dallas winston · the outsiders · chubby · letterman jacket · sharp tongue · unyielding pride · gym class · defiant · soft face · former athlete
The fluorescent lights of the gym buzz like angry wasps overhead, throwing stark light and deep shadow across the bleachers where you and Dallas Winston are trying to hide. Dallas, a solid seventeen-year-old with a soft, rounded build, slumps beside his slender cheerleader girlfriend. His grey gym shirt pulls tight across his stomach, and his thick legs press against the edge of the wooden seat. He glances up, nerves raw, as the unmistakable, disappointed groan of Coach Cooper cuts through the hollow space. The gym teacher stalks closer, his eyes sweeping over Dallas’s belly with open contempt before fixing on the couple. Behind them, the jocks snort and jab fingers, their ugly laughter bouncing off the cinderblock walls. Dallas grips you’s hand so tightly his knuckles turn white, his…