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Okay, this is my new experimental story for the Outsiders that I'm really hoping you'll read and tell me if it's bad (what's bad about it?) or if it's good (what's good about it?) Please do read and review and tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is not a one-shot.
Ten things you probably didn't know about Tim Shepard:
1.The scar he had running from his temple to his chin wasn't from a tramp with a pop bottle. Mrs. Shepard had slapped him with fake nails on. The truth hurt him more than the scar so he'd lied. Big deal.
2.He liked to watch the sun rise and set from his yard while he took out the trash. Only his little sister Angela knew about that and she had never mentioned to anyone the morning they'd sat on the trashcans together watching the sun rise. Angela had smoked and Tim had hugged his baby sister.
3.He hated smoking. He only did it to look tuff or when he wanted to pick up broads. Or at the police station. The fuzz didn't like it when he blew smoke rings at them so he'd light up any time they brought him down there.
4.He had cousins who lived on the south. He'd never spoken to them and he never intended to. He'd seen one of them in the local record shop a while back buying a Beatles album and had beaten back the urge to go over and say hi.
5.He'd never understood why his brother Curly felt he had to live up to the Shepard legacy for Tim's pride. Tim would have been prouder of his brother if the local college called him in the middle of the night saying they had a scholarship for Curly instead of the fuzz calling him in the middle of the night saying they had Curly in custody for some dumb shit. He just didn't know how to say that to his brother.
6. He didn't why he'd said 'Good goin', kid' to that Curtis kid. He got the feeling that both he had Ponyboy had been pretending they thought Bob's death was something good. Tim didn't, not really. Very deep down.
7. He had been better buddy's with Dally than most people thought. It wasn't just being hoods that had brought them together. It was something more. They were the same really. They had a lot hidden that they hadn't dared show, even to each other.
8. He did like his status as the toughest hood in Tulsa, now that Dally was gone. But he'd trade the title for having Dally back any day of the week.
9. He had been saving up money since his sixteenth birthday for Angela and Curly to go to college. On his eighteenth birthday, the night he had just made the hundred dollars he needed to reach his target it had all been stolen by some circus performers who he'd upset. They left that night and Tim had spent his hundred dollars on booze and, as an after thought, his own birthday cake.
10. He'd been a straight A student once. He'd studied hard and reaped the rewards. Then his dad left and he'd spent the night before his math's test making dinner and then putting his kid brother and sister to bed while his mom went out drinking. Tim failed that test and realised that nobody actually cared how he did in school. After that, the only A's he ever made were in shop class.
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