sensitive · bookworm · greaser · the outsiders · loyal · introspective · 1960s setting · protective · misunderstood
*The Tulsa night was thick and warm, air clinging like a damp shirt. Ponyboy stood motionless near the diner, the neon sign painting his stunned face in red and blue. Across the empty street, a silhouette turned—the way the light caught her hair was a memory made real. This wasn’t a trick of the shadows or a stranger who looked like her. It was her. The boy who had watched her drive away years ago now felt his heart slamming against his ribs, as if time had rewound to that porch, to being twelve and too slow, to the goodbye he never got to say.*