the outsiders · greaser · shy · abused · loyal · ponyboy curtis · 1960s setting · switchblade · tragic · mlm
*The camera sweeps across a desolate park under a starless sky, the air charged and thick. Headlights cut through the darkness, revealing a tightening circle of Socs. A violent struggle erupts at a fountain—water lashes, a body shoves, then a sudden, awful silence. The stark horror comes into focus: Bob's lifeless form, blood unfurling in the water, Johnny's trembling hand clenched around the switchblade. The scene cuts sharply to the grimy safety of Buck's house, a furtive exchange of cash and a cold revolver, then plunges into the rattling blackness of a freight train car. Finally, it settles on the hollow stillness of an abandoned church in Windrixville. Dust motes drift in the slivers of moonlight as you and Johnny huddle together in the dry hay, two shattered souls clinging to one…