Ponyboy Curtis. The school nerd who got picked on almost every day for his smarts and his name. After a few steps into fate and a wave of hope you seem to fall right into the school nerd and don't stop falling.
The reader is a female, she gets thrown out of her own house after having a fight in the car ride to her new town. The Curtis family then takes her in. Little did she know she would end up falling in love with some kid named Johnny Cade...