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Five Years Later

"Mommy! Daddy! Wake up!" A little voice exclaimed as our mattress began to shake.

I slowly opened my eyes to find Lucy jumping up and down on our bed, a huge smile lighting up her face. Her dark curls bounced up and down with her as she continued jumping on the bed.

"What's wrong?" Ezra mumbled as he rolled over to face Lucy.

"Guess what today is?" Lucy asked eagerly.

"Hmm… Is it Valentine's Day?" I asked jokingly.

"No!" Lucy shook her head forcefully. "Come on! Guess again!"

Ezra propped himself up on his elbows as he watched Lucy with a playful glint in his eyes. "Is it Halloween?"

"Daddy!" Lucy groaned at Ezra's answer.

"I know!" I exclaimed. Lucy's eyes lit up as she turned to me, waiting for me to say the words she wanted to hear. "It's the first day of spring!"

"Noooo." Lucy wined, disappointment clearly written all over her face.

"I know what it is." Ezra playfully scooped Lucy into his arms, lifting her off the mattress. She screamed in delight. "It's my little girl's birthday." He whispered in her ear.

"Yes!" Lucy exclaimed happily. "Finally you guessed it right!" Lucy threw her arms around Ezra's neck as she hugged him.

"Do you really think we would forget your birthday Luc?" I asked. "We were just messing with you."

Lucy looked at me with a skeptical look on her face as if she was trying to figure out if I was lying or not.

"Did I get any presents?" Lucy suddenly asked, as she quickly tried to get out of Ezra's embrace.

"I don't know…" I contemplated. "Why don't we go change your clothes then we'll look around to see if you got any?" I teased her.

Without even replying, Lucy eagerly jumped out of Ezra's arms and sprinted towards her room to change her clothes.

I gave Ezra the signal to take out all her presents before following Lucy into her room. I could not help but laugh at the sight of Lucy tangled up in the dress she was trying to pull over her head.

"Let me help you." I helped her put her arms through the dress as I grabbed a matching bow from her dresser and tied it in her hair.

"Are my presents ready now?" She asked eagerly.

"First you have to give mommy a kiss." I requested, wanting to mess with her just a little longer.

She groaned in annoyance, clearly become more and more impatient by the second, before quickly pressing her lips against my cheek.

"There. Now can we go?" She asked desperately.

I nodded with a smile on my face. "Go find Daddy." I watched as Lucy ran from the room in search of Ezra.

"Daddy?" I heard her call from down the hall.

All of a sudden a loud scream of delight filled the house. I knew she had found her stack of presents.

I entered the kitchen to see Lucy staring in awe at the mountain of presents on the kitchen table.

"Are these all for me?" She whispered in disbelief.

"Yep, all for you baby girl." Ezra said as he kissed the top of her head.

"Yay!" Lucy screamed as she lunged for the present at the top of the pile wrapped in sparkly pink paper with a big bow on the top.

She tore open the paper and gasped when she opened the present and saw the words American Girl printed on the top of the blue box. "How did you know I wanted an American girl doll?"

Lucy lifted the top of the box off and slowly picked up the doll, admiration filling her eyes.

"She looks just like me!" Lucy exclaimed happily as she hugged the doll tightly against her chest.

"Thanks Mommy! Thanks Daddy!" She carefully set the doll back into the box and wrapper her arms around our waists, giving the two of us a hug.

"There's more." Ezra motioned towards the table.

Lucy eagerly ran back to the table and grabbed another present. She tore it open and out fell a little pink dress with flowers on it.

"Clothes?" Lucy asked in a bored voice as she raised her eyebrows at Ezra and I.

I laughed as I told her to look at her doll again.

"Oh my gosh!" She screamed as she realized that the dress in her hand was the exact replica of the one her doll was wearing.

"Now you two can match." Ezra smiled.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Lucy cried, unable to control her excitement.

When Lucy had finished opening the rest of her presents, she moved into the living room to play with her doll.

I smiled as I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist. "She's so adorable." Ezra commented as he rested his chin on my shoulder as we watched our little girl.

"Yeah." I sighed in content. "We got so lucky."

"Mhmm." Ezra agreed.

He laced his fingers with mine as his thumb brushed across my wedding ring.

Ezra and I had gotten married a year ago. Lucy had been old enough to be our flower girl, a role I had known she would love. The ring on my finger only reminded me how real Ezra's love for me really was. That despite everything the two of us had been through, he loved me irrevocably and unconditionally. That no matter what new hardships we encountered, he would always be by my side.

The girls and I had stopped receiving messages from A not long after Ezra and I had come back to Rosewood five years ago after trying to run from A. I still did not know who A was, but I was just thankful that that dreadful chapter of my life was over. I no longer flinched when my phone buzzed. I no longer had any daunting secrets dangling over my head.

As I looked back now, everything in my life had happened for a reason. Lucy, Ezra, and I, would not be the happy family we are now if the incident with A had never happened. It was so funny how all the problems Ezra and I encountered eventually made everything fall together. I never would have been able to make it through any of this without him. I squeezed his hand in mine tighter as I realized that even though so many people thought that our relationship would not last because he was my teacher and because I became pregnant as a teenager, all of that only made our relationship stronger. It proved that we could make it through anything.

"Mommy?" Lucy suddenly asked, looking up from her doll.

"Hmm?" I asked.

"Is Maria coming over today?"

I turned to Ezra, silently asking him with my eyes if Jackie had called.

"Yeah, she'll be here in about an hour." Ezra clarified.

"Yay!" Lucy smiled.

Even though Lucy was younger, Maria and Lucy had become very close, treating each other like sisters. Jackie occasionally visited because Maria and Ezra had formed an unspoken bond. Three months ago, Lucy and Maria had began a tradition of dedicating one Friday night a month to have a sleepover together. It did not take much persuading from the two girls for Ezra, Jackie, and I to agree. The two girls would spend hours drawing, playing dress up, and watching Disney movies together.

"Mommy, can I put my new dress on so I can match my doll?" Lucy asked.

I laughed as I took the dress from her and helped her change out of her old clothes and into the new dress.

"Look, Daddy! We're twins!" Lucy held up the doll next to her face, as the doll's dark curls bounced up and down as Lucy held her up.

"What are you going to name her?" Ezra asked as he scooped Lucy up into his arms and sat down on the couch. Lucy snuggled against his chest and held her doll close to her body.

"How about…" She furrowed her eyebrows together, forming a little crease in her forehead as she tried hard to come up with a name.

"Katie?" Ezra suggested.

"No." Lucy shook her head.

"Anna?" I suggested.

"Hmm…" Ezra contemplated, watching Lucy as she tried to think of a name for her doll.

"Taylor!" Lucy suddenly exclaimed.

"That's perfect." I agreed as I watched Lucy jump off Ezra's lap and skip back over to her big pile of presents to play with her doll once again.

I sat down next to Ezra on the couch and laid my head against his chest.

"Thank you." I said softly, as I tilted my head to look up at him.

"For what?" He questioned, as he began stroking his fingers through my hair.

"Everything. For loving me. For not giving up on us." I confessed.

"I would never dream of giving up on us. I love you more than you know."

I twisted myself in his arms as I pressed my lips gently against his.

Everything in my life had turned out for the better and I could not wait for the years to come. I knew that no matter what else life threw our way, we would make it through, and our love would only become stronger.

Fin

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