Disclaimer: For the very last time, I do not own the Outsiders, S.E. Hinton does.
Author's Note: Well, this has been a great story I think, all in all, and I just wanna thank everyone that reviewed throughout the whole series at one point or another and all the regulars (lol):
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Chapter Twenty : The Last Chapter
So, this is how it all went down after that. For a couple months, everyone helped to plan the wedding, and me and Soda screwed the whole thing up several times with our "shenanigans" as Darry called it.
I went wedding dress shopping with Two-Bit of all people, but he ended up helping me find the best wedding dress ever. It was strapless, and tight down the knees where it flared out in perfect white folds.
Before the wedding, Dally turned 18 years old.
Then, in the fall month of September, we had our wedding outside, with all the beautifully coloured leaves and not too chill but not too hot autumn air. It was in a clearing at the end of a side road, with trees all around and fallen leaves on the ground. Dally's best man was the now 17 year old Johnny, and my maid of honour was the now 15 year old Ponyboy's girlfriend of two months, Cherry Valance.
The 21 year old Darry gave me away, just like our late father would have.
We got married under a closely woven lace arch, fitted with roses, and a lot of people came to the wedding. The whole gang, and Tim Shepards gang along with Angela and Curly, Two-Bit's mom, Buck Merril, Gary, the Soc Marcia, who was Cherry's friend, and these three guys that I had met, named Jacques, Turk, and Jamie, who happened to play the drums, bass and guitar. At the wedding afteroarty, me, Jacques, Turk and Jamie played a song, with them playing instruments and me singing. I guess that dream I told Ponyboy about one night of being a rock star came true for one night.
As greasers, Dally and I couldn't afford much of a honeymoon, but we could afford to go over the border to the capital of Texas, which had the same name as my new husband. We stayed in a hotel, where we did "it" for the first time, if you know what I mean.
When we got back home, we moved into our own place, and Dally got a job while I kept mine as a waitress at the Dingo. As we got older, Soda and Steve went to Vietnam for a war. I missed them terribly, especially Soda, but they came home, (A/N: Remember, my story, my rules lmao) Soda was an uncle.
While they were gone, Dally and I had our first child, a daughter, Emma May Winston. Then came a son, Trey, and then another daughter, McKenzie.
Eventually we got better jobs, and earned more than enough money for us and our three kids.
Ponyboy and Cherry were still going strong, and Soda was still single, despite all our attempts to make him get a girlfriend. Darry, however, got a girlfriend.
Her name was Shyla, and her and Darry tied the knot after six months of dating. I was the maid of honor, and Dally was Darry's best man. They had one child, a son named Darrel, named after Darry.
We were all very delighted to see Johnny finally get a good steady girlfriend that understood him, (A/N: Little treat, if you really love Johnny, you can be his girlfriend in this story) and he was very happy with her.
Steve also got married, to Evie, and they had a little girl named Amber. They lived in a little house, but they were happy, you could just tell.
And good old Two-Bit. After Dally and my brothers, he remained my best friend. He really did. Bless his heart, he got married to a girl named Cindy, who was of course a blonde, and she was kind of a ditz, not the kind you would hate, but the kind you would really like. And she may have been a ditz, but she definitely loved Two-Bit, and their son Alfie and daughter Adie.
All of us one time saved up enough money to take a vacation to California, and we brought all our kids too, and let me tell you that was one big party. The kids loved it, and so did all of us.
When we got even older, Emma, Trey and McKenzie all got jobs, eventually got married as well, and moved out.
Dally and I were retired by that point, and had enough money so that we moved into a cottage by a lake.
Finally, everyone, including us, was past all those high points and low points, worrying about what we were doing with out lives, worrying about money, me being worried about Dally, like if he would be okay with his dad, and him worrying about me, and just everything was okay now. Everything was okay.
I realized all this one evening at our cottage as I was on the couch reading a book. I realized I was paying no attention to what I was reading while I was daydreaming and realizing this, so I put the book down. I closed my eyes, breathed in deeply and smiled, replaying that one line in my head again;
Everything was okay.
I opened my eyes and looked over at the sliding glass door that lead to the deck, overlooking a lake. Dally was seated on the deck, facing the lake. I got off the couch and walked over to the door. I slid it open and walked outside. I sat beside Dally, kissing him gently on the lips as I sat. He smiled at me as we wrapped our arms around each others' waists.
I looked out across the lake at what Dally was looking at; it was a sunset. I remembered Johnny and Ponyboy, how they loved sunsets, and Johnny wanting to tell Dally to look at a sunset; he didn't think Dally'd ever seen one. I wondered if this was indeed the first time Dally had ever seen a sunset. I watched it with him for a minute, and then he let out a deep, satisfied sigh.
"What are you sighing about?" I asked softly.
"Well, the sunset, you here, and looking back on our whole lives… I just get this feeling, that everything's cool," He said, also softly, looking out at the now dying sunset.
I looked out at it toom thinking about what Dally had said. Then I nodded, realizing what he was talking about, and agreeing 100.
"Yeah," I said, "Everything's cool."
Well, that's the end of Show A Little Love! Thanks again to everyone who read my story, and I hope everyone liked the ending. My next project will be trying to finish Sweet As Cake 'N' Pie, so look out for that one. Once again, thank you all!