Well my reviewer buddies, the time has come.

MFH is coming to a close.

I just wanted to say how much I love every single one of you reviewers, you are amazing and made me feel so great! Thank you tons!

So here is the final chapter, I hope you like!

R&R and please, no flames!

Lotsa love,

Degrassichick

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Chapter 26

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Emma stayed true to her word, she called Jay.

But he didn't answer the phone that time.

She called him the next day and he didn't answer then either.

He didn't answer the next day, or the next week, or even for the next month!

It was obvious that he was ignoring her.

-x-

Jay lay on his bed, the phone in his hand, flipping through the past month's caller ID.

Emma had called him 17 times in the past month, and he hadn't answered the phone a single time.

Some days he just wasn't there, and others he just screened her calls.

It wasn't that he was so angry at her that he didn't want to talk to her; it was that he was afraid of what to say when he did talk to her.

Just then the phone ran in his hand and he glanced down at it.

Parker, L

It was Emma, well Lanie's line, but Emma nonetheless.

He sighed, just answer the phone and get it over with, he thought to himself as it rang again...and again.

He pressed the talk button, "Hello?"

The next thing he heard was a click and a dial tone.

-x-

"He answered and you hung up on him?" Manny asked confusingly over the phone later on that night.

Emma sighed, "Horrible, I know. Do you think I should call him back?"

"I don't know, I do know however that it proves that neither of you guys have a backbone." Manny laughed.

"Well thanks Manny, your confidence in me is overwhelming."

Just then Lanie tapped on her doorframe, "I'm going out for a bite with Eric, did you want to come?"

Ever since her and Emma's talk, Emma had noticed that Lanie was a bit more open about actually going out to eat.

Emma sighed, she hadn't been out of the apartment much, maybe this would do some good for her.

Emma held up a finger to her before returning to her phone call, "Hey Manny, I'll call you back later, okay?"

"Okay sure, I'll see you, Em." Manny stated and clicked off her end of the phone.

Emma hung up and tossed the phone to her bed before slipping on a pair of flip flops and beginning to walk towards the living room, "Okay, let's go."

"You sure you don't want to change first?" Lanie asked with a laugh.
Emma looked down at her attire, a white wife beater with a monkey on it and a pair of fuzzy blue pajama pants with monkey faces on them.

Emma spun around, "That may be a good idea."

-x-

The months torturously drug on for the couple.

Emma began to drift away from her evening attempted phone calls to Jay and spent more time with Lanie and Eric, and a few new friends…and studying for her classes.

Jay however, was basically dedicating his life to working at the auto shop and grieving over being to gutless to not call Emma up, he didn't care if she screamed at him for three hours straight about never calling, never answering the phone, never answering emails or writing letters, just as long as he could hear her voice he was okay with whatever she wanted to say.

He sat at the edge of his bed, phone resting in his palm, waiting to have numbers pressed into it.

He already had her phone number embedded in his memory: 758-555-5781, all he had to do was punch them in, which he did.

He listened as the phone rang…once…then twice…and then a third time before an answering machine came on and two girls were giggling.

"Hey this is Lanie…" the first girl said, and then the familiar voice rang through his ears, "And Emma, sorry we can't come to the phone right now…" then they both joined in for the ending followed by laughter and a beep, "So leave a message!"

Jay gulped as he listened to the beep; he sat there for what felt like an eternity, just thinking of something to say.

"Um…" he stammered nervously, he couldn't think of anything else but that, so he hung up.

Real smooth, Hogart.

Shut up.

-x-

"That was a really great message." Lanie laughed to herself.

Emma closed the door to the apartment behind her, "What was?"

"Some guy," Lanie shrugged, "just said 'um' and hung up."

Emma sighed and walked off towards her bedroom and sitting her things on her bed and then sitting down at the foot of her bed, running her hand through her long hair.

She looked up for a moment and saw Lanie standing at her doorframe.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"Well I figured out who called…Caller ID is truly a wonderful thing." Lanie smirked.

Emma glanced at her confusingly, "So who was it?"

Lanie tossed the phone towards her, "See for yourself." She stated plainly before turning and walking out of the room.

Emma picked up the phone and flipped through the Caller ID, landing on the last caller.

Hogart, J

Emma sucked in a deep breath, he had actually called her.

She pressed the send button and listened as it rang.

-x-

The ringing of the telephone blared through Jay's ears as he lay on his bed.

He reached over and picked it up, not even bothering to check the caller ID.

"Hello?" he mumbled.

"Jay…" a barely audible voice whispered.

"Yeah?" he asked confusingly.

The voice didn't answer, just clicked off.

Jay rolled his eyes and turned off the phone before checking the caller ID.

Parker, L

-x-

"So you're not even going to visit him?" Lanie asked awkwardly as the two drove down the road, aiming for Toronto a little over a month after the phone incident with Jay.

Emma shook her head, "I wouldn't know what to say to him."

Lanie rolled her eyes, "Well don't take a chance or anything."

"Look, I'm just coming down here to see my parents and friends."

"And you can't squeeze your ex in their?"

"Shut up Lanie." Emma muttered.

Lanie smirked and kept her gaze on the road, "You know I'm right."

Emma rolled her eyes and glanced ahead as they entered the city, she smiled slightly to herself…it was good to be home.

-

"Hey cutie…" Lanie squealed, sitting next to Jack on the couch.

Jack glanced at her nervously before looking up at Emma, "Where's Jay?"

Emma rubbed her lips together sadly before turning to her parents, "So how has everything been?"

Spike smiled at her, "Everything has been fine, Emma. How are your classes going?"

Emma shrugged, "As okay as classes can really be, I guess. I'm doing okay. I have a job at this coffee shop, which is pretty cool, Lanie works there too."

"Emma…" Jack whined.

Emma spun around and eyed him, "What is it Jack?"

"Where's Jay?" he demanded.

"He was just here yesterday, Jack." Spike stated softly.

Yesterday!

"He was here yesterday?" Emma questioned.

Spike nodded, "He's been coming a few times a week to spend time with Jack; he loves it."

That is so adorable!

That is too adorable!

Emma felt the need to cry.

She turned around towards Lanie who had the 'I-told-you-so' look on her face.

Just then the doorbell rang.

Spike walked towards the door and opened it and suddenly Manny Santos came flying through the door and attacking Emma into a hug, "Emma!" she squealed excitedly.

"Manny…" Emma choked as Manny squeezed her.

Manny broke away, "Oh, sorry." She apologized with a smile playing on her lips, "I'm so happy to see you!"

Emma smiled at her, "It's really good to see you too."

Lanie smiled over at Manny.

"Manny, you remember, Lanie…Lanie, Manny."

Lanie grinned at her, "Hey."

Manny gave a weak smile, "Hi." She snapped, jealously shining through her tone.

"We were just talking about how interesting it was that Jay was coming here still." Lanie sighed.

Manny nodded, "Isn't it sweet?"

"Jay's a good guy." Snake proclaimed, "A few rough edges, but he's a good guy. Jack loves him."

Jack's not the only one.

Just hearing her dad talk about Jay was killing her and making her realize how much she truly missed him.

"Em-ma!" Jack exclaimed, "Where is he?"

Emma could feel the tears bubbling up in her eyes before she broke away from her family and friends and jogged towards the basement door, hurrying downstairs.

"I'll go after her." Lanie stated, beginning to get up.

Manny held her hand out to her, "I'm her best friend, I'll go." She snapped before hurrying towards the basement.

As soon as she made it towards the bottom step, she saw Emma sprawled out on her bed, her head buried into her pillows.

"Em…" Manny sighed, sitting on the bed and rubbing her hand over Emma's back.

"I miss him!" she cried out, "I miss him so much, you have no idea, I can barely even function and I hate it!"

Manny wanted to cry for her best friend as she watched her sympathetically.

"I'm so sorry." She whispered.

Emma let out a quivery sigh, "I told Lanie that I didn't want to see Jay when I came her, but I was wrong. He's the main reason I came here practically. I didn't even care if I didn't get to see him, just being in the same city as him just made me feel, I don't know…more secure. Does that make sense?"

Manny let out a very soft laugh, "In a few ways, yeah."

Emma gulped, "These past few months, regardless to the fact that I've had fun, have been some of the worst months of my life. I feel so miserable, so lost…"

"Then I think you should maybe do something about it, Em."

Emma flipped onto her back and locked her eyes with Manny's, "What?"

"Why don't you go see him?" Manny suggested.

"I can't!" Emma exclaimed, "I wouldn't know the first thing to say to him."

Manny shrugged, "You never know unless you try."

Emma sighed, "I just don't know what I would say."

"Is 'Hey Jay' too boring for you or something?" Manny questioned.

Emma rolled her eyes and sat up, rubbing her eyes which she was sure were glossy and red, "What if he hates me?"

Manny shook her head, "Trust me, he doesn't hate you. Why would he come here all the time if he didn't?"

"Because he likes Jack…?" suggested Emma.

Manny shook her head, "That might be part of it but no, it's because he is so in love with you to care."

Emma sighed, "That barely made any sense."

"He loves you, Em. Could you see Chris actually coming here and playing with your brother?"

Emma turned away, "Well…"

"Exactly, how about Sean?"

Emma shrugged, "Sean might…"

Manny rolled her eyes, "But he wouldn't care as much as Jay does, Em. He is absolutely crazy about you, and I just know it. I've stopped by his job a few times and anytime I mention you, his face lights up. Plus he carried a picture of the two of you in his wallet, it's pretty cute actually."

Emma sniffled, "Are you serious?"

Manny nodded, "Dead serious."

Emma got up off of her bed and examined herself in the mirror.

Her clothes were okay, just a sky blue wife beater with a white shrug over it and a pair of sandblasted light blue jeans with white flip flops.

Her hair was frazzled however, and her face was a mess.

"And I bet if he saw you right now he would think that you looked beautiful." Manny stated.

Emma turned to face her, "Now I know you're just kidding. How many romance movies have you been watching?"

Manny rolled her eyes and laughed, "I'm serious, Em."

Emma turned to glance back at herself once again in the mirror, "Don't get it."

"Tell you what, let's get you cleaned up a bit and then you can go see Jay." Manny stated.

Emma turned, "What if I'm not ready?"

"Trust me, after listening to you sob, you're ready." She stated and looped her arm through Emma's hauling her off towards the bathroom.

-x-

Jay closed the hood of the car he was working on and glanced outside the garage as storm clouds grayed over the sky.

"Hey Jay, I think I'm about to take off." Tony stated, wiping his hands with a paper towel and walking across the garage.

Jay nodded, "Alright, see you."

"You might want to get out of here before the storm breaks through; it's supposed to be pretty big." Tony warned him.

Jay shrugged, "I'll be fine, just want to finish up a few things."

Tony glanced outside as rain began to sprinkle, "Suit yourself. See you Monday." He replied before jogging off through the parking lot and towards his car.

Jay sighed and glanced around the garage slightly, he was done with everything that needed to be done all he had to do was go home.

But for some reason, he didn't want to. He felt as if something important was going to happen and that he was going to miss it.

He wasn't sure what, but he had a very strong feeling.

-x-

"Just drop me off here." Emma stated hurriedly as Manny rounded a corner, she could see Jay's Civic sitting in the parking lot.

"I can pull into the lot." Manny stated.

Emma shook her head, "No thanks." She stated and climbed out of Manny's Miata.

Manny rolled her eyes as she watched Emma run off down the street.

So much for all the touch ups of her make up.

-x-

"Jay!" a faint voice shouted.

Jay glanced up, now he was hearing things, how perfect.

"Jay!" the voice shouted again.

Jay walked towards the garage opening and saw as a blonde went running through the rain.

His eyes widened and he dropped the wrench that he was cleaning off.

Clank, it hit the floor, but he didn't notice.

That couldn't be Emma, it just couldn't be.

He walked out of the garage and into the rain as the girl neared him, her wet hair sticking together and bouncing up and down as she ran.

It was Emma.

"Emma?" he questioned, hurrying towards her as well.
The two met face to…nose; Emma wasn't quite as tall as him.

She glanced up at him, her chest heaving up and down from running.

"What are you doing here?" he practically had to shout through the rapid rain.

Emma smiled up at him, "What do you think I'm doing here, Jay?" she asked, lacing her arms around his neck and smiling at him.

Jay smiled down at her, "I'm sorry about everything."

Emma grinned, "So am I."

"We'll make this Emma, I know we can."

"So do I."

Jay grinned, "And I-"

He got cut short when he felt Emma's wet lips against his own.

Jay wove his arms around her waist and pressed her closer towards him as the two passionately continued to kiss.

They broke away minutes later, Emma smiled at him, "I love you, Jay."

Jay grinned, "I love you too, Green Peace." He stated before pulling her into another kiss.

-x-x-x-

The two had agreed to stay in contact; they visited each other every other weekend and spent as much time together as possible when they did.

They wrote letters back and forth and called each other or instant messaged every night.

But for some reason, although the past six months of them being together was great, Jay still felt as if something was missing.

He missed Emma, he didn't like being away from her all the time, and there was only one reasonable conclusion left.

-x-

"Why are you such a workaholic?" Lanie asked with a laugh as she watched Emma scrub the counter in Hanson's Coffee Café clean.

Emma laughed, "Can I help it if I'm a bit OCD at times?"

"At times? That's an understatement." Jenna, another worker, stated.

Emma rolled her eyes and smiled.

"Wouldn't I love to have a car like that…" Jenna awed, her eyes shifted towards the window as she let out a low whistle.

"Car like what?" Emma questioned, looking towards the window as well, a saucer in her hand.

"The guy's not too bad either." Jenna laughed.

Emma finally saw the car and guy in question.

The saucer dropped towards the floor, glass shards flying.

"Emma, what's wrong?" Lanie asked nervously.

"Oh my God…" Emma murmured as she saw what car and what guy Jenna liked so much.

It was along the lines of a red-orange Civic and a boy with brown hair and a backwards hat.

She wiped her hands on her apron before pulling it off and throwing it to the ground, leaving her in a black tee shirt and a pair of newsboy striped slacks.

She hurried out the door and into the street.

"I saw him first…" Jenna scoffed.

-x-

"Jay!" Emma exclaimed, racing towards him and throwing her arms around his neck.

He grabbed her by the bottom of her thighs and pulled her up, her legs wrapping around his waist as they met in a kiss.

Emma glanced down at him, "What are you doing here?" she asked.

Jay smiled at her, pressing his lips against hers once again before jerking his head back towards his Civic, where Emma could see a duffle bag and a few boxes.

"Jay…" Emma drifted.

"I'm moving to Montreal." Jay stated.

Emma could feel tears forming in her eyes as Jay let her go back to the ground, her feet hitting the paved street, "Are you serious?"

Jay nodded with a smile beaming on his face, a smile that only Emma could ever give to him, "I looked up apartments in Montreal over the net, I'm going to start rooming with this guy named Eric."

Emma's mind immediately flew to Lanie's boyfriend, Eric Sanders, who was looking for a roommate. He was actually nice, just like Lanie had said. She spent a lot of time with him and Lanie, they were actually growing to be pretty good friends.

"Eric Sanders?" Emma questioned.

"You know him?" Jay asked, slight worry in his voice.

Emma nodded, "Its Lanie's boyfriend."

"Well it is a small world, huh?" Jay laughed.

Emma swung her arms around his neck once again and pulled him into a kiss, "A very small world."

Jay grinned down at her.

"So you're really staying?" Emma asked.

Jay grinned, "Yeah, I'm really staying."

Emma could feel tears forming in her eyes.

"Don't cry! I was hoping you'd be happy."

Emma shook her head and slugged him, "Of course I'm happy, you moron!"

Jay scoffed, "Well thanks."

Emma rolled her eyes at him, "Anytime." She grinned and pulled him into one more earth shattering kisses. The type that would make Hollywood jealous.

The type that only they could share.

-x-

Ta-da! Wow…I finished it!

Holy crap, I actually finished it.

Now I'm sad!

This story took me almost an entire year to finish but I loved all of it (well except for those very torturously long author's blocks!), I really, really loved you guys' feedback, you are absolutely the best people ever!

So once again, I have to thank all of the reviewers for reviewing, I love you to death! And I also want to thank Linzer-B, who gave me this idea in the first place.

Thank you!

Lotsa love,

Degrassichick