Disclaimer: I have been lying to you the whole time. I do indeed own McFly. See, they're under my bed over there. Well, they're not really. -sigh- but i can dream, right?

The night ended with many tears, promises to stay in touch and exchanged details. We had decided to walk back from school - most of us were staying the night at our parents' houses and thought it'd be just like old times when we used to walk home together each day. Gradually the group faded away as everyone took their different routes and just Danny and me were left.

"So, glad you came tonight?" he asked me, flashing a trademark grin,

"Yes. I can't believe I lost contact with so many people, I mean, it's only been a few years."

"Same. But I guess that's what they call growing up, right?"

This made me giggle, as I remembered our long conversations about staying young forever, never wanting to be an adult when you had to worry about making beds and buying food.

"I thought we weren't ever going to grow up?"

He grinned back at me, taking off his jacket and draping it round my shoulders as he noticed me shiver. This action made me shiver even more, although for a totally different reason. I hoped Danny wouldn't notice the goosebumps I got when his skin brushed mine or how recently I couldn't seem to be able to control when my cheeks flushed a bright pink.

We reached Danny's front door and paused, looking at each other.

"See you in the morning?" he asked,

"Night." I whispered and quickly crossed the street.

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My Mum was already in bed by the time I had gotten home, but I found it impossible to get to sleep. I was buzzing from an amazing night reuniting with my friends and knew there was no way in the world I would get down from this high for another few hours at least. I made my way out to the garden and sat on the front step clearing my head. From where I was sitting I could see Danny's house across the road. The light was still on in his bedroom window, and I could see him as he sat on his bed with his guitar. He glanced out of the window for a second and paused, noticing me sitting watching him. I smiled shyly at him, not expecting him to have seen me. He disappeared from view for a few seconds, until his front door opened and he walked across the road to where I was.

"Spying on me now, then?" He grinned, sitting down next to me.

"Not spying… just being nosey." He laughed, and turned round, looking at me straight in the eye.

"You know, I'm glad your car broke down earlier."

"I'm not, now I have a broken car!"

"Yeah, but if you hadn't broken down, I couldn't have helped you, and we wouldn't be sitting here right now."

I sighed and shook my head.

"You know that's not true, Dan. I couldn't ever stay mad at you."

This made him laugh, and it took me a few minutes to realise why.

"Okay, so there's the whole abandonment and me holding a grudge for five years thing, but we got over that, right?"

He continued to giggle at me, adding, "And then there was the time you were mad at me after that… and the one after that..."

I began to laugh too, realising how stupid I was making myself sound.

"Okay, so I was a bit mad. But I didn't stay totally mad, did I? We made up every time."

He smiled at me again, and muttered, "And now you promise to never hate me ever again?"

And then it happened; once again I appeared to loose the connection between the section of my brain that controlled common sense and my heart.

"I could never hate you Danny, you know that. I love you."

He sighed, and put his arm around me, pulling me into his chest.

"I love you too Jen."

"No, I didn't mean in that way. More than a brother-sister thing, more than best friends."

"I know; and I didn't mean in that way either. I'm in love with you Jen, and I have been since I was seventeen."

My heart seemed to stop, as I looked up into his eyes.

"Really?"

"Really."

"Then why didn't you say something?!" I hit him on the arm playfully, pretending to be angry even though my heart was thudding against my ribcage in celebration. "All that time we've wasted, honestly!"

He grinned back at me once more, and whispered in my ear,

"Well, I guess we'll have to make up for lost time, won't we?"

And then he kissed me.

j'ai fini.

firstly, i would like to apologise for the lateness of this chapter. I had written the first half, but then we got assigned our first piece of english coursework, which was to do a description, and as much as i enjoy writing, it took me forever and zapped all of my willingness to write for a week or so.

ANYWAY. this is the verry last chapter. -cries-

i'm still not too happy with the last bit, but i think that's more a i-dont-want-to-end-the-fic thing.

feedback please?

also:

now i've finished this i have some ideas floating around in my head, i'm just struggling to find a format i like to write them up in

(yes, i know that makes no sense to anyone but me..)

so, if anyone has any ideas in the meantime; stories, plots, characters, songfics, etc. they are dying to see, tell me and i'll see if i can do something with it.

i think thats everything.

so, for the last time (for now)

it seems an appropriate mcfly-style-begging-tune:

One more fic before I've got to go,

(I'm typing)

from the very bottom of my soul,

(When you read)

every single word and every chap,

I'm pleading

just go any review it all once more.

And on that note, I shall shamelessly plug my SongFic "I'm Giving It Everything".

'cause I love it. And if you've read it before, go read it again, cause i edited it a bit. :)

okay. DONE.

love,

Ellie-who-still-writes-longer-authors-notes-than-chapters.

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