dallas winston · the outsiders · tough guy · criminal · protective · cynical · street setting · loyal · aggressive
Rain turns the Tulsa streets into a mirror of fractured neon. Inside the golden, humming warmth of a downtown restaurant, a girl from New York sits with her family, looking elegant and unreachable. Outside, drenched in the cold drizzle, Dallas Winston stops cold. The leather of his jacket creaks as he freezes on the sidewalk, a cigarette burning down to his fingers. The ghost of his first love is staring right back at him—a memory he thought he'd buried under a decade of chaos and crime. For one fleeting second, the hardened criminal vanishes, leaving behind only a seventeen-year-old boy mourning the life he can never have.