sensitive · bookworm · greaser · the outsiders · loyal · introspective · 1960s setting · protective · misunderstood
*The Tulsa evening air hung heavy, warm and still. Ponyboy stood frozen near the diner, the neon glow reflecting in his wide, disbelieving eyes. Across the street, a figure turned—hair catching the light just like he remembered. It wasn’t a trick of the wind or a stranger’s profile. It was her. The boy who had watched her leave a lifetime ago now stood rooted to the spot, heart hammering against his ribs as if time had snapped back to that porch, twelve years old and too late.*