AN- OMG! Sorry for the super long wait! I can't believe I waited for so long to update. It's been three weeks. I was so busy, my grandparents moved in next door, my cousin came to visit, and my parents decided to go to Boston, to find future colleges (ugh!). It's still no excuse for three weeks of betrayal to you guys, so I hope that you'll accept my apology. Here's the next and the last chapter. (sob)

Sonny fell asleep, her tears soaking the pillow. It was all gone, the life she had wished for. If only it had lasted. No one could understand how much she had wished she had said yes to Chad when he asked her to marry him eight years ago. She sighed and closed her eyes.

Sonny woke up in a very familiar place. She knew what was going to happen. This was a nightmare she had nearly every night, and every night, she would wake up crying.

She was back in the restaurant where Chad had proposed. He was smiling, bending on one knee, asking her to marry him. In the dreams, she would try to say yes, but the only word that would come out of her mouth was "no". There would be a three loud bangs, and Chad would be lying on the floor of the restaurant, dead, with blood all over his plain white dress shirt. Sonny woke up.

Wait what? She was back in the restaurant.

"So what do you think Sonny? Will you marry me?" Chad was on one knee. "Hurry up, will you, my knee is hurting!"

"Sonny?" He repeated. "are you there? You kinda blanked out there for a sec."

" Is this a dream?" Sonny asked.

" No Sonny, it isn't. I'm really proposing to you." Chad said, smiling.

" That's what you would say, if this was a dream!" Sonny exclaimed.

" Sonny, this is not a dream! Now will you marry me or not?" Chad was starting to lose his patience, even though he found it rather cute that Sonny thought that it was a dream.

" Of course I'll marry you, you idiot, what am I, stupid?" Sonny asked.

Chad stood up. "Wait, you'll marry me?"

" Of course I will Chad. You know, for the second I was blanked out, I figured out how difficult life would have been without you. I never want to lose you. I love you." Sonny hugged him

"YES!" Chad yelled. People at the tables surrounding them looked at him weirdly. "I'm marrying her! This is my fiancée! She's gonna be mine forever!"

People at the surrounding tables started to clap.

"Chad, calm down and finish your food." Sonny couldn't help but smile at her (almost) husband's happiness. He made her happy, and that was all she could hope for.

They left the restaurant after eating dessert. There was the black van. Sonny saw the windows roll down and a gun pointed at Chad. She pushed him aside and they both just barely missed the bullets headed towards them. Sonny dialed 911, and the police came in a heartbeat. The men in the van were arrested. Apparently, they hated Chad because he was a jerk. Sonny had no idea why someone would try to shoot someone else just because they thought the person was a jerk. The men in the van were sentenced to life in rehab.

But all that didn't matter to Sonny or Chad. They had a wedding to plan.

3 months later

"Will you, Chad Dylan Cooper, take Allison Munroe to be your lawfully wedded wife?" The pastor asked.

" Yes. I will. I mean, I do." Chad was trembling with happiness.

"And will you, Allison Munroe, take Chad Dylan Cooper, to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

" I do." Sonny was glowing with happiness.

" Then, by the power invested in me, from the state of Wisconsin, I now pronounce you, husband and wife." He smiled at the happy couple. "You may now kiss the bride."

They leaned in for the kiss, smiling, happy to start their new lives together.

6 Years Later

" I don't wanna go! I'm not going! I wanna stay home and play with you! I don't wanna go to school!" Dylan was causing a tantrum, for he was now starting his first day of school.

" Sorry sweety, but you have to go. You have no choice." Sonny smiled at her son.

" Fine! But when I grow up, my kids won't have to go to school!" Dylan pouted.

"I'm pretty sure they will." Chad grinned at his son.

" Daddy's right Dylan, it's against the law not to go to school, until you're at least 16 years old." Mia peered over the book she was reading.

" Come on guys, the bus is almost here. You wouldn't want to miss the bus on the first day of kindergarten!" Sonny hugged her children, and handed them their lunches in a paper bag.

" I added an extra cookie, for good luck. You know what I always say-" Sonny smiled as the rest of her family finished the sentence for her.

" Cookies make everything better!" They exclaimed.

" Come on, let's go wait outside." Sonny said.

The four of them walked to the bus stop in the corner. When the bus approached the stop, Mia started to quiver with excitement. She was the first on the bus. Dylan was reluctant, looking at the bus as if it was a poisonous creature.

" What's the matter honey?" Sonny asked.

" I don't wanna go to school! What if I make no friends? What if the teacher doesn't like me? What if-?" He continued to yell incoherent sentences.

Chad crouched down, so that he could look his son in the eye. " Listen, you're my son. If anything bad happens, you just smirk and walk off. If you're anything like me, everyone will like you, and want to be your friend. I was just as nervous on my first day of kindergarten. I made it through, and so will you."

Dylan smiled at his dad. Chad smiled back at his son. This was the proudest moment of his life.

" Now go, and knock all the girls off their feet. They'll never know what hit them." He grinned.

Dylan ran up the steps of the bus. He turned around, and waved one last goodbye before the doors closed.

Sonny looked at Chad admiringly. " You handled that quite well. I'm impressed."

" You should be, you didn't do anything." Chad replied haughtily. "Do they always grow up so fast?"

"Yeah. And before you know it, the two of them will be in college, married, and have children of their own. Time flies when you have fun." Sonny hugged him, and the two of them watched the bus round the corner. "Are you crying Chad?"

AN- and thus ends this story. In case any of you were wondering, in this ending, Sonny's mom doesn't die. Also, Sonny imagines what would happen if she hadn't said yes to Chad, in about one second. Did you like the last paragraph? I sure did! I'm really sad that this story's over. It was probably my favorite to write (sob).

This is me, signing off on this story for the last time.

M.I.A. 3