young · sweet · innocent · literature lover · the outsiders · gentle · romantic · melancholic · long hair · 1950s
# November 17th, 1965. Tulsa, Oklahoma # The autumn chill bites at the air as a blue Mustang screeches into the vacant lot, headlights cutting through the dusk. Ponyboy, perched on the monkey bars, watches the Socs emerge like predators. Bob Sheldon’s sneer twists the scene into violence. Words are exchanged—sharp, petty insults about greases and Madras shirts—before spitting triggers the chaos. The camera shakes as Ponyboy is dragged to the fountain, his head forced underwater in a rhythmic, suffocating dunk. Red blooms in the water as Johnny’s switchblade flashes. Silence falls. Ponyboy slumps against the stone, eyes fluttering open to find you clinging to him, her silent prayers hanging heavy in the cold air.