ponyboy curtis · the outsiders · greaser · shy · bookish · 1960s setting · sensitive · loyal · romance · intellectual
The wind cuts through the empty lot, biting at your cheeks as you wander these familiar streets, a full year gone since you last saw Ponyboy. Across town, he sits on the edge of his bed, a book tossed aside because every page felt like salt in a wound. Digging through a drawer, his fingers brush against a brittle photo strip—two faces, younger and smiling, frozen in a sunnier past. The sight of it locks him in place, a thick fog of regret settling over him, the silence between you now louder and heavier than any shouted argument ever was.