Hello guys. Remember on the 10th of February when I said this was going to be a one-shot? Well, now it evolved into a 10 chapter story with an epilogue. Wow, things are never what they are expected to be!!! Final instalment of this story. ENJOY!!!!!


Lisa sat on the plane reading her new book she got at the airport bookstore. She was flying back to New York City for Christmas from her college in North Carolina. This was her freshman year, and she was already calling it "home". She loved it there, but promised her parents she would come in for the holidays. Lisa was excited about going to visit her hometown, but was worried about one thing. What if Hector was there? Last time she saw him was when he visited during the winter of her junior year in college. He's been busy with work and school ever since, so hasn't been able to visit much. Half of her hoped he'd be there, and another half didn't.

BING: Attention passengers, the plane is getting ready to land now. Please fasten your seatbelts and put away all items. Thank you.

Lisa sighed as she put away her book as secured her seatbelt.

"Showtime," she uttered under her breath, and the plane slowly tilted foreword to the ground.

Lisa walked out of the plane with her carry-on bag and her coat. She checked the time. It was 3:30. She sighed; glad she wasn't going to be late. Her parents weren't expecting her for another 2 hours. Lisa walked downstairs to the baggage pick-up, and found the place where her baggage would be coming out of. She quickly found her big bag and lifted it up. It was really heavy, too heavy. She started to fall, when someone caught her, and the bag.

"You alright?" asked a voice.

It sounded strangely familiar. It reminded her of Hector, but he was all the way in Kansas. No way would he be here.

"Yeah, thanks," said Lisa, not turning around to the voice, and walked away with her stuff.

Lisa thanked the taxi and payed her fee. The taxi dropped her off in front of her parent's building. She grabbed her bags and walked up the stairs and into the building.

"Hey Lisa," came a voice. Lisa turned and saw Bob, the lobby man waving at her. Lisa smiled and walked over to him.

"Hey Bob," she said.

"So, you decided to give us a visit?"

"Yeah, there was no way I was going to miss coming back. I love my college, but still couldn't live without visiting."

Bob laughed.

"Well, it hasn't been the same without you here. Luckily, Annie Scrambler went to a college near Hollywood, and the other Pranksters are on other ends of the globe."

Lisa laughed.

"Well, at least I know that there is no more mischief being caused by them while I'm gone."

"Yeah, well enjoy your stay Lisa."

"Thanks Bob."

And with that, Lisa descended to the elevator, and up to her parent's apartment. She took out her key and opened the door. It was all dark inside.

"Mom, dad, I'm home!" she called.

Then, the lights turned on and Lisa saw all her friends there.

"Welcome home Lisa!!" chanted everyone.

"Wow," said Lisa. "Thanks guys."

Lisa's mom came out from the rest of the guests and went up to Lisa.

"Welcome home sweetie. I've missed you so much."

"I've missed you too mom," said Lisa.

"Well, now go and visit with everybody. Dinner's on at 6."

Lisa nodded as she walked throughout the apartment and saw all her friends. There were the Skelckians, Karl, Lottie, and Dax, some other kids from her school, Shock, Mr. Watson and Keith, and Jessica and her parents, but she couldn't see Hector. Lisa felt her heart sink, lower and lower.

"Maybe he didn't come in, again," she said.

Just then, the door opened, again. Lisa didn't turn to see who it was, she didn't feel like seeing anyone at the moment.

"LISA HEFFFENBACHER!!!" called a voice.

It sounded just like the voice from that guy at the airport. It couldn't be….

"Lisa, please, where are you?"

Lisa sighed and turned slowly to where the voice was coming from. She had her head down, though.

"I'm right here," she called back, head still faced down.

"Hey Lisa, it's been a while."

Lisa got confused. This better not be Zak, if it was, she'd kill him right then and there.

"What are you talking about?" she asked as she turned her head so that it was facing the speaker. She looked at the speaker, she froze.

"Miss me?" he asked.

"Hector," said Lisa.

Then she ran up to him and flung herself into his arms. Hector hugged back with the same amount of strength. Lisa was lightly crying, but of happiness, not of sorrow.

"Finally, I guess fate wanted us together again," whispered Hector into Lisa's ear.

Lisa chuckled.

"It's been too long," she said.

"I agree, and I'm sorry. I got caught up with school, and was having problems with my girlfriend……..oops….did that offend you?"

Lisa pulled away, but still remained close to Hector.

"A little, more like surprised than offended. What do you mean problems?"

"She thought I should quit basketball."

"What? That's just cruel."

"I know, so I broke up with her. She wasn't worth it."

Lisa grinned as she pulled Hector into another hug.

"You have no idea how happy I am to see you. I missed you so much."

"Same here Lisa. I would have emailed you, but when I got my new college email, I lost all my contacts. Sorry."

"It's okay," said Lisa. "I'll just give it to you again."

The two broke apart, even though neither of them wanted to, and looked at each other for a minute. Then Lisa's mom called "dinner" and the two walked to the kitchen to get some food. They were having hot dogs and macaroni with some other misolanious stuff like salad and chips. When the two got there food, they went and sat down in the living room alone.

Back in the kitchen

"Hey Keith, Shock, there's Hector and Lisa," said Jessica.

"How about we go sit by them," said Keith.

"I think they might want some time alone," said Shock, "how about we sit over here."

The two teens nodded and went to sit by Mr. Watson.

Back with Lisa and Hector

"So, I told you my dating past of horror at Kansas State, how about you. Any guys you're……liking at the moment?"

"No, not really," said Lisa. "Though tons of guys in my science classes want to be my partner, one actually asked me out, and he was cute too."

"Did you go with him?"

"No," said Lisa. "He wasn't my type. Plus, he only cared about two things, science and his looks, and I think his looks win by a landslide."

The two laughed the fell silent.

"So who was your old girlfriend?" asked Lisa.

"Juliette Cutter," said Hector, "the most popular girl in the year, and I was one of the most popular guys. She "liked" me, and I thought I had something with her, but what really got me was that, I never truly liked her."

"How did you know?" asked Lisa.

"Because, no matter where I was, or what I was doing, she wasn't always on my mind, something else was."

"Oh," said Lisa. "What was it?"

"You," said Hector.

Lisa froze.

"What?" she asked in disbelief.

"Lisa, whenever I was, in a basketball game or taking an exam, or even with Juliette, I could only think about you. Our times together when we were younger, how we dominated The Scramblers in Friends or Aunts, the good times we had when we were dating for a week or so. I couldn't force myself to get my mind off of you. You were with me, everywhere I was."

Lisa looked down at the floor to hide her blush.

"Really?" she asked.

"Really," replied Hector. "Lisa, I know this is a lot to say but I think I……….."

"LISA!!!" called Lisa's mom, come in here sweetie. Where are you?"

Hector sighed.

"Umm, can we continue this after everyone leaves?" asked Lisa.

"Sure," said Hector.

Lisa was able to talk to everyone else. It was nice to visit with her old friends again. Everybody left around 8:30. The Ruiz family was last to leave.

"See you at home bro," said Jessica.

"Bye Jess," said Hector.

"Lisa, your father and I are leaving now. We have a meeting to attend. We'll be home around midnight."

"Okay bye mom," said Lisa.

Lisa's parents left the apartment. Then Hector turned to Lisa and they started to talk.

"So, you were saying something earlier then we got interrupted. What were you going to say?" asked Lisa.

"Oh, it was nothing," said Hector.

"No go on, what was it?"

Hector took a deep breath then sighed.

"Lisa, this might be a lot to hear, but I know I have strong feelings for you."

"Okay," said Lisa. "So what are you saying?"

"I'm saying that….I am pretty sure of this, but….."

"What?" asked Lisa?

"I love you," said Hector.

Lisa froze.

"Lisa, I understand if you're not ready or something like that, I just wanted to tell you, just so that you knew. I understand that it might be a while before we can actually be together again, but to me, that doesn't matter."

Hector then got up to leave, but Lisa stopped him.

"Hector, wait! I've waited this long to see you again. I don't want it to end badly."

Lisa started too walked up to Hector, but tripped on nothing in particular. As usual, Hector was there to catch her.

"Thanks," said Lisa.

"I seem to always be there when you fall," said Hector as he helped pull Lisa back up.

Lisa looked up at him.

"That was you at the airport?"

"Yeah," said Hector. "I was flying in from Kansas and saw you getting your bags. I wanted to say hi, but you walked away too quickly."

Lisa laughed.

"I just wanted to get home," she said. "I was getting sick of the airlines."

The two laughed. Lisa then went into the kitchen and grabbed a pen and paper. She wrote something down then gave it to Hector.

"Here's all my contact info. Call me sometime."

"I will," said Hector. The two went closer to each other then hugged, tightly. Lisa was savoring the moment. She really didn't want Hector to leave, but hopefully, the two would see each other again. The two broke apart, and Hector left, without another word.

"Bye Hector," she said then closed the door to her apartment.

Hector was out on the streets. He looked back up at Lisa's building.

"Bye Lisa," he said. "I promise you, we'll meet again, someday."


And that my friends, is the final installment of this story. THANK YOU!!!! LOLZ!!! So, what did ya think? Should I write a sequel? Tell me in a review!!! Okay, so here's the thing, there is most likely going to be a sequel. If you want one, tell me and that adds encouragement. If you get this question right, you get a sneak peak!!! We all love those don't we?

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AND.....for anyone who wants them MUFFINS!!!! or UNMUFFINS!!!!!

Silicon2123 and Jedi Annie Scrambler: On youtube, there's the recap of Unmuffins with the popcicle sticks. I know we haven't seen it yet so that might be helpful.

So, that is all for this story lovelies. I hope you all enjoyed it. I will write more TEC stories don't worry. I have a lot of ideas!!!

Unitl the next story my friends.........................