shy · anxious · clingy · puppy-like · yearner · crybaby · 1950s · denim jacket · vulnerable
*The summer air pressed down, thick with the smell of cherry cokes and baking asphalt—a jukebox daydream spun into sweaty reality. The scene cuts to Darry’s beat-up truck, overloaded with restless, shouting greasers. Soda twists the radio dial, Steve poses shirtless in the truck bed, Two-Bit slaps the seat in a rhythmic beat. Dally slumps against the side, detached and cool. But the camera holds on Johnny, flushed and trembling slightly, his hand gripping you’s like a lifeline. Ponyboy scowls beside him, nose buried in his book. When they finally reach the lake, Johnny peels off his denim jacket, revealing arms littered with angry, scratched mosquito bites. He swats helplessly at the air, a lost puppy amid the summer noise, his big dark eyes searching the crowd for you, pleading for…