Mark Ponyboy Peters

They found Pat and Thomas down by the beach later that afternoon and suddenly their friends wanted to know everything they could find out about Jake, despite the fact they had scurried away at the first sighting of him earlier in the day. Nate and Danny were ready for them, however, as they knew that their families would be trying to extract as much information as they could. It was Danny who came up with a plan to throw them off the scent, with a suggestion that they tell their friends Ja

@Summerabbacat oh yes, it was a part of our curriculum, but I have to admit that it wasn't exactly one of my favourites. lol

@Talo Segura thank you

It wouldn’t be until a few days after his set-to with his mother that Danny would speak with Jake again. He had seen him from a distance a few times on previous days as Jake had surfed the breaks off the main beach, and he had marveled at Jake’s skill as he ducked and dived and danced across the breaking waves. He had marveled too, at the beauty of the young man, as if he were now noticing the beauty of the male body for the very first time. On this day, Danny had been sitting on the dunes

I didn't have a Sandman, but I did have a brown XY Ford ute, which was almost as much fun at the drive in ... on summer nights at least! 😋

Oh, wow! That should drum up some business! LOL Thank you!

The boys heard the sound of the vehicle long before they saw it. The deep, throaty, burble of the v-8 motor reverberated around the township, the sound bouncing off any solid surface, even before the vehicle itself had come around that last bend in the road before the shopping centre. 'Probably another tourist,' Danny remarked to Nate as they looked up from where they were sitting. 'Yeah, my guess is it’s some rich dick with two girlfriends and a bunch of surfboards strapped to the roo

For sixteen year old Danny Anderson life is about to change. School is out and summer is here and hanging with his friends is all he wants to do, but there are some things he just can't share with his best friend, Nate. And then a handsome young stranger, not much older than he is, arrives in town and his world is turned upside down. The summer was now turning into something he could only ever dream of as he begins a journey of self-discovery filled with new adventures and experiences, a new friendship and just a hint of danger.

Oh yes, Max and 99 and The Chief were a part of my childhood! Shame they had to sully those memories with that movie remake! lol

Here we go! A little Aussie culture from the past for youse all! and also not to mention . . .

Yes. Will just have to catch both on YouTube and refresh my memory tho. 😀

"Do you know who you're pickin'?' 'Nah! Who am I pickin'?' 'You just wait and you'll find out!' says Normie (was it Normie? LOL), which was followed by a screech of tyres! Haha ... Loved that song!!!

To everyone who has reacted to, or commented on this story, THANK YOU for your feedback!!! I have loved the conversations that have taken place and the questions that have been raised. In the first three stories in this series we have introduced to Matt and Luke, Scott and Justin, Tim and Guy, and Ben and Samantha. Moving forward, these characters will be the main players in the next three stories: Thompsonville, A Good Place, and Out of the Blue (which is currently in development). At the moment I am still working on the re-edits for T'ville, and it will take a little while to complete these, so while that is happening I will begin to post some other stories that are set in the T'ville universe, which I hope you will enjoy. Thanks again to everyone. You are the best bunch of readers a guy could have!!! ❤️❤️❤️

My head had barely hit the pillow it seemed, when I was being forcefully shaken awake. ‘What’s wrong?’ I cursed, without even knowing who it was that was doing the shaking. ‘It’s for you,’ my father rather grumpily said, thrusting the telephone into my hand. ‘It’s Ben’s mother.’ ‘What time is it?’ I asked. ‘Barely seven o’clock,’ he replied, then stormed out of my room and, presumably, back to his. I just stared after him for a moment or three, as my mind wrapped itself

They tell us that by the time we reach our final year of schooling, that last year of our childhood before we step out into the real world as young adults, that we should have some idea of what it is that we want to do with our lives. Yeah right! As if! I know that in my case I had spent most of my high-school years filled with uncertainty about what the future may hold for me and what it was exactly that I did want to do after I had left school, but by the time we had reached our mid

Thank you! ❤️

Thank you @Geron Kees. I truly appreciate your feedback!

No surprise there! LOL

I haven't seen it in YEARS! Definitely need to revisit it! One of my great disappointments in life was not going to see the Village People when they were on tour here and actually did a show here in my hometown! Aarrgghh!! LOL

@Summerabbacat Thank You for that little blast from the past! The teenage version of me certainly did love that movie!

I stood outside Guy's house, feeling like a total stranger. It was a house that I had been inside a thousand times over recent months. It was a house that I already knew almost as well as my own. But this time it was different. This time, for the first time in months, I didn't know if I would be welcome. I had left Ben and Jonathon at McDonald's, with my head spinning from what had happened earlier, and worried sick that Guy would actually refuse to believe that what he had seen

Ben and I were both rostered to work at the supermarket the following morning and ended up spending the entire morning helping out with packing away a truckload of stock that had arrived. We were too busy to talk much, but I did manage to let him know that Jonathon was going to come and see me at some stage today and that he wanted to talk to me alone. I hadn’t mentioned any of that to him last night. ‘I wonder what he wants?’ he asked. ‘I don't know. He's got me curious though.’

Not too sure if we still have directory assistance ... but when this was written 20+ years ago we sure did 😋

Being the middle of December, with Christmas now only days away instead of weeks, it was bloody hot. This was summer at its best and I was right, I had decided; one of us definitely needed a car! For the entire trip up the hill, all I could think about was seeing Guy drive away from me, and judging by how quiet Ben was as he trudged along beside me, his shoulders hanging low, I would say that he would no doubt be having feelings of a similar nature regarding Samantha. When we arrived a

@Summerabbacat yes, definitely sad news about Nellie. She was certainly one of the greats! As a racing fan myself, and an owner of racehorses, I feel these types of losses as well!