Donna's apartment

"Welcome back guys!" Kelly said, greeting Donna and David

"Uncle David!" Jack ran up to hug his uncle.

"How was your trip?" Kelly asked

"Very romantic." Donna said, as David kissed her cheek,

"Give me your luggage babe, I'll unpack." David said

"Aww, the romance isn't over even though the weekend is." Donna grinned

"Wanna give me a hand, Jack?" David asked, as the boys took the bags to David and Donna's room

"How are you Kelly?"

"Oh Donna... where do I start... I went on a date with that Matt guy, Dylan found out, and slept with the guy's secretary, so we fought and fought and then uhm... got drunk, and, oh yeah, and had sex."

"We never leave high school." Donna sighed

"Oh and I think we broke Brandon..." Kelly added "You know, with all our talking... mostly my talking."

"So let me guess, now you're avoiding Dylan because you don't know what to say because you slept together."

"Pretty much.."

"Like I said, we never leave high school."

"Well, now you're home, so HELP!"

"Can we do this later, please?"

"Yeah... sure."

Later that evening

"Jack's asleep?" Donna asked

"Yeah... what time are you going to After Dark?" Kelly asked

"David's playing in an hour, so I'll head over there in a bit."

"Alright..."

"Kelly stop over thinking."

"I'm not."

"I know that face."

"It's just been in my head all day."

"The sex or the fighting?"

"Both... wow you do know me well." Kelly chuckled

"Can I be frank, Kelly..." Donna leaned closer to her

"If it will help."

"You say, you don't know how it got this way, you say you don't trust him, you keep saying how it's too hard to maintain this relationship."

"Yeah... what's your point, Donna."

"My point is, there are days where I wanna kill David, just wanna kick him out because he drives me crazy, but I don't... because I know it's just a moment of anger... and he loves me... and he will always fight for us."

"Dylan's not David, Donna."

"Isn't he? Or are you forcing yourself to believe he's not... Kelly, you and Dylan struggled your whole lives to be together... everyone saw your connection, no one stood a chance in there, not Brenda, not Brandon, not anyone... you guys were always tethered to one another and then finally 5 years ago, you got to be together... finally, you were together and you were so happy. I had never seen either of you so happy your entire lives. But then Jack got a bit older, more aware of what's going on and you got scared... scared that he'll be like you, when you were that age and started to notice your dad wasn't coming around, so you started pushing Dylan away, thinking that it was better to push him out now, while Jack's still young, because Dylan was going to leave eventually, right? and by then Jack would be old enough to notice, and he'll be just as screwed up as you two are."

"Donna..."

"And then" Donna ignored her, "he didn't go, but you kept pushing and pushing, trying to get him to succumb to his fate before Jack was old enough... so eventually yes, Dylan did run... the only difference is, Dylan DID change, he didn't run as far as he would have in the past. He ran to write a novel about his life, which if you had read, is basically a love story dedicated to you. He saw you pushing him away and he ran to do something productive. But he wasn't actually running away... he was giving you time to see that he's not leaving."

"Donna..."

"Don't you get it, your fear of abandonment could have pushed him to run away, but he didn't. So read the damn book, and get some perspective... he's not going to leave. He's just waiting for you to notice that."

The next day, Dylan's house

"Thank you, Kelly, I have a wonderful day planned for me and Jack" Iris smiled and Kelly smiled back. Iris took Jack to the kitchen to feed him.

"Could I borrow this?" Kelly asked Dylan, pointing to his novel on the table.

"It's yours." Dylan smiled. Kelly took it and walked outside. Dylan followed her out the door

"Are we ever going to talk, Kel?"

"Yeah... just give it time." she smiled, she headed to her car but Dylan grabbed her arm

"I'll wait..."

"What?" she asked

"I'll wait... believe that... I'll wait for you."