Another short one. Hopefully the epilogue makes up for it.

I don't own crap…except for Scott and Penelope…

-5-

That summer, Billy proposed to Mandy. I'm not going to explain how; I'll just let you imagine what happened.

It was the most shocking experience of both their lives. It was shocking to Mandy because he proposed to HER of all people, and it was shocking to Billy because she said "Yes." Actually, it was probably much more shocking to Billy because she was smiling a lot afterwards. Heck, she probably smiled more that day than she ever did in her entire life.

And yet the universe doesn't look like a Craig McCracken parody.

-X-

"Aww…" Penelope cooed. "Such a cute story!"

"…Shut up," Mandy groaned.

"Thanks for telling us the story, Mom," Scott said.

"Eh…" Mandy shrugged.

"Got anymore stories?" Penelope asked.

"Uh…why don't you go see what Dad's doing?"

"Okay!" Penelope shouted as she and Scott left.

"Oy oy oy," Mandy groaned as she slumped in her recliner. "Kids…"

"Dat was a very sweet story, Mandy."

The blonde looked to her left. "And just how long were you standing there?"

Grim shrugged. "A while, I guess. It's hard to believe dat when you were little you were such a pain in de…"

"I can still be one, you know."

Grim's eye sockets shrunk and he nodded. "Right." He silently walked off.

Mandy sighed and picked up the forgotten yearbook, which fell on the floor during her story. She looked at the photos of her classmates. That's when she noticed something she didn't even notice before, even earlier when she and Scott were looking right at it.

There was a thin pencil-drawn heart around her picture.

It was barely noticeable, which must've been why she didn't see it before. Scott's constant talking must've made her overlook it.

Mandy looked at that heart for about two minutes before finally closing the book. Making sure no one was looking, she flashed a quick smile before falling back asleep in her recliner.

-X-

IT'S EPILOGUE TIME AGAIN! YAAAAAAAAAY! (Pass the chips.)

"So, Penelope…what have we learned?" Scott asked.

"Um…we learned how Mom and Dad got back together."

"We also learned that if it wasn't for someone dying of drug overdose, we wouldn't be born, which is kind of sad…"

"OOH! OOH! You know what else we learned?"

"What?"

Penelope shook a can of Silly String and sprayed Scott with it.

"This stuff's hard to get out of your hair!"