A/N: When I was writing this chapter I had a completely different ending for this chapter and then I started writing and I went a completely different way. Hopefully you all are happy with how this ends and if you aren't, it's okay too because I have some back up plans.

Chapter Forty-Eight: New York

"Let me get this straight, you are going to go to New York with your ex girlfriend, an ex girlfriend that you loved. How do you expect me to feel about this?"

Sam looks at Kelsey before shoving a weekend full of clothes into a bag.

"This is the last step into moving on, Kelsey. You may not understand it, but I need to do this. You and I are in a relationship. Kylie and Meredith are in a relationship. Nothing is going to happen between us. You have got to get over it."

Kelsey leans against Sam's dresser and shakes her head.

"I'm sorry. We were supposed to get married. You left me at the altar and you took off. Then you go and get another relationship and I'm stuck here. I sell our house and I move into your parent's house and I wait," Kelsey says with tears in her eyes. "I wait for you to come home and then years pass and you don't. You had moved on and I couldn't do that. You are it for me and then you come and throw my world in a loop and I feel like that 17 year old kid again. Now you are going off with your ex girlfriend. I can't take it because I'm always going to wonder if something happens."

Sam bites the bottom of her lip as she looks at her girlfriend.

"I hurt you in more way s then I know and I'm sorry for that. I want to work on that, but I have to settle my old life. I don't want to hurt you, Kels. I love you and I want us to be back to where we used to be and I'm trying. I really am, but you have got to trust or this isn't going to work."

Kelsey sniffles and wipes her tears.

"Do what you want. I have to get to work. I guess I'll see you when I see you."

Kelsey walks out the bedroom door.

"Kelsey!"

Sam hears the front door to her apartment and the door slamming shut.

"Kelsey!"

Sam groans in frustration.

-Defying Gravity-

"I don't know what this trip is going to do to my relationship with Kelsey."

Kylie glances to her right at Sam who had been mumbling on and on about Kelsey.

"I'm in the same boat. Meredith was trying to be understanding, but she has always loved me. Kelsey and Meredith are like one in the same whereas you and I are one in the same. That's probably why we never would have worked out."

"When Kelsey and I were arguing or rather she was arguing she said something that really hit me."

"What did she say?"

"She told me that I loved you. I said it to you all the time, but I didn't want to feel it and I know that makes me a bitch or whatever, but I just. I loved Kelsey, too. I didn't want to feel it Kylie, but it was true. I did love you. I did love you and I'm sorry," Sam cries. "I'm sorry."

Kylie looks around the plane. There were people staring and Kylie chose to ignore them. She wrapped an arm around Sam and pulled her close as Sam cried into her shoulder.

This was going to be a long couple of hours.

-Defying Gravity-

"I apologize for my break down. I shouldn't have gotten that weepy or whatever. I haven't done that in awhile I guess."

Kylie shrugs her shoulders before unlocking the apartment door.

"It's good to know that you loved me though."

Sam laughs slightly and walks inside.

"A part of me missed this place," Sam says as she drops her bag on the ground and takes a look around.

"Me too," Kylie walks into the kitchen and opens the fridge and notices that it is fully stocked. "God bless Rosa," Kylie says as she pulls out things for a sandwich. "You want one?" Kylie asks Sam.

"Um, sure, no mayo though. Do you want to explain why the fridge is fully stocked?"

"I called Rosa and I wired her some money and an extra key to the apartment. I wasn't sure if I was coming back or whatnot. I just wanted everything to be kept up."

Sam grins.

"I always loved our neighbors."

Kylie finishes with the sandwiches and hands one to Sam.

"Where do we start?"

Sam takes a bite of her sandwich and looks around the apartment.

"We each take a box and start packing."

-Defying Gravity-

"Get me another John," Kelsey orders as she finishes her drink. She slams the second glass down on the bar tabletop.

"Don't you think you've had enough?" John, the bartender says as he pours another drink.

"Nope."

John hands over Kelsey's drink and heads over to the other side of the bar to help another patron.

A woman from across the bar had been sexing Kelsey up from her table trying to get the courage to buy Kelsey a drink. Biting the bullet, the woman swallows the rest of her drink and walks up to the bar and sits down next to Kelsey.

"What are you drinking?"

Kelsey looks up from the table and back to the woman.

"Alcohol," Kelsey grumbles.

The woman laughs and places a hand on Kelsey's thigh and rubs it up and down. Kelsey glances down at her thigh and then at the woman and leans closer to her thinking that they were going to kiss.

"Get your hand off of my thigh before I arrest you for sexual misconduct."

The woman takes her hand off of Kelsey's thigh and backs away slightly.

"You're pretty and all, but I have a girlfriend."

"Then why are you here at a bar, drinking alone?"

-Defying Gravity-

A few hours later in a New York apartment, Sam was sleeping on the couch with just a simple blanket and a pillow. Kylie was asleep in what used to be their old bedroom. They both had boxed up a couple of boxes before retiring to bed. Sam wakes up to a consistent knocking on the apartment door. Sam climbs off of the couch and opens the door and is completely surprised to see Kelsey behind it.

"Kelsey, what are you doing here?"

"I've spent the last few hours on a plane thinking because that's all there was to do was think. Our argument was stupid, I get that and I'm looking like an idiot standing out her in the hallway, but I have to say this because the last time I did things didn't really work out and I am hoping the less formal this is the better the chances I get for this working out."

"Kelsey, what are you talking about? I am so confused right now. Come inside and we can talk."

"Nope I'm going to do ask this right here."

"Ask what?"

"Marry me?"

Sam just looks at Kelsey. She had no idea this was what was going to happen when she opened the apartment door. She couldn't dwell on it any longer because Kylie's voice broke through her thoughts.

"Holy shit!"

Apparently, Kylie had heard the proposal and Kelsey was still waiting for an answer.

The only problem was that Sam didn't know what to say.