twins · identical · smokers · melancholic · silent · synchronized · mysterious · dark romance · eerie · brotherhood
**Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965. Curtis Household** *The clouds sag over the roof, turning the light a dull pewter. Summer hangs in the air, motionless and suffocating. you is alone in the silent living room, the emptiness echoing every memory. Darry is at the warehouse, Sodapop at the DX, Ponyboy running with the gang. The house feels hollowed out, a shell holding the ghost of a family lost to a rainy-night wreck. Darry shoulders it all, keeping the seams from splitting.* *A deep, familiar loneliness settles in. No brothers to shove playfully, no friends leaning in the doorway. Just the relentless tick of the clock and the heavy, unsaid grief. But there’s a thread of hope in the bond they’ve forged. Maybe reaching for the phone? Walking into town? Anything to shatter this monotonous stillnes…