Chapter Seventeen

It's been awhile

A few months later

Drake knew that it'd happen before he'd wanted it too. He was just lucky that he was married to the woman he knocked up, four months into their marriage and he came home to find out that she was about a month pregnant. He was the least to say elated because now he would finally be a father instead of just an uncle, he was also a little worried because he always gave Lennon back at the end of the day.

Drake stepped off the airplane onto the tarmac in Oakland. Josh and Mindy had recently moved to San Francisco because Josh was going to Berkley for med school and Mindy had told Josh that it was a better place to raise their daughter.

Drake placed his sunglasses on his eyes and walked to the rental agency, he was only spending a few nights here and didn't to check any bags.

He put the keys into the ignition of the cherry red viper, just like Tony Hawks and drove off towards San Francisco only about a half hour drive.

Drake traveled past the University of San Francisco and past Golden Gate Park he saw the famous Golden Gate Bridge on the horizon and pulled out the Beatles Abbey Road cd which he had in his bag and placed it in the CD player. He skipped ahead to song number seven then paused it waiting for the moment he started across the bridge.

When his tires hit the pavement of the Golden Gate Bridge Drake pressed play on the CD player and Here Comes the Sun started with that guitar solo that was so unmistakable. Drake smiled as he mentally checked off one of the things on his 'to do before I die' list which was listen to Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in a red convertible with the top down.

The sun showered down on him warming him as he drove over to his brother's house to catch up on life.

It was at this moment that he knew that he'd made it. He was who he was always meant to be, he was Drake Parker. He'd made it. He'd finally learned the true meaning of growing up and he no longer had his Peter Pan complex to deal with. He wasn't scared of commitment or work any more. It was right then as the combination of sun, car, music, and surroundings hit him all at once that he knew that he had grown up. He was no longer the trouble making, class skipping, womanizing, and slacking off, Drake Parker that everyone knew him as. He was a famous rock star, devoted husband, and father to be. It was the ending of all movies. The perfect ending, his sun had definitely come and he wasn't about to let it slip away like he had so many other things in his life.

Drake Parker found himself that day. He felt the weight of worry, the weight of insecurities, the weight of his past lift from his shoulders as the smile returned to his face, the ice melted from inside him, and the long cold lonely winter of his past melted in the car that day.

A/N: sorry that chapter was a little short this story is almost over I think I have one more chapter left and then it's the end. cries I love this story and it's my favorite story that I have ever written, and also currently the longest. I'm going to write an epilogue which will be the official end to this story. I probably could have made this chapter longer, what with a trip to Josh's and Mindy's but I didn't feel like writing filler because I hate filler in stories, it's a pain to write and it's a pain to read. Plus I didn't know what they'd talk about. Okay so this is a long authors note so I'm going to end it and now you can look forward to my finishing's of Affectations (which will probably be a shorter story) and She's Never Heard (which I still need to figure out what happens) so there will be more from me and I'm still trying to come up with a title for this story. I'm almost there, almost had one today. Anyway expect more from me.

-Morgan