Next time you're sick of the universe and everyone in it (it's okay, it happens to the best of us), read the last chapter of Boy Meets Boy—it's only two pages long, and it will remind you why friends, music, and dancing can heal your soul. When Paul takes a minute to boogie down with Noah and his friends on the mountain before the Dowager's Dance, it's not just a pre-party—it's a celebration of relationships lost and found.
Throughout the book, Paul has conflicts with Noah (the boyfriend breakup), Joni (the best-friend breakup), Kyle (the I'm-regretting-our-breakup), Ted (the I-can't-believe-you-don't-understand-the-pain-of-my-breakup), Chuck (the why-oh-why-can't-there-be-a-breakup), and Tony's parents (the if-our-gay-son-never-has-a-big-gay-relationship-there-can't-be-a-big-gay-breakup). It seems like Paul's going to be both friendless and boyfriendless, but in the last chapter, everyone comes to their senses and remembers how much they love each other.
Well except for Chuck of course, but sometimes tolerating someone's presence is almost like love.
The last two paragraphs of Boy Meets Boy reference the classic Louis Armstrong tune What a Wonderful World, the first verse of which is: I see trees of green/red roses too/I see them bloom/for me and you/And I think to myself/what a wonderful world. Levithan riffs on these lyrics when Paul says,
I see trees of green and dresses of white. I see Infinite Darlene whooping for Joy as Amber attempts to dip her to the ground. I see Ted cheering them on as he strums an air guitar. I see Kyle and Tony talking quietly together, sharing their words. I see Joni leading Chuck in a slow dance. I see candles in the darkness and a bird against the sky. I see Noah walking over to me, care in his eyes, a blessed smile on his lips. (28.7)
And, in keeping with the many music references throughout the book, the last sentence is, "And I think to myself, What a wonderful world" (28.8).