Lexi stepped off the plane and looked around for Dylan and Amanda. She was so excited to be spending her spring break with her brother who she hadn't seen since she and her parents flew up for Christmas and she couldn't wait to tell her brother that she had been accepted to Berkeley. Finally after a few minutes of waiting in the baggage claim Lexi spotted Dylan with Jordan standing over by the doors. "Dylan!" She called his name as she ran over to him and jumped into his arms glad to see her brother/best friend. Dylan laughed and hugged her before setting her back down and picking up her bag. Lexi smiled down at Jordan who was already almost 3 and so big.

"I can't believe you're a senior now."

"I can't believe I'm about to graduate." She countered strapping Jordan into his seat before getting in herself. "Where's Amanda?"

"She had to work this afternoon but she's meeting us at the house later to have dinner." Lexi nodded and went back to looking at the cars that driving in the same direction as they were. "So how's everything at the house?"

"Well mom's been gone a lot doing stuff for the magazine and dad's just having fun hanging out with Josh." Dylan glanced over at her sensing that there was something in her voice that made him think that there was something she wasn't telling him.

"You sure everything's okay?" Lexi looked at Dylan and smiled nodding her head.

"I know what you're thinking, mom and dad aren't paying attention to me but I wish that they would focus on more on Josh sometimes. I mean they come to every game and every little thing at school. It's like they're suffocating me." Dylan nodded not really wanting to know that but if that was all she was going to tell him then that's was all that he was going to worry about for now.

"Now you know what I felt like." Lexi laughed and lightly punched him shaking her head. He had it made, he was the one living with their grandparents, going to school out of state, and he had Amanda at his side for the past 2 years. She on the other hand was still thinking about Nathan for the past 2 years since he left and now she wished that they had stayed together. "So what do you want to do today?"

"I just want to hang out at the house with grandma and grandpa."

"I have an idea, why don't we go to the park and hang out with Jordan like old times?" Lexi smiled and turned her head looking back at Jordan who was sleeping soundly not having a care in the world.

"Sure." The rest of the car ride was filled with idle chatter about what had been going on at both households since the two had last seen each other and Lexi knew by the time they pulled into the driveway that it was only a matter of time until Dylan proposed to Amanda by the way his whole face lit up when she brought her up or ask a question about her.

"Have you talked to Nathan?" Lexi asked out of the blue as she pushed Jordan in the swing at the park. Dylan stopped swinging for a moment and looked at her.

"He's not seeing anyone if you're asking that." Lexi shrugged her shoulders not knowing what she was really asking. "He misses you too."

"Thanks for trying to cheer me up but you don't need to lie. He's probably seeing an amazing girl but won't tell you because you're my brother."

"You still love him don't you?"

"I haven't stopped thinking about him since he left." She admitted switching places with her brother while he pushed his son and she absentmindedly swung on the swing. Her thoughts were yet again all about Nathan and the time they spent together.

"Come on let's go home and hang out with Grandpa Bill." Lexi smiled and shot up excited to see her grandfather. Dylan just laughed and followed close behind with Jordan who was laughing at her craziness.

As soon as the car was in the driveway Jordan and Lexi took off for the front door and Annie just laughed as they rushed inside to see their grandfathers who were lounging in the living room. Dylan came in a few moments later shaking his head at how crazy his sister and son were being. Moments later Amanda walked in and Dylan wrapped his arm around her shoulders as they sat there. Lexi looked at them and knew that it was only a matter of time before her dad got a call from Dylan.

As soon as everyone was distracted by Jordan playing and being cute Dylan snuck off into his bedroom and sat on his bed. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and set it on the bed trying to calm his growing nerves. He reached out for the phone and his hand began shaking making it hard to pick the phone up and hold it steady while he dialed the numbers. Martin picked up on the second ring and instantly started asking questions thinking that something had happened.

"Everything's fine dad I just had something to ask you."

"What's up D?"

"Do you think that you and mom might be able to come up here on Friday?"

"Why would we come up there on Friday?"

"Well it's mine and Amanda's anniversary and I was thinkingthatIwouldpropose."

"What?"

"I was thinking that I would propose."

"Took you long enough."

"What?"

"Nothing buddy."

"Okay and I need you to do me 2 more things."

"What?"

"Could you possibly get Amanda's mom up here and not tell mom what's going on?"

"Yeah I think I can handle that."

"Oh yeah and tell Uncle Mac too."

"I will."

"How's your sister doing?"

"Besides thinking about Nathan all the time she's fine."

"When is she going to visit Berkeley?"

"I think she mentioned tomorrow."

"Watch out for her okay?"

"I will." Dylan hung up the phone and went downstairs. He watched Lexi laugh at something that Grandpa Bill had said and Dylan watched that the smile on her face never really reached her eyes. He sighed and smiled at her when she looked at him. He really hoped that she found someone who gave her what Amanda gave him.

The next day Lexi woke up early and after leaving a note slipped out of the house only pausing to leave a note telling them where she would be. The drive to Berkeley really gave Lexi some time to think about everything that had been going on. Since she and Nathan had broken up her friends and family had been telling her to just forget about Nathan and move on to someone else but she couldn't just walk away without knowing what could've happened. For the past 2 years she'd been thinking about what could've been between them and now she felt that in order to move on she had to find out if they could've made it.

As she walked around the campus for a moment she couldn't think about Nathan, she was too wrapped up in how beautiful the campus was and how she now couldn't wait to graduate and attend school there. Going to Berkeley was going to be her fresh start. Lexi walked out of the book store and out into the sunlight, she was wrapped up in what she had bought when she didn't notice someone stopped in front of her and she crashed into the poor person. "Oh! I am so sorry! I know I should pay atten…..Nathan?"

"What are you doing here?" They both said at the same time making both of them laugh.

"Well I'm going to Berkeley next year, what are you doing here?"

"I decided to go to Berkeley."

"Huh small world." She muttered looking around at everything except Nathan. She could feel her heart beating wildly in her chest and she tried to get herself to calm down. It was the first time since they broke up that she was standing face to face with him and actually talking to him. "How have you been?" She asked kicking at an imaginary rock waiting for him to tell her that he's in a relationship and about to propose.

"I've been okay, you?" Lexi looked over at a tree behind him and wondered if she should lie or just tell him the truth.

"I've been hanging in there the best I can." Nathan looked up from his shoe and into her eyes and he knew that she was partially lying to him and partially telling the truth. He wanted to ask her if she missed him but thought against it. She probably had a boyfriend and they were probably going to get married and become the best couple ever. Lexi was about to say something when his phone started ringing. "Well I'll just let you go, it was nice seeing you." She said as he looked at his phone and before he could say anything she was walking away from him and as Nathan answered the phone he thought he saw her lift her arm to wipe a tear away.

Dylan was sitting in the living room when Lexi walked in and he knew right away that something wasn't right with her, she was supposed to be in a good mood not a bad mood. He started trying to figure out what could possibly make her that upset that she would totally ignore him and go straight to her room and then his mind went to Nathan. He picked up his phone and dialed his number drumming his fingers against his thigh as he waited for Nathan to pick up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Did you run into my sister today?"

"Yeah actually I did why?"

"What did you say to her?"

"What are you talking about?"

"She just walked in here with the same look in her eyes as the day you guys broke up." Dylan replied trying to keep his cool not really understanding why he might be getting angry.

"We ran into each other and did the usual hey how it is going, how have you been exchange nothing too serious."

"Well something set her off."

"How am I supposed to know the answer to that?" Nathan shot back kinda angry that Dylan would assume he did something to probably the only girl he's ever loved and will probably only love.

"Well you were the one that dated her I thought out of the two of us that you would have a better guess than I would." Dylan shot back not knowing why they were yelling at each other.

"Before you pull the protective older brother I'm gonna kick your ass card will you do me a favor?"

"Maybe, depends on what it is?"

"I wanna sit down with her face to face and lay everything out on the table so maybe you could lure her out of the house to meet me?"

"You still love her don't you?" Dylan asked out of the blue not really thinking about what he was saying just letting the first thought pop out of his head.

"Right now I just wanna talk to her."

"She still cares about you, ya know."

"What?" Dylan looked around the room and stood up yelling up the stairs for Lexi to come down and watch Jordan for a little bit while he stepped outside.

"She still loves you, idiot. Now I think you should come by the house on Friday around say 7 o'clock and you guys can talk then."

"What's on Friday?"

"Alright mom I love you too." Dylan said as Amanda came in through the back gate smiling as she walked up to him. He shut his phone and slipped it in his pocket leaving Nathan to stare at his phone like Dylan was going crazy.

Friday didn't come fast enough for Dylan, he felt like it had been 30 years between when he called his dad to when he and Nathan went to pick them up. Martin and Ruthie stopped in front of Dylan wondering why Nathan was with him but Dylan looked at them like he would fill them in later and Dylan was hoping that he wouldn't have to that Lexi would have some great news to share with them, if their plan worked that is. Ruthie hugged Nathan happy to see the boy that had stolen her daughter's heart 2 years ago and hoped that she and Nathan worked it out.

Lexi sat at home with Dylan happily watching Toy Story for the fifth time that day waiting for Dylan to come home. She had wanted to ask Dylan if he had Nathan's number so that maybe she could call him and they could meet up and talk about everything so she could finally tell him that them breaking up with her was a mistake and that they were great together. Sighing at the thoughts running in her head Lexi tried to refocus on the movie playing on the TV but the front door opened breaking her concentration for good, she sat up and peered over towards the door smiling before picking Jordan up and carrying him into the foyer where her parents were standing smiling and laughing with Dylan. Ruthie instantly went to Jordan pulling him out of Lexi's arms and into her own kissing the baby boy and making faces at him as he giggled and hugged her. Lexi looked over at her dad who had Josh in his arms and hugged him giving Josh a kiss on the cheek. Martin smiled at her stepping aside a little bit and Lexi finally saw Nathan standing behind her dad a shy smile on his face. Lexi's eyes went wide and she looked at Dylan who only shrugged his shoulders and went back talking to his dad about school. "Hey." She greeted wondering what he was doing there.

"Hey, could we maybe talk?" He asked suddenly nervous hoping that she didn't slam the door in his face.

"Sure." She took a look at her parents and brother who were too busy fawning over Josh and Jordan so she slipped out the front door walking down the porch with him.

"So it's been awhile." He started as they started walking down the street side by side.

"Yeah it has." She sighed hating how awkward it had become between the two that at one time were close.

"I'm sorry with the way things were left between us."

"I knew it was coming we were having problems for months." Nathan stopped walking and turned toward Lexi.

"I didn't want to break up with you."

"Then why did you?" She asked turning towards him but not looking him in the eye.

"Honestly?" He asked lifting her chin with his forefinger and looking her straight in the eye.

"No Nathan I want you to lie to me so I feel all warm and fuzzy inside." She replied the sarcasm dripping from her tone making Nathan almost want to laugh.

"I was scared. I was graduating and leaving for California and I knew that the distance was going to be hard on you and it wasn't fair to you. You deserved to have someone there for you all the time someone that could devote their full attention to you and treat you like the princess you are." He replied his hands lightly cupping her face in his hands. She smiled and put her hands on his waist tightly gripping so he couldn't run.

"Nathan I had that someone, I could've dealt with it, my parents did it so why couldn't we? You should've given us a chance instead of just running; you should've talked to me about it instead of just shutting down and pushing me away. I love you and I would've done anything to make it work." She replied leaning up and gently kissing him. Nathan smiled and wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her closer to him; moments later he pulled away and rested his forehead against hers.

"Can I have another chance?" He whispered his forehead still resting against hers and his arms still around her waist. Lexi opened her eyes and smiled nodding her head as she gently kissed him again. "We should probably get back Dylan wants us there when he proposes." Lexi nodded and pulled away wrapping her arm around his waist as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder. She couldn't even begin to hide the smile on her face as they walked back the short distance to the house. When they walked in the house they saw Amanda in the living room smiling at the ring on her finger.

"Lexi, come look at the ring Dylan gave me." Lexi smiled at Amanda and walked over her hand never leaving Nathan's. Martin and Ruthie smiled at each other happy that both of their children were happy and in love.

A/N: So after much debate I decided to end it there when everything was on a good note. I want to thank everyone for reviewing! I enjoyed writing all three stories and I hope you enjoyed them as well!