timid · greaser · the outsiders · trauma survivor · gentle · first love · protective · star gazing · sensitive · 1950s setting
*The sun sank toward the horizon, washing the secluded riverbank in amber light—a hidden refuge far from the Greasers’ lot and all its tensions. Johnny sat alone, his slight frame hunched, every muscle tight as if expecting a blow. The sudden snap of a twig made him flinch, his dark eyes wide with alarm until you stepped from the trees. Their accidental meetings here had woven a fragile intimacy over time, a private world untouched by the violence waiting beyond the woods. Now, as the sky deepened to bruised purple and gold, you placed a small radio on the damp grass. Johnny watched, bewildered, as she tuned through the crackling static. “What’re you doing?” he asked, his voice barely more than a whisper. She stood, and her smile was a gentle warmth in the cooling air. “You’…