[Warden: "Why do you hate me?" Deyna: "Because. You killed my father." Warden: "No, Deyna. I am your father." Deyna: "Um..." Heh, I had to put this.]
The Warden sat down with Stanley and me at the small table in the shack.
"Lorene is not my sister. I owed her money so she made me tell her where I knew some was. The only money that I knew of was my parents, since I never knew what was inside the chest." She looked towards Stanley and smiled. "Your mother was a wonderful woman. The only reason that I let you in the camp was because of her. She made me promise before she died to keep you and Pendanski together. But after a while, your face reminded me too much of her so that's why I sent you out as a camper. I couldn't take the pain." I reached forward and squeezed her hand.
"I'm glad that I have a relative that's not dead." I shot a look at Lorene who was scowling in our direction. The policeman spoke up.
"This woman is an escaped criminal. I can't let her go!" I stood up.
"I will vouch for her. She's my aunt and a changed woman. She doesn't belong in jail anymore." I hugged her. (Kodak moment...)
We all left the shack happy, except for Lorene. The policeman put Lorene and the Warden in his car and Stanley and I drove ahead of them in my car (Twitch was getting itchy fingers again).
I leaned against Stanley and linked my arms around one of his.
"What were you going to give me at my party?" He smiled and kept on driving. "Sure, ignore me. I know how to get it out of you." He laughed.
"I'll give it to you when we get home. This isn't the place." He brought one arm around my shoulders and I snuggled against him.
In no time, we were home. D-Tent came out of the house and gave me monster hugs.
"We thought that you were gone forever!"
"I never thought that I would see you again!" Armpit squeezed me.
"Dude! Chill! I've been gone for one day!" He let me go and set me on the ground. The Warden walked up behind me and stood next to me. The boys saw her and backed up.
"The Warden! What's she doin' here?" Squid asked.
"She's my aunt."
"Once again you have weird relatives in weird places." I laughed and gave Zero a noogie [That's ruffling his hair]. We all went inside and sat on the couches. No one spoke. Stanley's mom cleared her throat.
"Well, in this awkward silence, Stanley, why don't you give Deyna her present. I've been dying to know what it is." His face turned red as he reached into his pocket and brought out a small box.
"It's not what I wanted to get you, but it's good anyway." I took it and lifted the small lid. Inside was an orange stoned ring with the words "D-Tent" engraved on the sides.
"It's beautiful." My throat caught so I couldn't say anything else. He took it out of the box and slipped it on my left ring finger.
"Deyna, will you make me the happiest man in the world and marry me?" By that time, I was crying and so was everyone else. I ran my left hand over his cheek.
"Well? Answer him! I'm dying here!" Stanley's mom was crying the hardest. I laughed and turned back to Stanley.
"Yes." Everyone cheered as Stanley leaned in to kiss me. In all of the "congratulations", I heard Stanley's mom say:
"I'm finally going to have grandchildren!"
A few months later, Stanley and I graduated from High School. That summer, we got married and 9 months later, Stanley's mom's wish came true and we had Stanley Yelnats the 5th, and his sister, Summer.
The Warden was released from jail at my request and helped raise Stanley and Summer while Stanley and I went to college. Stanley got his degree in business and marketing so he could run "Sploosh" and I got my degree in counseling.
Everyone in D-Tent got married and had kids and lived respectable lives. Twitch even stopped stealing cars!
The point of this story is life may throw you bad things, but something good always comes out of them.
You'll have to fill in the rest of the holes yourself.
The End.