even if he acted like he didn’t care about you, he still did. he always worried about you, stressing that some boy was following you home or someone was trying to hurt you, after all he is your older brother and has the right to care

you walked through the front door of the curtis house with a busted lip and a beat up face with messed up hair

everyone’s faces dropped, dallas quickly putting out his cigarette and rushing to you, darry rushing over with him