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In honor of finals being over, I wanted to celebrate by uploading chapter three of this story. This is in fact the last chapter, with only a epilogue to go.
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So, the next installment in One, two, three, maybe four? is coming your way!
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One, two, three and maybe four?
Chapter three
Same day, evening
Steffy´s apartment
Later that evening, Steffy gently lays her daughter down for the night before walking out to the living room to look at the disaster that a birthday party would leave behind, she sighs with pride before moving to pick things up.
Knocking on her door causes some concern, but she walks to open the door and is confused.
"Hi! Can I help you with something?" She asks the man standing on the other side with a box of doughnuts in his hands.
"Hi! I was wondering if you knew where the woman living in the apartment next to yours is? She was supposed to meet me at the train station, but she never came."
"No, I'm sorry. I had my hands full the entire day today, but I do know she was supposed to meet her brother today, I suppose that's you?" She sees him nod his confirmation. "I have a key to her apartment, let me go find it and we'll make sure she's okay or not."
Steffy goes to find the spare key and her own, then she leaves the apartment, locks her door and then walks over to her neighbor's door and knocks on the door, hearing no movement inside, she unlocks the door and they walk in.
They search the apartment and can't find the man´s sister anywhere. "That's strange."
Steffy´s phone starts ringing and she answers. "Hello!"
"Hi! I'm sorry to call you, but we have a Ms. Eileen Adrienne here and she told me to call you to inform you that she has been in a car accident on the way to pick up her brother from the train station and ask that you let him into her apartment."
"Oh, okay, her brother came and knocked on my door wondering if I knew where she was. So, she's okay or is she badly hurt?"
"She has broken her left leg and her right underarm and she's got a concussion, but she should make a full recovery. She's okay for now."
"Okay, well, I should let you talk to her brother!"
She walks around to find him in the kitchen. "Here!"
He takes the phone with a confused look on his face and she just nods her head before she walks out of the kitchen to give him some privacy. Ten minutes later, he emerges from the kitchen and hands her the phone back.
"So, is there any way you could give me a lift to the hospital?"
"Let me just call my brother and see if he can come over." She walks away and calls Thomas.
She comes back a little while later. "So, my brother is going to come and pick you up, he said that it's probably better if he takes you rather than me leaving my daughter in his care for the next few hours. He'll be here within less than an hour." Steffy smiles at him. "You just wait here and Thomas will come knock on the door when he gets here! Tell your sister I said Hi!"
"I will! Good night!"
~OTTmF~
Two days later, there's a knock on the door and after opening the door, she sees that it's the woman from next door sitting in a wheel chair with the cast on her leg and her arm. She opens the door and walks out of it to welcome the woman home.
"Hi! Other than the obvious, how are you doing?"
"Well, I'm glad I won't be alone for the next few weeks."
"Yeah, it couldn't be better timing with your brother coming to visit for a while." Steffy smiles.
"Yeah, if you don't think about the fact that I wouldn't have been in the accident had he not been coming to visit."
"Yeah, that is true! So... how long will you be off your feet?"
"I'm going to be in this cast for the next eight to ten weeks, but I'll only need the chair for the first three weeks, after that crutches are going to be my best friends. Michael will be here for the next five weeks, he called his boss and got two months off of work and it worked out wonderfully."
"That's great!"
"It is, so, how was the birthday party?"
"It was just how I wanted it to be. Everyone had fun, Aspen got so much attention I don't think I'll need to give her anymore for the rest of the weekend, well, you know, other than giving her food and changing her diaper, and my parents actually got along, so plusses all over, mostly." She sighs. "Liam is still mad at me because I haven't taken him back yet, I don't think he understands that I've moved on and that he should as well. But you can't get everything."
"That's good and true!" Eileen looks over at the chaos inside Steffy´s apartment. "Oh, have I told you about an encounter I had with Hope in March last year?"
"No, I don't think you have, do you want to come in, have a cup of coffee or something and some party left overs?" Steffy offers.
"Sure! But maybe not coffee. Do you have tea of some sort?"
"I believe there's a can of iced tea still left in the fridge. Come on in!" Steffy moves away from the door into the kitchen while Eileen follows her and rolls up to the table.
"Well, it was the day Liam and her got married, Liam had just been by to try and find you, but you weren't here so he left, I'm pretty sure they met somewhere in the middle of the house because it wasn't long after he left before she came out the elevator. Anyway, she furiously knocks on your door and having just heard Liam knocking on your door, I looked outside and saw this tiny little woman standing there looking angry like a pissed off bee. So, we talked a little. The delusions she carried with her were so funny. Then I told her that if that's what she needed to believe to make herself feel better, I wasn't going to take it away from her."
"Did you tell her about Liam standing in the hallway when he called me every night?"
The surprise on Eileen´s face makes Steffy giggle. "You knew about that?"
"Of course, I did, it was like listening to a stereo. I'm surprised he couldn't hear me talking on the other side of the door. I'm pretty sure we held our hands on the same spot on different sides of the door at one point."
"Yeah, I can see that happening. About that, how come you're not back together with Liam yet?"
Steffy just smiles.
"I mean, it's been over a year since he annulled his marriage to Hope, isn't the time right to let him back into your heart?"
"Liam is the father of the most important thing in my life right now, but the love we had is a thing of the past, I've moved on. I don't need to be with the father of my child to know that I'm a good mother. What I need from Liam right now is for him to be a good father to our daughter and that's what I'm getting. I'm focusing on my daughter and my job for right now and that's all I need." Steffy sighs. "Liam will always hold a part of my heart because he is the father of my daughter, but over the last year it's become smaller and smaller as Aspen has taken over that space. I don't need him like I did back then."
"Wow, you really have moved on."
"Yeah, I didn't think it would happen, but it did, it sort of crept up on me from behind. It was a few months ago when I realized that the butterflies that normally would come every time I knew he'd come and pick Aspen up just weren't there anymore, all I felt was that I was going to miss my daughter terribly. I'm not in a hurry to make this duo a trio, there's no need for that!"
There's a knock on Steffy´s door, Eileen is a little startled and Steffy looks from the door to Eileen and back again. "Did you tell your brother that you were coming over to talk to me?"
Eileen just giggles a little. "I guess not!" Steffy walks away to the door with a big smile on her face.
She opens the door and sees Michael standing on the other side. She opens it wider and lets him in. "She's in the kitchen!"
"I thought you said you were just going to thank Ms Forrester for helping me out a few days ago, I didn't think you'd stick around for..." He looks around the table. "...what looks like iced tea and sandwiches?"
"Well, I was invited in after saying that I needed to tell her something about something that happened in March last year. I accepted." Eileen looks at her brother with a look of glee in her eyes.
Steffy lays her hand on Michael´s shoulder. "Can I tempt Mr. Adrienne with the last few leftovers from my one year old´s birthday party two days ago?"
Michael turns around to look at her and then just sits down at the table.
"See, he can never deny himself food!" Eileen laughs.
"Well, he's a man!" Steffy laughs a little herself. "My brother is exactly the same."
Steffy walks over to her shelves and picks out another glass for Michael to drink from and then opens the fridge to take out the last pieces of the cake.
"Did you really hold out on me?" Eileen says with a hint of accusation to her voice.
"Nah, I just thought we'd eat up the other food first."
"Oh."
"Thank you for helping me out that night! Your brother really helped out." Michael sends Steffy a thankful gaze.
"Yeah, I heard he decided to stick around and help Eileen get home as well. It's a good thing he had dad´s car in the driveway!"
"It's also a good thing that my sister doesn't carry that much weight with her, but man, your brother is strong!" Michael laughs. "When he picked her up from the wheelchair, I thought they'd do a turn because he put all his strength behind it and she just flew out of the chair."
"Yeah, Thomas is really strong! I'm really happy we could help you out!" Steffy smiles at both her guests. "So, I hear you're going to be sticking around for a little bit?"
"Yeah, actually, I might be sticking around for a little bit longer than planned."
Eileen gasps. "What do you mean? You didn't get fired or something?"
Michael just laughs. "No, I didn't get fired. I got a promotion, my boss called just now and asked if I maybe wanted to find a place where we could start up a sister store to the one in Houston and the one in Columbus, Ohio, here in LA and I said I could to that, then he asked if I wanted to maybe run it."
"So, I get to have my brother with me forever and ever and ever?" Eileen gasps before clapping her hands, then the pain reminds her that her arm is broken. "Crap, that hurt."
"I believe so yes as I did accept the offer."
The smile that spreads on Eileen´s face at her brother's news could rival the sun and it spreads to Steffy´s face.
"That's great!" Small noises start coming through the baby monitor.
"Oh, Aspen is here?" Eileen´s face light up even more.
"She is and I need to go check on her. I'll be back in a bit!"
Steffy wanders off towards her daughters' room and checks her diaper, fixes her a bottle and then brings her daughter with her to the kitchen. "I'm guessing you want to do this?" Steffy asks Eileen while waving the bottle in the air.
Eileen nods her head and leans back in her chair so Steffy can place Aspen so that both baby and woman is comfortable. It's a tricky task, but they get it done and Steffy then hands Eileen the bottle and Aspen starts eating.
Michael sits on the other side of the table and just watches his sister. "You know, I know that's not your child, but I didn't think I'd see you do that this soon and be such a natural at it."
Eileen and Steffy just look at each other and laugh a little. "You think this is the first time this has happened?"
Michael frowns before looking up at Steffy. "It's not?" Steffy shakes her head. "Well, alright then, I take back everything I said in my previous statement except 'but I didn't think I'd see you do this soon'. Because I didn't!"
Steffy chuckles. "What you see in front of you is the best baby sitter I could've asked for!"
About halfway through the bottle Aspen has fallen asleep and Steffy can see that Eileen is getting a little uncomfortable so she goes and takes her daughter to go back to her own bed to sleep for the rest of the night.
"Yeah, I think I need to do that too!" Eileen says. "I also need one of my pills!"
"We'll get on that then!" Michael says.
Steffy looks at the clock, 10:30 PM. "It's about time to go to bed for me as well!"
So, the two siblings leave the apartment and get ready for the night.
~OTTmF~
The next day
Brooke Logan´s house
It had been over a year since she talked to her youngest daughter last, not by her own choice, but she had found out through her oldest son that Hope had found a new love and because of this, she had hoped that Hope would come back to her and forgive her for the secret she had kept, especially since Hope apparently had no problem with hanging out with either Steffy nor Liam and they were the ones Brooke had kept the secret for.
Right now, she's sitting on her couch reading a book while a cup of tea cooled down on the coffee table and when there's a knock on the door, she looks up and wonders who that might be. She gets herself ready to go open the door and as she opens it, she finds a surprise on the other side.
The surprise brings a smile on her lips. "Hi! I didn't think you'd be coming by today!"
"Well, I didn't either. This is all Adam´s idea. I didn't want to come at all!" Hope looks around the room.
"Why did you come then?"
"He was driving and said he wasn't leaving until I've talked to you."
"Oh, so you're here because of an ultimatum? Not because you're not ready to forgive me yet?"
"No, I'm not ready to forgive you, no matter how many times Steffy or Liam says that you only kept their secret because they asked you too."
"Yeah, like Steffy would ever say that, when has she never lied about anything? Why would she ever want us to mend our relationship?"
"Well, she's taken me here on multiple occasions to try and get me to come in and talk to you, but I've never given her that win. I think she's the reason why Adam wouldn't let me leave just now. I think they've conspired against me!" Hope smiles at the thought of Adam and Steffy going behind her back.
"So, you've let the woman who stole your last boyfriend from you spend time together with your current boyfriend behind your back? Have you not learned from the past?"
"I have actually and because I have, Adam and I´s relationship is much stronger then Liam and mine was. I also trust Steffy more now than I did back then. My therapist and I have been working on that." Hope looks out the door. "Also, Steffy introduced Adam and I in the first place because she felt he'd be good for me and she was right. He is good for me and I'm not going to let you destroy that or my relationship with Steffy ever again. So, either you accept that Steffy and I are friends or you and I are never going to have a close relationship again."
The look on Brooke´s face forces a sigh to come through Hope´s lips. "I guess that won't happen. Well then, you've made your choice and now I'm making mine."
"You're seriously going to choose that lying, cheating, manipulating woman over your own mother?"
Hope stands by the door. "Yes, I am and I did. I chose Steffy over you a year ago and if you don't understand why then I don't need you in my life!" She looks over at her mother, no feelings what so ever in her eyes. "It's time you make a choice and change everything about yourself because this version of you I can't call my mother."
She walks through the door. "Oh, and by the way, Liam was choosing Steffy before you dumped that wedding on him even without knowing that she was pregnant. Liam and I were over already before we got married in Puglia when he wanted to run off with Steffy when he thought I had walked out on him again."
"Well, well, I'm surprised Steffy didn't jump at that chance." Brooke laughs.
"Oh, Steffy is the one who put a stop to it, because as Liam put it in his letter, Liam had come to Italy to do something very specific. Meaning marry me."
"Oh please! Like Steffy would do such a thing!" Brooke scoffs.
"Well, she did whether you believe it or not and that might be something you need to work on." Hope looks over at the car where Adam is waiting for her. "I hope you have a great life, I just won't be a part of it!"
Then she looks back at her mother before leaving the house and closing the door.
Brooke looks around the room baffled by what just happened. "I can't believe it, she actually chose Steffy..." She almost spits in disgust at the name. ".. over her own mother?"
Brooke brings one of her hands up to her forehead before placing her other hand on her hip. "Really, did that just happen?"
In the car leaving Brooke Logan´s property, Hope sits in the passenger seat while holding Adam´s hand.
"I take it that didn't go very well." Adam sends a look his girlfriend´s way.
"No, it didn't. She still doesn't see where she went wrong and I just can't deal with that anymore. I'm done with that." Hope sighs. "Can we just go eat please?"
"Are you mad at me?" Adam turns left as the car reaches the intersection.
"No, I understand why you did it, I am going to glare at Steffy though for putting you up to this."
"Oh, she had nothing to do with this. Rick on the other hand you might want to glare at." Adam laughs a little causing Hope to look over at him with surprise on her face.
"Really?"
"Yeah, he called last night asking me if I could take you to see your mom sometime soon. Why I don't know and I thought it was about time. But I haven't talked to Steffy about this since the last time she tried. Which was when?" Adam reaches over to grab a hold of her hand as he's coming up on a long straight road where the speed would be at a constant flow.
Hope thinks about this for a little while. "July 23rd, so a little over a month ago."
"Well, I guess we can put that away for now then. I'm sorry about your mom´s reluctance to work on this."
"Oh, trust me, mom wants to work on this, but she wants it to go back to how it used to be and that is something I just can't do. I've grown too much for me to go back to that."
"That's my girl!"
Hope looks over at him with pride in her eyes. "I am, aren't I?"
"For sure!" He looks over with a smile.
They find a parking spot right next to the restaurant, he pays to park and then they walk in to the restaurant. What they see makes Hope stop dead in her tracks before squealing. At a table in the restaurant, Steffy is sitting with a man and a woman in a wheel chair and the man is currently holding Aspen as Steffy looks on with pride in her eyes. She looks the man over and finds him having a few inches on Steffy, blue eyes and a rough look about him that's completely destroyed by the way he's holding the toddler up in the air making her fly. Hope looks over at the man beside her.
"Why does he look so familiar?"
"Oh, I don't know, could it be because of the woman in the wheelchair?" Hope looks over to the table again and sees a familiar face.
"Oh." She takes his hand and walks over to the table. "Hi everyone!"
She gives Steffy a hug, caresses Eileen over her shoulders and then reaches her hand out as the man has places Aspen on his knee again and he takes it. "Hi Hope!" Both the women say but the man hasn't been introduced to her yet.
"This is Michael Adrienne, he's Eileen´s older brother! Michael, this is my former stepsister Hope and her boyfriend Adam!"
Michael looks over at Hope and gives a small smile. "So, you're the girl who married your stepsister´s boyfriend?"
Hope just laughs. "Yep, that's me!" Michael just nods his head.
"Good, I hope the last year and a bit has been good for you!"
Hope looks over at Adam and smiles. "It has, it's shown me a lot about myself that I have realized that I didn't like much. It's also given me a lot that I never thought I wanted."
"So, are you ready to order?" A waiter had come over to see if they were ready to order.
The five adults at the table give their orders and within a few minutes they have their drinks at the table, including a warmed-up bottle for Aspen, who has now wandered over to Adam´s strong arms to be fed.
Michael just look at the group of people around him and notices that Steffy has been quiet since she introduced Hope and Adam to him, as has his sister.
"Why are you two so quiet?"
Steffy chuckles. "I'm just watching the love of my life!" Hearing Steffy say that while looking over at her boyfriend, Hope chokes on the iced coffee she just sipped on, causing Eileen to start laughing.
"You do know she's talking about Aspen right?"
"Right." Hope says as she's coughing.
Adam just causally continues to feed the little girl in his arms not even bothering to show that he heard that Hope choked.
Michael is finding the dynamic between Hope and Steffy to be complicated, he knows that they've had issues before, but that had been worked on for the last year or so, but there's just something that he finds interesting.
~OTTmF~
Spencer Publications
Liam´s office
He's sitting on the couch working on the next column for Eye on Fashion when he sees a post on Instagram from someone he's not sure he even knows.
Looks like the war is over folks!
SteffyForrester and theonlyHopeLogan are having lunch together with Steffy´s daughter and Hope´s boyfriend. The other two I'm not sure who they are, but it looks like the Princesses of Forrester Creation like their company! Mystery continues.
#sistersagain #thewarisover #LiamSpencergotscrewed #Aspenissoadorable #thatmanishandsome #listeningtoAspenlaugingisheaven
The picture that is connected to the post is a beautiful one where Hope and Adam look at each other with love in their eyes while Michael holds Aspen while Eileen and Steffy looks on while also taking a sip from their drinks.
Surprisingly, jealousy doesn't fill him up this time like it normally would when seeing Steffy look at another man and that makes him stop what he's doing and think about this before the light goes off in his head and he races over to his father´s office. He knocks on the door and hears his father call out to him to come in. He opens the door and peaks his head through the door.
"Yeah? Shouldn't you be working right now?" Bill raises his eyebrows.
"I should, but I just came to realize something." He holds out his phone that has the Instagram post on it. "Read what it says."
Bill laughs. "hashtag Liam Spencer got screwed. That is true, although you screwed it up just the same amount. Maybe even more."
"I agree with that. But the thing is that I didn't feel any jealousy looking at that picture. Not towards Adam nor that guy that's holding my daughter. I think I might have let both Steffy and Hope go now. I just want them both happy and Adam seems to do that for Hope and maybe that guy can do it for Steffy? Aspen seems to like him."
"Well, it's about time!" Bill says with a smile on his face.
"Yeah, I really didn't think I'd be able too. But it seems time does help."
"So, you're not going to go into a jealous rage when Steffy starts dating this guy?"
"Nah, she deserves to be happy and I know that I'm not the one who'd give her that anymore. If she decided to take me back now it'd be for our daughter and I don't want that."
"Good! So, what happens now?"
"I'm just going to be the best father I can be and if I find love in the future, good for me. But Aspen is my priority."
"That's good! I'm proud of you!"
"It's going to be so exciting to see Aspen grow up. See what kind of person she'll grow up to be."
"Well, if she´s anything like her mother, she'll be a handful." Both father and son smile at that statement.
"I wouldn't want it any other way. I hope her stepparents are good ones."
"I don't think neither you nor Steffy would allow bad people around your daughter."
"I'm going to have to agree with you on that." Liam looks around the room and finds a clock. "Oh, I need to get back to what I was doing, it's supposed to be turned in within the hour."
"Off you go!" Bill watches his son leave with a smile on his face. "It's about time." Then he goes back to what he was doing before Liam came over.
~OTTmF~
Over the next few weeks a lot of things happened.
Brooke was yelled at by Rick for screwing up his attempt at reconciliation between his mother and sister, so much so that she decided to look up therapists that could help her fix whatever her children thought was wrong with her.
Ridge came back to the states and with him came Aly and Thorne. The father/daughter duo set up residence at the beach house and it seemed Aly fit right in, as she should, with Hope, Steffy and Eileen, who had now become a very close-knit trio, although it had expanded into a quartet by now with Aly in the mix. The first person that Ridge had gone to see, when he came back to LA, had been Taylor and he apologized for everything he had done that had caused her pain and they were now rebuilding trust between them, which of course wasn't making Brooke Logan happy. But there was nothing she could do. Both of them knew that a relationship between them probably wasn't going to happen, there was too much water under the bridge on both sides, but they had to work on the relationship in order to be the best support system they could be for their children.
The biggest thing though had started as a failed movie night during one of Liam´s weeks with Aspen. Adam and Hope was supposed to come over to spend some time together with Steffy and Eileen, while Michael came as a bonus now that he was living with his sister. Eileen had unfortunately dozed out on the pain medication she was still taking before the movie was about to start and Hope and Adam´s car had broken down before they even got out of the garage of their apartment complex, so, it was just Steffy and Michael. This was the time that Steffy realized that the big scary teddy bear that her daughter liked so much was totally freaked out by spiders, snakes and clowns. Oh, and also, Sharknado scared him silly. Steffy just laughed at him. The moment she realized she was attracted to him however was about a week later when she caught him talking to her daughter as Aspen talked back in that cute toddler mumbo jumbo, it seemed as if he understood every word she said. The moment Steffy knew she liked him a lot was when she caught him trying to get her daughter to say mama. He does not know she's caught him doing either of those things. Or so she thinks, because every time she enters a room he's in, this little tingle moves along his spine.
The moment he realized he liked Steffy was when she pulled out the cake after her daughter´s birthday party and seeing the bond between her and his sister. The relationship between the two women seemed to be deeper than just two neighbors where one of them was used as a baby sitter once in a while. His attraction only grew from there. The first time he met Liam settled things though, because although Liam and Steffy would always be in each other´s life, he could see that they both just wanted the other one to be happy and it seemed like the love they had had for each other had been morphed into love for their daughter. The talk he'd had with Liam about a week ago had settled everything into place. Liam had actually threatened him that if he ever was to hurt Steffy in any way, Liam would come after him with guns blazing because if he hurt Steffy, he'd in fact be hurting Liam´s daughter.
The first time he asked her out, was a Wednesday afternoon and she looked at him with curiosity in her eyes before saying yes and they had a wonderful time at the bowling alley. He 'let' her win naturally, he'd never admit that she was that much better then him. They went out on four more dates and had three more movie nights before they even kissed for the first time. After, Steffy looked into his yes and said. "Well, that was worth the wait." Then she smiles and he leans in for one more kiss. As they come back up for air, he says. "Definitely!"
Steffy realized that she loved him when he met her parents for the first time and brought her mother´s favorite desert and the new book by her father´s favorite author. She could actually feel her heart skip a beat.
Hope, Adam and Eileen saw all of this happening and each time they saw each other they threw each other knowing looks with smiles on their faces.
Over time, more and more of Michael´s things seemed to migrate over to Steffy´s place across the hall from Eileen´s apartment and Eileen would happily admit that some of those things she brought over herself to speed up the process.
The first time either of them said 'I love you' to the other, they both thought the other was sleeping, but of course neither was. During one of the movie nights, Steffy had fallen asleep in Michael´s arms on the couch while Adam and Hope were cuddled up on the love seat and Eileen had fallen asleep on the coziest arm chair you'd ever find, her leg with the cast laying over a foot stool to keep it elevated. He whispers it so quietly that he thinks no one hears him, but Steffy does. The first time Steffy says it, it's just before she's going to fall asleep and she sighs before breathing out "I love you!" thinking he's already sleeping, he's just about ready to cross the threshold, but her saying those three words causes him to jolt awake and he lays there with a smirk on his lips for at least two hours.
The first time they say it meaning the other to hear them, Steffy says it as she watches him pick her daughter up from the floor to get her ready for bed and then she walks up and kisses him senseless. Michael is sitting at the table after making breakfast and then looks her in the eyes and when he gets her attention, he tells her that he loves her.
The first time they make love makes both of them realize that previous experiences just doesn't compare. The way their bodies just knew where to touch, press, caress it was like they've been together for many years prior.
He keeps living at his sister´s place for another two weeks after that, then exactly 24 weeks after meeting her for the first time, he moves in and enters the life of a stepfather with such grace.
It had been a slow burn and that's why everyone knew this was it for the both of them. It took Hope, Adam and Eileen 23 weeks to let them know that the first movie night had actually only happened the way it did because they wanted it to happened like that. That car hadn't broken down and Eileen hadn't zonked out on her medication. The surprise on both Michael and Steffy's faces was amusing.
About six months into their relationship, Steffy made an announcement during one of the board meetings for Forrester Creations. She stood up tall and then said.
"I have made a decision and from now on, I'd like to be referred to as Stephanie Forrester. Because I am strong, loved, happy and intend to make this company greater then it is and for me to be able to do that, I need to let Steffy go and step into the shoes I was born to fill, potentially also spill out of!"
Her father looks at her with pride, as does her mother, grandfather and brother. Hope and Rick smile, although their smiles can't be described as a similar one. Hope´s actually has real joy in it, Rick´s feels forced.
Six months later, Steffy walks through the door of the apartment she shares with her boyfriend and her daughter who had turned two years old a couple of months ago and sees her boyfriend sitting at the table in the kitchen on his computer. She walks up behind him and sees that he's looking at listings of houses.
"I like that one!" She says as she points towards a two-story house with attic space and a basement, Michael jumps and places his hand over his heart.
"Oh, my goodness, you scared me." She kisses the top of his head.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you heard me, but you might have been too involved in the house hunt to hear me come in." She goes to sit down beside him. "How long have you been having these thoughts?"
"About two months now. The closet by the door is what set them off actually, I'm not sure what I was putting away, but we either need to organize that closet or find ourselves a new place to live and I vote for new place to live." He reaches out to hold her hand.
"Yeah, I agree. We're going to run out of place pretty soon." She looks him in the eyes.
He looks right back with confusion in his eyes. She leaves and goes to find her purse before placing it in front of him. "Look inside there and find the thing that shouldn't be in there."
He looks through her purse and finds a little handwritten note. Baby Adrienne due July 2016. He searches a little more and finds an ultrasound picture. "Are you serious? Really? We're having a baby?"
"Are you happy?" Steffy looks at him with worry in her eyes.
"Oh yes, I'm very happy, but we've got to get a move on with that house hunting now, if we're having the house renovated, I need time for it to be done before baby comes." Then he looks like something hit him straight in the gut.
"What's wrong?"
He looks over at her and fixes her eyes with his. "Will you marry me?"
Her face breaks out in a smile. "Yes, I'll marry you! I love you so much!"
The two kiss and then go back to looking for a house.
~OTTmF~
AN:
Don't worry if you're confused by the timeline in the fast forward-part of the chapter, I am too, but we're supposed to be around November 12th-ish 2015 when Steffy tells Michael about the pregnancy. I'm thinking the movie night-'manipulation' happened some time in the beginning of September 2014, Steffy announces that she's going back to Stephanie in May 2015.
Here's the thing, I've tried to figure out who I'd want as the guy Steffy starts falling for as well as who's to portray Adam and I've come to a decision. I want you to look up the guy who plays Deniz on the Turkish drama Paramparca, I think he actually looks a lot like the guy who stared as Leo on the show a little while ago although not the same and I want him with Hope, then look up the guy who stars as Ozan, that's who I picture as that guy that Steffy ended up with. In my opinion, Deniz is more handsome then Ozan looks wise, but I find Ozan as a character sexier and a little rougher around the edges and that's what Steffy needs in my mind and the girl who plays Ozan's biological sister Hazal on the show is perfect for Eileen, I thought about the girl staring as Cansu, but it didn't make sense. So, look up Burak Tozkoparan, Alina Boz, Leyla Tanlar and Ceyhun Mengiroglu to find my Eileen, Adam and Michael, also, Leyla Tanlar is a beautiful girl and I really like her character on that show.
Also, giving Adam a last name has been an absolute hassle I tell you, nothing makes sense. So, if you have one, please give me a suggestion!
And, guess what, there will be a fourth part to this story, an epilogue sort of.