This is it you guys...the final chapter.

Dun, dun, dun!

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The potion did not to long at all.

Jo McGuire blinked once, then twice. Then..."Cayden, I never noticed the really sexy way your eyes sparkle."

Everyone was silent, and Cayden was horrified. He wanted to win the love of Lizzie, not her mother! He slid away uneasily, but Jo just scooted closer to him. "You know you can't deny these feelings," she whispered softly, letting her lips brush against his ear.

Lizzie clapped her hands over her mouth like she was going to throw up.

Cayden pushed her away, and ran off. "Keep away from me!"

"But my love for you is so strong, Cayden!!!!!!!" Jo screamed, running after him.

Matt wasn't paying any attention. He felt so guilty. It was his fault Melina disapeared, her knew it. The strange thing was, for no reason in particular, no one had gone to search for her. They just brushed it off. But...but this was real life! This wasn't just some dumb fanfiction where everything turned out okay in the last chapter! He had to do something!

"Pass the mashed potatoes, will you, Matt?"

"Huh?" Matt looked over at Marli, who was waiting for the potatoes. "Oh, um...sure. Here."

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Matt needed to rescue Melina. He knew that, deep in his heart. He just needed some dashing hero clothes to where while doing the job.

He threw open his suitcase. He didn't know if he had anything dashing enough. And he didn't even know where Melina was!!!!!!! He wished he could communicate telepathically, like SOME kidknap victims he knew...

"Going out to rescue Melina?" Matt looked over at the doorway, and saw Cayden.

"Still hiding out from my mom?" Matt muttered, frustrated by his lack of heroic garments.

Cayden shrugged. "I know where Melina is."

Matt's head jerked up. "Where?!"

"The old warehouse on Smith Street," Cayden said mysteriously.

"Smith Street?" Matt questioned, "That doesn't sound very Italian."

Cayden smacked his forehead. "Oh yeah! We're in Italy, aren't we?...then I guess she's unconcious up in Todd's room. Better go rescue her." Matt started to run out. "Wait!" Matt turned around.

"What?"

Cayden pulled out some dashing looking hero clothes. "Thought you might need these."

Matt broke into a grin and jogged back to his hotel room. "Thanks, man."

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Sam stood in the courtyard of the hotel, talking into his cell phone. "Uh huh? Everything's alright at the house? Yeah...I miss you, too..."

"Sam?"

Sam jumped, almost dropping his cell phone. He looked at Jo with fear. "I wasn't talking to my lawn gnome long distance!!!!"

Jo smiled weakly, and shook her head. "No, no, Sam...its okay. See...I want a divorce. I'm in love with a fifteen year old boy."

Sam's eyes widened. "You mean...I can be with Gno-um...I mean...WHAT?! But I love you!!!"

Jo spun around. "It wouldn't work! My love for Cayden Ryder is too strong to even speak of! I love him deeply, with every fiber of my being!!!!!! Do you even understand love like that, Sam McGuire?!"

Sam slowly nodded. "Yes..." He closed his eyes, picturing his love. The big, empty eyes, white beard, and pointed red hat. How he missed him so...The Italian gnomes meant nothing to him.

Jo smiled softly. "Then you do understand..." She gave a small smile, and kissed him softly on the lips. "Bye! I'm gonna go find my honey!" She ran off, and Sam lifted the cell phone to his ear.

"You wanna get married?"

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Matt ran to the elevator, and went up. He had to rescue Melina! He had to- "Miranda?"

Miranda sat in the hotel hallway. She looked up at Matt, tears in her eyes. "Johney broke up with me."

Matt closed his eyes. He had been afraid of that. So did this mean they were getting a divorce? "He's a loser, Miranda."

"No, Matt! I'm the loser! He likes another girl! She's probably prettier than me, and she's probably smarter than me, and-"

"WAIT A SECOND!!!!!!!!!"

Lizzie came running down the hall. "You thief!"

Miranda stared at her. "What?"

Lizzie glared at her. "Don't give me that! You totally stole my "heartbroken" speech!"

"Did not!"

"You are freakin' lying! You did too!"

Matt rolled his eyes, and contiuued on his quest.

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"CAYDEN!!!!!! You have to tell me when you turn 18, so I we can set a date for the wedding! The divorce will be offical by then!"

Cayden's mind was screaming. WHY did she have to drink that potion?! He had to find Marli. There had to be a cure!!!!!!!!

Marli appeared out of nowhere. "Do you have a cure," Cayden asked, out of breath from running from Jo.

"I got your cure right here!" Marli pulled out a needle, and jabbed it in his arm. Cayden screamed, then suddenly his eyes glazed over, and the love potion began to take effect. "Jo?"

"CAYDEN!"

They ran toward each other, and finally enjoyed a totally illegal kiss.

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Matt knocked on Tadd's door. "Melina? You in there?" No one answered, so he tried the doorknob. The room was unlocked!

He saw Melina sleeping on the bed like an angel. He kissed her forehead, and all of the sudden her eyes flew open and she hit him in the jaw.

"Melina!"

"Oh my God! Sorry...thought you were Tadd." Matt lifted Melina into his arms, and carried her out of the room. They stopped in the hall, where they saw Tadd and Marli making out.

Tadd stopped kissing the eleven year old actress, and smiled. "You can go free, Melina! Marli and I are back together!"

Matt and Melina gawked. "That was surprisingly simple."

Matt took Melina's hand. "Melina...I have something to ask you. ...will you go out with me?"

Melina smiled. "Sure." And she kissed him on the lips.

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The plane ride home was unsettling and weird. "Do you realize that whole time in Rome, we never did any filming for a movie?" Lizzie said.

Everyone just shrugged.

"The whole Libby McIntire thing is just weird," Miranda said, "I mean...is it just me, or does the show kind of remind you of our life?"

Every stared at her strangely.

"Uh...no." Melina said.

Miranda blushed. "I guess I'm talking crazy talk."

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Epilogue
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As soon as they returned from Rome, Sam McGuire moved all of his belongings out of the house, and he and the lawn gnome eloped in Las Vegas. They now reside in Maryland, where they live happily in a restored farmhouse. They have one child together, Paprika.

Lizzie and Gordo stayed together until they were 19, when Gordo died unexpectedly in a freak, gasoline fight accident.

Miranda never remarried, although she did become a bitter old woman.

On Cayden's eighteenth birthday, he and Jo were married in a beautiful ceremony in the backyard of the McGuire household. Everyone, including Tadd, Marli, and a recently released from prison Billa Leigh Ruff, attended.

Matt and Melina stayed together for a long time, and got married. They became missionaries and traveled throughout Europe, but would not go near Italy.

Ciao for now.