another sad headcanon bc I like torturing y’all ☺️
after the Curtis parents deaths any time the gang wants to watch a movie together Two-bit, Steve, Johnny, and Dally scour around to make sure there’s no car crash scene in the movie. One time six of them were in the living room. (Darry was working late that night) watching some western movie. There was a scene about halfway through where there was a car crash, specifically one involving a train. The room went silent, when the others looked back at the Curtis brothers, Soda was sobbing. Tears racing down his face, he ended up bawling for hours in Steve’s arms. Ponyboy had an absolutely terrible panic attack, y’know the train colliding into that car he saw in his nightmare in the movie? Yea, that was the scene he saw that night. It took Johnny almost an hour just to get Pony to breathe normally, Ponyboy either did pass out or came very close to it. It got to the point even Steve and Dally were really worried. Soda cried until he passed out from exhaustion, not waking up until the next morning, and Pony had such bad nightmares he didn’t sleep for three whole days afterwards, and had paralyzing nightmares every night for a solid month. After that the rest of the gang started reading about movies before they watched them.
I’m sorry.