Author´s note: There is a song in this chapter, a brazilian song, it´s called Final Feliz ( Happy Ending), I tried to translate the exact lyrics into English so it might sound a bit odd to you but I hope you enjoy it.

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The sun came up and its light played upon Grace's and Eli's faces, forcing them to wake up. Eli was the first to open his eyes, the first thing he saw was Grace lying on his chest. *It wasn't a dream.*, he thought, smiling. He took a deep breath, leaned in and kissed her forehead, Grace was brought out from her slumber with the touch of his lips, she slowly opened her lids and saw him, staring at her.

"Good morning.", Eli hummed, smiling.

"Good morning.", Grace lazily replied then their lips met in a soft kiss. They remained there, in silence, staring each other's eyes, knowing that nothing in the world would make them apart.

Grace slid off of the covers and got up. While she walked around his room, gathering her clothes, Eli couldn't help but stare her naked body.

"Eli, stop!!", Grace slightly ordered, noticing his watchful eyes on her.

"What?", he snapped, laughing.

"You know *what*.", she disputed, blushing then she began to put her clothes on. Eli laid there, watching her 'til she was dressed then he stood up, walked to his closet and picked up some clean clothes.

*Nice!!! Very nice!!!!", he heard her utter in a low voice. "Grace…?!! Stop!!", Eli smirked.

"What?", she stated, playing dumb.

"You know *what*."

"Oh, so it's okay for you to stare my naked body and it's not okay for me to stare yours? Hugh? *Mr. Body Beautiful*.", Grace sarcastically giggled and he threw a T-shirt on her. "You know, as much as I like to watch you get dresses, I have to make a call."

"Make a call?", Eli quizzed, putting his pants on.

"That's right", she exclaimed, heading to the door. "And hurry up! We're leaving in ten minutes."

"Leaving? Where we're going?", he asked as she left his room. "Grace???!!! Gracie?!!"

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Karen and Henry were about to have launch when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it.", said Karen. "Uh… Jake??", Karen got out I surprise.

"Oh, hi Karen. Is Grace here?", Jake beamed at her.

"No, she's not but_", Karen began to answer but Jake shortcut her.

"See? I told you there was no need to hurry but you wouldn't listen, would you… They're not here yet.", Jake quickly stated to Tiffany and Karen looked at them in an awe. "Um… can we come in?"

"Oh, hugh… sure. Come in.", Karen wide opened her door so Jake and Tiffany, who had Maddie in her arms, got in.

"You know Tiffany, don't you?", Jake stumbled.

"Yes, we've seen each other. Hi, how are you?", Karen greeted Tiffany, shaking her hand. "Um… this is Henry."

"Hi, Henry.", both, Jake and Tiffany said and Henry replied with a shy smile.

"Grace called me. She said she and Eli wanted to talk to me.", Jake started to explain the reason why he was there. "She told me to meet them here."

"Right. Eli called me too. He said they we're coming but he didn't mention you were-", Karen muttered then the doorbell ran again and Karen went to answer it.

"Hey, Karen!!!", Judy smiled at her.

"Judy!!? Um.. hi!", Karen barely Said. "Come in."

"Thanks.", Judy entered.

"Hi, Judy!", Tiffany brightly exclaimed when she saw Judy.

"Oh, hi Tiffany, Jake. What you guys doing here?"

"Grace called us.", Jake briefly informed her.

"Really? She called me too.", Judy nodded and everybody looked at each other with puzzled faces.

"It seems that they want to talk to all of us… together.", Karen guessed.

"But what do they wanna talk to us about?", Jake questioned.

"Well, it's not very hard to figure, Jake.", Judy joked a little.

"No, I know they… I mean, I wanna know if the *news* are good or bad.", Jake clumsily explained his concern.

"It depends on you definition of what is good or bad in this case.", Judy mumbled and the front door opened. Grace and Eli walked in, hand in hand.

"Hi, mom. Henry… Everyone.", Eli greeted the, with a big smiled on his face.

"Dad, Tiffany."

"So?", Judy impatiently quizzed. "Don't just stand there. Spit it out!"

"Um, well, we wanted to have you all together because-", Grace began.

"Because we wanted to thank you… all of you.", Eli added as the *ground ups* stared them carefully. "I want to thank you, mom for not judging me, for not questioning me and most of all for believing and helping me. Thank you." When Karen heard Eli say those words she squeezed Henry's hand and a tear fell from her eye.

"And dad, well, I thought that when you found out about us you'd be furious and that you would try to kill Eli or something but you did otherwise, you helped us, you understood us, you gave us space, you trusted us and I wanna thank you for that."

"Oh, honey.", Jake only snorted, feeling like once in his life he did the right thing for his daughter.

"And Judy!", Grace snorted a laugh. "We all know that you and mom don't keep secrets from each other and that it must be hard to not tell her about us. So, we wanna say thanks."

"It's not like I've never kept something from Lily before.", Judy slightly joked, making them giggle. "Just don't tell her that."

"So it means that-", Tiffany insinuated.

"You're together again.", Henry completed Tiffany's thoughts.

"Definitively!", Eli firmly assured them then he and Grace hugged.

"Oh my God!!", Jessie got out loud in surprise as she stepped in and saw Eli and Grace hugging. "You got back together! You guys freaked out last week, leaving me in a totally black picture. You've got to tell me everything. You owe me that. I mean if it wasn't for me you would have never got together in the first place.", Jessie stopped her frenetic babbling and notice all those eyes on her then she finally realized that Grace and Eli were acting like a couple in front of the *grown ups* which made her worry a little.

"It's okay, Jess. They know.", Eli eased her slight concern.

"And they're cool with it.", Grace happily added.

"Really?", Jessie quizzed, staring at her mother.

"Jess, let me ask you something. What do you mean they wouldn't have got together if it wasn't for you?", Karen asked with a sarcastic tone then everybody else stared at her eagerly.

"Um… it's, it's a long story.", Jessie tried to escape from answering.

"Oh, it's okay. We have all the time in the world.", Jake joked.

Jessie didn't know from where to start because the Eli and Grace story was truly a long, long one. "She was the one that first noticed there was something between us.", Eli helped her, making the story really short.

"She opened our eyes.", Grace mumbled.

"Hugh… You go, Jessie!!", Judy playfully congratulated her and they laughed a little at it.

Eli leaned in and kissed Grace fully. "Hey, hey. Wait a minute!", Jake made them break the kiss. "I am thrilled that you two are together but no hugging, no touching and specially no kissing while I'm in the room. I mean, she might be seventeen but she's still my little girl.", everybody in the room burst out laughing at him. "What? Did I say something wrong?", he jokely asked as the other continued laughing.

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Rick and Lily got back from their trip around midnight. They didn't see Eli's car there so they assumed he was at Karen's.

Monday morning came and Lily and Rick were dying to see their kids but Zoe, Grace, Jessie and Eli were doing their usual activities so Rick and Lily jus went to work, praying for the night to come soon.

And they were lucky because the hours passed so fast that the night was there and they barely noticed it.

"Hi, mom.", Grace and Zoe beamed at her, coming in from the back door.

"Oh, sweeties. I missed you so.", Lily exclaimed hugging them.

"Hi girls.", Rick gout out coming from the living room.

"Anything to eat. I'm hungry.", Zoe asked, running through the pans that sat on the stove.

"It's all you have to say? Don't you want to know how the trip was?", Li quizzed with a smile.

"Later, mom.", Grace nodded, heading up to her room followed by Zoe.

Lily watched her daughters go to their room and exhaled, she was a little upset because it seemed that the girls didn't miss her that much. "Let me cheer you up.", Rick jokely mumble, stepping closer to her then he kissed her lips.

"Hey, get a room!", Eli sarcastically stated when he saw his father and step-mother *making out* in the kitchen as him and Jessie entered.

"Dad!", Jessie exclaimed in excitement.

"Hi, honey!", Rick embraced her.

"Hi Eli, hi Jessie.", Lily Said a little embarrassed.

"Okay, don't worry. We're leaving.", Eli assured them that he and Jessie would leave them alone then they went to their rooms.

"Where we stopped?', Rick whispered in her ear and she giggled.

"Stop!", she ordered. "Kitchen is not the place for… you know."

"Are you sure?", he tease her with a sexy low voice.

"Rick!", she snapped. "The kids are here."

"Sorry but you can't blame a me for trying.", Rick stopped playing with her hair and began to notice something on her face. "Am I wrong or there is something bothering you besides me."

"No, not bothering me. It's more like intriguing me.", Lily snorted. "Did you notice?"

"What?"

"Grace and Eli", she went on. "It seems like whatever that happened to them is gone now. Do you think that Eli and that mysterious girl got back together?"

"No, I don't think so.", Rick vaguely answered, still believing the reason Eli was down was Carla's return.

"How do you know that?"

"I don't. I'm guessing", he said, leaving the kitchen.

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Next day after school, Eli and Grace got home, he picked her up and now they were home and everybody else wasn't.

"Thanks for picking me up.", Grace thanked him as they stepped in.

"Guess it's my duty now.", he joked. "Hey, um… come to my room. I wanna show you something."

"You can show me here.", she said, putting her backpack on the couch. "Mom and Rick won't be home until ten."

"What about Zoe?', he questioned.

"She's at a friend's."

"Okay then. ", Eli said, taking his guitar off of his shoulders then out of its bag. "I wrote a song last night and I want you to hear it."

"Cool.", Grace smiled, sitting on the couch next to Eli then he began playing…

* No more lies

Cos I have got nothing to hide

And now it's for real

No matter what they do

I don't really care

Of what they will say

Happy is what I wanna be

And to leave for thee

So you can hold me fearlessly

It's okay to walk hand in hand

Oh, my love

Let the time crawls endlessly

Oh, my love

Our love was meant to be

Oh, sugar

Please believe in the *Happy Ending*

Oh, my love

My love…*

Eli stopped playing. Grace was staring him like it was the very first time she saw him, she had a slight smile stained on her face. "Okay. You can hit me with the truth. It sucks.", Eli thought she didn't like it. "Come on. Say it! I can handle the-", Grace kissed him tenderly. "You know, I have hundreds of bad songs. Do I get a kiss for each one of them?!!"

Grace laughed a little at his teasing joke. "It's beautiful!"

"Think so?", he mumbled and she nodded. "Ahh, I haven't thought of the second part yet, you know."

"Do you believe it?", Grace shrugged.

"What?", he looked up at her.

"*Happy Ending*", she softly got out, a little unsured of his answer.

"I wrote the song, didn't I", he sweetly answered. "I do. I do believe everything is gonna end up just fine. And this is exactly what I want to talk to you about."

"What?"

"I think we should tell them.", he snorted, holding her hand.

"When? You mean, like now? Tonight?", she clumsily quizzed in concern.

"No, not tonight and neither tomorrow.", Eli soothed her a little. "Well, they have to go to L.A this weekend again. I thought we could tell them after they get back. I mean, dad's signing this new contract with a bid company, they'll be happy and it will be easier. Well, at least I think it will be."

"I'm not sure this is a good idea, Eli. But we can't go on lying to them for the rest of our lives.", Grace in her own way agreed to tell her mother and Rick the truth.

"So… Monday. Monday is when the truth will be revealed.", Eli hummed then Grace sat on his lap and they started kissing.

Every time they were alone, they couldn't keep their hands off of each other and once they started kissing, the rest of the world was forgotten. They were so lost in each other that they didn't hear the back door opening. They went on kissing, touching 'til they were brought out from their *private heaven* with the sound of a glass splitting against the floor. They stopped, parted and saw her, stunned, looking at them.

"We can explain.", Eli said, fixing his clothes.

"Yeah, we can explain.", Grace added, not very sure of what to say.

"OH-MY-GOD!!!!!", *she* exclaimed. "You're dating!!"

"Zoe, you can't say a word about this to mom or Rick, okay?", Grace seriously said.

"Give me a good reason for me to do that.", Zoe disputed, knowing it would drive her sister insane.

"ZOE!!!", Grace groaned in anger.

"Because, because-", Eli was trying to think of something clever to say. "Because you are the seventh person who knows about us."

"The seventh? Who else knows?", Zoe quizzed with a funny face.

"Well, Jessie…", Eli began.

"Judy…", Grace went on.

"Henry, my, my mother's boyfriend…"

"Tiffany…"

"My mother…"

"And… dad.", Grace finished.

"Dad? Dad knows? And so does your mother?", Zoe got out, still not believing in them.

"yes, and they're all cool with it. Isn't that great?!!", Eli remarked, trying to convince Zoe to keep her mouth shut.

"So what do you say, Zoe?", Grace stumbled in doubt.

"I don't know.", Zoe pouted.

"Come on, Zoe! I mean, you'll know something that your mother doesn't.", Eli tried to tempt her.

Zoe kept in silence for a while, making a thoughtful face. Eli and Grace almost died because of her teasing, killing and torturing silence."… Okay. I won't tell them.", Zoe finally spoke.

"Thank you, Zoe.", Eli breathed in relief, hugging her.

"Hey, but don't you forget that you guys owe me one. Big time.", Zoe pretended to be above them or something.

"I knew you wouldn't let me get rid of this for free.", Grace sarcastically said. "Wait a minute. Weren't you supposed to be at Anika's? What are you doing home?"

Zoe made a bored face and went up to the stairs then she said. "Anika is bitch!!"

Grace and Eli looked at each other in amazement then started laughing. Eli suddenly grabbed Grace, threw her on the floor and started non-stop tickling her sides…

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Friday night had come and Rick and Lily had caught the last flight to L.A. Everything was going perfectly well but they felt like there was something that just didn't fit but they didn't know what exactly.

"Lil?", Rick called, not letting her to take a nap on the plane's chair.

"What?', she answer under her sleepy voice.

"The contract is with you, right?", Rick shrugged.

"Yes, it is. I mean, no. I mean, yes, I got it but I put it in your briefcase."

"Oh.", Rick grabbed the briefcase and ran through the papers that were in it, looking for the contract while Lily tried to get some sleep.

"Lil?", Rick called her again.

"What now, Rick?", Lily said with a little annoyance.

"The contract isn't here.", he announced in concern.

"What?", Lily quizzed, becoming less and less sleepy.

"It is not here.", Rick remarked seriously.

"But it's impossible. I got---- oh, no."

"Oh, no, what?", he looked at her eagerly.

"Well, I was carrying your papers and the contract too when Grace and I accidentally ran onto each other. She had some papers in her hands too so… I think she must have mistaken the contract with her own papers."

"What? You're saying the contract is at home.", Rick slightly yelled. "What am I gonna do now?"

"Come down. We can sake Sam to pick it up."

"Oh yeah. And Sam will be able to find our contract among all of the school papers that Grace keeps in her room?", Rick half-sarcastically, half- pissed, put it.

"You're right. So I'll catch the first flight back home and I can take the same flight as Sam in the morning and everything is going to be fine.

"" Oh, God!", Rick snorted, not believing it was happening to him. "I'll go with you.."

"No, you don't have to. It's my fault. I'll take of it.", she tried to fix the mess she absent-mindedly created.

"No, no. I wanna go. Make sure nothing bad will happen this time.", Rick said.

"Okay… but you still love me, right?", Lily joked a little, making the tension between them fade away.

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Six in the morning, Rick and Lily got out of the cab in a mad, mad rush. Lily swiftly unlocked the door and they invaded the house.

"Wait here, Rick. The contract must be in her room.", said Lily rushing up to the stairs.

"I'll go with you.", Rick announced and she made a face. "What? Have you seen how many papers and books there are in Grace's room?"

"Right! Let's got.", Lily snorted and the went up.

"I just hope she didn't take it with her to Jake's because-", Rick stated as they entered in Grace's room but he and Lily froze in time and place when they faced *that* particular picture right in front of them. They were speechless, stunned, they had no reactions, they wee completely and totally shocked to see that.

Grace and Eli were sleeping together. She was wearing a real short top that more looked like a bra and a tiny short. Eli was only with his underwear. One of his legs was place over hers and his arms were wrapped around her waist. Grace slowly began to wake up. She opened her eyes and as she did it, a form of two people was becoming more and more clear to her eyes. She blinked a few times and realized who those two were and that she was not dreaming at all.

"MOM!!?", Grace got out loud, abruptly sitting up.

Eli was waken up by her sudden moves. He looked at her a little surprised then get absolutely terrified when he saw his father and step-mother, giving them those killing glares.

"Mom. Mom, we can explain. I swear.", Grace stammered, covering herself with the sheets.

"That's right, dad. I need you two to listen to me, please.", Eli desperately tried to come up with something to say while the *parents* stared at them without even blink. Grace and Eli even thought that they could tell them that they *accidentally* fell asleep together but it was too late for that because Lily, in one of her attempts to come out of her stillness, caught a glimpse of a worn condom, sitting on the floor next to the bed.

"WHAT-THE-HELL-IS-GOING-ON-HERE?", Lily finally yelled at them.

"ELI", Rick angrily yelled too. "GO TO YOUR ROOM."

"Dad, Listen to me, I -", Eli got up and stumbledly tried to speak but Rick didn't let him.

"SHUT UP!", Rick yelled again.

"Mom, let me explain, please. Don't-", Grace weakly tried to say something.

"SHUT UP YOU TOO, GRACE. I don't want to listen to your voice right now. In fact, I can't even look at you right now." Lily furiously shouted at her daughter

"Eli?", What you're still doing here? Didn't I tell you to go to your dam room?", Rick was about to lose what had left of hi self-control. "Go to your room and don't get out of there until I say so.", Eli fearly dashed down to his room.

"And I don't want you out of this room too, Gracie… Just stay here and, and- ", Lily couldn't finish her sentence, she was extremely shake and her anger had taken over her mind and body. Lily and Rick stepped out of Grace's room and right after they slam the door shut, Grace broke down and cried, she desperately cried, not knowing what would happened to her and Eli.