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Johnny and Darry Friendship HCs

Okay so this is random, but I feel like I never see anything about Darry and Johnny’s friendship. So I made this. I hope it’s kinda good.

- When they first met, Johnny was a bit scared of Darry because he was big and had a loud voice

- It took awhile for Johnny to trust Darry, and in the beginning he avoided him

- One night Johnny was sitting at the table with Ponyboy trying to do his math homework, but he was super confused and didn’t understand. Pony tried explaining it but he was impatient which only frustrated Johnny

- Darry offered to help Johnny. He explained the math problems slowly and went trough each step with him on every problem. He was really patient and figured out a way to teach Johnny so that he could understand

- This was a break through moment in their relationship, and after that Johnny started to warm up to Darry little by little

- in the little free time Darry had he tutored Johnny

- Johnny passed classes with a C or B average because of Darry’s help

- Darry would always get frustrated that Johnny’s teachers saw him as a lost cause because he was smart, he jut needed extra help and simplified explanations

- Johnny always told Mr. or Mrs. Curtis that they didn’t need to feed him dinner or let him stay at their house. Whenever they offered something he’d say something like, “You don’t have to,” or “I don’t wanna be a bothe.” But whenever they offered chocolate cake, he accepted it right away and would eat a whole piece in about a minute. Darry is the one that started calling him Johnnycake because he loved cake so much.

- Sometimes Darry would take Johnny out to the movies or Dairy Queen and they would just sit in silence, with a bit of conversation in between. Johnny was the only person Darry was willing to go to the movies with, and he always paid for everything when him and Johnny went somewhere.

- Neither of them minded the silence; things were said and understood without the use of words

- Darry felt bad that Johnny was an only child and had a horrible home life, so he did his best to step into a big brother role for Johnny

- Johnny always went to Darry’s football games with the Curtis’ and enjoyed cheering him on

- Johnny saved up some money so that he could bring Darry to DQ and pay for his meal as a graduation gift

- After the Curtis parents died, Johnny started sleeping in the lot because he didn’t want to intrude on the Curtis house. Darry happened to be driving by after work and stopped to talk to him

- Darry told Johnny that he was always welcome at their house and the couch was always open. He semi scolded him for being in the lot with only a jean jacket to wear because it was freezing out. Darry convinced him to sleep at their house that night.

- Darry gave Johnny his jean jacket because he had grown out of it; it had always been a bit big on Johnny

- Johnny always felt safe around Darry

- Sometimes when Johnny came in the middle of the night to sleep on the Curtis couch, Darry would wake up and go out to sit and talk with him, or they would eat chocolate cake in the kitchen

- Darry cleaned Johnny up after the Socs beat him and slept in the recliner so he could keep an eye on him all night

- If Darry needed someone to just sit in silence with, to watch tv with, or to rant to, Johnny was the perfect person

- Darry was always extremely protective, but he never made a display of it because he didn’t want to annoy Johnny

- When Johnny died, Darry went out and got drunk and then cried in the lot by himself

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It is just me, or does Glenn Withrow who plays Tim Shepard in The Outsiders movie not look Tim enough? I feel like he would look so much tougher. Like he would have more muscle and a scarred up face and messed up teeth. And his hair would be longer and super carefully greased. And he would be a bit taller and for some reason I picture him with a tan. I just feel like Glenn didn’t really fit the role of Tim Shepard. His voice wasn’t scary and he didn’t have a commanding presence about him like I feel Tim would have. I know, I know, he is an actor and he can’t look like the character or whatever, but still....I feel they could’ve casted someone more Tim-like. Not saying Glenn is a bad actor. He is great and I think he had an excellent role as Biff in Rumble Fish; he’s just not Tim enough for me. I remember watching the movie for the first time and he appeared on screen and I was like, “That’s Shepard? How?” This might just be me. I don’t know. Let me know what you think.

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I’m Weak

Do you want to know how weak I am? The kind of weak I am? I’m the “can’t lie down with my elbows bent holding my phone above my face because my arms turn to noodles” weak. I’m the “can’t stand in heels for more than three minutes without wobbling” weak. I’m the “can’t brush my teeth without taking a break because my arm gets tired” weak. I’m the “can’t put my hair up in a pony tail because there’s to much and it makes my arms sore” weak. I’m the “can’t text to long because my thumbs go numb” weak. I’m the “can’t wear my backpack for more than ten minutes because it hurts my back” weak. I’m the “can’t lie on my stomach and prop myself up on my elbows for too long” weak. I’m the “applying mascara requires too much wrist movement” weak. I’m the “can’t write too long because my fingers cramp” weak. I’m the “it takes too much energy to change the speed of my ceiling fan” weak. I’m the “I don’t want to change my outfit again even though this outfit is ugly because I don’t have the strength to but on another pair of skinny jeans” weak. I’m the “I don’t want to get out of bed and walk down the hall to pee” weak. I’m the “I don’t want to take my makeup off because it requires too much scrubbing” weak. I’m the “I can barley breath after running up ten steps” weak. I’m the “I don’t want to pour water in my cup because the jug is more than a pound” weak. I’m the “I should probably sweep my room but the sweeper is heavy” weak. I’m the “I need to stop tying this because my thumbs are hurting” weak. I’m the “This is a prime example of how weak I am” weak. I’m the “I better stop typing this now or else....I don’t actually know an ‘or else’ to add because that requires too much thinking” weak. I’m weak. And I’m strong enough to admit that.

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I’ve always wondered why S.E. Hinton made the gang out of seven people. Like she could’ve made it an even eight or six or larger. I bet that the Shepards, Brumly, and Tigers had a lot of people in their gangs. Yes, I know that the Curtis gang isn’t really a gang, just a tight group of friends, but why seven? She could’ve left it at six, one person for each opposite person. Soda and Steve, Johnny and Ponyboy, Two-Bit and Darry(I like to think Darry was closest to Two-Bit friend-wise since he is the closest in age to Darry.) Dally is the odd one out. Now, in my mind, Dallas didn’t meet the gang until later, but still. Am I the only person who thinks someone like Dallas would’ve joined one of the tougher gangs that are actually, you know, a gang? We are told Dallas is a cold, mean, rough kind of person who is a criminal and lived on the wrong side of New York. Why would he chose the Curtis ‘gang.’ Maybe he met them first, maybe it was because of Johnny, maybe it was because of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis. But still… I keep on thinking, why? I think Hinton was going for a diverse group of people- and they are very different- and she wanted them to be like people in real life. Opposites are supposed to attract, right? Maybe that is what she is going for. Now for the size. I know it’s called a gang, but it’s really not. Seven people- I side with Ponyboy, it’s more like a group of buddies. But I keep thinking, why seven? I looked into the number seven because I have heard some meanings and whatnot behind it, and this is what I found. Seven is a number that represents completeness, perfection, security, safety, rest, and something well done. Maybe once Hinton had seven gang members, she thought it was complete, or maybe it just felt like the perfect number of people. I believe that the boys find security and safety within each other and in the Curtis house where they get rest. And my opinion is that the gang is definitly something well done. Their characters, their diverse personalities and families, their interactions with each other- basically everything. I’m probably looking to deeply into this. To be honest, I think the best explanation is that S.E. didn’t want a big gang because she wanted the Curtis’ and their friends to be different, and she didn’t want to many main/mainish characters. Whatever the reason, I love all seven members of the Curtis ‘gang,’ and I actually have no idea why this entire thought process was running through my head. I just needed to get this out of my brain. I’ll probably reread this and be confused about my own thoughts. *rereads* Thinks to myself: “Yup. I have no idea why I was thinking about this late at night. I should probably delete this.” *posts anyway*