Yes you did read the title right...my friends this is the final update. Don't worry, I'll leave sobbing author's note until the end. But thank- you in advance to that. I do love all of you and hope that you enjoy the finale [Notes on what's going to happen now will be in author's note].

I do believe we've covered this but I will say it again. I don't and never will own anything and am not making money off of this in anyway shape or form.

Epilogue

And so time passed, slowly and painfully as it normally did.

The kids performed well in their competition and earned themselves a good second place which guaranteed them a place for nationals. Phineas was awarded with a standing ovation at that competition for his solo performance with Alice backing him up on the cello.

Isabella attended the performance and sat near the back. She was not used to the amount of noise since her home had been so quiet lately…she found that she enjoyed it, oddly enough. She started playing classical music on low when she did her math homework now. Her mother saw this as a fantastic improvement and for the first time believed that she had not lost her Isa after all.

Alice didn't forgive Isabella for what she did, for a good long time. She never did understand what was going on in her mind during that time. That time when she had stopped talking. Despite her constant trying, she just could never understand.

This frustrated her, of course but she got through it and found herself buying her best friend a gift for Hanukkah, a holiday that she didn't understand but was going with it anyway. She purchased her a pair of plain silver hoop earrings and bedazzled them in the true Alice Thomas fashion. She was very proud of her end product, in a whole however was still nervous about handing them to the young girl.

This disagreement had blown a huge hole in their friendship that really couldn't ever be mended…not really. Still Isabella smiled upon receiving it and didn't bother telling her that it was late.

They just hugged and went back to be being friends in an odd unfamiliar silence.

Wendy moved into her new house. A very small two bedroom, one bathroom, two storey farmhouse…it was cute and had plenty of room for creativity. Her mother and her spent most of the holidays finding bargains in decorations and random things usually. Once they found a really tacky plastic roaster painted in strangely amazing detail. This became their centre piece in the middle of the floor for their makeshift Christmas dinner. A dinner that Buford and his mother were invited to. They sat around their roaster and ate a tiny 10 pound turkey and mashed potatoes. They laughed and talked about everything, even the events that foretold this strange meetings [Some people might call it pathetic] and in spirit agreed that perhaps that after everything those four people have been through…that this simple happiness had been planned in some strange other godly way.

Despite their living conditions they laughed and smiled. Despite having no idea what was going to happen tomorrow. They choose to live in the moment and not think of the fact that the heater wasn't turned on yet.

Buford's mother realized then how much her son needed more than the Home and agreed to enroll him for the next semester at Danville High. Of course they were both nervous as hell about going back into it but they knew that they would be going in, holding hands.

Yes some events just tie people together.

Sam and Evan went ice skating for their first date. Sam couldn't skate for the life of him and kept falling on his butt. Evan found this hilarious and never helped him right away. She was far too busy laughing to lend a hand.

He insisted that he had never been skating before so it wasn't far that she was making fun of him when she was an 'expert' as he put it.

Evan hadn't gone skating for two years.

But still she took his hand and helped him move forward without falling on his butt [To much]. He enjoyed it despite the jests from the other male skaters. He ignored them, he was with Evan and that was all that mattered.

Phineas threw the greatest Christmas party ever, complete with decorations and a remake of the Santa Clause pit stop. Everyone in the neighborhood showed up and enjoyed the spirit of the holiday together. They partied until twe- ten O'clock. They may be teenagers but Linda wasn't going to let them stay up till all hours…no way.

An invitation had been extended to Isabella of course, even though the new Isabella didn't like parties. No one expected her to show up but she did anyway.

Phineas had never smiled wider as when he did the second she walked through the front door. She was dressed in a beautiful figure fitting red dress that made her look even more stunning than usual. He tried not to bombard her and just talked quietly with her in a corner away from all the noise. However he truly couldn't help himself when the next slow song came on [Later it would be figured out that Ferb was behind this].

They swayed slowly ignoring the 'awes' and the 'how sweet' comments made from the other party goers and just danced. Phineas didn't think that he had ever been more in love than in that moment.

Then she leaned in and whispered in his ear: "Merry Christmas."

The End [For now]

Okay beginning long sob story now.

Thank-you all for sticking around even when I didn't keep to a regular updating schedule and when I break you heart with my plot lines...sorry about that. I can never keep things pleasant for long, you see. I love you all really and am not lying. I love every single follower of this story even the ones that don't review or add this to their favorites list! I know you're there [That is not stalker-ish at all, no] and am glad that you are because it inspires me to continue with this story even when it just wasn't speaking to me and I just felt like giving up on it. Every single one of you helped me get through that...time and time again. So overall thanks and kisses all around.

So...bye and... happy early Halloween!