20 long years had passed. A lot of things had already changed. Daren was in his mid 40s and he had a wonderful family. He got married to Miranda, Oliver's ex-girlfriend. Daren and Miranda were very close to Lilly and Oliver which is why they spent a lot of time together. Daren now has two wonderful children, a girl and a boy.
The boy was named Oliver and he was 18. The girl was named Lilly and she was 16.
Meanwhile, at Daren's house, his two sneaky children had snuck into his room while he was watching TV.
"Have you found anything yet?" Oliver asked impatiently, as he took out all sorts of stuff from his dad's drawer.
Lilly ignored him, as she looked around her father's room. They had looked everywhere for something fun to do, but they found nothing. Lilly decided to look under the bed and started chucking things around until.....
She had found two books.
Property of Lilly Truscott
Property of Oliver Oken
Lilly looked at the two books confusingly. Oliver was still throwing things around and he finally gave up. He stood up from his position and turned around to see his sister holding up two books. He walked up to her to see what she was holding.
"Find anything interesting?" he said, trying to see what she was staring at.
"Look Oliver, these books has our names on it."
Oliver grabbed the book that had his name on it. However, they couldn't open it, because a lock was settled onto the book.
Both Lilly and Oliver came running downstairs to their dad.
"DAD!" Lilly yelled, which startled their father as he was half-asleep.
Before Daren could say another word Lilly interrupted.
"Dad what is this? Why does it have our names on it?"
Lilly handed the books to her father and he looked at it.
Daren didn't say anything for a moment, but he finally spoke.
"Those are the diaries of my dear friends." he simply replied.
"OH cool! Can we meet them then?" they both said excitedly.
Daren just shook his head.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! Why not? Please, Please, Pretty Please?" they whined.
"You can't because they have already passed away."
Lilly and Oliver both stopped whining when they saw the sadness in his eyes.
"How did they die?" Lilly asked quietly.
"Lilly died from an accident, and Oliver committed suicide."
Everyone was quiet. Lilly was about to open her mouth but her father had already left.
Daren made his was upstairs and looked out the view of his balcony. The sky was dark and showed only the stars shining brightly at him. The wind passed his hair. After all these years, Daren had tried hard to not feel upset about his friends, but it was hard. He wanted to always remind himself about his friends Lilly and Oliver, so he named his children after them.
He rested his arms onto the railing of the balcony and continued to stare up at the stars. He closed his eyes.
"I wish you guys were here with me." He whispered to himself as he continued to gaze up at the stars.
Daren finally decided to go back downstairs and was not at all surprised to see his two children still sitting there with a guilty look on their faces.
When Lilly and Oliver heard him coming downstairs they both stood up,
"Dad, we're really sorry, we shouldn't have looked through your personal things, I promise I won't ever go into your room without your permission"
Daren patted her daughter's head and smiled. He told them to take a seat near him.
Daren stood up and walked over to the box where he had warned his children to never look into. He opened it and took out two small keys. He returned to his seat to see his children looking curiously at the key.
"What's that for dad?" Oliver asked.
Daren handed one key to Lilly and the other to Oliver.
"This is the key to the diaries. You both are now old enough to read this."
Lilly and Oliver looked at each other for a moment. They both unlocked the lock with key at the same time. They slowly opened the diaries and read it.
"I'll be upstairs if you need me." Daren said while standing up.
Lilly and Oliver both nodded and continued reading the diaries.
Daren was upstairs with his wife, Miranda. Daren had just told her that their two children were reading the diaries of their friends Lilly and Oliver. Miranda was quite angry at first, but Daren thought it'd be best for their children to know.
Daren and Miranda waited until a few minutes had passed. Then, soon enough, they could hear footsteps coming towards their rooms. Lilly and Oliver came barging into their room. Daren noticed a few tears on Lilly's face and Oliver seemed quite pale.
"Dad, I'm so sorry." Lilly was the first to speak.
Daren motioned his kids to come sit on the bed next to him and Miranda.
"I hope you kids understand why I allowed you to read these diaries." Daren said.
"Why?" both Lilly and Oliver asked confused.
"My friends Lilly and Oliver couldn't be together because they weren't able to tell each other how they felt about one another earlier."
"That's why your father wanted to wait for the right moment to tell you about his two friends. He didn't want you kids to make the same mistake."
Lilly gave her father a huge hug, while Oliver just simply shook his father's hand.
"Thank you." both Lilly and Oliver said to their father.
THE END