"Roger, what do you have?" Ava asked sitting on the bed in their hotel room holding a notebook and a pen as Roger entered the room.
"You'll see." he smiled putting the box on the bed as Ava put her notebook and pen down on the nightstand.
"You have got to be kidding me?" she asked reaching in seeing the pictures of the two of them. "This is your prom picture." she laughed looking at the picture in the frame.
"Yep." he smiled taking a pile of pictures out of the box.
"Oh my God, look how young we were." she laughed smiling at Roger in the picture.
"11 years ago." he said sitting up next to her on the bed handing her pictures.
"I remember this. This was before our first show. Wow, I was so nervous." she laughed looking up at him as he slipped his arm around her shoulder to bring her closer to him.
"You did great Baby. You always did great. That's why you're the famous Avalon." he smiled leaning over to kiss her head.
"No, I'm the famous Avalon because of you. You're the one who put those fliers up at school." she smiled looking up at him.
"I fell in love with you because I put the fly\iers up at school. You're the famous Avalon because you have an awesome rock chick voice." he smiled leaning down to kiss her. As he kissed her she slid down to lay down on the bed. "How about I get this box out of the way and we take another walk down memory lane?" he smiled caressing her face with his thumb.
"I love that idea." she giggled looking up at him as he put the pictures back in the box before putting it on the floor and they began to make love. "Do you know what I was thinking?" she asked looking up at him.
"What's that Baby?" he asked smiling down at her.
"I was thinking we could check out of the hotel and spend the last couple of days we have in New York at the loft." she suggested smiling up at him.
"But I wanted to be alone with you." he whined playing with her hair.
"Roger, we're going on tour and we're getting married. I don't think we could get more alone." she laughed leaning her head on her elbow.
"Why do you wanna go to the loft?" he asked looking down at her.
"I wanna spend more time with your friends, and I like Alphabet City. We can be ourselves there." she smiled playing with his chest hair.
"You can always be yourself with me Ava." he smiled sitting up in the bed.
"I know, it's just that, I don't like being a prisoner in this hotel room. I wanna go out with you and hang out with our friends." she said sitting up next to him.
"OK Baby. If that's what you want." he smiled looking down at her.
"Yeah, it is. I wanna be Ava. Here I feel like I can't go out and just be Ava, you know? In Alphabet City I can." she said looking over at him.
"I know Baby. I think that's a great idea. We can spend more time with everyone until we leave." he smiled reaching over to caress her face.
"Thank you Baby. I love you." she smiled moving closer to kiss him.
"Ava, why don't we get married before we leave for the tour? You know, so everyone could be there." he suggested taking her face in his hands.
"Yes." she smiled looking up at him.
"Really?" he said looking at her surprised.
"Yeah, really. I said I'd marry you. I don't care where or when we get married Roger. I just care about being married to you." she laughed looking into his gorgeous green eyes.
"Rockin." he called out laughing as he took her in his arms.
"How about we get married in City Hall the day before we leave? It'll give us time to plan a small party with our friends." she laughed looking up at him.
"I gotta call Mark. You start packing. We'll check out today and start planning." he smiled looking down at her.
"OK. I love you Roger." she smiled looking up at him.
"I love you too Ava." he smiled leaning in for another kiss before reaching for the phone to call Mark.
"Well if it isn't the rock super couple." Maureen smiled looking over at them as they entered the loft with Ava's bags.
"What are you talking about Maureen?" Ava asked looking down at her putting her bags down by the door.
"You guys are on the cover of every magazine and newspaper." Jimmy smiled handing her a newspaper.
"Are Avalon and Roger married?" Ava read from the front page of the New York Post.
"Who knew Roger's love life would be of any interest to anyone other than us?" Collins teased looking up at them.
"Well now we have to get married Baby. We can't disappoint our fans." Roger laughed wrapping his arms around her waist from behind.
"We wouldn't want to disappoint anyone, now would we?" she laughed turning around to kiss him.
"What are you two talking about?" Mark asked smiling up at them.
"Don't try to keep up with them man. You'll only get a headache." June laughed sitting back on the couch drinking his beer.
"Ava and I are getting married the day before we leave for the west coast leg of the tour." Roger smiled looking over at them.
"But that's in 5 days. We can't plan a wedding on that short notice." Maureen yelled getting up from the recliner.
"Maureen sweetie, it's OK. We're just going to City Hall and having a small party with just you guys here. We don't need anything more than that." Ava smiled looking over at her.
"No way. You two waited long enough to get married, you should do it big." she smiled looking up at them.
"Maureen, all we need is our friends and each other. It'll be the perfect day." Ava smiled looking up at Roger.
"What about your parents?" Jimmy said looking over at them.
"Well I haven't spoken to mine since I left, so I don't know how they would feel if I called them out of the blue to invite them to my wedding." Roger said leading Ava over to the couch.
"Well it just so happens, I'm still really close to your parents and I know they would be thrilled if I called them and told them that we found each other and we were getting married." Ava smiled looking down at Roger as she stood over him.
"And what about your parents?" he asked looking up at her.
"Well, my mom lives in Florida now and I don't talk to my dad anymore. He refused to stop drinking or even realize what he did to me that summer, so I thought it was best if I didn't contact him anymore. When I hit it big, he tried, but I never returned any of his phone calls." she said sitting on his lap.
"I'm sorry Baby." he said playing with her long blond hair.
"Forget it. I'm fine. You always said I was too good to have a father like him anyway. I'm over it. I have a great mom and your dad was always like a dad to me, so I consider myself extremely blessed." she smiled leaning in to kiss him.
"And you have us now. We'll love you and support you no matter what Babygirl." Collins smiled looking over at them.
"You have no idea how much that means to me Collins. Thank you. Thank you for welcoming me into your family and thank you for not hating me for taking Roger away." she said looking up at him.
"He was always yours Ava. We were just taking care of him until you came back for him." Maureen smiled looking down at them as Roger leaned up to kiss Ava's head and everyone looked on happily.