This is just because I didn't feel it was over. This will be the last chapter. Ten chapters is good, right? I hope this satisfies any hungry fans. Well, here it goes
Third Person
Dead. Dead is absolute. If you're dead, then you will never be alive again. You will never feel the sunlight shining down on your body again and you will never again taste the coolness of ice cream on your tongue ever again. Dead is nothing and no one knew this better than Ponyboy Curtis, for he was dead himself.
He did not know how long he had been dead for. It could have been a few weeks or a few years. He did not know. Sometimes, he would pass by a house in which two young men lived. He would stare at the young men and wonder how he knew them. They looked familiar to him, but yet he could not place who they were.
Ponyboy took to haunting the Earth, looking for something, but he did not know what he was looking for. But he knew that if he saw it, he would know. So he searched whenever he could and that was always for he was dead and did not do anything but what he pleased.
But not always did he search. Sometimes he would just look at the house and ponder his fascination with the young men. After a while, there were no young men, but middle-aged men, then old men. Then one day, there were no men at all. That was when he began to search always.
His searching mostly included walking through the murky streets, invisible to anyone that didn't know what to look for. He looked everywhere he thought of, never stopping for anything.
One day, a bright light came down from a black sky. It was then he knew what he was looking for. He didn't know quite what it was, but he knew he found what he was looking for.
He watched in amazement as the light subsided and standing there were eight familiar faces, two of which were the young men that he had saw in the house. All of them looked happy, sharing a secret that Ponyboy did not know.
All of a sudden, Ponyboy was taken over by a feeling that he hadn't felt in a long, long time. He hadn't felt it in such a long time that he wasn't quite sure what it was at first. But slowly it dawned on him. He felt of happiness and contentment, but mostly he felt loved.
" Come," said the only woman among the people, " Come with us and you shall never be sad again. Ponyboy nodded and disappeared into the light with the people, his friends, his… family. And as the light disappeared them to the heavens, Ponyboy knew that he was finally going home.
And that is the end of this story.