I was going to publish Letters to Olivia with this... But I accidentally deleted the wrong note on my phone and can't recover it. And since I'm cleaning up (and ending) this account, I wanted all of my words showcased on it. So here's the end of Love Among the Stars. Not a real ending, just a crappy epilogue...

All of us thought that Bonnie and Ponyboy would end up together that summer. But it didn't happen for a while. It took him another year to get over Olivia, which made me think that she must have been a really great girl. He wrote her letters all summer, and Soda accidentally sent them to her, thinking since they were already in an envelope, he'd help out and mail them. It turned out, he wasn't planning to send them, but it worked out anyways. Olivia came up to visit him, but their old flame wasn't rekindled. They both cried when they saw each other, remembering the summer before, but they didn't feel the love anymore.

Ponyboy needed that kick in the pants to get over her, and start liking Bonnie again. She was there and waiting for her the next summer, which I didn't come back for. They're getting married next summer. I was already in college, living in an apartment in Florida with Sodapop. It's been four years since that summer, and I'm graduated, with our first baby is on the way in just a few months. After the kiss, I had avoided him for a few days. But then I realized that love was supposed to be scary, an goddammit, I was in love with Sodapop Curtis. And yeah, sure, it sounded cheesy, I knew it too, but it was true. So I set up another fire. I sat on the logs with him another night a few days later, pointing out constellations. I laid in his arms and he told me he had something to tell me, that he should have said a long time ago.

"Nina, you know I'm not great with words... But I have something to say. And I know you might think it's weird... But I gotta get off my chest," he paused for a second. "I like you.... No, scratch that, I liked you in 7th grade. Now I love you. I'm in love you. You're... The most beautiful girl in the world, and I'm not just sayin' that. Your heart and soul and your personality, your smile, your..." He stopped again.

"That night we kissed was the best of my life. And it killed me when you were avoiding me."

"I hope you understand. You're... the love of my life, Nina. And I hope I'm not making things too awkward, because first and foremost you're my best friend and I couldn't bear to lose you as that...." I let him babble on a little while longer before cutting him off with a kiss. He stopped short, completely shocked, and then kissed back. And this kiss? Was everything.

(He told me that on our wedding night too, which was on a night in September, among the stars.

"It was everything, Nina the stars were out, and the moon, and we were happy," he said that night, remembering what I had said so many years ago about our second first kiss.)

"W-wha?" was all he could muster.

"I'm sorry... Sodapop," I told him. "I love you. I love you too. I was just scared. I didn't want to ruin us, our friendship. But... If we're both on the same page, that was the best kiss I have ever had, and I've liked you since that first one at the party in 7th grade." I took a deep breath, wondering how I got so lucky. How my life worked out so well. And then I remembered why I was really afraid.

"I just don't know what happens now. Because we live so far away... And I'm moving even further way for college and..." He cut me off by pressing his lips to mine.

"We'll figure it out." And we did.

When we said goodbye to each other at the end of the summer, we cried. But we had everything planned out. I knew what college I was going to, I knew that he was coming with me, and that we had a place to live. Together.

After our summer among the stars that brought us all closer together, none of us could be happier.