COMPLETED WITH HAPPY ENDING With everything you have gone through with someone,it's hard not to get feelings for them. But when Ponyboy and Johnny realize how they feel for each other it's just plain scary. Being a confused ten in a rough neighborhood in the 60s doesn't really help the matter. But even with break downs and emotions, they can't hide how they really feel.

❝don't get too close, it's dark inside. it's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide.❞ copyright @ b r o k e n p a u s e b u t t o n

Callie's family is going to spend the summer in Tulsa, but she would rather spend her summer somewhere better. She thinks she will have the worst summer of her life, but it turns out to be the best.

In 1968, America's greatest generation began their favourite pastime for yet another year. Baseball. Men returned back to the game. Among them, some of baseball's most beloved names. Rose. Aaron. Williams. Mays. Allen. Life in the United States could return to normal. And baseball was proof positive that democracy was real. A baseball box score, after all, is a democratic thing. It doesn't say what gender you are or what religion you follow. It does not know how you voted or the color of your skin. It simply states what kind of ballplayer you were on any particular day. Women had served their country gallantly. Yet, they found during this time prejudice, segregation and Gender Discrimination Laws were still present and strong. Sexism was the law......and no group was more scrupulous in its observance of custom, than organized baseball. There was a long road ahead. If any women dreamed of playing baseball, it was not for the Yankees, not for any Major League team, no. It was for teams like the Kansas City Monarchs of the Women's Leagues, and if they were good enough (and lucky), they played in small recreational leagues with men, where the barnstorming style of play stood in contrast to the Majors. In 1967, there were a total of 400 players on their rosters. Every one of the 400 Major League players were men. But when opening day came in 1968, that number dropped to 399... And one girl stood apart.

Tammy Hicks is an ordinary girl with a feisty spirit. She stands up for what she believes in, and doesn't bat an eyelash when it comes to dishing out justice. Yet, she's still human: hard on the outside, but soft on the inside. Enter Dallas Winston, a guy who just doesn't care, or that's what he wants people to think. He spends his time lifting various useless pieces of junk from the store, jumping innocents, smoking, cheating, partying and drinking. He thought could get any girl, until he meets Tammy. What will happen when their paths cross? Will Dallas have finally met his match in this ruthless game of relationships? Or will Tammy's facade surrender to the irresistible Dallas Winston?

"We're a real tight-knit group of friends. And even though it seems lately we aren't the way we used to be, we'll always be family." Jessie Marie Cade was born into a gang of greasers. This life is all she's known. She is surrounded by her siblings, best friends, and the love of her life, Sodapop Curtis. But everybody knows that the more that you love, the more that can be taken from you. [completed 2016. edited 2021]

I moved to Tulsa when I was 17 to find my half brother. I didn't know things were going to turn out the way they did. I didn't know who else I was going to meet along the way. If I would have known, I never would have set a foot in that town.

"I love you," Johnny murmured, clutching my wrist to the point I could not pull away no matter how much I tried. "Stop it," I snapped, "Stop saying that!" "But I do, I love you, I want you, I need you to remember," He was pleading now. "Stop, quit pretending-" "There is no pretending," Johnny said with absolute clarity. "I love you and I will love you until the day I die. You don't remember now, but you used to love me too Rosey. And I will love you until you love me again, even after I die, and if there is a life after this I will love you then, too." I stared at him as he poured his heart out; he was moving away, for once he wasn't trying to get me to love him. I was doing it myself. "Will you ever give up on this?" I asked. Johnny shrugged, "Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in a rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without you." ----------- Rosemarie Curtis' story has seemed to come to an end. Everything is lost. Nobody can forget. Nothing is the same. Now the gang seems to have to wrestle the past, rebuild on the ruins inside them. But sometimes life has a twisted way of bringing back something you've lost. For Rosemarie's story is just beginning. But there was no way the gang could scrape the earth clean, and keep thinking they could start again. Because even though Rosemarie is alive, her memories of the past are gone. Her mind had left them; she has now gone wild and wary. She remembers no feeling, no hurt, and no loving. Johnny must cope with losing his only love, while her thoughts swim between them, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and he fishes for them, dangling his own memories like bait and lures. But how can you love someone you don't remember loving? How can you remember something you don't want to remember? And how can the gang hold together when everything has fallen apart?

Have you ever wondered what it was like before the gang? Well here's their stories. Each chapter will explain how they made their family.

This is the sequel to Closer Than You Think. If you haven't read it, don't read this just yet. No spoilers!