Epilogue: Happily Ever After
*Ten Years Later*
Arthur and Steve looked at the scene around them and smiled at one another. It was a few months before Christmas and their families bustled about the living room. Steve's children Margaret, Eli, and Sean milling around with Arthur's children Emmett and Elaina. Steve's wife Melody was pregnant with their fourth child, her obvious baby bump protruding from her body, a healthy glow in her cheeks, sat knitting booties for the new arrival, smiling to herself. Arthur's wife Mallory was barking at the children to behave and get ready for dinner, with their mother shaking her head in the background. And Dad and Grandsanta sat in their matching recliners playing the Christmas game for the fifth time in a row. All was right with the world and there was no place they'd rather be than with their big, beautiful family. It had all started as an arrangement that turned into a battle for two girls for the love of their own special Christmas.
-The End.