A/N: So there is a reason why I did not update last week and that was because I spent Easter in Chicago. I had no computer and no internet because I was traveling with a friend. But I am here now and I hope that this chapter will be good enough to everyone's liking.

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Chapter Twenty-Eight: Promises

"Do you have any idea why Kelsey wants to have dinner with us?" Brooke asks as she and Julian approach the table that Kelsey was sitting at.

"No idea, but it's really freaking me out at this point. She better not break our daughter's heart."

Brooke rolls her eyes and smiles at Kelsey. Kelsey stands up and smiles.

"Thank you for having this dinner with me. I just, thank you."

They all sit down and Kelsey picks up her menu. Brooke glances at Julian and turns to Kelsey.

"So, what did you want to talk about?"

Kelsey's looks over her menu.

"Can we talk after dinner?"

Brooke purses her lips.

"Sure."

Julian grabs his wife's hand and continues to peruse his menu.

-DG-

"Sam, how come it's just us tonight?"

"Because mom and dad are having dinner with my girlfriend and I have no idea why."

Aidan smiles at his sister as he watches her cook.

"What are you making?" Aidan asks as he gets closer to the counter.

Sam looks up at her brother with a smile.

"Homemade pizza, I figured you'd get a kick out of that."

"I've never had it before." Aidan watched as Sam poured sauce onto the dough. "Can I help you spread it?"

Sam grins at Aidan and nods her head.

"Alright, come over here."

-DG-

Brooke, Julian and Kelsey had finished their dinner and as the waiter cleared their table Brooke and Julian turned to Kelsey.

"Time to talk, you've been avoiding it all evening. It's your turn to talk."

Kelsey coughed and dug into her pocket to pull out the small box. She placed it on the table in front of her and took a breath. She had a whole speech prepared, but looking into the wide eyes of her girlfriend's parents all words escaped her.

"Is that what I think it is?" Julian asks carefully.

With shaky hands, Kelsey opened the box to reveal a small diamond engagement ring.

"Y-yeah," Kelsey stutters.

Brooke takes a hold of the box and smiles.

"It's beautiful and it's Sam. You did well."

"You're happy about this?" Julian questions his wife. "I mean, I thought you'd go off the handle."

"I'm being polite," Brooke replies in honesty. Brooke looks at Kelsey. "You two are young. I may sound like a hypocrite considering I know I was young when I was engaged."

"I know you may be against it, but I love her and I know we will spend the rest of our lives together. I know it in my heart, but an engagement isn't a marriage it's a promise. It's a real promise."

"If it's a promise than why don't you just get Sam a promise ring instead?" Julian questions out loud.

Kelsey smiles kindly at her girlfriend's parents.

"Promise rings are for couples in high school who hope that they have a future together. Sam and I are different from those couples because we do have a future together. I believe that. She believes that and I want two to believe it to."

-DG-

Brooke and Julian came home to find their kids sleeping on the couch. Aidan's head was resting on one side of the couch and Sam's was on the other. They were sharing a blanket and a movie was running. Brooke looked from her children to the mess all around them and sighs.

"I'm not cleaning any of that up. It's ridiculous."

Julian smiles and picks their son up from the couch managing not to disturb him.

"I'm going to put him to bed."

"Okay."

Brooke sits down next to her daughter and places Sam's sock covered feet in her lap. Sam felt the movement and stirred awake.

"You're home," Sam says sleepily.

"Yeah, we just got in. We found you and your brother sleeping. And we looked at the messy house."

Sam winces at sits up.

"I'll clean up, don't worry."

"I know you will. I raised you right."

"How was your date with my girlfriend?"

Brooke smirks at her daughter's jealousy.

"Our date was fine," Brooke says as she looks at Sam's ring finger with no ring on it. Brooke looks up at Sam and smiles. "She loves you so much."

"I know she does. I love her too, mom. Have you ever felt like you couldn't breathe and at the same time feel like it was the greatest thing in the world?"

"When I am with your dad and he gives me his infamous grin. That's when I feel like that."

"It's a great feeling isn't it?"

"Yeah, baby, it does. Now clean up."

Sam groans as Brooke walks off and into her bedroom.

-DG-

Brooke enters her bedroom and smiles as she sees her husband looking through Sam's baby book.

"Are you getting nostalgic on me husband?"

"She was 5 Ibs and she had a set of lungs on her."

Brooke kicked off her shoes and joined her husband.

"I was really scared that day. I was super scared."

"I know, but it was worth it wasn't it?" Julian asks as they look at the picture with Brooke holding their daughter.

"Oh yes, it was."

Julian closes the book and looks at his wife.

"Did we really give permission for Kelsey to marry our daughter?"

"Yes we did and I know it's something that they won't rush into. But I love Kelsey and I would love to have her as another daughter."

"I would too," Julian says truthfully.