"We do." It felt almost unreal to say, the doubts for years, the tears and sighs and silences. And yet now they were here in love, courting. It was as if she were a dream.

"His mother will make sure he is completely healed." Sisse assured Allie and herself with a fierceness to her tone. She would kill Matthew if Lester didn't. Well not kill him... just ensure some very awful sabotage of some sort to be determined in the future.

"I still cant believe father said yes." She hadn't seen the look on her father's face like that before. "Or that Lester loves me." She admitted on a whisper. "After fifth year I never would have believed any of this could happen." Of course had neglected to tell anyone of her first kiss, ashamed that Lester had ignored it for so long. How much they had grown since then.