Hey all! The remaining chapters are going to be small filler chapters, with a small glimpse into their lives.

Enjoy!

"Are you sure that you don't want anyone to come with you to help you get settled into your dorm?" Zoe asked her daughter, shutting the trunk of Sofia's car. The last month had been filled with getting Sofia everything she would need for her first year of college, between her classes and the dorm, Zoe didn't want her to need something and not have it.

"It's not even a 4-hour car drive, I can handle it," she stated, pulling the handle on her car door to get in. "It's easier on all of us if I go alone and leave the crying mess of my parents at home, where none of my new friends will see," she remarked with a teasing tone. Leaving her parents at home is more for her benefit than her parents. Heading to college alone, meant it gives her plenty of time to get any thoughts about needing her mom out of her system on the nearly 4-hour car drive to Florida.

"That's not even funny," Zoe remarked, hugging her daughter tightly. There is a bit of truth behind the words her daughter spoke as she is going to be a mess once her daughter drives off to start her new life as a college student.

"Did grandpa go with you?" Sofia asked, raising an eyebrow at her mom, hugging her tightly. She loves her mom and she is going to miss her greatly, and as much as she is a mom's girl, she can't have her mom hold her hand for the rest of her life.

"Well no, but I was off to Maryland, it was a bit further to go than to Florida State University, and I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's the right school for you, what I'm saying is that we can go help you and still be back before the day ends," she told her daughter.

"I appreciate the offer, mom, I really do, but I want to do this myself, I need to do it. I will call when I make it there, okay?" She asked. Sofia had spent a good chunk of her time finding the perfect school for her. It was a tough choice to make when it meant that she would have to break up with Adam, as he was headed to Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. They agreed it would be easier to break up than to suffer through a long-distance relationship. And if they're meant to be, it will happen later in life.

"Okay," Zoe sighed. "I love you, drive safe," she told her daughter.

"Will do," Sofia nodded, "Love you, Mom," she said, climbing into her car. A car she had worked hard for, finding any and every job around Bluebell to save up for a car. In the weeks leading up to her leaving for college, Wade showed her how to take care of her car, so she wouldn't have to worry about breaking down in a place she didn't feel comfortable being in.

"What's going on with him?" Zoe asked, entering the house to hear their 12-year-old son, making a bunch of noise upstairs.

"Sofia told him, he could have her room if he wanted it," Wade shrugged. "Sofia leave?" He asked, pulling his wife close, dropping a kiss on her head.

"Yeah, said she wanted to go by herself," Zoe sighed. "I can't blame her, but she's my baby girl," she said softly, feeling her tears start to build up.

"Babe, she's still going to need you," he told her. "She's going to be home every time she needs something, like her clothes to be washed and extra money," he told her.

"I know," Zoe nodded. "But it's not going to be as often as you think, she's going to have classes and soon enough she's going to be going to parties and it'll be every few months, we'll be lucky if she even returns home come summer," Zoe stated, recalling her own college experiences.

"Then we see her on the holidays," Wade told her. "Either way, she'll still be home. This is good for her. I can't imagine your dad was pleased when you told him that it was easier for him to stay," he pointed out.

"No I guess not," she sighed, hearing it go quiet upstairs. "Do you think he realized that the rooms are the same size?" She asked her husband.

"What?" Jack asked, stepping into view of his parents. "They're the same size?"

"Yeah, they are, bud," Wade told him, nodding his head. "The only difference is the view, you have the backyard and Sofia's room is a view of the street," he told his son.

"I'm gonna hurt her," Jack mumbled, turning to head into the kitchen to get a glass of water. He likes the view from his bedroom window. He was only switching rooms because Sofia told him her room was bigger than his. She teased him about that for years now.

"You will not," Zoe called after him, shaking her head, holding her laughter in over the whole situation. "Even with Sofia gone, it's not going to be that different around here," she commented. Jack is great for making enough noise that it's like they had a few extra kids living with them instead of two.

"The nest may be getting emptier, but it's still full of love," Wade told her. "I'll take him school shopping tomorrow," he let his wife know. "Let you have the day to yourself," he commented.

"I don't think so," Zoe told him, shaking her head. "You don't even like to shop for yourself, so how can I trust you with getting his school things?" She asked.

"I shop when I have to," he protested. "If we don't get everything tomorrow, you can get the rest of it and I won't take him shopping for his school things ever again," he promised his wife.

"Okay," she told him. Her biggest worry is going to be what she does with a day where she doesn't have any kids. She can always head to the practice and see if she can help out there.

To her surprise the next day when her husband and son returned home, from school shopping they had got everything that Jack needed for school. Wade did make the comment about not doing it again. Zoe laughed, sharing a kiss with him. Telling him that it was harder with a teenage girl and that he's not off the hook for future school shopping trips.