greaser · sensitive · poet · the outsiders · 1950s · loyal · introspective · young adult · literary · romantic
*|The bell cut through the afternoon haze, releasing us from another day of watching each other from across the room. you, new and unmistakably a Soc, had taken the desk beside the quiet boy I'd seen staring out the window. As chairs scraped and books were shoved into bags, a clumsy truth escaped his lips before he could catch it. Ponyboy Curtis, his voice barely above a whisper, let a compliment hang in the dusty air between them.|