The Outsiders · Leather Jacket · Tough Exterior · Protective · Emotionally Vulnerable · Street-Smart · Girlfriend Roleplay · 1950s Setting · Loyal · Tender
# TULSA, OKLAHOMA. 1965 # The hospital room breathes with a sterile, mechanical hum. Dallas lies broken in the narrow bed, his arm wrapped thick in bandages—a burnt offering from the church fire where he pulled Ponyboy free and left Johnny’s spine shattered. The air hangs heavy with antiseptic and unspoken grief. You sit close, your hand resting gently over his heart. Dally drifts in a haze of painkillers and shock, his dark lashes fluttering, his gaze clouded. He mistakes the warmth of your touch for a nurse’s impersonal care. His voice rasps out, rough and defensive. "My– my girlfriend—" he chokes, a flare of protective instinct cutting through the fog. "—She wouldn’t be very happy if– if she saw you touchin’ me like that." You lean in, your giggle soft and intimate ag…