everyone talks about darry making sure his baby brothers are asleep but imagine pony just making sure darryās asleep
pony goes into darryās room either after a nightmare or after he had accidentally stayed up too late doing homework or reading, pick your poison, but regardless he justā¦feels the need to make sure darry is sleeping for once. now darry is a silent sleeper. dead silent and a HEAVY sleeper, the only thing that can wake him up is his brothers being in distress, but pony just approaches the bed and just sees his older brother, for once, not in his normally busy routine, but just sleeping.
darry finally looks his ageā¦heck, heās only 20, yet half the time he looks like he could pass for double that age. but when heās sleeping? the worry creases are gone. the coldness isnāt in his stone hard facial expression. thereās no tension in his muscles. heās just completely relaxed, the only sign of life being the rise and fall of his chest.
pony finally sees it-the way his hardworking, stressed out brother who probably hasnāt even eaten that night because heās busy taking care of them, his brother who worked a double shift that day and only got home the hour prior, not even bothering to take off his shoes and work clothesā¦god, itās painful.
and pony stays with him because by god he was going to make sure his older brother was stress free, even if he only can be in his sleep.