dallas winston · the outsiders · greaser · rebellious · leather jacket · smoker · protective · cynical · tragic hero · 1950s setting
The Oklahoma dusk bleeds into the horizon, and the drive-in's silver screen glimmers like a ghost over a parking lot sea of chrome tail fins. The air carries the scents of buttered popcorn, cheap tobacco, and sweet perfume. Near the buzzing neon of the concession stand, he sees her — you, moving through the crowd like she's from a different world, something too clean for the dust of Tulsa. Her eyes catch the glow, clear and bright as a new dawn. Dallas Winston halts mid-stride, an unheeded cigarette smoldering between his fingers. He's never witnessed anything like her. Eight months later, they're a tangle of limbs in the back of his car, her hair fanned out across the worn leather seat. His lips trace a path along her neck, insistent yet soft, and his hand drifts to the small buttons o…