A/N: HAPPY SINGLES-AWARENESS DAY! :))))) Or as some of you people call it, Valentines Day. I just had a choir concert, and have NO HOMEWORK TONIGHT. So, I decided to treat you all to the third to last update. That's right: only ONE MORE CHAPTER LEFT! And of course, the EPIClogue. :) Honestly, I am ready for this story to be done with. So, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

A week passed. Charles, Darcy and Fitz sat with us. Jane and Charles started going out and were blissfully happy. Charlotte broke up with Collin, who went back to sit by himself. He didn't seem to mind the breakup at all. Fitz and Charlotte seemed to really like each other. Darcy was the only one who I wasn't satisfied with. He didn't talk much to any of us. I noticed him looking at me, but not as much as in before I refused him. He was just polite, not friendly. I cried every night, thinking of what I had lost. A week later Jane invited me to go to dinner with her and Charles, saying that Darcy would come too. I accepted happily. Jane was the only one who suspected my true feelings for Darcy. I put on a white dress and took forever to look my best.

Charles pulled up at seven in his car, Jane in the passenger seat and Darcy in the back. I got in the car and sat by him. He was looking at me, and said, "You look pretty." I blushed and said a quiet thank you. It was an overall quiet car ride between the two of us, both wanting to talk but not knowing what to say. Jane and Charles were oblivious to the tension and were chatting amiably as usual. We got to the restaurant and asked for a booth. Charles and Jane sat together on one side and Darcy awkwardly slid into the seat beside me. My heart was pounding hard. We ate a quiet dinner, Jane and Charles only talking to each other.

After the food was gone, Darcy and I were ready to leave, but the restaurant owners took that moment to open the dance floor. We both watched helplessly as Jane and Charles got up to dance. We sat in an awkward silence for a minute, until I worked up the courage to speak.

"Darcy, I wanted to thank you for everything you did for my sister. Ever since I found out, I have been anxious to tell you how grateful I am, for myself and for all my family. Don't blame my aunt for telling me, Lydia let it out first, and I couldn't rest until I knew everything that you did. I'm sorry for all the trouble you went through to get her back to us, the money, the fight," I gulped at the memory of him getting hurt. He still had a black eye from it. "Everything. Thank you, so much Darcy. I don't know how we can ever repay you." I looked at him. His expression was unreadable, but he did seem to be searching my face. He took a deep breath, and said, "If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. Your family owes me nothing. I only thought of you and your happiness." My heart started rushing. He couldn't mean...

He looked me in the eye and took my hand gently. "You're too nice to mess with my feelings. If your feelings are still what they were before break, please tell me. My affections and wishes are still the same. But one word from you and I'll never mention this again."

Darcy still loved me. DARCY STILL LOVED ME! I had never been this happy in my entire life.

I had absolutely no idea what to say, so I smiled brilliantly. He looked at me in doubt, and I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him. Darcy just sat there, stiff as a board, so I was afraid that maybe I had imagined everything that he said. I pulled away and at his blank expression, moved back and mumbled, "Sorry." He stared at me in confusion, and slowly leaned away. I felt completely rejected. I must of imagined Darcy saying he still loved me. I got up and ran from the restaurant crying.

Darcy didn't like me. At all. The most horrible thing I could possibly imagine had happened. I stood there and took deep breaths. Suddenly I felt a hand on my wrist. I spun around coming face to face with Darcy. I just stared at him and he stared at me, until he closed the space between us with one swift step, and kissed me. He pulled me closer and I put my arms around his neck. Darcy spun me around through the air and then put me down as we broke apart. Our foreheads were touching and he smiled at me.

"I- I thought you didn't like me? I kissed you and you just sat there." I stammered quietly.

Darcy smiled again and touched my cheek. "That's just because I was so shocked that the girl of my dreams actually kissed me. How could any sensible person not be amazed?" He said.

Darcy's statement made me start crying tears of joy. He wiped away the tears from my face, and I smiled happily. He looked at me in utter amazement. "You really do like me?" Darcy whispered.

I smiled through my tears. Then I hugged him and he cautiously put his arms around my waist. I leaned in so that my mouth was right next to his ear. "I really do like you. I love you."

Darcy leaned back to look at me. His eyes had watered and he still looked doubtful.

"Are you sure? Don't say it just because you feel grateful about Lyd-" Darcy didn't get to finish because I had kissed him again. I knew that Darcy would probably be insecure about my affections for him, considering all that had happened. I decided then and there that I would spend as long as necessary assuring Darcy that I loved him.

Eventually we heard the door open but we didn't break apart.

"Darcy? Elizabeth? Where did you guys go-" Charles Bingley stopped walking and talking in disbelief at our spectacle, causing Jane to walk straight into his back. "Charles? What happen-" She started, but stopped mid-sentence at seeing me kissing Darcy.

We finally pulled apart and grinned at our friend's dumbstruck expressions. Charles looked as if he had been hit on the head with a hammer and was about to fall unconscious, and Jane appeared as though there was a tap-dancing elephant on the pavement in front of her.

Darcy and I laughed but paid no more attention to them, and turned back to each other.

"Elizabeth Bennet, did I ever tell you I love you?" He asked softly.

I smiled, even though I knew it was a rhetorical question, answered him anyways. "You didn't have to tell me." I pecked Darcy lightly on the cheek as I said it. "It wouldn't make any difference. Will," I felt him grin at my use of his first name and I smiled. "I will still love you, even if you don't love me and never will."

Darcy had an expression of heart-felt delight on his face as he said, "Elizabeth Bennet, that is a problem that you will never have." Darcy pulled me into his arms bridal style, and I laughed at his joyful and slightly crazy antics, making him grin and kiss me again.

We completely forgot about how Jane and Charles had no idea what was going on, as they thought if Elizabeth Bennet and Will Darcy were kissing each other, either pigs were flying or there was blackmail involved. They exchanged a seriously confused look, and Charles said, "Um... Darcy? What the heck is going on?"

Darcy put me down and grinned at his friend. "Isn't it obvious? I'm kissing Elizabeth Bennet."

He threw his head back and laughed the most joyful laugh I could ever imagine. "I'm kissing Elizabeth Bennet!" Darcy yelled.

I giggled and he looked at me in amazement again. "I can't believe I'm finally kissing Elizabeth Bennet." Darcy spoke so quietly that I knew it was meant for me only.

I smiled at Darcy reassuringly as I took his face in my hands. "Well you had better believe it, because I am about to kiss Fitzwilliam Darcy." And I did.

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