The finale! I hope I can make it a good one! Begin!

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~Lizzie's POV

"Mom, are you sure that I look good enough?"

"Yes, Lizzie you look great!" My mom finished straightening out my dress and then handed me my glasses so I could see myself.

We were all going to our junior prom tonight. Nikki and Drake were together, at last, and so were Sam and Lily. My family knows I don't like parties, they don't care much for them either, but I figured that the experience was worth it in the end.

I'm glad I'm going with Lucas, for two reasons, 1: he asked, and 2: I'm in love with him. He's the sweetest guy I've ever known and he's so handsome. He shares my love of reading and I love reading the things he writes as an aspiring author. I don't know how I'm going to tell him but I plan to tonight. One way or another, it's happening.

"Looks like you have everything," Mom said, "Do you like how you look?"

I adjusted my glasses and stared at my reflection. She had done my make up for me. I kept it simple because I like it that way. My black hair was straightened to perfection; my simple, but elegant, blue dress matched my glasses. I hope I looked beautiful enough for Lucas.

"Lizzie, you ready?" We heard my dad call from down the hall.

"I guess that means your date is here to pick you up," Mom said smiling knowingly at me.

I followed her out into the hall where my dad and Lucas were talking. Lucas looked so handsome in his suit; he hadn't made much effort to tame his messy dark brown hair. He smiled that wonderful stupidly shy smile that I loved when he looked at me. After several standard pictures were taken of us, because there was no way my mom was going to let that go, I finally got to ask him what he thought of me.

"How do I look," I asked nervously.

"Different. Which is good! Good different... uh are you ready to go?" I could see Lucas blushing behind his glasses.

I smiled, "Yeah I'm ready to go." I don't know why, but I swear my parents had strange looks in their eyes when he answered me.

I took his arm and we went out the door to join the others to head out for our fun night.

Going to prom is a strange experience. Everyone thinks it's magical when the reality is that it there's too many people, all clumped together in the center of the gym like some sort of nucleus of a cell, the music is so loud it gives you a headache after half a second of hearing it, and to top it all off it's never going to be music you actually listen to. But I watched my cousins dance with their loves to the side of the crowd where there was more room, with Lucas sitting beside me, and we were having a fine time anyway. It's not that I didn't know how to dance, I just preferred watching. We all already got our prom pictures taken; our parents requested them of course.

Lucas and I were talking, as much as we could over the deafening music, about some of our most recent reading material we've found. I didn't even notice Nikki and Drake disappear from the area. It was an hour into the night that the music finally slowed down to an instrumental tune, which was much better than what had been playing.

Lucas offered me his hand, like the perfect gentleman he is, and asked if I wanted to dance with him. I took his hand, I could feel my face get hot, and found a spot away from everyone to dance together.

"I didn't know you could dance," I said.

"My mothers made me learn," He replied shyly, "Said I'd need it someday."

"Looks like they were right..."

We kept our eyes locked, my wide brown eyes with his handsome green ones. Is this what it feels like to be truly in love? It was as if we were the only two people in the room. All that mattered was him and me.

"Elizabeth?"

I blinked. He didn't usually call me by my full name; "Yeah?"

I saw him struggle for a moment to say what he wanted to say. He was so cute when he was all flustered.

"I... um... I really do think you look beautiful. But I also think you look beautiful no matter what." He blushed darkly as he stammered through his words. "Since I have the opportunity I wanted to say something... I've wanted to say it for a while now..."

"And what is it?"

He took a shaky breath. "I... I love you, Elizabeth. I don't know how long I've had these feelings, but you're the light of my life and you're the most wonderful girl I've ever known and nothing would make me happier than for you to be my girlfriend."

I could feel myself smiling at each word of that confession. It was everything I could have ever hoped for since I realized I was in love with him.

"I love you too, Lucas."

"Really?"

"Yes..." I thought about kissing him but then I remembered our location. "Um, do you want to maybe find somewhere to be alone... so we can talk...?"

He gently gripped my hand and led me out the gym doors. The school hallways were empty since everyone was at the dance. We went down the hall and stopped when we saw something we hadn't been expecting.

"Nikki; Drake?"

My cousin and her boyfriend quickly pulled apart from their own "private moment" and looked embarrassed at getting caught.

Nikki smoothed down her black hair and smirked at us holding hands. "I'm sorry were you two looking for a place to be alone too?"

"Drake, you could have taken her somewhere else, because that's my locker," Lucas replied addressing his friend and ignoring the question.

"Oops... sorry."

Nikki leaned over to me and whispered something. I nodded and started leading Lucas away from the two so they could go back to their own activities. Nikki had told me that the area just outside the school was perfect for us to be alone. After all, we had a lot to talk about with just the two of us, together at last. And I wouldn't have it any other way. We've come so far since we met, but we're here now and that's all that matters.

~Elsewhere... normal POV

While Nikki, Lizzie, and Sam were at their special prom night with people they loved, their family members were all out for a private family dinner at Sunny and her husband Trevor's restaurant. The place had been closed for a special family dinner between the four couples. It wasn't necessarily a special occasion, but having them all together made it special enough. Sometime into their dinner, they paused to listen to a short but simple speech from Duncan.

"It's wonderful to have all of us here together, especially with Sunny and Trevor, I know your work keeps you two busy but it's always nice to have you around when you're able. Tonight our kids are out having their first and only prom night, and I can't help thinking that's come a bit earlier than I had hoped." Duncan kept a bright smile as spoke. "But I just want to say, no matter how much has troubled us in the past, each one of us here has gone through hardship in our lives in some way. We've all been unlucky at some point. What I want to say is, even after all our strife, we're together now. And that makes us a very fortunate family after all."

"You and your speeches Duncan..." Quigley replied, totally ignoring the fact that he had shed a tear.

"Oh, shut up Quigley, he's right," Violet said, putting her arm around Duncan.

"Right, and better looking than you," Duncan said addressing his brother with a smirk.

Quigley scoffed, "As if."

"Ladies, please you're both pretty," Sunny said rolling her eyes. She turned her gaze to her husband, "Trev, this is what I've had to live with for pretty much my whole life."

"I can see how that would get on your nerves," Trevor replied.

Duncan and Quigley were about to retaliate, but Fiona interrupted them.

"No Sunny, you're wrong: this is what Violet and I have to deal with." She said gesturing to her sister-in-law.

"Either way, big brothers, we all agreed that of the three of us, I'm the best looking one," Isadora said.

"Well Izzie, you are the best looking triplet," Klaus started, "Maybe I'm extremely biased, but if I might make a counter argument to your brothers: honestly I'm better looking than both of you."

Duncan and Quigley stared at their brother-in-law in shock as everyone else laughed at that amazing comment. The eight of them spent the rest of their dinner happily sharing stories, laughing at each other, and making this a night to remember.

Duncan had been right in his speech, and everyone agreed; they were a very fortunate family indeed.

~The End!

Yay for Luzzie! And that's it! Guys, I'm sad to see this book end, but I'm afraid I'm tapped out. I've written so much and I am done at last! But I'm so happy to contribute so much to this fandom.

For my Dunclet, Kladora, and Figley ships are my life and even though I won't be writing for them anymore, I hope that I've helped people see the joy that they bring me and I will always love them. So let's raise a glass to the ships, my OCs, the DKF Mafia, and the series in general. I hope you enjoyed these one shots and my other stories as much as I enjoyed writing them. *raises my soda glass*

Thank you for reading!