A/N: Hello Fellow October Road Lovers! I absolutely love this show to death, and I will be heart broken if it ends, especially the way they ended it…there's still hope though! Let's all try to stay positive. So anyway, after I watched the finale I couldn't sleep, and I had all these ideas rolling around in my head, and this was one of the results. After watching the finale what was it like 6 or 7 times, I know, I've come to the realization that I'm obsessed, but oh well…I couldn't help it, I love this show.

Always Be Mine…Chapter 1...Let Me Explain…

She was determined. Janet was ready for answers, ready to confront Eddie and tell him she knew everything he wasn't telling her. Why was he keeping Rory a secret? That's what she wanted to know most of all.

When she got to her man's house and looked out to the porch, she saw something that she feared all along, she cursed herself, for even for a second thinking nothing was happening. She had told herself a million times, nothing goes on with them, everything with Eddie and I is good right now, but seeing her boyfriend and Rory kissing proved her fears to be true.

What did I do wrong? Janet thought while gripping the steering wheel of the Jeep for support. She couldn't move; her heart was physically breaking. She couldn't keep her eyes away and what after seemed like an eternity they finally parted, but in reality, it couldn't have been more than a few seconds. She tried to look closer and see if he was smiling but it was too dark, and that's when the tears started to fall.

Eddie instantly felt horrible for kissing Rory. He felt like he had betrayed Janet, it was so strong he could feel her presence behind him, was he loosing it? He wished he could take it back, what he and Rory had was so long ago. He was in a good place right now with Janet, and no one, not even the ex-model Rory Dunlap was worth screwing that up. But, he realized that too late, and then he turned around.

Janet could picture it now, him coming to her apartment telling her what they had was a lie; and demanding his stuff back, she stared down at her bracelet, and tears came heavier now. She let it sink in, it was over. She tried so desperately to convince herself all this time things were great between them…and they were…this wasn't happening, she was dreaming.

Then a knock on her window, she couldn't bring herself to drive away, not yet. She didn't even have to look up to know he was there, staring at her.

He tapped again, and she looked up, they made eye contact for a brief moment and then she blinked her eyes shut, unwillingly crying, trying to force herself to stop, but she couldn't shake the feeling away.

"What goes on Janet?" He tried to say through the glass before she looked up again, but when Eddie saw the tears, he knew, he knew she had seen, and he cursed himself for letting it happen. "Janet, open up, please let me explain."

Janet shook her head, she couldn't look up again, she wouldn't allow him to see how much this hurt. She took a deep breath, and rolled down the window, Eddie gave her a slight grin, hoping it would help her ease a bit…but she ignored it, not willing to get caught in the hope. "You know what's funny, is that I knew this would happen, I tried to come up with a logical reason why you didn't or couldn't tell me Rory was in town. So I came here to find out, and I guess I don't owe you the amount of trust and faith I had for you, or that I thought we had together."

Eddie stood there for a second or two, just processing…Did she really believe that? Gathering himself, he spoke. "Can we go somewhere else and talk?" She could feel him pleading without even having to look.

"I don't really see a point in that." Janet responded bitterly.

"Janet, you have every right to be angry and upset, but please let me explain what happened, will you let me do that," he begged "Please?"

She smiled inside, will you let me do that…she remembered that phrase all too well, thinking back to their first kiss. She nodded; he helped her out of the truck and grabbed a hold of her hand.

Rory wasn't on the porch anymore; she must have slipped away unnoticed. However, neither of them noticed this, both focusing on the conversation to come.

They walked into his house, past Pizza Girl and Phil asleep on the couch, and up the stairs to his room. Once in, she sat on the bed and he sat next to her.

"Go ahead, I'm listening." She whispered without looking at him directly.

"First, I want to apologize for not telling you about Rory, I shouldn't have kept it from you. She came into Best Friend Windows the other day, and I was stunned to see her." He glanced over to Janet's pleading eyes, urging him to go on. When he got the conformation he continued, "I mean after ten years she decides to waltz back in here, into Knight's Ridge, out of no where? I couldn't handle it, that's why I didn't tell you, and I know now…well I knew that second that that was a mistake. I was just so overwhelmed, and I didn't want you thinking that something would be in the way of us. I told you when I'm with you I'm happy, and I want it to stay that way." Janet touched his knee, and rubbed it slowly...waiting for him to finish.

He took a deep breath, "When I kissed Rory, it wasn't even real, what we have right here and now is real Janet. And I'll be dammed if anything or anyone gets in our way."

She took his hand once more; it was amazing how well their hands actually fit together. "So you regret it." It wasn't even a question, she was just thinking out loud.

He nodded anyway, she could tell everything he just told her was true, and he was right, it was real. "I'm really truly sorry Janet, after it happened, I felt really stupid, and if I could take it back, I would in a heartbeat." Eddie smiled, waiting for reassurance.

She gave him a short grin, "I forgive you Eddie, thank you for being honest with me."

"I promise I will be from now on." He leaned in to kiss her, and then he knew, he never wanted to kiss anyone else again. Then it fell.

"What's that?"

His eyes fell to the little black box on the floor; and his heart dropped…Why now? He yelled inside, as he reached for the box.

He sighed, "You know, I had it all planned out, I was gonna take you somewhere special and everything, rent a hotel room, be 'Mr. Romance' and then it falls out of my pocket!"

"Eddie?"

"I had a great date planned out, I was gonna give this to you, tell you that I love you because I do Janet, from the bottom of my heart." He paused, looking at her straight in the eye at her shocked face. Was it a happy shocked? He couldn't tell. "But I guess now is as good a time as any."

His hands fidgeting, he opened the tiny velvet box. "Janet, these past few months have been the best of my life. I want to commit to you completely, I'm in love with you, will you wear this promise ring and well…promise to always be mine?"

A/N: And there is much more to come, so how'd I do? Feedback is much appreciated.