I don't own The Outsiders.
I'm not sure if the comma use is always right. I've got quite a few problems with it... And I guess with the grammar, as well. Let alone the language. So, if you find any mistakes, please let me know :)
This story is set after the book.
The voluntary change?
1. Prologue
Ponyboy didn't get over the death of his best friends Johnny and Dally.
The tragedy happened now seven month ago.
Ponyboy felt guilty of their death, of all what it's about.
If he, Johnny and Dally wouldn't have met Cherry and Marcia at the movie house, their boyfriends wouldn't be angry with them.
And if he wouldn't go to the lot with Johnny and fallen asleep there, so Darry wouldn't be mad and hit him.
And if Darry hadn't hit him that night, he wouldn't run back to the lot and run away with Johnny into the park.
And there he and Johnny wouldn't be jumped by the five Socs so that Johnny was forced to kill one of them to leave them alone. This one, who jumped Johnny before and got him the scar into his face.
And if they hadn't killed that boy, they wouldn't run away, to the Windrixville church. And they wouldn't spend many days and nights there until Dally visited them at this one day.
And if they didn't come back to the church, they wouldn't know anything about the fire.
And if he didn't run into the old church to rescue these kids from the fire, Johnny never would follow to help him. So Johnny never would hitten by the burning beam and die after that in the hospital.
And if he wouldn't die, Dally wouldn't run away, rob this store and wouldn't shoot to death by the fuzz.
So, both of his friends still could be alive if he didn't make everything wrong.
He was to blame for it that both must the, only he.
Every night he got nightmares about these incidents. And he always woke up screaming and sweating. But nobody noticed it. Even Sodapop didn't know about Ponyboy's nightmares. And Ponyboy didn't tell him anything.
So he fought all alone against his nightmares, his shame and his guilty.