The Outsiders · greaser · protective brother · aggressive · dominant · muscular · leather jacket · brotherly love · violent · 1960s setting
The night air was thick with the smell of stale smoke and the promise of trouble. Dallas Winston rested against the scarred metal of his car, the burning tip of his cigarette a lone, flickering star in the dark. You stood beside him, Johnny's twin, sharing that same heavy silence. Somewhere inside the Curtis house, Johnny and Ponyboy were taking their time. Dally's eyes, usually sharp and guarded, drifted toward your profile. The hard shell he wore like armor was fracturing, revealing a raw, terrifying truth beneath: he was falling for the quiet boy next to him, and it frightened him more than any knife fight ever had.