Sorry for those of you who have been waiting for so long! I am so sorry to keep you guys waiting! I've been wrestling with a toothache lately, so it's been a struggle recently.

So without further ado,

Let's keep swimming….

I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around.
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town.
And I said...

Romeo, save me. I've been feeling so alone.
I keep waiting for you, but you never come.
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.

Dory swam back and forth feeling like she had back in Australia when Marlin had left her alone. Where was he? Was he hurt? Did he not love her? Did he want to be with her?

Oh! She was so confused!

"Calm down, dear" Jenny smiled. "You're making me dizzy"

Destiny smiled sadly. "I got this, Mrs. T" she said, swimming over to her best friend.

Her fin pins still hurt, but she'd give any amount of pain for Bailey…. They were gorgeous!

One was pure silver, and the other was silver with shiny stones. They were gorgeous, and fit on the end of her fin… they just took some adjusting to.

"He loves you, so quit swimming around like you lost your favorite seashell!" she bellowed.

Dory was perplexed. She wiggled her head. "Sorry, what was I doing'?"

Destiny sighed and rolled her eyes. She wished Marlin luck. She really did.

"Oh, never mind. I'm hungry" both tangs looked at her. Destiny had just eaten an hour ago… surely she couldn't be hungry again…

A few minutes later, Bailey swam in. "Honey! I'm home!"

Dory and Jenny laughed as Destiny squealed. "Oh, Bailey Bear! I missed you so much!"

She dissolved into tears.

Marlin was slightly awkward… he was thankful fish lay eggs, not keep them.

His and Dory's eyes met, and she blushed, looking away.

Marlin frowned. She'd been doing that a lot lately. Was she okay?

"Dory?" she turned to him. "I have a surprise for you… it involves going to class with Nemo."

She looked at him confused. "But I thought he was on that fieldtrip?" she said. "the one to the sunken battleship or something."

Marlin shook his head. "That's thirty minutes from now" calculating in his head if he had that right, which he did.

"Okay, I'll come" Dory said smiling.

Marlin cheered mentally, making sure he had the pin with him.

Bailey swore he would guard the other two until later…

"Have a good time" Charlie called, as Jenny pinched him.

"What?" he asked with a wink. They laughed, heading inside.

Meanwhile, Nemo and Mr. Ray's class were on a field trip to the old battleship with Ms. Sting and her class.

"It's good to see you Ralph" Selia smiled.

Ralph smiled nervously and tried not to blush. "Er… good to see you too…"

When she swam away, looking appreciatively out of the corner of his eye, Ralph banged his head against some of the rotted wood.

Nemo snickered. Phase two…

"Ask her for a swim sometime" he suggested. Ralph looked at him. He smiled weakly at Nemo and shook his head.

"No, she'd never swim out with me… I'm too old for her…"

He sighed sadly. Nemo felt bad for him.

Just as he turned around, Nemo bumped into a young sunfish.

"Are you okay?" he asked, worried.

"Sure, I'm okay" said the fish, with a smile. Her sea green eyes were sparkly.

Nemo felt his stomach flip.

The sunfish was beautiful with a small little sun spot on her cheek.

One thing he did notice was that she kept swimming upwards.

"Grr… It's my tail! It's too little" she groaned.

Nemo's eyes nearly popped out of his head. No way! She had a lucky tail?

"I'm Nemo" he grinned.

The fish grinned at him, as she noticed his lucky fin.

"I'm Sparkle… you have one too?"

Nemo nodded. "Yup, it's my lucky fin"

Sparkle giggled. "It's nice to meet you, Nemo" she said shyly.

"Nice to meet you too, Sparkle" Nemo said, just as shyly.

Just then, a certain stingray whom had been watching the whole scene, cleared his throat.

"Ahem, Nemo a word?" he winked.

Nemo, after introducing his teacher to Sparkle, excused himself and swam over.

"Alright, kid… what're you trying' to do, out fish me?"

Nemo giggled and shook his head. "Just go say hi" he urged.

Ralph rolled his eyes and sighed. He wondered how Selia's brother Stan was doing…

Nemo watched as Mr. Ray approached Miss. Sting.

He giggled, and Sparkle gasped. "Are they mates?" she asked.

"Not yet" he whispered. "I need your help"

He winked and she giggled. They shook on it. "Deal" she whispered.

Nemo laughed. This was going to be fun!

Sparkle giggled and grabbed Nemo's fin. "Whoa!"

"C'mon!" she hissed.

Miss Sting was a beautiful violet stingray with a curved tail. She winked at Ralph as he herded his class next to her own.

Selia tried not to blush. Maybe later they could go out for a swim? She always loved riding high tide in the moonlight…

"Come along, class!" she called.

As both classes including Nemo and Sparkle gathered around the rock, the teacher began her lesson.

Mr. Ray was reprimanding some of the students, including Jimmy, to pay attention.

"Who can tell me the story of this rock?" Miss Sting asked.

"Oh! I know!" said Sparkle, as she raised a fin.

She'd grown up with her parents telling her the story of this rock. She always wanted to know what happened to the fish, but her parents could never tell her…

Sparkle never thought she'd get the chance to actually see the rock, let alone tell the story about it…

We were both young when I first saw you.
I close my eyes and the flashback starts:
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air.

See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns.
See you make your way through the crowd
And say, "Hello."
Little did I know...

"Long ago there were two little fish, Prince Meric and Princess Dariel"

Nemo threw Sparkle a double-take.

"As soon as they saw each other they fell in love."

The boys groaned. The girls sighed. Miss Sting smiled a toothy smile.

That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles,
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet."
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you, "Please don't go."
And I said...

Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone.
I'll be waiting; all that's left to do is run.
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,
It's a love story, baby, just say "Yes".

"Both of them vowed to be best friends forever, but one-day King what's-his-name took Prince Meric away."

Nemo almost laughed out loud. This was starting to sound like his father's story…

"Luther" he whispered before the others shushed him.

Sparkle smiled at him and nodded.

"Right. King Luther was a meanie and forbade them from ever seeing each other again."

Nemo tried to hide his giggles behind his fin. Grandpa Luther was chaperoning, and he looked embarrassed.

So I sneak out to the garden to see you.
We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes,
Escape this town for a little while.
Oh, oh.

'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter,
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet."
But you were everything to me,
I was begging you, "Please don't go."
And I said...

"So Prince Meric surprised Princess Dariel with the heart on the rock."

The class including Nemo noticed the rock in the moonlight. It was glowing sea green and blue and gold.

There near the middle, was a small heart with some near faded letters.

Nemo squinted trying to see better, his heart pounding in his chest.

MEC and DAT 2k3! He could see it! The C the A were worn, and the K was missing, but that was it!

Whoa! History in the making! He thought.

Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone.
I'll be waiting; all that's left to do is run.
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess.
It's a love story, baby, just say "Yes".

"What happened then?" asked one of the students.

"No one knows, not even my parents" Sparkle said sadly.

Nemo wanted to reach out to her… then…. Her parents had known his dad and Dory?

He remembered what his dad had told Coral the night she came to 'visit'.

"Luther wasn't happy that Marlin disobeyed" he said. "So he separated them and took Marlin to live in the ocean"

He winced in his grandfather's direction. He was going to get in so much trouble!

Romeo, save me. They're trying to tell me how to feel.
This love is difficult but it's real.
Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess.
It's a love story, baby, just say "Yes".

"So did they find each other?" asked one of the girls.

Nemo eagerly nodded his head.

"They're going to live happily ever after!" Nemo grinned.

"How do you know?" asked one of the boys.

"That's because Marlin Eric Clownfish is my father" Nemo said proudly.

I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around.
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town.
And I said...

"Did they fall in love again after they found each other?" asked a student.

Nemo grinned as he noticed two familiar fish by the entryway to the cave.

"Ask them yourself!" he said.

"Yeah right!" said another boy. "He's faking!"

Miss Sting shushed the student and turned when a voice said "Excuse me"

Everyone made way for a Clownfish and a Blue Tang whom had just arrived.

Every girl fish in the class started squealing.

Nemo laughed his scales off.

Romeo, save me. I've been feeling so alone.
I keep waiting for you, but you never come.
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.

Dory giggled. Marlin squeezed her fin.

"Dory, will you do me the honor?" he asked, asking that she go first.

"Marlin…I- what are you doing?" she asked. "If this is another joke like the one in Australia…"

Marlin winced, wishing she hadn't brought that up. They'd been over this. He hadn't been in his right mind!

"It's no joke, Dory" he smiled, taking her left fin in both of his and kissed it.

He turned to the rock, and finned the heart tenderly.

"Dory, do you remember what this is?" he asked with a smile.

She looked at it closely, squinting.

Suddenly something like a flashback started flashing before her eyes.

Marlin. The rock. Him taking her fin, and helping her carve something…

D…Aaaa…T?

Her eyes widened. "My initials!"

Marlin chuckled and nodded.

She glanced again… M…Eeee… she thought that last one… ooh duh! GAHHH!

"What the- what is this?!" she asked.

Marlin chuckled softly, taking her cheeks in his fins, kissing her forehead.

"They're our initials, sweetheart… but do you remember what for?"

Dory shut her eyes tight… all she could see was yellow lights.

"all I remember is yellow lights and the rock"

Marlin nuzzled her nose with his.

"This was the rock I brought you to the day after we met…."

Dory closed her eyes again.

I love you Dory…

I wuv you too, Marlin…

Dory felt herself relax. Then tensed as Marlin touched her fin.

"Sorry… spaced out" she smiled.

"that's okay" Marin smiled, feeling the love he felt for her overflow.

He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said...

Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone.
I love you, and that's all I really know.
I talked to your dad – go pick out a white dress
It's a love story, baby, just say "Yes".

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

"Dory, for as long as we've known each other, I've loved you. Even when I moved away, I still loved you. Even now, after all that's happened, I can't stop loving you"

Dory smiled feeling dreamy.

"Dory, for as long as we're here on this Earth… in this ocean, I want to be by your side, and I want you to be by my side. I would say I hope we breath our last together, but um…"

Dory and some of the kids giggled.

She returned her focus to him, putting a fin to his cheek.

Marlin brought to her view what he'd been hiding for more than a year.

"It's sooo pretty!" Dory gasped. The shiny small rock rivaled the one on the lighted fish, except this one wouldn't kill her.

"I spoke to your dad" Marlin smiled. "He says he's ready whenever you are… but first…"

Marlin cleared his throat nervously, Dory looking in awe as he swam slightly lower, holding out the pin.

"Dorcas Ariel Tang, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife? Will you marry me?"

Dory felt her heart fill with love to overflowing for this fish. He'd sacrificed so much for his son, for his friends, for her…

She loved him, and she would love nothing more than to become his wife!

"Yes, Marlin Eric Clownfish… I will marry you"

Nemo and Luther who had joined him whooped. Both including Sparkle flipped several times…

All the kids and their parents were cheering, especially when Marlin and Dory shared their first ichthyic kiss…

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

'Cause we were both young when I first saw you

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