(I think I'm going to have to split this up into two posts, as Wattpad won't let me post the whole thing, sorry!)
*****SPOILERS, SORTA KINDA MAYBE, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH THAT YOU SHOULDN'T READ THIS UNTIL AND UNLESS YOU'VE READ THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE PAIN INSIDE*****
Seriously, don't read past this point until you've read the final chapter. Read it? Ok, good, moving on.
I'm sure a lot of you are thinking right now "WTH!?!? It ends there!?!?" and are wishing I'd rush back in, and write out the decision that Matt makes, and it's outcome. But the truth is that I knew from the beginning, when I first started this story, that even though the story greatly leans towards one choice over the other, ultimately it would have to be up to the reader to decide for themselves what Matt chose in the end. Because as much as these may be characters inside my head, in a strange way I feel that life or death isn't my choice to make, it's Matt's. And that, through reading the entire story, a Matt was created in each and every one of you. And that the Matt in each of your minds has to make that choice for himself, and that only each of you can truly know, deep down, what's right for him.