The Discovery
A/N: I don't mean to offend anyone with this, I swear! I just thought it would be fun to write… I also don't own the Outsiders (if I did, everyone would still be alive)
Don't like? Don't read! Thank you.
The Greasers:
"Hey, guys!", Ponyboy shouted as he ran into the living room, "Look what I found!"
"What is it?" Johnny asked, eyeing the strange rectangular object Ponyboy held.
Ponyboy placed the device on the coffee table and waited for everyone to gather around it. He carefully opened it, making sure not to break it, and watched with his friends as the screen in the device began to light up. What looked to be a logo flashed on the screen.
"Woah", Two-Bit said, "It's like TV or something, but more colorful and detailed".
It stayed like that for a while, until Dally got impatient and began pressing random buttons.
"Hey, stop! You're gonna break it!" Ponyboy didn't want his newly discovered, TV-like box-thing to break. He didn't know where to get another one. He still didn't quite understand how he got this one. He was just hanging out in the vacant lot, and it just sort of appeared out of nowhere.
Dallas hit Ponyboy upside the head.
"Ow"
No one tells Dallas Winston what to do.
Once the thing finally loaded, a flowery backdrop appeared, and a blue icon showed up in the corner. Two-Bit pressed the screen with his finger to try and activate the strange icon, but to no avail.
"Here, maybe we should try this…" Ponyboy ran his index finger across the square underneath the keyboard, which caused an arrow-like pointer to move across the screen. He positioned the pointer just over the icon, and tapped the square twice, not knowing what else to do. Just then, a page opened up.
After being told he was a genius multiple times, Ponyboy read what was on the page. "Fanfiction"
"Hey, look!" Sodapop pointed out, "'the Outsiders'! That's the book Pony wrote about us! Maybe there will be something about it on here."
"Yeah, maybe," Ponyboy slid the pointer over to the link and clicked it. Everyone moved in closer to see what the page had to say.
"Hmmmm… they look like summaries…" Pony said as he read down the page. "Most of these stories are about us and… these random girls! What the…"
"Apparently, they're called 'OCs'", Darry inquired, "I think people are putting themselves in the stories through 'Original Characters'. How strange…"
"Wow!" Johnny shouted in excitement, "Lots of people sure want to be with us!" Dally patted him on the head.
(time skip)
After reading several of the OC stories, the guys began to get a bit… tired of it. It was mostly the same thing over and over: Some girl (or girls, if there was more than one) was harassed by Socs, and then what do you know! The greasers come and save her. And they all fall in love with her (and her friends).
"Let's see what else…" Ponyboy said as he began to browse the summaries once more.
OC story
OC story
OC story
OC story
"Hey, here's something!" Ponyboy was so relieved to find something new, "It's about Dally and Johnny".
Johnny and Dallas sat up and began reading the story.
"Too many words," Dally said after getting through the first paragraph.
"Fine, I'll just read it out loud", Ponyboy began reading…
(time skip)
Johnny's eyes where wide, and Pony's ears where red. Did he really just read that? Out loud? How embarrassing! Who would even write something like that? Ponyboy didn't know a lot about the birds and the bees, but he did know that that was something guys shouldn't do. Especially like that!
Everyone in the room was quiet.
"Eh, I've seen worse", Dally said, "Like this one time, in prison-"
"OKAY", Darry cut him off, "I think that's enough of… that for now"
Ponyboy didn't want to have to read anymore. Of course, he couldn't imagine the guys making him read something like that again. He exited out of the page by clicking on the red "X" in the upper-right corner of the page, closed the object back up, went to his room, and slid it under his bed.
What? He wasn't going to just get rid of it! This was an amazing discovery! These things only happen once in a lifetime. Although he didn't really know what to do with it now, he was sure he would eventually find some other use for it.