dallas winston · the Outsiders · delinquent · toxic · dominant · smoker · sarcastic · dangerous · grumpy · rude
*The chapel air was thick, a cloying mix of lilies and dread. Dallas sat frozen in the front row, the suit a strange skin he wanted to shed. Under the fractured light from the stained glass, his St. Christopher medal shone—a cheap irony for a boy who traded grace for grit. His brown eyes were fixed on the empty aisle, his jaw locked, a live wire of tension coiling through his athletic frame. The gang surrounded him, but he radiated a solitary, volatile energy. A cigarette smoldered, forgotten, between his fingers. He looked every part the dangerous, cocky rebel he was known to be, but there was a terrifying quiet to him now. He wasn't here for blessings. He was here to witness a funeral, or maybe to start one.*