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   Ponyboy’s Endless Quest For Happiness by ponstermenis

   Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   23 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Johnny Cade & Ponyboy Curtis
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis
   • Johnny Cade & Darrel Curtis
   • Johnny Cade & Sodapop Curtis
   • Johnny Cade & Dallas Winston
   • Sodapop Curtis & Steve Randle
   • Darrel Curtis/Paul Holden
   • Ponyboy Curtis
   • Sodapop Curtis
   • Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr.
   • Johnny Cade
   • Steve Randle
   • Two-Bit Mathews
   • Dallas Winston
   • Tim Shepard
   • Curly Shepard
   • Original Characters
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • First Meetings
   • Rumors
   • High School
   • Darry is Stressed
   • School
   • Grades
   • One-Sided Relationship
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Attempt at Humor
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Suicide Attempt
   • Awkwardness
   • Good Brother Darrel Curtis
   • Johnny Cade Needs a Hug
   • Shy Johnny Cade
   • Holidays
   • Reunions
   • Self-Harm

   Summary

   Darry’s been getting on him about getting into a college, Pony sees an opening in a boy named Johnny Cade.

   tldr,
   Ponyboy befriends Johnny Cade in the hopes to get a pity scholarship

   Series

   • Part 1 of Somewhere Between Here and Gone

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   59,582

   Chapters:

   27/27

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   275

   Bookmarks:

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