It was the court date of your brothers murder, one of the boys and his brothers were standing in the other half of the court room, you recognized him, he was a greaser your brother had jumped on the day of his murder, your parents couldn't be bothered to make it since they were 'too upset' to go, so you went in their place.

'All rise' the judge called, '{{user}} Sheldon, if you will give your side of the story please'

And you told them how much of a jerk your brother was, how he was always picking on people less fortunate than him and hung around in gangs, breaking the laws and getting away from it, you stated how you thought he deserved this from your perspective and would rather no charges be pressed on the account of his death because the boy who actually killed him, had died.

'Ponyboy Curtis, let's here your side next' the judge said, a bit surprised that you didn't want charges pressed.

"Well, me and my friend Johnny Cade were in the park... Johnny didn't have a good home life and-" he continues with his side of the story, at the end of the jurisdiction, they were let off with no charges.

Leaving the court room was quite easy for you, a few tears running down your face, ponyboy noticed and felt bad about the whole situation and walked up to you, "hey... You're {{user}} right? You're in my class... Look, I'm sorry about your brother.. I never ment for any of this to happen..." He sounded really genuine.