This is going to get very tricky isn't it? Anne and Gilbert are getting closer to getting to Queens which is where Drawing Parallels is based! Those of you will notice the similarities in this chapter and the first one of said story above. Although I've tried my best to keep it a minimum. Just them at the end of this chapter mulling over what might have been if her parents had lived... just funny thats all! I hope you all enjoy it!

Miss Stacy had made both Anne and Gilbert promise they wouldn't cram for their exams.

Honestly he was trying not to, but whenever he picked up a book his mind wandered back to his notes. He missed Anne. He knew she was staying with a relative of Diana's somewhere across town. He wished he could be with her right now. Somehow her frantic manner always reassured him of himself, knowing he didn't feel as overwrought as Anne brought him back to earth so he could calm her. He wondered if she was thinking of him right now too. He somehow had ended up in the same dorm as Moody and Charlie. Moody was muttering something to himself methodically and Charlie was pacing the floor back and forth swinging his arms as he went. He was at a wonder as to why Miss Stacy told both him and Anne not to work when that was all the others were doing.

Anne had written her letter to Diana telling her all about what had happened during the week, she looked at the paper and notice she had barely mentioned Gilbert. She hadn't seen him all week! She missed him desperately and wondered if he missed her too. She knew they would be in the same exam hall tomorrow together, the one exam where all the girls and all the boys were all together had to be her geometry exam!

She sat nervously looking around the hall. Most people had their heads down dreading to turn over that paper. She spied Gilbert who grinned widely when he saw she spotted him. He winked at her and mouthed 'you'll do fine' she smiled at him. Oh her Gilbert who just by looking at her was making her stomach flutter but in a lovely way (unlike the sickly fluttering she had over the last week).

He bit his bottom lip to stop himself smiling too much but watched her face blush a little when he winked at her. His heart now fluttered he allowed himself to smile fully at her. He could see she tried to remember her settings and wrung a serious look on her face. He gave a silent chuckle at her. Oh he loved his Anne! The silent exchange interrupted by the examiner saying "You are free to start."

'Well I couldn't of done too badly' he thought to himself as he came out to the steps and stood against the railings, the other pupils pouring out around him. The crowds of people parted and he finally saw her. she parted from the rest of the students and leaned against a tree her eyes closed a look of relief came across her face, as she opened her eyes the look of relief had spread now to her eyes. He walked over in her direction and smiled as he got to her. He silently wrapped his arms around her as she slid her hand round his shoulders.

"I've missed you." He murmured.

"I've missed you more." She said back to him.

"Not even possible." he said letting her go a little they turned on the path with his arm across her shoulders. "Do you fancy going somewhere to eat once your tummy has settled?"

"How do you know..." she started to ask but then remembered it was Gilbert she was talking to. "That sounds lovely. Have you been eating out all week?" She asked him.

"No, the dorms they had us in did meals for us, nothing too fancy I assure you. How about you?"

"I'm afraid Ms Barry has been trying to get me to eat all kinds of rich foods, my stomach just isn't accustom to eating. That and the mixture of nerves hasn't led to a healthy diet."

"Well then we should eat before the nerves about the results starts to sink in." He joked.

"Oh Gilbert don't!" She cried half laughing. "How can you be so relaxed about it?"

"Who says I'm relaxed, you might have noticed I tend to tease and joke more when I'm nervous." he told her

"But then why did you tease me when we first met?" she asked

"You made me nervous, I wanted to meet you so much and my normal techniques just weren't working!" he laughed. "Are you coming back to Avonlea Friday morning?" He asked her.

"Yes. Aunt Josephine is sending me home with one of her men."

"Oh I was going to ask if you wanted me and Papa to come and get you. That way we'll get you back to Avonlea and my mama can finally meet you as my beau! 'Miss Avoiding it much'!" he said with a grin.

"Its only been two weeks Gil...not even that since we started appearing together."

"And my mother is very anxious." Gilbert told her.

"Well if it will calm your mother's nerves." She said with a grin. "I don't understand she's met me plenty."

"Not as my beau, its one thing entirely to know your little boy has a friend whose a girl and entirely different that said girl has now stolen her boys heart." He said proudly.

"You're hardly little anymore Gil, You're eighteen." She shivered.

"What? What is it?" He asked her.

"My mama and papa married when they were eighteen, Mrs Thomas told me that."

He gasped and looked at her. "you've never told me anything about your parents before."

"I don't know much to tell." she said looking sad. "They were school teachers, well briefly... I suppose... neither one of them reached 20. Walter and Bertha... it would have been lovely to know them... even a little..."

"Do you know if either one of them had red hair?" He asked her.

"yes." She said with a heavy sigh. "My papa had dark auburn hair, my mama blond, mine just came out in between. Mrs Thomas told me that too."

"I wish I could thank him." Gilbert said.

"who?" Anne asked him.

"Your papa, for giving you red hair."

"I don't think that would be the first thing you would say to a girls father." she laughed.

"no perhaps not. I wonder how we would have met?" he thought out loud.

"we might not." Anne told him.

It was his turn to shiver. "I hope the fate gods would be kinder." he looked at her serious face for a moment.

"hey, don't go all melancholy on me now." he said kissing into her hair as they walked.

"Its alright, life hasn't been too bad to me you know." She said with a smile.

"Ah!" He exclaimed looking up "A dining hall!" He said. "Finally! Are you ready for something to eat?"