So just so you guys get the picture of what the kids look like, Victoria justice is Mia/Lucas' daughter Izzy. Dakota fanning as Emma's Dakota. And Lip from Shameless as Snake/Spikes Jack.

Emma was almost 30 now, and dreading her birthday.

"Why! It's going to be a blast, you don't even look 30 so stop sweating it." Ellie said, rolling her eyes.

Emma sat across from her at their lunch spot on the patio of Le more, in Los Angelous

Emma laughed a little and shrugged, "It's just scary that I'm 30 already."

"30 going on 25." Ellie said jealous of envy, "Least you have no wrinkles, you still look like the same Emma who graduated from college, only now wearing a business suit." She joked and then smirked, "Oh, and a big carot on her finger."

Emma looked down to her ring, diamonds filled around it and then a crystal rose on top of it.

Jesse really went all out.

"Yeah." Emma smiled slightly, nodding, "I have it pretty good."

"Is Jesse, is a hunk. I should know." Ellie said with a wink, Emma gasped and threw one of her peas at her.

Emma's phone went off, a text. She rolled her eyes picking it up.

"Dakota?" Ellie asked.

Emma nodded, getting up and grabbing her purse, "I swear she'd rather text me all the time then to talk to me."

"Teenagers." Teased Ellie with a grin, knowing both she and Emma still had theirs inside.

Emma laughed and waved, going to her big black jeep.

She picked Dakota up at her highschool, Dakota was beautiful, skinny, just like her mom was, a good tallish frame, big blue eyes, long honey blonde hair that she straightened all the time now.

Lately Dakota was all cute summer dresses but lately she's been ripped jean pants and leather jackets.

"How was your first day of highschool?" Emma asked as she hopped into the back, "you can't sit up here with me?" she joked.

Dakota just rolled her eyes, looking out the window.

"Dakota." Emma said more sternly, driving, "How was school?"

"Fine!" Dakota barked, then shrugged, "I'm use to being Jack's LITTLE sister." She sneered, crossing her arms.

"That scowl doesn't look so good on your pretty face." Emma told her then said, "And no one thinks your little."

"I'm the youngest in my grade! Everyones already turned 14! I still have two more months!" exclaimed Dakota, "And tell that to Ryan Daniels..." she sadly looked down.

Emma aw'd loudly and Dakota finally looked in the mirror, glaring at her mom.

"You have a crush on Ryan!" Emma aw'd again and heard Dakota's whine, "Baby, he's Jack's friend! Their older than you, he's going to think that way. You need someone your own age."

"Jesse is 5 years older than you." Dakota said matter of factly.

Emma smirked at Dakota in the mirror, "Ryans a senior Dakota, as your fantazing about flowers and kisses...he thinks of something else." Emma mumbled, staring off into though.

"Oh, ew." Dakota said finally getting it, then shrieking more that it was her mother who said it.

Emma rolled her eyes smiling.

Later that night at Emma made Dakota dinner, the phone rang. Emma lunged for it, could be Jesse.

Jesse traveled a lot. They started dating last year when she worked on an assignment for the newspaper, she was still a writer for the an environment and he came down for a meeting about it and took notice of her rather quickly.

He brought her on a date that lunch, and got her number. He was pretty happy she never went through with it with Spinner...or that Jay character he always saw around. So he visited a lot over the months, and they got closer and closer even though Dakota didn't approve but he was a good business man, made tons of money, traveled beautiful places, he once took Emma to Paris with him. But, after 6 months, he was really starting to drift away, until the 9th month, he visited for a month, and finally asked Emma to marry him.

Emma said yes, but hoped he'd change his traveling ways, he promised after a few months of touring with his job, he'd give it a rest and they would move back to his home town.

Emma was a little weary of that, but Dakota was excited about it, really excited, she missed it, even though she was 6 when she moved away but she visited a lot, and it was the one time Emma's ever seen Dakota so happy since she started dating Jesse, so she agreed.

And that Jay character, Jesse liked to call him, still kept in touch with Dakota. She had a bad time cooping with leaving him when she was 6, he practically lived with them and she didn't understand why it didn't work out. She ached so much when she thought about him. Did her mom ever feel that way?

Her mom wasn't happy when she visited home with Jack to see Grampa, because she knew she stayed with Jay and Uncle Spinner.

Dakota was packing up her room as Emma leaned on it, finally hanging up.

"Almost packed?" Emma asked.

Emma was still the same, only darker highlights in her hair, and always dressed up in expensive business skirts or something, Jesse was loaded you could say.

"Was that Jesse?" mumbled Dakota, throwing some pictures in frames into the box, one of her and Jay when she was 10, he looked the same too, maybe a little more built and some a bit more of a beard, like it hasn't been shaved in days, not too long.

Emma nodded and looked at her watch, "He said truck will be here in 20."

"Great, can't wait."

Emma gave a look, "I thought you were excited to move back?" she asked, confused.

"I am." Sighed Dakota, "even though I have to do another new day at school."

"Least now Ryan Daniels won't torment you." teased Emma raising an eyebrow. Dakota finally giggled a little back and just nodded.

"Are you excited to go back?" Dakota's question hit her hard.

Emma swallowed, "Ofcourse, I miss my friends."

"Like Uncle Spinner and Jay?" Dakota asked, she couldn't remember well, but she knew her mother and Jay almost made it, now they pretended to be just friends, who barely talked, only if he called Dakota back and then it was just mumbles of 'I'm good, how are you?'

"Finish packing." Emma muttered and walked off.

Emma slowly walked down the stairs and looked at her ring. She loved Jesse, he gave her promise, and tons of love... even though they haven't really lived with another yet, how bad could it be? Dakota would have a great life and go to a great college.

That's all Emma wanted.

Emma closed her eyes tiredly and sat on the stairs, smoothing her skirt out and looked at her wall. Pictures of her and Manny the last time she visited, which was almost 2 years ago, then an old picture of Snake, Jack and her mother. Oh how she still missed her mom. Then a picture of Dakota just 6 months ago, sitting on Jay's orange civic.

Jesse wouldn't allow pictures of Jay himself around the house.

Emma didn't blame him. Dakota was crazy about him still. Emma glanced up at the picture again, oh that damn car.. she smiled softly and then frowned, standing up and yelling up the stairs.

"Trucks are here Dakota! Get down here.!"

Toronto, here they come.