#tldr darry’s a chronic liar to ponyboy and ponyboy only

[specific-dreamer]

i’m rereading SGUN just to feel something and

when they were younger darry would say the most outlandish things to convince pony to do something and he would say it in the most sarcastic tone but pony always fell for it. and i think sometimes it slips out during/post book.

(i swear this all connects stick with me)

like in SGUN darry takes the gang to get their mumps and measles shot and pony acts a plump fool bc he’s scary as hell. and afterwards pony’s in a funk and he’s real mad at darry bc his arms aches. darry said something like “it’ll hurt less if you move it” and pony responds “gee darry i didn’t think of that” and in my head the conversation confuses as follows

darry: idk why you’re mad at me, i ain’t the one that stuck you with the needle

pony: you made me get the shot!

darry, a right menace: yeah well, if you didn’t you could’ve got the mumps and died. then the court would arrest me and soda would be alone; do you want soda to be alone ponyboy? do you wanna die??

pony, who does not even know what the mumps are: id die 🧍🏾‍♀️