EPILOGUE

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4 months later..

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Michelle's POV

Ponyboy and I went to Tulsa for the wedding. When we got there, I met Ponyboy's brothers, Darry and Sodapop, and and his friends, Two-bit and Steve. Ponyboy told me that he'd offered to move them to New York, but they refused. This was their home, and they couldn't leave. Ponyboy didn't want to leave either. He visits them during the summer and Christmas and calls them all the time.

When Darry met me, he said,"bout time this kid uses his head" and ruffed Pony's hair. This made me laugh. Darry was married to a woman named Kendra. They'd been married for three years, since he was 30. Sodapop hadn't married yet. Ponyboy said that Soda just started dating a couple years ago, that he was still messed up from the war. Steve lived in his own house. "It was the house that used to be Johnny's,"Ponyboy had told me,"His father killed his mother and went to jail. It was in the newspaper. About three years after Johnny bank took the house. Sold it real cheap."

Two-Bit was a hoot. When he met me, he simply plopped down next to me on the couch and put his arm around me.

"Hey babe,"he joked,"How 'bout we ditch this loser and run off to Mexico, huh?"

I laughed

"Ain't you married Two-Bit,"I said.

Two-Bit wasn't married, but he was dating. And he'd adopted a child. An orphaned 5 year old boy named Dylan. "I can't believe it,"Ponyboy had said once,"Two-bit, adopting a child! Never would've thought of him as 'responsible'!"

"Nah,"he said,"I ain't married. come on. Get your stuff, we're leaving tomorrow!"

I laughed.

"Trying to steal my fiance, two-bit,"ponyboy joked.

"maybe,"he replied.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Two grown men, fake arguing, like children. I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

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I could really get used to these people.