Well, this is it! I cannot begin to even thank all of you who have supported me from the very beginning. This was my first challenge and boy was it a challenge! I really had so much fun reading all the feedback and even making some new friends. I wish I could acknowledge everybody but I can't. I just want to say thank you so much for sticking with me. We've had some rough patches of no posts for two or three months and still you faithful readers came back when I did get around to posting. The newcomers who joined later in the fic were always fun too because they had new insights on everything and made it fun. All of it meant so much to me. I wish this could go on longer but it's time to end. A year and a half is a long time to follow one fic. So I'll say thank you again although I can't say it enough. I hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you did then I'll know you had a blast. Thank you all so much again.

Lissa

Epilogue-thirteen years later

"Mom, can I call Aidan to come get me?" Lily sat bored in her mother's classroom. She and Aidan were on Spring Break and the twins were off track.

"No."

"Oh, Mom please?" They were alone in Liz's classroom. It was her conference period. "I'm so bored."

"Maybe next time you'll be in before curfew." Liz continued to grade papers without looking up at her sixteen year old daughter. "Your father and I made the decision to let you date at sixteen thinking you had the maturity to obey our rules. I guess we were wrong."

"Mom, I was only an hour late." She crossed her legs on the desktop she was sitting on. She had gotten the speech the night before when she got home. Surprisingly her parents had not been tired at all when she got home at one in the morning.

The bell rang and Lily slid from her desk and took her place in the one behind Liz's desk when Liz stood up.

"Good morning, Mrs. Evans. I have arrived and you may start the class." A tall boy stepped into the class.

"Nice to know you feel the world revolves around you, Joshua dear." Liz had to smile at him. He had started out the year so shy and now he was outgoing.

"I brought you these, fresh from the school garden." He handed her a handful of flowers and set them in the vase replacing the old ones he had brought her the week before.

"The students are going to be suspicious if you keep this up, Josh, and the janitors are going to be out for your blood if you keep picking their roses."

"Just a favor for my favorite teacher."

"Have a seat, Josh, so I can start class please."

"Hello, Lily." He said shyly, when he caught sight of her.

She smiled at him, swishing her curls and flashing her deep brown eyes at him.

"Josh." She nodded. "How are you?"

"Great."

"Stop flirting with my daughter and sit down." Liz said finally as the rest of their students took their seats.

"Mom, let me call Aidan, he'll come get me."

"Fine." There was no point trying to keep her here, distracting her male students.

"Hey, Mrs. Evans, did you hear that actress Tess Harding got caught smuggling two tons of cocaine?" Her biggest gossiper came bounding into class. "I guess she got put in jail over night at a million dollar bail. She faces ten years jail time, can you believe it?"

"Yes." Liz answered. And slid a glance at her daughter. "I can believe it. Didn't she just get out for something else?"

"Yeah, broke her pre-nuptial agreement with her fifth husband." The girl beamed. "That was only after burning his 1.5 million dollar house down."

Halfway through class there was a knock on the door.

"Kylie, open the door please." It was Aidan.

"Aidan!" The girl squealed. The girls in the class flew to their backpacks to get out mirrors. Liz smirked at their appearances.

Aidan stepped into the room with Ty and Aubrey, their ten year old twins. Amelia followed and shut the door.

Liz watched, amused, as all the girls fluttered around making sure they looked alright before Aidan actually came into the room.

He was handsome, like his father. His red hair flattered his face and Aidan knew it as well as anyone else. He just didn't flaunt it. He was too in love with his girlfriend of two years, Amelia. She had often caught girls around her desk looking at the baby pictures, not to mention Aidan who was in all the pictures as well.

"Mommy!" The little ones shouted in happiness.

Liz rolled her eyes and regretted him coming to the class. They were working on group projects. They weren't disrupting the class per say, but they were making noise.

"Hi, sweethearts." Liz hugged her children. "Aidan."

He didn't look to happy to be dragged out with the kids.

"It was almost naptime." Aidan growled, glaring at his sister who was swishing her blonde curls at him and smiling.

"Amelia, sweetheart, come in." Liz called the girl who she knew would be her daughter-in-law one day.

"Hi, Mrs. Evans." She smiled as she tucked her dark hair behind her ear. She was a pretty girl and had a personality that Liz adored.

Amelia shied to Aidan's side as she received glares from all the girls in the room.

"Amelia painted my nails, Mommy." Aubrey smiled to her mother.

"Pretty." Liz kissed her daughter's hand. "Wait till Daddy sees it."

"Does Dad know I'm picking her up?" He asked glowering at his sister who was swishing her curls at some unfortunate boy. He turned to see who it was and when he saw the attentions reciprocated he sent the boy a glare that would freeze hell over.

"We'll talk when I get home, Aidan. Now scoot so these girls will stop looking at you and going back to work." Liz teased.

The girls all pretended to be looking the other way at that and Aidan pulled Amelia closer to him. "Time to go, love." He glared one last time at the boy who was eyeing his sister for effect. Josh raised an annoyed eyebrow at Lily's brother.

"Bye, Lily!" He said to see how pissed Aidan would get. Lily gave him a delighted smirk and decided to harass her brother as well.

"Bye, Joshua." She called sweetly and gave a little hip action. Aidan caught her wrist and pulled her out the door.

"Oh, before you go home, Aidan, Hayden's daycare called." Liz smiled at the look of horror on his face.

"Mom, please don't make us pick Hayden up." The youngest child in the family, Hayden, was a terror. It was a miracle he was still allowed to attend the day care he went to.

"Lily will watch him." Liz said. That was punishment enough.

They skulked out of the room. "Bye Mommy!" The ten year old twins waved.

"Bye." She waved.

"Mrs. Evans?" A female student raised her hand after the door shut.

"Yes?" Liz answered.

"Was that Aidan's girlfriend?"

"Yes. They've been together for two years, and no there is no sight of a break up, they are fully in love." She smiled.

"Mrs. Evans?" A male student perked up.

"Lily currently does not have a boyfriend, nor is she looking for one."

"Come on, Mrs. Evans."

"You have to go through Aidan and her father." Liz shrugged.

"How old are Aubrey and Ty?" Another asked.

"Almost seven." She smiled.

"Is your husband cute?" Another asked.

"How did we get on the subject of my family?" Liz asked. "You are supposed to be working on your group projects, not dissecting my life."

"Is he?"

"You all know very well he is extremely handsome, you girls sign up every year for career day to hear his lecture."

Content that her students went back to work, she settled down to grade more work.

Liz looked the pictures of her children on her desk unable to focus on the corrections being made.

The family portrait held her gaze the longest. Who would have thought they would end up with five children? Hayden had been a surprise. After the twins, Aubrey and Tyler had been born; they had been content to stop with four. Then three years later Hayden had come. They had been thrilled even though he turned out to be the male version of Lily at his age.

Max had become the leading firm in all of Southern California, and she was teaching at a top academy. She couldn't have been happier.

Next to the portrait was a picture of Aidan at Junior Prom holding Amelia tenderly to him. He had given Amelia hers and Jonathan's wedding rings. Amelia was wearing them on a silver chain around her neck that matched her dress.

Liz glanced at the clock. "Alright, class, homework is to work on these projects tomorrow. Remember, it has to make biology entertaining for children between the ages of six and ten. I'll have the ultimate judge of them tomorrow, my twins." She smiled.

"How about Lily and Aidan?" Someone asked.

"I doubt they will." Liz laughed. Completely happy.

The bell rang and everyone filed out of class.

THE END