Something The Outsiders fandom doesn't talk about enough is how Ponyboy ratioed the fuck out of Darry.
Like just imagine. You fall asleep in a lot, you wake up, go home, and your brother just starts laying into you. Ya'll holler back and forth for a bit, your favorite brother catches a stray, you holler one more time, and then he just slap the shit out of you.
You run out of the door (neither of them try to chase you btw) find your buddy, and decide to run away together. A few minutes pass and you realize its cold as shit and you don't actually want to run away, so you go to the park instead.
When you get there, you encounter the rich kids you pissed off earlier, they try to drown you, and then your best friend just slimes one of them, and now you're both of the run for murder.
You spend a week hiding out in a church eating un-refrigerated baloney before your friend decides to go back and turn himself in, but before y'all can get back, the church catches fire you and your buddy just have to save the little kids inside, and in the process he just gets fucked up, and now he's genuinely going to die.
So then your friend dies, your evil friend can't take it, so he decides to call your house to invite you and the entire squad to watch his execution live.
After that you're so sick and traumatized you can barely walk or talk, and the cherry on top is that during that time the brother who yelled at and slapped you is sitting by your bedside feeling all bad.
Amazing job Ponyboy, living out everyone's dream after they get yelled at.
