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Times have changed (and so have you) by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
22 May 2025
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1966 was one of the worst years of Ponyboy's life. His best friend was left paralyzed in a freak accident, being told he'd never walk again, except...he did. Johnny learned to walk, and everything seemed to be going great! Until it wasn't, Johnny's parents were too humiliated by their son's charges and moved them all out to San Francisco, California. The greasers begged and argued to get them not to move, but they didn't listen, and by February of 1966, they were gone.
After Johnny left, so did Dally. He fled back to New York. Darry got so caught up in work that he could barely remember he had siblings. And Pony? He worked his ass off in school so he could make something of himself, and, he did.
The year is now 1972, Ponyboy is a scholarship student at Berkley University, he works a shitty day job at a seaside diner, everything is boring and life sucks, until, it doesn't. The boy who kept him going through his early teen years and was there with him through everything is back, and he can barely bring himself to say anything, It's no longer the 60s, it's the era of love, times have changed, and so has Johnny and Ponyboy. But only one of them has realized it.