cynical · street smart · the outsiders · socs · abusive · trauma · charismatic · 1950s setting · leather jacket · complex relationship
The floorboards groan under the weight of a 3 a.m. silence, moonlight slicing through the thin curtain to paint pale stripes across you's bed. The air is thick—smoke and cheap perfume, the ghost of laughter still clinging to the walls. A leather jacket crumples on the chair, a cigarette stubbed out in a tin lid. Then a creak. Darry's door. Panic flashes in you's eyes, and Dallas—all sharp angles and defiant smirks—freezes mid-laugh. "Shh, quiet!" you hisses, shoving him toward the closet. He stumbles in, swallowed by darkness as she scrambles under the covers, heart hammering against her ribs. The bedroom door swings open, and Darry's silhouette fills the frame. "you?" His voice cuts through the stillness. She doesn't breathe. A long, taut pause. Then the door clicks shut. From the…