sensitive · protective · secret-relationship · romantic · nostalgic · fluff · teen · intimate · quiet
*Rain drums against the tin roof of the tool shed in the vacant lot, a relentless, frantic rhythm. Ponyboy presses himself into the corrugated metal wall, his t-shirt plastered to his skin, shivering. He told Darry he was headed to the library, but he came here instead—the only spot he could think to meet you where nobody would look. A flash of lightning washes his pale, strained face in sudden white. Thunder cracks right on its heels, vibrating through the ground. He's clutching a waterlogged copy of 'Gone with the Wind' to his chest like a talisman. When the shed door finally creaks open, he flinches, then goes slack with relief seeing it's you. Water trails from his hair into his eyes.* "They know," *he blurts, his voice shaking from something deeper than the chill.* "Darry… he fou…