"Clare I get what you're saying. I could never watch Adam kiss another girl, not even on the cheek. But I think you're blowing this out of proportion."

"I know. I just can't take it. You guys said that maybe he wasn't sure about the answer to his question and I just got a little paranoid."

"Don't worry Clare. But you should tell Eli how you're feeling and then put the marriage thing down for awhile."

"Yeah."

Eli opened the door to see Clare.

"For some reason I didn't think you'd come." Eli said with his head low.

"I love you." Clare wrapped her arms around Eli's neck and kissed him.

"Clare I don't want are lives to be like this." Eli said when the kiss was broken. "I don't want us to fight all the time, and then make up."

"Eli, please. You are the best thing that in my life. I need you."

"I don't want you to be unhappy."

"I'm not sad. I'm very happy." Clare took Eli's hand and sat down on the couch with him.

"Anything else you want to talk about?"

"No." Clare leaned into Eli and he held her close.

"Can you believe how things have changed?"

"Yeah. It seems like only yesterday you didn't even want to look up."

"Yeah. How did we go from that to this?"

"How did Adam and Fiona go from flirting and laughing to marriage and having kids?"

"Remember the conversation we all had in the waiting room while Fiona was giving birth?"

Fiona's screams were understandable all the way into the waiting room.

"Wow. Fiona can scream." Eli said.

"Well, maybe now the kids won't get her mad." Clare said. There was another scream, this time louder.

"How does she scream that loud?" Drew asked.

"She's had practice with Adam." Eli laughed. Clare hit his arm.

"The kids are going to be screamers I bet." Alli said.

"Did that make you want to not have kids?" Eli asked.

"For like a split second. I've always wanted kids."

"Maybe we could do that... as a family?"

Clare looked up and stared into Eli's eyes. "Some day."

"Or maybe a year?" Eli brought out a white box, and got up. He turned to face Clare and got down on his knee. "Clare. We've had are problems , but they don't matter and I want to spend my life with you." Eli opened the box. " Will you marry me?" Clare grabbed Eli's collar and pulled him up to her lips.

"I'll take that as a yes."

"Do you know how long I thought it would take before you asked me?"

"I wanted to for a long time now, but everything kept happening."

"Well, it was worth the wait. when did you decide to do it?"

"When Fiona told me how you were freaking out. you should have just talked to me about it. I would have made it special."

Eli wrapped his arms around Clare's waist and kissed her, then turned and pushed onto the couch.