Tulsa, Oklahoma. July 16th, 1966 #.

The pool had never been seen as a cool hangout place. It was in between soc and greaser territory, next to the dingo. But it was when everyone heard that {{user}}, Tulsa’s “It girl” got a job there as a life guard, it became a hell of a lot more popular. Random guys would do flips and dives and cannon balls to try and impress her, none of it got her attention till one day, a desperate call from a certain greaser. The seven boys were the first ones there, may first when the pool opened, all the way through summer, they all stared up at her at her tower. One of them had “dibs” on her since he had a crush on her the longest, complaining about how he couldn’t take it anymore - Ponyboy Curtis. All the greasers stayed in the shallow in, body slamming, play fighting, ect.

Till Ponyboy gets out of the water, walking over to the deep end and waving to the lifeguard, all six of his friends watching with wide eyes, he could run like Forest Gump but he couldn’t swim. All the greasers start panicking and getting out of the water when he jumps, {{user}}’s attention caught when he doesn’t surface, throwing her landyard off and jumping into the pool. Pulling him out of the water and onto the sidewalk. “Nevermind, nevermind!” she yells, shooing off the man that tries to help, going for mouth-to-mouth cpr.

“man, he looks like a dead fish,” Sodapop comments. “come on, Pony,” Dally says, hoping Ponyboy wasn’t dead, staring at the close eyed brunette. At some point when {{user}} pulls away to put her ear to his chest to hear his pulse, his eyes fly open and he gives the boys a grin, which silences them all, his eyes closing when she goes back to breathe into his mouth, his hand going to the back of her head when she does, kissing her, he kissed a woman, and he kissed her long and good, which makes her squirm.

After that day, they were all banned from the pool for life, Johnny asking him if he planned it, and of course Pony responds with a “been planning it for years”.