This is the last chapter. I'm ending it at Christmas because lets face, its a great time to end it. I'll explain more at the end. :D

DISCLAIMER: After all this time, I still don't own anything!

Christmas In Hollis – Run DMC

December 2002
Alex: 14
Jay: 15

Christmastime. Such a lovely time... It seemed that having sex with Jay had solved the problem of the weird dreams. It had been two weeks and there had been none. Occasionally, it would cross her mind, but she was awake, so she could easily banish the thoughts. By some miraculous act of God, Chad was still oblivious to Christopher's existence. Staying at the Howard Johnson for two weeks was hardly his style, but that was the way it was. Alex had been at home once while he'd been there. Getting Christopher out and Chad in smoothly was a bit of a game, but thus far, things had run unbelievably smoothly.

It was a week and a half before Christmas, and Chad was away on three days 'business'. They all knew what that meant. But, it also meant that Christopher was free to come and go as he pleased for a while. And he wanted to see Alex. Alex didn't want to see him.

"Lex, it's no big deal. Let's just go round there."

"No, Jay! I don't want to. Who the fuck does this guy think he's fooling anyway?"

"What are you talking about?"

"He's been gone for eleven years! As soon as he's seen me for five minutes, he'll fuck off again and not show his face for another eleven years!"

"It wasn't like that, Lex."

"Of course it was! Why else would he leave? And why's everyone under the impression he's such a great guy? Obviously not!"

"Lex, it didn't happen like that. There was a lot going on then."

"Jay, you're like a year older than me, stop acting like you can remember it."

"I can't. Not all of it. But I remember some of it. You're dad wasn't the bad guy. It was your mom."

"Of course it was!" Alex agreed sarcastically. "Everyone always blames her! It's always her fault!"

"Stop fucking defending her! You hate her most of the time! Why choose now to stick up for her?"

"All I've heard, my entire life, is how shit guys are. They all are, in one way or another. Every guy that my mom has bought home and called a boyfriend has been an asshole. He's no difference."

"He left because she was fucking with two other guys! The whole trailer park knew! Hell, the whole of Toronto knew!"

"Fuck you, Jay." Alex backed down from the argument and was silenced.

Jay didn't so much force Alex, more guide her in the right direction. "Lex, it's all good. I'll be there. We'll go in there, stay for an hour, then we can go back to mine."

"And drink as much beer as we want?" She compromised.

"And drink as much beer as we want." He agreed.

Once inside, Jay started to realize why Alex was so reluctant to come here. But he had to keep his thoughts to himself. Emily had the regulatory brandy glass in her hand. Christopher looked more relaxed than the last time he saw him, but he still didn't look at home. Eleven years is a long time...

"You know, you two are so much more grown up than I remember you." Christopher mused with an odd smile on his face.

"Well, the last time you saw us we were four and five years old." Alex shot back bitterly. She received a sharp elbow in the ribs from Jay for that, and the smile was wiped off Christopher's face, somewhat sadly.

"Alexandra-"

"It's just Alex." She interjected.

"OK. Alex. Me and your mom have had plenty of time to talk, and a lot of things have been ironed out and corrected between us, but theres still lots I have to say to you. I want you to come and stay with me in BC."

Alex opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by Emily.

"Hear him out before you say anything, girl."

"I think you'd like it. Bring JJ, too."

Jay's attention was grabbed again at that old nickname coming back up.

"Uh, its just Jay now." He pointed out.

Christopher chuckled. "Everyones at it. I guess I should drop the -topher and just be Chris. How about it, Em?" He continued laughing at his own joke and Emily nervously laughed along with him while Alex and Jay sat on the couch with stony faces.

"I'll think about it." Alex finally settled with. And it was never mentioned again, the whole time.

"We're gonna head back to Jay's now mom." Alex finally decided they were leaving after about an hour and a half.

"OK, sweetheart. Call me when you're coming round to see me, OK? Take care of my baby, Jay."

"Yes, ma'am." Jay and Alex headed toward the door. But before they left, Alex headed back to the couch and gave her dad a small kiss on the cheek. "Bye, dad."

Out on the streets, Alex felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. "See, I told you it wouldn't be that bad."

"Yep, I guess for once you were right." Alex teased, poking her tongue out at her boyfriend jokingly.

"For once? You mean 'yet again'!" Jay replied quickly.

"Hey, Jay?"

"What?"

"Can we go an drink as much beer as we want?"

"We can drink as much beer as we want."

THE END!

I decided I needed to end it here for a multitude of reasons:

1) My other fics (Always Be My Baby and some future one shots I've got coming up) are starting to take over and I really need to focus on them.

2) I feel that this fic (that I've affectionately come to call MLMLAML) is getting just a tad too long and drawn out, and I wanted to end it now before it became too over-the-top and stupid.

3) I'm running out of possible story lines to use!

I know I said in the summary that this story would stretch til Alex and Jay were 17 and 19, but if I did do it that way, things would just go on for way to long. So I'm ending it here. :(

I've had a great time writing this, and its been a pleasure to read of all y'all reviews. I wanna take this time to thank:

AllyK00
Brandy (anon)
Brandy2008 (I guess they are the same person)
selliefan
uhohchemicalspill
ish78
scoobygang101
ShatteredTruth
toughlovegirl
GREENGYPSY
Stranger Danger
CJ (anon)
MaDShiPPA
degrassijayandalex – she's been no end of help this girl!

Thank you so much guys!

Check out Always Be My Baby. Its already under way and is gonna be a total of 20 chapters, one for each of the 15 days leading up to Jay and Alex's wedding, then five for a few little stories about their life as a married couple. Make sure you review, and let me know what you think!

Peace Out! :D