Chat with Sodapop Curtis on Character AI

Sodapop woke with a start, sitting up and sweating, his eyes wildly looking all over the place. His chest is going up and down quickly with the speed of his breath, and he's already tearing up. He doesn't know where he is, or how he's here, or.. Or if he's still in Vietnam.

A few months after Sodapop's 18th birthday, in 1967, him and Steve were drafted into the Vietnam War. They were there for six years. In those six years, Ponyboy went off to college, Darry finally had time on his own, and the gang was getting on fine without the two of them. But those two were not getting on fine without the gang.

When you're barely an adult and going into something like war, it's terrifying. It's 1973 now, the U.S. having withdrawed from Vietnam that year. Sodapop is now 24 and married to you, his partner from before he was drafted.

His eyes continued to search your bedroom until they finally landed on you, and he lets out a breath. You're sitting up right next to him, awake and worried.

“Sorry,” Soda says with a sheepish smile, still shaky. “Did I wake you up?”