Here it is. The last and final chapter! I really enjoyed writing this story and I thank you all for reading it. I dedicate this story to my best friend and kind reviewer Connie. Thank you for so much! Also I promised to list the quotes I made up for those of you who were wondering. They will be found at the bottom of the chapter. Since so many of you loved this story while I was writing it I thought up a sequel idea. I'm curious to know how many of you out there would like to read a sequel about their first Valentine's day. It would have romance, sweetness, most likely fluff but also something surprising at the end. The title would be "Their first Valentine's together." If you like this idea, let me know and I'll get started and post it up for you all to read. Thank you all so much for reading. It really means alot to me to have so many people out there that enjoy reading my writing. It tells me not to give up on a career in writing just yet. Thank you all! And I hope you enjoy the final chapter.-Ace

Chapter 23: His view on it

I think this was the first year I didn't spit on valentine's completely. I didn't really like it this year for certain reasons but I didn't despise it like I have for so many years. I didn't feel well most of the due to the fact that later the night I would pour my heart out and wait for rejection but I didn't seem to have noticed all the gushing and staring and holding hands couple like I usually can't help but see. I realized later that my mind and heart were to busy arguing and trying to convince myself I had the guts or I didn't to let me see what was going on around me other then with the bushy brown haired girl I loved. I see know as I look back that being in love on Valentine's day this year wasn't an all around bad thing. Because I was so deeply in love I did what I did. Because I did what I did I now know I am loved back. I hoped and I wished and I tried and I succeeded.

When I heard her speak the words "I love you Ron" I knew all my pain and nervousness hadn't been wasted. My dreams where coming true. And they did that night. As we sat together on that couch in the front of the fire we talked and laughed just like we had earlier during Charms but we snuggled and held each other just like I had envisioned. I had the best of real life and the best of my dreams. It was perfect.

Around midnight, right before we both drifted off, I shared with her one last quote I had saved for her.

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart,
I'll stay there forever."- Winnie the pooh

When I spoke this quote, I spoke it from my heart. She smiled and repeated it to me. I smiled at her then she kissed me. After that we lay down together and I held her in my arms. Right before she fell asleep she told me that this was better then any Valentine's day she could have dreamed of. I smiled knowing I had succeed more then I had set out to succeed at.

I had done it. I had survived. She was now my girlfriend. I was now her boyfriend. She loved me and I loved her. It was a Valentine's I doubt either one of us would ever forget.

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My quotes:

Love is the answer to the riddle of life.

I love you. Truly, madly, deeply. I do.

In faith there is hope, in hope there is faith.

Love makes you sick. Physically, mentally, emotionally. In the head, in the stomach, in the heart. It is the worse kind of sickness but to have it is the greatest gift.

Face your fears head on.