Headed Back to the Past [discontinued]

Ch 25 || I'm Not From This Time

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~December 8th 1965~

Tays P.O.V

I saw someone sitting on the bed reading the outsiders book, Ponyboy. he looked concerned or scared. I slowly closed the hatch trying to silent but he looked up at me with a look of fear and confusion "What the hell are you doing?" I asked, he shut the book and ran his hands through his blonde hair

"Who are you," he almost whispered, I threw my hands in the air having some idea what was happening, I was getting found out, my secret was about to get out and I had to stop it,

"What do you mean 'who am I'?" I asked

"I mean who are you, really, where do you come from what you doing here and what's your plan"

"I'm Taylor Murphy, I'm from New York-" he cut me off

"Stop lying" he yelled, "Who the hell are you and explain to me why you have this book that a take on my life. How did you even find out some of this stuff"

"Look Ponyboy it's not what you think it is, its a long ass story that makes no sense,"

"Can you tell me?" ponyboy took out a cigarette and lit it, taking a long drag

"Ok so, let me warn you again this isn't going to make any sense." I sigh "And don't interrupt me, I was born in 2003" Ponyboy raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything "My name is Taylor Murphy and I am from New York, how I got here I have no idea and I need to figure out how to get back," Ponyboy nodded and offered me his cigarette, I took it gratefully and took a long drag

"What?" he said trying to comprehend what i was saying

"Uh remember you we were playing cards with soda, right?" I asked he nodded his yellow blonde hair falling on his forehead, "You asked what band and song, I said trouble every day. that doesn't get released until next year" Ponyboy nodded and I handed him back the cigarette,

"That's wild" he uttered and I nodded, he stood up "Yeah ok imma go"

"Wait, you have another cigarette?" I asked, he nodded and threw his packet towards me "Oh and also I swear to god if you tell another living soul about this, I will gut you"

"Noted" he nodded before jumping down the trapdoor and closing it, I fell back onto the soft mattress that I used as a bed and lit a cigarette. I took a long drag and eventually my room started to fill with clouds that waltzes in with an odour as rancid as sewage, depositing its micro-layer of jaundiced tar, but, for some reason, I enjoy that smell many people in my family used to smoke so it reminds me of home, its comforting. I eventually got up to let the smell air out. I had mentioned previously that Darry doesn't like people smoking in his house, I climbed through the window and hoisted myself up onto the roof, I sat there watching as the yellow ball of fire changed to hues of orange, and then almost tangerine. It merged with the sky, like juice-mix dissolving in a glass of water. The clouds were cotton-candy, as though they blushed at the warm touch of the sun. Silhouettes of birds flew home across a sky that was now magenta, and the sun was half into the trees. The mauve of the dusky sky intensified, and in just a while, the biggest star had set, giving way to a thousand others.

"Can I have my cigarettes back," Someone said from behind causing me to almost fall off, I turned around to see Ponyboy looking at the horizon, I nodded and threw him the packet. he took it and lit one taking a long drag "What's the future like Tay?" he asked, sitting next to me

"Well its a hell of a lot different than what you'd be used to"

"Oh yeah? Try me" he challenged

"Well, for starters Technology is hella different, I don't really want to get into it because there's too much I don't even understand, I just go with it," I said he nodded "But peoples ideas and views are different...Like...It's totally cool to be gay,"

"It is?" he asked, I nodded "That's awesome"

"Really you think that?" I asked in somewhat disbelief, he nodded

"Can I uh-tell you something?" Ponyboy asked after a few moments of silence, I nodded "I-um, I think I'm gay, and um the time I kissed you I was" he rubbed the back of his neck "I was trying to convince myself I wasn't, I'm sorry" I wrapped my arm around him

"That's okay, So what made you realise?" I asked praying I wasn't stepping over a line

"A couple of my buddies were really close I feel like I felt different when I was around them. But I also don't know because I felt that same thing when I was Cherry, I wanted to be more than friends" he put his head on his knees "I just don't know"

"Hey, Ponyboy it's ok, there something called Bisexuality and it basically means your attracted to both men and women. There's nothing wrong with you its perfectly normal, Love is Love" he looked up

"Thanks, Tay" he gave me a small smile "Damn that felt so good to say"

"Hm, You seem pretty chill about all this, the whole I'm from the future thing" I turned to look at him

"Yeah well, it makes a lot of sense, you appeared out of nowhere, your weird slang, you don't seem to understand half the things we say. Also your fashion sense."

"What?" I asked

"Well firstly, red Chuck Ts I've never seen them before, secondly you dress like a guy"

"Ok fine, but it's more comfortable than capris and fucking flats or heels." I shrugged, he nodded

"Good to know, anything else I should know about the future?" he asked, I chuckled

"Man its whack. Like a celebrity is the president, NASA has done some crazy things like in four years man lands on the moon for the first time," I laid back on the roof and looked up the stars, Ponyboy did the same "We have yet to make it to mars because of the atmosphere or something, but we have gotten Very detailed and high definition pictures of it, They sent a giant telescope to space called the Hubble telescope and its taken some amazing pictures of other galaxies"

"holy shit" he muttered, "Do they ever get citizens to go up to space?"

"Well they tried it once, there will be this whole thing in the 80s, 1980s, where they send a school teacher up to space, on a shuttle called the challenger, it blew up a little after launch."

"Oh" he whispered, I nodded admiring the pale yellows and whites of the milky way that streaked across the velvet sky

A/N

Hello, I wasn't planning on making Ponyboy Bi buuut I wanted an LGBTQ+ character that lasted more than a chapter. kk bye