Ponyboy is being a teenager (and Ponyboy also shouts the rudest stuff when upset), darry and his wife trying to parent him but pony goes to far this time
Warnings-
Sad, I didn't go over this (Sorry for any typos), mentions of miscarriage, a little history here in the 1960s, women who struggled with infertility faced immense social pressure and blame, as motherhood was considered their primary purpose. Public understanding of fertility was limited, and the medical options available were primitive and often unproven. This created a culture of secrecy, shame, and emotional distress for women unable to conceive (Straight from goggle)
Y/n walked in to see her husband arguing with his youngest brother, which had been more and more frequent this month, "Darrell, Ponyboy stop it." She said pushing them away from each other, they both huffed, "What's wrong?" She asked, "Pony didn't do his homework again." Darry said, Pony groaned, "Ponyboy, we talked about this, how are you supposed to get into college with how your grades are?" She said crossing her arms over her chest, Ponyboy rolled his eyes and huffed, "He's not my dad, and you're not my mom, and you'll never be one!" Ponyboy yelled before storming outside. Everyone froze. Johnny and Dally got up to go after Ponyboy and everyone else looked at them, and Darry looked at her. That was a very delicate topic for her, she had a breakdown before because she hadn't been able to get pregnant and when she was pregnant she had miscarriages.
"Honey, you okay?" Darry whispered
"Yeah, of course!" She replied as she walked over to start washing dishes, and she was off for the rest of the week on sick leave because she had a miscarriage a few weeks prior and Darry said she was working herself to the bone. Darry's eyes shifted to the gang who were easy dropping, he shooed them away and told Soda to tell Pony he was grounded, and they needed to talk. "Dollface...you've been cleaning that same dish this whole time..." Darry mumbled as he hugged her from behind focusing his grip on her stomach.
"Im a failure dar...."
"No, you're not... we don't need to be popping out kids like everyone....! You know he didn't mean that..."
"I know that.... doesn't make it not true......"
"If you want a baby, we can have one..."
"Darry we had five and I lost them all...... every single one of my babies...." she whispered as tears slowly started to fall
He kissed her neck, he didn't know what to say "I love you...I wish you would stop thinking about this stuff..." Darry mumbled into her neck. She sighed, "I haven't been thinking about it......." she mumbled relaxing into her husband, leaning her head back to look at the ceiling, "Y/n Curtis....you've been crying yourself to sleep every night..." he mumbled, her breath hitched as she shut her eyes hard, she thought he had been asleep when she cried, she always checked, "I don't wanna worry you...I'll be fine...promise...." she whispered, he sighed, "I know....love ya doll have a good day..." he whispered as he laid two more kisses on her neck and left.
She didn't do much that day she cleaned and lay on the couch crying, she made dinner, and went to bed. She woke up hours later to the sound of Darry yelling at Ponyboy. She got up and walked into Soda's room to find him pacing. They made eye contact as she opened the next door that led directly to Ponyboy's room, and Soda sat on his bed, "Darrell, he has school in the morning, let him sleep..." She mumbled half asleep herself. Ponyboy sat at the edge of his bed with Darry standing in front of him, pony continued to look at the floor as she talked, Darry walked past her to thier room and sat on the bed.
"Night Ponyboy, get some rest," she whispered as she walked up to him and kissed his head before walking out and closing the door. She looked at Soda who looked like a nervous wreck, "You get some rest as well Soda. Let me handle those two..." she whispered as she walked over to hug him, he let out a long sigh. She let him go and squeezed his hand, "Are you okay?" Soda asked squeezing her hand back, "Yeah sweetie.... don't worry about me..." She whispered woefully, she walked towards their room, and closed the door. She walked up to Darry and sat on his leg which was shaking and wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around her torso. "You're being too hard on him..." she murmured lazily after a few minutes, he hummed softly.
The next morning, Ponyboy was found in the living room waiting for her. She had always gotten up around this time to get everyone ready for the day, "Hey pony? Why are you up?" She asked as she walked up to the couch and sat beside him. She wrapped her arm around him and brought him into a side hug, "I'm so sorry about what I said... not just cause Darry told me to apologize..." Ponyboy said she turned a little so she could bring him into a full hug, "I was never mad at you sweetheart but we need to work on that temper...hmm?" She whispered, softly rubbing his back, and he chuckled as he let tears fall onto her shirt.
She hummed to calm him, and she kissed his hair
"Wanna help me make breakfast?"
He nodded letting her go to whip his eyes. She chuckled as she got up and walked into the kitchen, Ponyboy helped her cook and by the time Darry walked out to find her making coffee, Darry hugged his wife from behind and looked over at Ponyboy who was standing awkwardly. "You apologized?" Darry questioned, Ponyboy nodded. "We aren't mad Ponyboy, we are all going through a lot right now but that is no excuse to behave that way okay?" Y/n said, Ponyboy nodded again. She was right, they were gonna get through it, she just didn't know where to start.
Author's note-
I don't even know... I forgot I was writing this, it was supposed to be longer 😭😭😭. I hoped you enjoyed it tho, im working on my sad writings but I haven't had like any time to write for like anything. Sorry guys 😭.
warnings: mentions of really bad food combination, throwing up, insects, scratching & picking at skin, loud chewing, fears, please lmk if I forgot something!!
all created w/ @luvmarsbars & @stqrluvr !
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To begin with we have food headcanons:
They all have a certain tastes in pizza!!
Johnny really likes olives on his pizza, like he just loves it.
Darry is a chicken bacon ranch pizza guy. it's his favorite pizza.
Dally really likes supreme pizzas but he can't stand pineapple on pizza. other than that he doesn't care.
Two bit LOVES pineapple on pizza, it's one of his favorites. (he argues w/ dally about it constantly). Him and Steve have no pickiness when it comes to pizza or food in general .
Ponyboy on the other hand is a VERY picky eater (me too man me too).
like he can't stand spicy foods, won't touch olives within an inch of his his life, has to have the edges of his sandwhiches cut off, won't eat pizza crust unless it's stuffed crust, hates cooked vegetables, the list goes on.
Ponyboy loves breadsticks!! it's one of the few foods he genuinely really loves. Same with pickles.
Steve is 100% the kid who you could pay to eat the gross food combinations that people came up with during lunch. yk, like the beans in milk? he would eat that. no hesitation.
Sodapop doesn't like soda because of the carbonation. (again that's me too I don't like drinking soda bc the fizz hurts my mouth).
Darry and Two bit are both lactose intolerant, Darry's just isn't as bad as Two's. Two bit does NOT care though because he loves eating lactose.
Also he loves BBQ sauce, Soda likes ketchup, and Pony loves ranch. like he LOVES it. he was the kid to eat it straight up.
Dallas hates sour foods, he can not stand pickles. He also hates fish, like he doesn't like sea food at all.
Dally also doesn't like mint, his favorite type of gum is watermelon.
He also is the type of person to chew with his mouth open. Like he didn't even realize he was doing it at first until people pointed it out. Then he did it to annoy them, especially Pony.
Ponyboy will get irritated and tell him to chew with his mouth shut and Dally would move his head so he was chewing directly into Pony's ear.
Johnny has random food cravings. like peanut butter on pickles, mustard on ice cream, etc. Pony has to hold back the urge to throw up.
Steve put sugar on his popcorn. he was also the type of person to have popcorn with his ice cream and m&ms and torn up pieces of candy bars & chocolate syrup, and probably maple syrup. he would throw any kind of sweet know to man into a bowl of ice cream and eat it.
Two bit really likes seafood. like he loves fish sticks.
Johnny was allergic to eggs and peaches as a kid. He isn't as much now, but he can't eat peaches anyway because he doesn't like the way they taste.
Headcanons w/ them and certain animals (dogs, cats, insects, etc.):
Darry loves dogs. He loves them and he really doesn't like cats because he thinks they're more of a hassle to take care of. Ponyboy loves cats and would rather have one than a dog. Sodapop loves both.
I saw someone else say Dally is scared of dogs and I just couldn't agree more. He really doesn't like them, and he isn't much of a cat person. He loves snakes though, like if he had the chance to have a pet snake he would 100% have one.
Ponyboy is terrified of any/all insects & bugs, including butterfly. He's allergic to bees as well.
He screams bloody murder if he sees a spider in the house and he HAS to be in a different room if there is one.
Johnny on the other hand isn't scared of them at all. He was the kid who would cry if someone squished a spider, so whenever Ponyboy is freaking out over one he will either a.) calmly pick it up and move it out of the house. or b.) be trying to capture it and tell ponyboy that it keeps moving so its hard to catch.
Then Darry would come in with a cup and paper and call them sissies.
Dally tormented Pony because of his fear of bugs. He would actually chase Pony around with a bug for his own enjoyment.
Miscellany headcanons:
Dallas finds horror movies hilarious. Like he isn't scared of them one bit and is completely unbothered. Johnny and Pony will be clinging to eachother during one and Dally is all like, "Cmon man, it's not even that scary!"
Johnny is afraid of thunderstorms and the dark. Like genuinely he is actually so scared of them.
Both Dally and Johnny bounce their legs when they're sitting, especially if they're nervous about something.
Ponyboy picks at the skin around his nails and Johnny scratches his hands a lot when he's nervous, neither of them really realize they're doing it.
Pony can't stand sherpa. like if the last remaining blanket was sherpa, he would rather sleep without a blanket.
Pony isn't the biggest fan of heights or rollercoasters and Soda doesn't like carnival rides that spin because they make him nauseous.
Dallas would rather die than use sunscreen, he absolutely hates it. Ponyboy loves sunscreen.
Two bit burns really easily. like he'll be outside for 30 minutes and he's already getting sunburnt.
Johnny doesn't go anywhere without his Jean jacket, it's his comfort item.
Steve was the kid to chew on his hoodie strings and his pencils. He couldn't have a wooden pencil without it having so many bite marks in it.
Darry cracks like every single one of his bones and it is so LOUD. He'll twist so he can stretch his back and it'll sound like if firecrackers and rice crispies had a baby.
IM DYING LITTLE ONESHOT OF A DARRY X MOTHERLY!READER 🙏🙏
OKOKOK this is so cute!!!!! i haven’t rly read a lot of darry fics so im going off what i personally think but i hope u enjoy anyway <3 also im literally writing this in my school bathroom😓sorry it’s long!!
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✧.* then he kissed me
darry curtis x motherly!reader
cw: gn!reader, motherly!reader, reader being called ‘honey’, idk?????
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darry had worked late that night, and had called upon you to watch the two idiots that he calls his brothers, sodapop and ponyboy.
it was half past midnight, and darry had just come home. he expected you to be fast asleep by now, most likely tired from watching his family. but you weren’t. you were awake on the couch reading your book, waiting up for him. you knew he’d be home late - of course you knew that, he always is, but you missed your boyfriend and wanted to see him.
darry see’s you, and this boy could melt, he’s so happy you stayed awake for him. you instantly get up and hug him, and he smiles and hugs you back.
“honey, what are you doing still up?” his voice is a whisper, careful to not wake his brothers.
“i just wanted to see you.” you reply, before breaking the hug. “you’re also later than you said you’d be, and i got worried. you should probably get to sleep, it’s a busy day tomorrow.”
he smiled. “y/n, you don’t need to worry. i’m just going to stay up a few minutes longer to get ready for tomorrow morning.”
“oh- you don’t need to worry about that. i’ve already packed ponyboy’s lunch for school, and ironed sodapop’s DX uniform. i also made chocolate cake for breakfast in the morning. i know it’s probably not very good compared to yours, but i figured it was worth the effort, anyway.”
he stares at you, in awe. “wow. that’s very kind of you, y/n.”
truthfully, he’s not used to this treatment. he’s always been the one having to stay up late, caring for others, and not having a moment of rest. he doesn’t know how to react. he’s truly in shock.
you quickly continue your rambling. “anyway, sodapop is out with steve, he’ll probably be home soon. and ponyboy is asleep upstairs, and johnny got cold and asked to come stay here for the night, so of course i said yes. poor boy.” you sigh, and then continue. “and dally also wanted to sleep over, but i know how you feel about him sleeping over after the ‘incident’, so i kicked him out. he’s probably snuck through pony’s window upstairs, though. do you want me to check? I don’t know if dally is worth the trouble, but i already told him no, and i think it’d be worth it-“
your rambling was quickly interrupted with a kiss from darry. he’s never had someone as sweet as you, helping him care for the boys. after his parents passed, all the pressure was on him. but now you’re here. and for him to find someone as caring and motherly as you, and for him to find someone that cares just as much as his family as him, probably makes him the luckiest man in the world.
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A/N : im so sorry i genuinely don’t know much abt how darry acts in a relationship and i don’t know how to write motherly readers soooo i hope this met ur expectations at least a little bit😓thank u for the request!!
*out grocery shopping*
Ponyboy: *takes a free sample twice*
Ponyboy: Robbery and Fraud. I am a Rebel.
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Ponyboy, furious: What do you mean we have homework tonight? I have books to read.
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Darry: I keep a picture of all of us in my wallet. Whenever I face difficulties, I take it out and stare at the picture.
The Squad: Awwww-
Darry: And I tell myself "If I can deal with these idiots, then I can deal with anything."
The Squad: Oh.
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Dally: I’m a bad person, I’m a very bad person, I’m a horrible person.
The Squad:
Dally: No you’re not, Dally! We still love you, Dally!
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Shapeshifter: *transforms to look like Soda*
Soda: Okay, are you like BLIND? You look nothing like me. First off, I'm way taller. Secondly, I DO NOT look so sleep deprived and lastly, if you could drag comb through that hair you're like a 7 on a good day and I've been told I'm a constant 10.
