Adam and I met Clare at the Dot, and the three of us ate lunch together. It was still surreal, that we were all together and happy. After we finished eating I drove to drop Adam off at Clare's mother's, and Clare headed home to wait for me. Dropping Adam off was harder than I had thought it would be, he held onto my leg crying and begging for me not to leave him. I promised him I'd come back, but he continued to cry. Clare's mom had to pull him off of me, and take him to the back room. I felt horrible, but I knew the best thing for me to do was to leave sooner rather than later. When I turned the car on The Little Einstein's theme song was still playing, and I started to cry, I couldn't believe I was one of those parents. When I pulled up to the house I quickly ran inside, wiping my tears away. I walked into our room and Clare was standing there in a blue dress, with half of her curly hair pinned back, she was stunning.

I put my hand over my heart, "You look beautiful, Clare."

Clare blushed, "Thank you Eli, Alli said it was very formal, so I thought why not go all out."

I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her close to me, "I love you."

Clare smiled, "I love you back." Clare's squinted her eyes examining my face, and then her smile faded. "Eli, have you been crying?"

I laughed, "You caught me. Yes, but only because of the stupid Little Einstein's."

"Adam love's that show, why are you crying because of it?" Clare was staring at me in confusion.

"Adam was pretty upset wen I dropped him off, and the when I got in the car the song was still playing from earlier in the day. It just made me sad that I had to leave him behind."

Clare's smile reappeared, "You're a good Dad Eli, Adam is a very lucky little boy."

I sighed, "Clare I'm lucky, this is everything I ever dreamt of for us."

"All I ever wanted was you Eli, as long as I have that, I'm happy."

I kissed her briefly and pulled away smiling. "You will always have that."

Clare pulled away from me, "Good, now go get changed we have a party to attend."

I got ready in like two minutes, I threw on a pair of black dress pants, with a black belt, and then a white button up shirt. Clare and I left for the party, and after 20 minutes the address Clare gave me led us to a huge mansion, I knew it was going to be big, but I didn't realize it would be this big. Alli and I had been in contact all day, she was helping me make Clare's night extra special.

She giggled, "I know what you're thinking Eli, yes, This is where Alli lives. She's a doctor, and Dallas is a professional Hockey Player, so hence the mansion."

"They stayed together? That's shocking."

Clare playfully hit me on the chest, "Eli, that's not nice. Besides, I'm sure people are going to be thinking the same thing when they see us walk in together."

"No way, we were totally an obvious stay together after high school couple."

"How do you figure, you were just engaged to someone else." Clare looked away from me quickly, and I grabbed her hand.

"I know that, but somewhere in the back of my mind I always knew it would end up this way, us together. All I meant is that if anyone has ever seen the way I look at you, then they're foolish to be surprised." Clare was still looking out the window. 'Clare look at me please don't be upset, I wanted us to have a good time tonight."

Clare looked over at me sympathetically, "I'm sorry you're right. Shall we Mr. Goldsworthy?"

"We shall my lady." I walked around to open the door for Clare. Arm in arm we walked up the steps of Alli's home, I could feel Clare shaking. "Are you nervous Clare?"

"No. Well, a little. There are so many people here."

"The more the merrier, right? I want everyone to know you're going to be my wife, everyone."

"Well then, shall we?" For real this time."

"We shall." I opened the front door and I was immediately hit with the smell of flowers. There were flower everywhere, even hanging from the ceiling. Everyone was dressed so fancy, Clare was right when she said to dress formal. Lights hung from wall to wall, and classical music filled the room. Right away I recognized most of the faces, it was like a huge Degrassi reunion. There were even people from many grades before mine there. Most people were dancing or sitting down eating, no one was standing around socializing. I turned to Clare laughing, "This is something out of Gone With The Wind."

"I know, it's amazing isn't it?" She was smiling ear to ear in amazement.

I tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, "You're amazing. Would you do me the honor of dancing with me?" Clare put her hand in mine and I led her to the center of the dance floor. We began to dance to the music, and it felt like prom all over again. Her head was resting on my shoulder, and I could feel her heart beating against my chest.

"Eli, this isn't real life. You don't just get happily ever after's like this. I feel like at any moment I'm going to wake up, and this is all going to be a dream."

"Clare this isn't a dream. I'm not ever going to leave you, you are my always. I lost you once, and I'll be dammed if I let that happen again."

"How can you always be so sure Eli?"

"Because I'm sure about you Clare, that's all there is to it. I would die before living another day of this life without you, because without you it's meaningless." I felt a tap on my shoulder and Clare's smile widened.

"Alii!" Happy birthday!" Clare and Alli hugged for what seemed like forever before pulling apart.

Alli looked at me as if waiting for me to say something, "Happy birthday Alli, it's a beautiful place."

She punched my arm rather hard before responding, "No idiot. I'm not holding this microphone for no reason. It's time to let everyone know you and the fabulous Clare are getting hitched already."

Without hesitation I took the mic, "You remember the song I told you? Alli nodded and smiled running over to play Tonight I Love you, by The Latency. That was mine and Clare's song.

Clare looked at me nervously, "So what are you going to say, just hey everyone we are getting married?"

I smirked at her, "Don't worry about it." The music changed and everyone started to look around rather confused, including Clare. "Hello everyone can I have your attention. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I have an announcement to make, or rather a thing I need to do over. You see I'm sure most of you know Clare and I, and I'm sure you've all heard many rumors about us in the last few years. You see, the truth is, we've really gone through hell and back, but in the end I'm standing here lucky enough to say that for some odd reason, Clare Edwards still loves me after all these years. We have a beautiful son Adam, a great house, two cars, and I own my own business, but that came with a lot of pain along the way. From Bi Polar disorder, Cancer, death, the mistaken identity of a father, infidelity, and probably just about every other problem you could think of, we've been through it. You see the point that I'm trying to make here, is that this woman in front of me, the mother of my son, is so incredibly strong, stronger than most people know. Such an amazing woman deserves an amazing proposal, in a mansion filled with old friends, twinkly lights, and our song playing in the back ground." I turned to Clare and dropped down on one knee, she had tears streaming down her face. "So this is me giving that to you Clare, I will spend every day of Forever trying to give you and our baby boy everything you could ever want. I may not always be able to do that, but I will always try. You asked me before how I was always so sure, and the answer is I'm not. I don't know what the future holds for us, but I do know that there's no one this earth I'll ever want to go through life with other than you. So I'm asking you again, the right way, will you marry me Clare Diana Edwards?" Clare through her arms around my neck screaming yes, over and over again. The crowd began cheering and Clapping, and Alli turned the music up higher. I stood up holding Clare in my arms, we were both crying.

She finally pulled away and choked her words out, "Eli, you did not have to do this."

"Yes I did, I really did."

Clare wiped the tears from my cheeks, "Eli Goldsworthy I love you."

I smiled, "I'm not even close to finished, wait until our wedding day."

Everyone around us was dancing, and I put out my hand for Clare to take, "May I have this dance?"

Clare was looking past me with wide eyes, so I turned around. I was face to face with Zig.

Prisca-You Know I did babes :-) I love ya back! Also, I am curious about what you thought of the finale. Are you as happy as I am that Eli and Clare ended up together?!

AusllyRauralover100-I completely hoped so too! Thanks for the review :)