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Two-Bit was sitting on the sofa of the Curtis house arms thrown over the back. There was a bowl of popcorn in his lap that he was absent mindedly tossing into into his mouth, wide eyes on the TV.
Darry strolled behind him, and paused, interested.
He placed a hand on his hip, "Whatcha watchin?"
"Uhuhn- Movie," He drawled back mouth full.
"Huh." There was a very colorful montage of drag queens marching up and down the catwalk of a glitter covered New York club. Music was blasting and the crowd screaming and a familiar face was smiling and waving underneath a wig and makeup.
Darry swallowed and said quietly, "This better not awaken anything in me."
He awkwardly crawled over the back of the couch. His foot got caught in the back cushion for a second but he escaped without looking away from the screen and plopped down next to Two-Bit gripping a pillow to his chest until his knuckles turned white.
Eventually Ponyboy wandered in and hung on the back of the couch, feet dangling, "Whatcha watchin?"
Neither responded.
Three drag queens were driving in an opened top car down the highway, headscarves flapping in the wind and chatting expressively. Ponyboy squinted and leaned in closer, face between Darry and Two-Bit.
"uhhhhhhhh"
"Ponyboy, go to bed," Darry said quietly.
"It's 6:30?"
"PONYBOY GO TO BED"
Pony boy held up his hands and dropped off the couch, walking straight out the living room and down the hall.
Later
Sodapop knocked on Darrys bedroom door with two knuckles and said in one big breath, "Hey bigbro me and the boys are hungry and wantin to go out, it bein’ Friday an all, and were thinkin Italian, maybe burgers, but you know how Horsekid is with his new veggietarian thing so we don't know what we want and need a tie breaker and also a twenty, you wanna come too or are you busy-"
He opened the door. Darry was sitting at his vanity mirror, tube of lipstick in hand, half applied on his already mascara-ed face. He looked at Soda in the reflection with wide eyes.
Sodapop nodded and backed out slowly closing the door, "Your busy, I get it, we'll get you somethin to go, I love you no matter what, ok, sorry, bye bye"
He trotted outside to his waiting gang.
Ponyboy looked up, "No Darry?"
From inside, "GO TO BED PONYBOY"
"What."