I think I'm just going to start writing, and see where it takes me. I still kinda really want to make it all one story -- where there's the whole high school romance in the first part, and they fall in love, and then maybe Danny has to go away just for a couple of weeks over the hols to stay in Jersey, and that's when Steve's mom dies, and by the time he comes back everyone's shellshocked and Steve and Mary are gone and Danny's poor heart breaks in so many pieces, because on one hand, poor darling Steve, but on the other hand he feels kind of deserted, since Steve left without a word apart from a short letter that has suspicious drop-like patches on it, promising to keep in touch with Danny, and then the second half of the story happens.

Meh, I still don't know. Like I said, I'll start writing and see what happens, see where the story will take me. It usually works!