(A.N. Sorry for the EXTREMLEY long update delay, as i said before, my parents are getting divorced and im going to be moving on the 4th, but you guys will be glad to know this story is finally finished and I'm working on the sequal!Please review if you want the sequal! )

DISCLAMER: I do not own the Outsiders or any characters but Danielle, Switch, Patrick, Drew, and Robyn!

Chapter 13 – Things Get Better, Eventually

Danielle's POV

Time heals all wounds, Pony had told me that saying a million times, so many times while I was recovering that it was burned into my brain. It was true, my wounds were healed, scars may have been left behind but they were healed. I still cried sometimes about Dallas and Johnny, but I finally understood they were in a better place and I belonged here on earth, with Pony. I still remember the horrible events of the past years, thanks to the nightmares that come to revisit me every so often, but now, I have somebody lying there with me on the nights I wake up screaming to keep me sane and to love me with all of his heart,

"Are you alright Danielle?" Angela asked as she fiddled with my hair, making sure it was perfect and that there wasn't a single stray hair or a single bobby pin sticking out too far from where my bangs had been pulled back. She made sure the curls in my hair had plenty of hairspray and they wouldn't get frizzy,

"Just thinking," Angela laughed as she continued fiddling with my hair,

"Better be about Pony, if it isn't, especially today, I'm going to have to smack you!" I giggled a little,

"Don't you worry, it partially is, I'm just so nervous!" She looked at my eyes in the mirror and I looked back at hers,

"Damn well should be! Here, stand up Dannibear," I quickly did as I was told, lifting my dress slighty from the floor to keep myself from tripping on it. "Would you look at you! Pretty little thing! All grown up!" I smiled at her, Angela had already gone through this huge thing and had a little boy to prove it.

"I'm so scared, what if I trip, or I forget to say something, or if I..." Angela pressed her finger to my lips,

"Don't worry, it's all going to be perfect! I promise hun, now you better hurry or you'll miss the whole thing!" I smiled as she rushed out of the room before me, her short gray dress swaying as she walked out.

I checked myself over in the mirror and smiled, I quickly grabbed the bunch of flowers, 12 dusty pink roses and walked through the door. Darry was standing there in his tux waiting for me,

"You look beautiful," I smiled at him and took a deep breath,

"Are you ready doll?" I nodded my head yeas and reached up to make sure my veil was over my face,

"Extremely nervous, but I'm ready." Darry linked his arm into mine as we walked through the doorway, everything was just as I had imagined it would be, it was beautiful. I looked straight forward and my eyes were quickly met by another set and he smiled back at me. Steve and Two-Bit whistled towards me, Soda was grinning like a total freak and Ang was standing up there, she looked like she was about to cry. The next think I knew, Darry was handing me off and I was standing across from the man of my dreams, who would have ever thought it would be him. I was barley even listening to a thing, the only thing I could pay attention to was the heat radiating from his hand, until he turned to me and began to speak.

"I, Ponyboy Curtis, take you, Danielle Winston, to be my lawfully wedded wife, my constant friend, my faithful partner and my love from this day forward. In the presence of God, our family and friends, I offer you my solemn vow to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow. I promise to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you for as long as we both shall live." I was grinning like a freak and about to cry as I uttered the almost identical vow back to him,

"I, Danielle Winston, take you, Ponyboy Curtis, to be my lawfully wedded husband, my constant friend, my faithful partner and my love from this day forward. In the presence of God, our family and friends, I offer you my solemn vow to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow. I promise to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you for as long as we both shall live." We both quickly looked at the pastor who quickly uttered the long awaited words,

"You may now kiss the bride!" Pony gently lifted my veil and kissed me, sealing the whole deal. The whole church was filled with cheering and I turned around, throwing my bouquet. I turned back around and saw it had been Two-Bit's little sister, Jenna, who caught it. Me and Pony both looked over to Two-Bit who we all heard clear as day yell,

"Not on my watch!"

We both quickly ran outside to where the old orange truck was waiting for us with a just married banner taped to the back. I entered the truck smiling and waving, the day I had waited for for so long had finally came, and I shared it with everybody. Dallas had been there, I knew he was, Johnny too, and then everybody else, and the whole gang, it was overwhelming.

"Well, what to do now Mrs. Curtis?" Pony looked over at me as he turned the key in the ignition, turning on the truck,

"Drive!" I laughed at him and we sped off, my life may not be perfect, but it is just what it needs to be, and I'm spending it with just who I should be for the rest of my life...

(A.N. Sooooo? What do you guys think? Reiview PLEASE!)