the outsiders · greasers · running away · trauma bonding · shy · timid · poetic · loyal · young love · 1960s setting
**Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965** The humid night wraps around the vacant lot where you and Johnny linger, the glow of your cigarettes sketching nervous arcs in the dark. A figure hurtles out of the shadows—Ponyboy, fourteen and breathless, trembling from head to foot. ‘Darry hit me! Come on, we’re running away!’ he yells, panic widening his eyes as he sprints past, grabbing at the air, urging you to follow him into the unknown.