*Sniffles* well, here's the epilogue! It makes me so sad!

Thanks to cookie-pocky-strawberry-love for replying!

I don't own Ouran.

"So the moral of this story is?" the teenage girl asked.

Her mother sighed, "Does everything have to have a moral for you?"

"Yes, or else you wouldn't have told it to me. When parents tell stories, it has a moral. Besides, you didn't really end it."

"What do you mean I didn't end it? You know the ending."

"Yeah yeah, you weren't really dead and you and dad got married and lived happily ever after and what not."

Morinozuka Emiko laughed and hugged her daughter, "You forgot about our three wonderful children."

"What? I want to know the end of the story!" the youngest Morinozuka child burst into the room.

"Naoki! Why are you listening at my door!"

He shrugged sheepishly, "Sorry Ani, I wanted to hear the story. Dad's out there too."

"Darling, do you really have to listen at doors?" Emi called. Morinozuka Takashi came in with a guilty look. Emi patted the space next to her and he sat down, kissing her on the cheek.

"So what really happened after the beach?" Naoki asked, sitting on his sister's bed too. Naoki had his father's black hair and his mother's blue eyes. He was always at odds with his sister, but they loved each other to pieces. Ani looked just like her mother, brown hair blue eyes, but had this sense of dramatics that was similar to her uncle Kanaye.

"Really? Is my room the new living room and my bed the couch?" Ani asked.

Everyone ignored her, "So what happened?" Naoki insisted.

"They got married and had us." a new voice said. The oldest Morinozuka child, Kenta was standing in the doorway. He was like his father where the younger two were like their mother. He was the only one of the three who had his father's gray eyes. He was a rare talker, but he had started talking more lately. Everyone knew he was in love, but with who, they didn't know or if she loved him back. But they were happy for him.

"But that's a general overview."

Emi ruffled her son's hair, "There's nothing important that you need to know darling."

"How were you alive?"

She laughed, "Well, that is important. You see, we were never really on the plane. We used a decoy plane and your grandma and I wereat the house in Kyoto the whole time. Now come one, it's late. Tomorrow is your first day of High School, you don't want to miss it." She shoed her husband and son out of the room.

"Yeah." Naoki said excitiedly as he walked away, "Exspecially since Souh Ryouta asked me to join his club." Emi rolled her eyes, some things just get passed onto their children unintentionally. Although, that might not have been unintentional.

"Mom, wait." Ani called.

"Okay, I'll be out in a minute honey." she told her husband and went back to their daughter.

"You never told me the moral."

"What do you think the moral is Anika?"

She mulled it over, "That your life shouldn't have a moral?"

"Try again."

"Lying and secrets are bad?"

"Bingo."

"Mom-"

Emi kissed her on the forehead, "Darling, we can talk about that later. Tomorrow's your first day as a senior, you need your rest."

"Thanks mom."

"No problem." She found her husband on a bench in the garden. She sat down and snuggled up next to him, "Our children are getting so old." she groaned, "What are we going to do after they're all gone?"

"Grandchildren."

"Not for several more years I hope." She sighed, "Telling Ani our story really brought back memories, and it reminded me of how much I love you."

"I didn't know you forgot."

She laughed, "Maybe now I love you even more."

"I love you." While it had been so hard to get those words out at the beginning, they never tired of saying them whenever they got the chance to.

Emi fingered the locket she wore every day. Nothing else mattered- but their lives, their family and their wonderful future together.

And so, that is the end ladies and gentlemen.

My next project will probably be a murder/mystery, so look out for that.

~Cloudy