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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    "I guess you leave me no choice."

    Darry grabbed his ankles and yanked, and that sure woke him up. With a yelp, Pony scrambled for his bed frame and latched onto it like a lifeline. "Jeez, Darry, quit it! You're bein' nuts!"

    Darry kept pulling him, looking damn near close to wrestling him off of the mattress. "Hey, I asked nicely! Ain't my fault you won't listen!"

    "You haven't asked nice for nothin' a day in your life! Cut it out!"

    "Yeah, cause you're challengin' my authority!" With one final pull, Darry yanked him right off the bed like he weighed as much as a feather. Pony scrambled, feeling oddly similar to a small animal as Darry shook him by his ankles and held him upside down. "You keep this up and I'm groundin' you on the spot."

    "You can't do that!"

    "Who says I can't? I'm in charge and whatever I say goes. You wanna start gettin' ready for school, or do you wanna be grounded for a month?"

    Or: Pony refuses to get up for school. Darry makes him. Tears and comfort ensue shortly after.

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    28 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    And even as much as it annoys him to admit, Pony wishes this Darry - the kind, gentle one in the sunsoaked truck rumbling down Peoria Ave - could be bottled up forever. He selfishly just wants this moment to last forever. He wants to spend time with this Darry. Watch TV with him, do homework with him, play solitaire with him, toss a football around with him.


    Ponyboy is used to hearing all ends of arguing from his older brother but when he and Johnny walk themselves right into trouble, Darry doesn’t chew them out like he should. Like he normally would have. Something ain’t right, and Pony’s got to figure out what.

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    27 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    Stand upright. Chin up. Feet planted strong beneath you. Let the world condense into a line between yourself and your target. Envision in your mind what your heart calls you to do.

    The words of Wylan’s tutors echoed in his ears, but they served little help. His heart didn’t want him to do anything but turn and run.

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    Wylan Van Eck is supposed to be a hero. That is the legacy he was born into and the expectation he's been raised under. Now he's sixteen and somehow still powerless, certain that he will keep failing to defend himself until at last he cannot outrun death.

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    20 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 55

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    Fire wasn’t so good for me anymore. It gave me these fits where the world got real loud and I got real small and my lungs forgot how to work. It was only sometimes though, and I could snap myself out of it quick enough.

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    Ponyboy doesn't understand complex trauma but that doesn't stop his body from experiencing it.

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    17 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    Ponyboy gets jumped and freaks out. He just lost his parents- he's not ready to have more people he cares about ripped away from him, especially not if they're Darrel and Sodapop Curtis, his new foster family.

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    23 Mar 2026