill Pony (his second favorite member of the gang)
Second thing, Two-Bit is also a big brother figure to Ponyboy and Johnny and best friends with everyone. Also a little bit of Steve caring for Ponyboy
“The boys are worried," Dally said in a materie voice. "Two-Bit was going to Texas to hunt for you”
Two-Bit was so worried about them that he would drop everything and go looking for Pony and Johnny (he cares so much about Pony, they’re best friends)
"Hey, Ponyboy," he cried gleefully, "long time no see.” You would have thought it had been five years instead of five days since I'd seen him last, but I didn't mind.
He was so excited to be reunited with his best friend :)
Two-Bit said, cleaning the egg up off the floor.
Two-Bit, who was scraping the egg off the clock, turned to stare at me.
What a nice friend, cleaning up after he made Pony drop the eggs.
Head cannon: Darry made a rule in the house that if you make a mess in the house you have to clean it up and is extra strict with it on Two-Bit (Darry was not about to let Two-Bit make his house messy)
No wonder he stayed overnight at Two-Bits or at our house.
Two-Bit offered his house to Johnny (big brother behavior) one time when it was cold outside, Johnny insisted he would be fine sleeping in the lot, but Two-Bit dragged Johnny to his house for the night. Johnny’s been using it as a place to sleep from then on
Two-Bit was looking down at me worriedly. “You feel okay? You're awful hot."
"All right," Two-Bit said reluctantly. "But Darryll kill me if you're really sick and go ahead and fight anyway"
Big brother Two-Bit who’s concerned about Ponyboy
It did, but it also got Two-Bit and Soda, jailed once. They were doing midair flips down a downtown sidewalk, walking on their hands, and otherwise disturbing the public and the police.
Bestie Soda and Two-Bit doing gymnastics down the street together. Also friends who get jailed together stay together
Two-Bit came blubberin' over here with some tale how you were running a fever before the rumble and how it was all his fault you were sick. He was pretty torn up that night,"
Big brother Two-Bit who was guilty over the fact that Pony got sick after the rumble
"Was it very bad?" Two-Bit questioned. He knew the whole story, and having never dreamed about anything but blondes, he was interested.
Bestie Two-Bit who knows all the tea
“I’ll baby-sit him," Two-Bit said, ducking as I took a swing at him.
‘Having nothing better to do’ or an excuse to spend the day with your best bud, what’s the difference
"Steve and me were backing you, but I guess we didn't need to. You'd have really cut them up, huh?"
Steve and Two-Bit were ready to throw hands all cause Pony looked like he was in danger (Steve really does care about his best buddy’s kid brother)
“How do you like bein' a hero, big shot?"
Steve teasing Ponyboy :)
Also in the beginning of the book right after Ponyboy gets jumped and Steve asks what he was doing walking on his lonesome, Ponyboy takes that as “oh this guy is just getting on my back” but I take it as Steve showing his worry in a non-traditional way.
Johnny is so madly in love with Pony it’s crazy
"you must have put my legs to sleep. I can't even stand up. I barely got off that train."
"I'm sorry. Why didn't you wake me up?"
“That okay. I didn’t want to wake you up until I had to.”
Johnny would rather his legs fall asleep than Pony be tired (he’s such a caring boyfriend)
I push off Johnny’s jean jacket,
Ponyboy said that the church was cold, so it must be cold outside, and Johnny would rather himself be cold than Pony
I put my arm across his shoulders to warm him up.
Just to warm him up, mhmm definitely
I held him like Soda had held him the day we found him lying in the lot.
First of all, Ponyboy looks up to Soda so much (I’ll get into that in the next section) but also comforting Johnny in a way he knows will calm him down
“It ain't fair for Ponyboy to about have to stay up in that church with Darry and Soda worryin' about him all the time.”
Johnny doesn’t want his bf’s family to worry :(
…He wants to see you”
Dally says this to Ponyboy while they’re driving to the hospital and it’s so heartbreaking that the last people Johnny wants to see are the two people he cherishes most
Also in Johnny’s letter that he left in home with the wind he mentions Dallas three times, he wanted his final requested to come from Pony probably because Johnny knew that out of everyone Dally would listen to Ponyboy the best
Lastly, Pony loves this brothers and admires Soda so much
I wonder what Darry and Sodapop are doing now, I thought, yawning. Soda had the whole bed to himself for once. I bet Darry's sorry he ever hit me.
After waking up in the church, his first thoughts are his brothers. Also Ponyboy knows that Darry is sorry and that just makes me feel bad for Darry
it was my pride. It was long and silky, just like Soda's, only a little redder.
Comparing himself to Soda part 1
My hair was even He always lighter than Sodapop's.
Comparing himself to Soda part 2
"Oh, Pony, I thought we'd lost you ... like we did Mom and Dad.. "
Darry just wanted the best for Pony. Dary was so scared of losing Pony, that's why he yelled, he wasn't angry, he was just scared. Darry's biggest fear is losing another peron, so he must have worried so much about Pony :(
Darry was rubbing the back of my head softly.
Soft bro Darry moment (I live for this)
I wiggled out from under his arm and pulled the blanket up over him,
Headcannon: Soda missed sharing a bed with Ponyboy and got used to throwing an arm over him. Also Pony is such a thoughtful brother
He grinned one of his rare grins.
DARRY SMILING AT PONYBOY
"Listen, Soda, you and Ponyboy," Darry said as we strode down the street, "if the fuzz show, you two beat it out of there. The rest of us can only get jailed. You two can get sent to a boys' home."
Protective Darry (I live for this too)
He’s going somewhere. And I was going to be like him.
Ponyboy looking up to Darry is so sweet cause as much as Ponyboy has said that he does really like his oldest brother, he truely does because you don’t look up to people you genuinely don’t like
I could tell Darry realized this too, and although he was proud, I also knew he was worried. Shoot, I thought, I'll fight so good this time he won't ever worry about me again. I'll show him that someone besides Sodapop can use his head.
Pony wanting to prove himself to Darry. Also Darry being proud of Ponyboy :)
"You kept asking for me and Soda. Sometimes for Mom and Dad, too. But mostly for Soda." Something in his tone of voice made me look at him. Mostly for Soda. Did I ask for Darry at all, or was he just saying that?
Ponyboy being worried that he hurt Darry’s feeling by not calling out for him melts and breaks my heart because this is a point where Pony and Darry’s relationship is on the path to getting fixed and Ponyboy is worried that he only called for Soda. And by only calling for Soda might show Darry that Pony still doesn’t like Darry all that much, but by calling out to Darry, it shows Pony loves his brother (idk if this made sense (I’m slightly delirious writing this))
"Yeah, sure," he said, looking at me strangely. "You asked for him and me both. Sometimes Mom and Dad. And for Johnny."
"Oh. I thought maybe I didn't ask for Darry. It was bugging me.”
Poor boy just needed that confirmation from another person that he actually did call out for Darry :( also calling out for his best friend (boyfriend)
“…Darry is a good guardian; he makes me study and knows knows where I am and who I'm with all the time. I mean, we don't get along so great sometimes, but he keeps me out ust de touble, or did…”
PONY KNOWS DARRY CARES AND WANTS THE BEST FOR HIM
"Maybe you can be a little neater, huh, little buddy?" He'd never called me that before. Soda was the only one he ever called "little buddy."
"Sure," I said, "I'll be more careful."
PROGRESS PEOPLE PROGRESS (also Darry showing his affection to Pony in his own way)
"Race you," I challenged, leaping up.
I guess I was still out of shape, because we all three tied. No. I guess we all just wanted to stay together.
This brotherly moment makes me smile everyone I look at it
This book makes me very happy, hope you enjoyed and have a good rest of your day
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