Hi. I'm Ean Winston. I'm the son of Dallas Winston and Brittney Golbert. (OC). For being twelve all my friends say I'm pretty tough. maybe even the strongest in our gang. That's because my dad taught me how to fight and be strong at a young age. I look like both my parents, but I mainly got dad's looks. I have his eyes, mouth, nose, and pretty much everything else. My eyes are like a blue blazing ice (that's what other people say.) And yes, I am a towhead. I may have my dad's looks but I have my mom's caring personality.
Not only am I a towhead but I'm a greaser. A downtown hood. Only thing is I'm not like your average greaser. I don't get arrested. My parents would kill me. I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs. I do however fight. I fought a couple socs when they tried to jump me. I was able to fight them off with my switchblade. I only had a few bruises. I only fought one other greaser in my life; Barren Green. He was asking for it. He's in Vince Shepard's gang. It's pretty rare for a greaser to fight a greaser and a soc to fight a soc, but it happens every once in a while. My mom was real mad. She can't stand it when I get in fights, she even grounded me. My dad was yelling at me along with her but when she left the room he told me to not sweat it and he was proud of me.
I'm the second oldest in the gang. The oldest is Mary Curtis. She's the daughter of Ponyboy Curtis and Sara Smith (OC). Her parents had her when they were only sixteen, so she's older than everyone. She's fourteen now. Mary looks just like her dad. Long, auburn hair. Yellowish-greenish eyes. Man, those are the prettiest eyes on a girl I've ever seen. Mary used to be fun and outgoing, but that was before her younger brother, Jack, joined our gang when he was six. That was two years back.
Mark Matthews is the wise cracker of the gang. He can make anyone laugh or grin. At home he's known as Two-Bit Jr. Out of the whole gang he's my best friend. We've been friends since preschool. He's known for his shoplifting and convincing skills. He could get caught and persuade someone not to call the cops. That skill could come in handy. Mark has pitch black hair and wide shoulders. Pretty muscular for an eleven year old I'll say. He has a big Mickey Mouse obsession like his dad did. People think it's weird but I did MM too. A funny thing about him is his dad wanted to name him Matthew for kicks, but his wife, Cathy, hated the idea. If she would've said anything his name would be Matthew Matthews
After him comes Mike Shepard, son of Tim Shepard. He never met his mother. Mike is just plain mean. You don't tangle with him; you just don't. I would actually consider him a friend if he weren't so bitter. He can be pretty dangerous too. Just as dangerous as his older half-brother, Vince. I'll give Mike this, some days he can be the funniest guy ever, but he's mostly mean and distant. I can understand why he's like that; his mom abandoned him and he never really got over it. It usually takes his dad and brother a long time to calm him down whenever he thinks about it. The fact him and Vince always fight doesn't help much either. Sometimes I can't tell if they hate each other or if Vince is strict with Mike. It's too hard to tell the difference. I remember a time Mike told me he tried drinking when he was ten and when Vince caught him he back handed him so hard he dropped the bottle. He also told me Vince said if he ever caught him gain he would kill him. Judging by that I think Vince cares about Mike, but he just doesn't show it.
Mike looks so much like his dad it's scary. He has dark blue eyes, and black greasy hair. Mike is very tall. He has to be five foot seven. Even taller than Vince. With that height he looks sixteen instead of eleven.
Then there's Sussie Randle. She's the toughest greasy girl in the gang, maybe even in all of Tulsa. She got jumped a couple days ago by socs and beat them without any kind of weapon, but that usually doesn't happen anymore because the whole soc greaser thing is starting to die down. Sussie tries to avoid home as much as possible because her dad, Steve, and her mom, Evie fight a lot. Sussie told me her dad pays more attention to her mom and kind of ignores Sussie and when he does that her mom gets mad. She has long blond hair and her dad's eyes. Sussie has some pretty wide cheekbones. Just saying.
Kind of like what I said earlier; just because to soc greaser thing is dying down. doesn't mean it can't happen. It actually came to an end for a couple of years, but there was a really big fight and it started up again and has been going on ever socs can be pretty brutal at times. The people who get the most heat from them is Mike and Jack. Even if Jack is just a kid he does start a lot of the fighting with the pranks and vandalism he does. Still the beatings he gets can be unnecessary. Mike gets whooped a lot too. He's been beaten with golf sticks, had bricks and tool boxes thrown at him, been chased with cars. Most of the problem is Mike is so tall socs mistake him for being fifteen or sixteen, so when their beating him up they think their belting a teenager instead of an eleven year old. One time his dad called the cops. He got beat up that bad that day.
The most liked person in the gang is Norman Cade. Johnny Cade's son. Norman can be pretty emotional most of the time because his mom died when he was two. He gets really upset when someone mentions her, other than that he's a clown. He's a fairly tall tan skinned boy with big brown eyes and matching hair. A weird thing about Norman is he obsesses over ham sandwiches. If you have a problem with a ham sandwich you have a problem with Norman, and you don't want a problem with Norman. Norman's just as wild as Jack.
Mary and Jack's cousin Jo is nine going on ten. He has pure green eyes and red hair. I'm pretty sure his and Jack's full time job is terrorizing socs. They do it everyday. Jo told me the thing that gets under his skin is his mom, Cynthia (OC). She can't stand Jack or anything he does. His dad, Darry, thinks Jack is just fine. That is his nephew after all. Jo has a one year old little brother, Todd. He doesn't mention him much. I don't know what that's about but I don't go around and ask those kinds of questions.
Jack and Mary's other uncle, Sodapop and his wife Cherry are expecting a baby in a couple months. I always wondered why he waited so long to have kids. Then I found out his ex Sandy cheated and got knocked up with someone else's kid and moved to Florida. It took him a couple years to get over it.
The youngest people in the gang are my kid sister, Annie, and Mary's brother, Jack. Everyone thinks their twins but the only reason their the same age is my mom and his mom got pregnant around the same time. Their buddy buddy ,so they mostly hang out with each other.
Annie is really tall. Five foot two at only eight years old. She has light blond hair and the same eyes as me (we both inherited our dad's looks.) Annie is the ''angel'' or ''good girl'' of the group. She never does anything wrong. Never fights, steals, smokes, drinks, gets in trouble with the fuzz, or jumps anyone.
Jack is the complete opposite. He's the troublemaker and prankster of the group. Almost all socs trembled at his name. If you were a greaser he could be your best friend, but if you were a soc you woke up every morning terrified about what he would do to you. He gets in trouble all the time, Whether it be at school or at home. Maybe that's why Mary found him so annoying. Jack is teaching his brother, Danny, how to act like him. That should be interesting. Jack has black hair and grey-green eyes. The funny thing about him and Mary is Jack looks like their mom and Mary looks like their dad. Danny is a perfect mix of both. I can see why Jack is the way he is. All socs targeted him and he targeted all socs.
In the gang everyone's dad lets them get away with more than their mom. That's how it works at my house. The only time my dad is strict is when it comes to the police. His record was a mile long. He would kill me if I ever got in trouble with the police. So would everyone else's parents. Where're decent kids. A little wild, but decent. Everyone judges us just because where're greasers.
Me, Mark, and Mike all get shooting classes from my dad's old friend, Buck. I was signed up when I was ten because my dad wanted me to learn how to shoot a gun without killing myself. Buck is pretty annoying. Always telling us stories about our dads when they were teenagers. We all know they were wild.
The shooting range isn't the only place we greasers hang out at. The Dingo is pretty popular. It was really big a long time ago, when my dad was a teenager. It was rebuilt a couple months after it was bombed. Ever since it hasn't been as big as a fad as it was. It made pretty good money though. All the kids from grades sixth through eight had to take sexual education and after that a lot of people started calling it the Dino. A good reason why I don't always eat there. At school the principal picks certain kids to say the announcements and he picked Jack. Jack heard the Dino thing from Mike. He said what you would normally say in the morning announcements, then when he was sup post to be done he said Dino in a real mellow voice. The whole school was cracking up. So was Jack even if he got a detention for it.
We see everyone their. Me, Mike and Mark all ran into Joey Raft, another member of the Shepard gang. He just got finished beating a fourteen year old soc.
''Kid ya got another one?'' Mark asked while lighting a cigarette. He took a drag and then threw it on the ground with a look of disgust. He tried smoking a lot and always hated it. He does it to seem cool but I know Mark. He isn't a smoker.
''Yup. That soc was askin' for it. Besides I was aiming to fight him. I was trying to score a date.''
Joey is the same age as me, twelve. He's got a good build and always has his hair in some weird style. He hates Mike. Always looking down on him because he isn't a member of his brother's gang. After talking to him for a little while, and seeing him and Mike shoot each other dirty looks we left and made our way to the shooting range. I wish the east vs west thing would end for good. After a while it's real old getting jumped because you wear some hair oil and aren't the richest person in the world.
