Everybody, this is the end. I know its abrupt, but this is how it is. Actually, the last one was the end. This is more of an epilogue, but not quite. Kat, Smartywitch and all my other reviewers: thanks for taking interest in my work. :) . I hope you like how I end it

Epilogue (Sort of) 1 ½ Months later.

"Eric?" Bee called from outside his bedroom door.

"Bee?" he woke up, "Whatsa matter?"he answered back.

Bee was embarrassed to admit it, "I had a nightmare. I can't get back to sleep."

"Come on in," he patted the empty side of the bed absently, "I'll help you fall asleep."

She laid down awkwardly. Eric's muscled arms enveloped her body. Bee's tank top was just skimpy enough that Eric's bare chest made contact with her shoulder blade. It reminded her of that night she was sick in Pennsylvania. His warmness sent her into a peaceful slumber. So peaceful and comforting, in fact, that she couldn't imagine why this had been such an issue in her mind two months ago. Eric's arms made her feel safe. She didn't know why she had been so afraid of them.

"I sped all the way down here as soon as you called," Carmen panted at Paul, "I think I went 80 at one point," she heard Krista wail, "So I'm not too late? Wow. I must have made really good time."

"I just got banished. She is so stressed out. Mom has a whole viewing committee in there, but Krista doesn't want any men in there besides Max. I don't understand that. Your dad is getting a coffee. You'd better get in there. She asked me to call you again. I was just about too. She wants to see you."

Lydia stood over Krista's bed looking worried. Carmen slid into the viewing area, not announcing her presence. There were a few other women in the room, but not to the magnitude that Paul had described. Max looked on anxiously from about as far away as he could get. Carmen poked herself between Jo and Susie.

"Hey," she whispered to them.

"You're lucky. When people get pregnant early in life, it takes longer to deliver. She's pretty much dilated now. You made it just in time," Jo informed her.

Krista began another contraction. Afterwards, she noticed Carmen.

"Carmen!" Krista wailed gleefully, "I'm so glad you made it! Come over here," she motioned.

Carmen did as she was told and went to the opposite side of the bed as Lydia, "Hey Krista. I'm glad I could get here."

"Okay," the doctor came into the room, "Lets see whats going on. Hopefully, by now, you're fully dilated Krista."

She was.

Carmen tried not to look as Krista delivered. She still held Krista's hand the whole time. Carmen heard a loud scream, and then a baby wailing.

"It's a girl!" the nurse announced, "11:43 pm. What is her name Krista?"

Krista panted.

"I don't think that's the most important thing right now. Lets let her rest and she cam tell us when she is ready," Lydia protected Krista.

"Carmen," Krista spit out laboredly.

"What Krista?" Carmen responded.

"That's her name. Carmen Susan Lowell Rodman."

Andrew knocked on Tibby's dorm room door. Tibby answered it.

"Hey," she said. It was a surprise to see him. He'd only been to her room twice, once was when Dan got expelled, and the other he was picking her up for a prearranged dinner.

"Hey yourself," he replied.

"Whats up?" Tibby asked.

"Oh nothing," he replied, "I just had some down time."

"Do you want to come in?"

"Yeah."

"So..." Tibby said, "Whats really up?"

"I have good news and bad news," he said, "Your movie won a place in the national contest."

"Yes!" Tibby literally jumped for joy.

"Its not until spring break."

"I know all about it Drew. Its in Washington D.C. Oh! That means I get a free ride back home, and I get to stay in a fancy hotel. I don't have to stay with my parents."

"Bad news: everyone in the film department thinks that you're carrying my baby."

"What!" Tibby jumped from where she was sitting on the bed.

"I'm afraid so," Andrew said sympathetically.

"How do they think that?" Tibby laughed.

"Dan spread the rumor before he left that we were doing it when we were on the trip, and thats the only reason I stood up for you."

Tibby laughed, "Let them think what they want to. They'll find out eventually its not true."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"I thought you'd be more ticked off than that."

"Its such a silly rumor, how could I be? It was Dan's last ditch attempt at making our lives miserable. Lets not let it get to us."

"Okay, if you say so. Lets go celebrate. Your winning, and our fake unborn child," he laughed at the last part.

Lena sat in the library sketching nothing in particular. A person walking by hit her sketchbook out of her hands with their leg.

"Excuse me!" Lena fumed.

"I'm so sorry," he responded.

Lena looked up, "Tony?" she asked in disbelief.

"Yeah. Hi," he smiled at her. Though he had grown some facial hair, it was the same Tony that had modeled for her all summer.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

The librarian shushed her.

"Lets go get a cup of coffee. My treat," Anthony had a smooth rhythm to his voice.

"What are you doing here?" Lena reiterated at the coffee house.

"I'm part of the national student exchange. I dropped the Psychology part of my major. I'm now just a film student. You inspired me to go my own way. Once I got back to school, it took me about a day to realize that I could get a scholarship, and do what I wanted to do."

"But why here?"

"I came here because of you. That was before you crushed my spirits with the epiphany about that Greek guy. But I was stuck with this place, for better or worse. I figured it was a big enough campus that I wouldn't ever see you since I wasn't in the same department as you. I was right until today."

Lena didn't say anything. She didn't know what to say.

"You made this place sound magical, and it is," Tony continued, "I love my professors, and class size is so small compared to USC."

"Its so personal isn't it?" Lena mustered a sentence.

"Yeah. And I think I've found something I really like."

"Whats that?"

"I'm taking a class on special effects and computer graphics. Its amazing, and fun."

"Thats great."

"You know you did this for me."

"I wouldn't take all the credit."

"You deserve all the kindness in the world. I shouldn't have been such an ass hole about the Greek guy. You where hurting, and I just put salt in the wound. I felt horrible afterwards. You needed a friend, and I was too selfish to notice it."

"I didn't make it easy for you."

"Yeah, well we both could have done things differently."

"I can agree with that."

"Lets start over Lena. Lets forget our past. I can be more sensitive. I will care for you. Forget I was ever such a jerk."

"I can't forget what happened Anthony," Lena said seriously, "But I will give you a second chance. If you'll give me one."

"Of course."

"I'm not just going to forget Kostos and fall for you over night. Lets start out as friends and see where it goes Tony."

"You have a deal."