The final chapter... It has came at long last. So this is the epilogue of the whole series but I will talk about a little something at the end.

"Mamma!"

I roll my eyes in my mind as he heard the childish giggles break through into my unconscious. One morning, that's all I wanted. All I needed was one day of sleeping in to make up for all of those when I was woken up at the crack of dawn by screaming babies.

I suppose by now it's clearly obvious that I'm no longer that sixteen year old who was whining about that awkward moment when her dark and mysteriously sexy best friend pulled down her covers and saw her in her underwear.

Though that obnoxious pain in the arse was still in my life. My best friend, my husband and the father of my two children.

The oldest of our two children, Aayla, crawled up to me and poked my cheek, her fingers wet with her slobber from where she had been sucking on her fingers.

My nose crinkled as I finally opened my eyes. "Wake up your father..." I mumbled before closing them again, only to be rewarded by double the dribble running down my cheek.

"Dadda said to wake you!" Our younger boy said, his name being Thomas.

Typical, I thought, knowing there was a cheeky smirk of victory on his face without even looking at him. With a low sigh I get up, going downstairs to make breakfast for my family.

It had been so calm since fang and I had sorted out the whole Dylan kissing me in the ice cream shop thing but it really hadn't worked out like that for everyone. In fact, it was only really Iggy and Ella who had remained together to the date beside Fang and I.

Nudge and Gazzy had broken up during Gazzy's first year of college. Gazzy's parents still didn't trust Nudge alone with their son so when they held a party around thanks giving when he came home from college, it was clear she wasn't invited. Gazzy was drunk, his idiotic college friends brought liquor and he got the slightest bit... Loopy on the alcohol. There was a girl who took his eye at the party, they went somewhere alone and... You can put it together from there. Of course they got caught and that was the end of their two or three year relationship.

Though it couldn't be worse than what Angel had went through. It was only a year or so ago when it happened. There was a big break in at the local bank in the small country town that Ari and Angel had moved into. The bank where Ari worked. It was bad... They had guns and Ari was down fast, being shot in the stomach when they were trying to get in. The thieves kept the bank hostage and by the time the local police had compromised... He was dead.

Even now the thought of my deceased cousin still caused my heart to drop. When Angel had came to my door that night with her little boy, Shane... I lost any composure that I had and when the children were asleep... We cried. When Ari moved in with Angel's family in high school... We thought his near death experiences were over and done. We were wrong.

The memories haunted my mind as I stood at the stove, cooking my children eggs and I felt frozen with grief. No matter how long ago it was... I couldn't think about it without wanting to curl up and cry. And as you know, Max NEVER cries.

I felt a sudden warmth at my side and I looked up to see Fang leaned up against a pantry door, silent and as beautiful as ever. He looked into my eyes, reading my painted over expression and sighed. "you're thinking about him again..." He murmured and before I could answer he was right there, holding me close against him. "You can't keep doing this to yourself, Maxie... You can't..."

I nodded against his chest and he nudged my head up to look at him. A ghost of a smile held his lips as he leaned down to me, his hand rubbing the small of my back in comfort. "Our children are waiting to be fed," he mumbled, grinning cheekily at me.

Just like that, everything was right again and my older cousin was another love filled memory that sat in my photo album along with my sisters, my friends and my own family that will continue to grow as life goes on.

So yes, the Maximum Awkwardness series (1&2) has came to an end. It's always hard finishing a series but its really what's best.

Anyway, an announcement: the past few weeks I've been working on a new Maximum Ride plot. It's called The Ties That Bind (and All That Jaz) and its 21 years after Fang left the flock. Everyone has moved on, Max has learnt to love Dylan almost has much as she had Fang. She hadn't thought about him for a long time until she dropped her middle daughter, Jaylee, at high school for her first day and she sees him... Well, a fifteen year old son of his. Fang's children transfer into her children's school and thus into her oldest child, Jazamyn's classes. It follows the children more that the parents but yeah, I haven't seen something like this and it seems fun so... Yeah. That will be up whenever I get a few chapters written up.

Thank you all for staying through this,

Lots of flock-filled love, Bex~