(A/N: So this chapter is going to be a little different. Tell me if anything is confusing. It is sort of a concluding chapter. It is not the last chapter though.)

Vivi woke cold, trying to find the blanket she had had the night before. She slowly opened her eyes to find her living room floor! Jumping up she saw that Sky and Will were both on either side of her. She shook them both awake and they had the same shock and confusion as their sister.

"What happened?" Sky asked looking around the room. "Why'd we come back?"

Vivi sat back down on the floor. "This… they'll wonder where we went! I would have rather stayed!"

Will hugged her sister, but then turned herself toward the stairs, where their father came down.

"What's going on—Girls?" He hurried down the stairs. "Where have you been?" He half yelled, but there was still worry behind it.

Sky and Will ran over to him and hugged their father. "We went away for a while. We're back now though." Their answer was half hearted, happy to see their father, but the disappointment of leaving their new friends behind still a shock to their sleepy minds.

The man looked over to his oldest. "You didn't have anything to do with this Vivian, did you?" He said to his oldest. "Because if you did—"

The girls stopped him though. "No, Vivi didn't have anything to do with it! But we're back now—"

"Go on upstairs." He said as softly as he could. "I'll come see you in a moment."

They hurried up the stairs and gave their sister a worried look before going up.

Vivi was about to go follow behind them when her father was in her way.

"Where were you? You've been gone almost two weeks! You couldn't have been kidnapped. There's no ransom note, no struggle! I had the police looking for you three! You were said missing!"

His daughter went to put her hands in her pockets, and was going to remember that she didn't have any until she found her old clothes on her. Suddenly she didn't miss them anymore.

"I took care of them. Isn't that all that matters? They're safe and I'll bet you're going to ground me, huh? I take full responsibility on what happened. Don't blame them." She walked past him and as fast as her shaken legs would go up the stairs and into her room.

Almost a couple months passed and Vivi and the girls still didn't understand why they had come back… home. The girls were back in their father's good graces. But Vivi was as far away from that as was imaginable. Still too confused as to why they had come back. What was the point? To go there and get attached to people, when they were just going to leave again.

The next worst thing happened, because their father had started being more involved with a lady he had apparently been seeing without them knowing. So he had introduced her to them as Marian. She was a woman he had met at some type of lunch outing he had, before they had left on their little 'adventure'. The girls weren't all that thrilled. She was always trying to impress them with compliments or buying them things. She seemed nice, but she tried way too hard.

It all came crashing down when their father decided that he was so in love with her, and that his girls needed a mother so much that he was going to get married. Vivi was as tempted as ever to run away again. But reliving that mistake wasn't worth it. And she couldn't leave them behind or set that example. Running away from your problems doesn't solve them.

Thinking of this always made her think of the exiled prince she had met in an alternate world. Always hoping that he didn't go back to the way he was before. But how was she to know? As the months went on though she had thought of it less, just trying to accept the fact that they weren't going back and that they were stuck in this awful world. Okay, it wasn't aweful, but she missed…him, a lot.

Her friends had noticed the first day that she hung out with them after she got back. But she didn't know how to explain it. Even Will and Sky didn't know what to do, they couldn't tell anyone where they were, so they made up some story. Vivi's friends however knew there was a boy involved, but they had no choice but to accept that they weren't going to get anything from their friend except silence.

So now the day came and the girls were suppose to be flower girls in Marian and their father's wedding, save for Vivi. To her dismay she was to be a bridesmaid. The colors of the wedding were white and pink… Vivi and Sky were disgusted, Will on the other hand hadn't minded as much.

"Do we really have to do this?" Sky asked fiddling with her pink-laced fluffy dress. "We could run away easily."

Vivi grumbled sitting in a chair lowly, not answering. Hoping her sister wasn't serious.

Will was standing, fiddling with her dress. "We owe this to father at least." She paused, "What if we ran away after the wedding!"

Will's sisters stared at her in disbelief.

"Will we couldn't possibl—" Will cut Vivi off quickly.

"We could do it! I don't want to stay here for another minute with miss happy face two rooms down. After the wedding we could sneak away and never come back!"

Vivi and Sky both looked at her, "Will! You know you really don't want to do that."

Will walked over and sat on her older sister's lap. "I don't want a new mother anyway! You're close enough for me."

She didn't know how much that stung, and yet made her feel closer to their mom, even though she didn't really feel like she deserved to be compared to their mom. She was the one that filled their heads with the thought of running away in the first place. "Will… We can't run away from our problems. Father loves us, he loves mom, and he still misses her."

Will leaned on her sister. "I wish we could go back to avatar world… I miss them."

Vivi sighed. "Yeah well that's not an option, now is it?"

The wedding was taking place at a large ballroom in one of the expensive buildings in the city. Chairs were lined up on both sides, flowers lining the isle chairs. Father's best man, who happened to be one of his friends from work, stood on the left. While Marian's maid of honor stood on the right. Their stepmother to be, made her way down the way as elegantly as her huge annoying personality could muster. They were married shortly after with a disgusting kiss, and soon everyone made preparations for the reception to take place.

Sky whined as the three disappeared from everyone's gaze after they had to have pictures taken. "You should have just gagged me then and there." She collapsed on a little couch followed by the other two. "Now all we have to do is make it through a little longer, at least after dinner, then we can get out of these pink fluff lookin things she calls a dress."

As Vivi listened to her sisters grumble and complain, realized then some of their dislike and anger had been directed at Marian's trying to get them to like her and leaving the avatar gang, when what they really had been doing was taking it out on someone else instead of dealing with it. Vivi felt guilt settle and the fact that she hadn't seen it sooner, letting her sister's be like this and herself towards someone who was just trying to help.

Their sister looked their desperate faces over, then to her dress, "It's not that bad. Besides, I think Marian might be better than we are thinking. I mean, she's been really irritating, but I think she's trying at least."

The girls thought about this for a moment, silently realizing what they had done and feeling like Vivi was.

Their father poked his head through the door. "Girls, what are you doing in here? Everyone's getting ready to give a toast!" Then he was gone.

Vivi took Will's hand and lead them out of the room.

Everyone seemed to be waiting for the three of them as they filed out and sat at their father's table, Vivi being the one ending up sitting by Marian.

"I am so happy to have been allowed to join this wonderful little family!" Marian began cheerfully. "These three girls are the most darling, and have the most wonderfulest father!" The girls exchanged looks at her over cheerfulness. "This man, sitting beside me is the best thing that could have happened to my life, and I look forward to sharing every moment with him." She paused for a moment, and her face changed to a slight smile, eyes seeming to be in deep thought. "I know…that I can't be a replacement for your mother, but I do love your father." She looked at the girls.

The three looked at her and they all felt guilt sweep over them more than before, and sadness that they always felt when their mom was mentioned or thought about.

"I am happy to be able to be a part of your family."

Their point of view of Marian changed just then.

The girls exchanged looks, and really smiled at Marian.

Their father took his wife's hand and looked at his girls, then spoke up to break the silence, "Well," he said, seeming to keep back the break in his voice, "Lets have dinner."

Vivi, Sky and Will couldn't even try to have a good time, due to the food in front of them looked like rabbit food.

"Does this even look edible?" Sky picked at the green and odd slimy black things. "It looks like it's still alive."

"Eh, I think it is." Vivi whispered back. "When's cake?"

After a few more courses their wish came true and the huge five layer cake was cut by the bride and groom, and the three girls received first dibs before anyone got the chance to take any.

Before they had any though, they turned to Marian. "Umm, we're sorry we haven't been the nicest to you lately." Vivi began.

"We really are happy you married dad."

Will hugged her, "Dad needs somebody. We're happy for you."

The woman had tears in her eyes. "Thanks girls!" She moved for a hug before they could dodge.

Then they turned to their dad, who was talking to someone.

"Dad?" Vivi said, walking over to him.

He turned to the three, Marian watching from the other side of the table.

"We just wanted to say we're sorry we haven't been that nice to Marian and how we've been acting."

Will took her Dad's hand.

"We'll be nice from now on. Marian's great Dad, we're happy for you." Sky added too.

"We love you Dad." Vivi said, tears coming to her eyes. She couldn't remember the last time she had told her dad that, and that made the tears come down her face even more. She hugged him, catching him a bit off guard.

"I'm sorry too Vivi." He hugged her and her sister, kissing Vivi on the top of her head. Sky joining in on the hug as well.

They stood in the family moment for a minute, until they pulled away and wiped the tears away.

"Mmm, white frosted goodness!" Will cooned as she swiped some of the frosting from the lemon cake off the top.

They had retreated to the side room again after everyone was occupied with eating and talking, including their father and Marian.

"I'm still hungry. Lets go get more!" Will proposed, standing up and setting her plate on the side table.

They came back with two pieces each, luckily no one had seen them commit the act.

"I'm full…" Sky groaned as she finished her second piece.

"I know, I can barely move!"

For a few minutes they all curled on the sofa and stared at the ceiling, mumbling to themselves.

"I wonder if mom would be happy about dad getting married." Sky asked.

"Yeah. She just would have wanted us all to be happy." Vivi looked over at them, "I'm sorry about what I did. It was wrong."

They hugged Vivi. "We were sad too. You just dealed with it how you felt, we forgive you."

There was a pause for a moment.

"I would miss dad if we went back to avatar world." Will said, looking over.

"You know, I think dad would be alright. He has Marian, I think she will be really good for him." Vivi said thoughtfully.

They nodded in agreement.

Will looked at them, "You know…I've been thinking a lot. I've been wondering if we'll ever get to go back."

Vivi and Sky looked at her.

"So I wrote a note to dad. Telling him a bunch of stuff and how much we love him. Just in case it ever does happen."
Vivi and Sky thought about this. "Where did you put it?"

"It's been under my pillow almost as long as we've been back." She smiled a bit.

Vivi and Sky hugged their sister. Knowing how she felt.

For a while they sat thinking remembering their mom, what their life was going to be like with their father and Marian. Then their mind would drift, wondering what friends they hadn't seen in what seemed like so long in a world that was so far away, were doing.