Last chapter guys this story has run out of plot bunnies and tomfeltonlover1991 approved the ending. She's also very excited for my next story which she helped me decide on but I digress. Thank you to everyone that read, followed, favorited and reviewed I appreciate all of it. I hope you enjoy the last chapter.

Ch. 20 So Let That be Our Story

(LUKE)

"You boys can come in now," Mr. Simpson said opening his office door. I looked at Owen and we got up following the principal into his office. We sat down on the other side of his desk and saw that Officer Turner was also in his office. "Do you boys know a Tim Parker or an Aaron King?" Simpson asked.

I looked at Owen and we shook our heads, then one of the last names struck with me.

"Wait those to creeps from the Scorpions," I exclaimed.

"Oh yeah those assholes, I wouldn't say we know them but we played against them last Friday." Owen says.

"Well they're pressing assault charges against you. They were both treated in the ER Saturday night for abrasions and injuries. They're claiming that the two of you as well as some other boys beat them up outside of the school." Officer Turner informs us.

"Well we did but did they tell you why they were outside of our school the night of the dance?" Owen asks.

"They were trying to take our girlfriends, I mean literally take them. They each had Maya and Clare over a shoulder and were walking away with them." I enlighten them.

"Yeah that Aaron guy was trying to put Clare in the backseat of his car when I got to him so you can understand why me, Drew and Eli felt the need to kick the crap out of him!" Owen said.

"Yeah and why Jake, Zig and I felt the need to do it to Tim! They were forcibly trying to take our girlfriends we were only trying to save them." I contest.

"Ask Clare and Maya or Drew and the others they'll tell you." Owen asserts.

Simpson looked thoughtful for a second and then hit his intercom button. "Doris can you have Maya Matlin and Clare Edwards s…" Simpson is saying when Owen cuts him off.

"Torres," Owen reminds him.

"Right Maya Matlin and Clare Torres sent to the office." Simpson says.

The secretary says ok and then hangs up, while waiting for the girls Simpson and Turner ask us a few questions.

"You wanted to…I should have guessed you two were in here." Clare remarks when she sees me and Owen.

"Hey we're only in here because we were saving you from those two perverts that tried to kidnap you after the dance." Owen replies grimacing at his girlfriend.

Maya sits in the chair next to me and kisses my cheek taking my hand. Clare walks to Owen and sits in his lap as there are no more chairs. She kisses him quickly before looking at Mr. Simpson.

"What's going on?" Clare asks.

"Aaron and Tim are pressing charges," I inform them.

"For what?" Maya demands.

"Assault," Officer Turner answers.

"What happened on Saturday night?" Simpson asks.

Clare and Maya tell him about going outside with Tim and Aaron because they were mad at us. That they tried to come back inside and the guys tried to take them. After hearing the girls story and saying that they would talk to Adam, Drew and the others Simpson said we could go back to class, of course by now the bell had rung. We walked out retrieving our backpacks from our classes and headed toward mine and Owen's lockers. Since Maya had music next which was on the way to Owen's bio class they went down the hall. Clare was still leaning against Owen's locker, a pen pressed against her lip and while her eyes were sort of gazing at the ceiling I could tell she was quite far away somewhere in her mind.

"Clare?" I asked putting a hand on her arm.

"Hmm? Sorry I was thinking." She replies.

"Yeah I could see that, thinking about what?" I question.

"Just that I don't think it was a coincidence that Aaron and Tim happened to be at the dance when you three got voted kings at the dance." She remarks.

"We didn't get voted kings Katie, Marisol and the others rigged it which would be why they're all suspended for a week and why Katie will probably be kicked off student council." I remind her putting a hand at her back so she'll start walking.

"Yeah but that's my point how would Aaron and Tim know that you three were going to be made kings leaving Maya and I angry and hurt? The fact that they just happen to show up at our school dance looking for us is just statistically impossible." Clare comments as we reach my math class, a class I have with Drew who is now her older brother and watching us from his desk with a curiously worried expression.

"You're right it probably isn't a coincidence so?" I ask.

"So if I can get Aaron to admit that it wasn't then maybe they'll drop the charges and I can get Katie, Alli and Tori in even more trouble." She replies.

"And just how do you plan to do that?" I inquire.

"Conceal a recording device somewhere and go see him," she responds and starts walking down the hall but I grab her arm.

"I don't think so, not by yourself." I assert.

"Well you don't Maya to come with me do you?" She questions.

"Well no but…" I start and she cuts me off.

"Then stop worrying and don't tell Owen, or Drew or Adam for that matter." She says and then bolts down the hall.

"What was that about?" Drew queries when I get into class and sit at my desk.

"Your sister is stubborn, smart but stubborn." I reply.

"Yeah I knew that back when she was just Adam's best friend." Drew grins and then Mr. Armstrong starts class.

Clare didn't bring it up for the rest of the day and I didn't say anything. Being public with Maya was great, being able to hold hands in the halls, kiss before classes and eat lunch together and not have to stay on opposite sides of the group was the best. There were a few gossipy girls that whispered about us but Clare and Bianca made them stop. I found out from Owen that a couple guys on the wrestling team had made comments to Maya but Owen had pounded them for me so I didn't think they'd be a problem anymore. For the most part however everyone was really happy for us. By the end of the day as I was leaving for practice I'd forgotten all about what Clare had said this morning. I went into the Ice Hounds locker room to change only to find my locker decorated with pacifiers, baby bottles and bibs. Among those laughing was Bo, Ingvar and Kevin; Owen walked in and saw the locker since his is next to mine after shooting a look at the others he helped me take the stuff down.

"Real mature you morons," Owen scolded.

"Well if Luke's going to be a cradle robber he's going to need supplies." Kevin laughed.

"Dude Maya's three years younger than him that's not cradle robbing." Owen snaps back.

"You popped that virgin cherry yet?" Kevin snickers.

Owen gets tense and looks like he might hit Kevin but I stop him. It was tempting believe me but we were already in trouble for fighting.

"You three just earned yourself a half hour of suicides, any other comments and I'll have coach suspend you from the next three games." I tell them and they start to groan.

"Good thinking, hey Clare's at our house for dinner if you want to come over after practice." Owen tells me.

"Cool thanks," I smile and we start changing for practice.

(MAYA)

"Oh my god where is she? I knew this was a bad idea we should have gone with her! Owen's going to be home any minute and he's going to lose it! We're going to have to call Drew and Adam to tell them their sister's gone missing! She's only been their sister one full day but she's already missing!" I exclaim pacing the living room of the Milligan house back and forth, sorry the living room of my house back and forth as Tris and I anxiously wait for Clare to return from Scarborough.

"Maya she's only been gone an hour and half it takes twenty minutes just to get to Scarborough." Tris tries to assure me.

"Aaron did something, I mean honestly Tristan what were we thinking letting her go to the Scorpions arena by herself!" I say getting more agitated and worried as a million thoughts race through my mind.

"Maya I see a cab and Clare's getting out of it, see she's fine." Tris says.

Before Clare even makes it up the steps I run out and hug her tightly, Tris lingers in the doorway and waves to her.

"Took you long enough, Owen will be here any second." I scold her.

"Sorry they didn't exactly want to let me out of the locker room," Clare apologizes as we walk back in the house.

"Then how'd you get out?" Tristan asks.

"I told them if they could get rid of the coaches I'd skate around the rink naked and then ran out while they were trying to get rid of the coaches. But I got it, Aaron admitted to everything I'll play the recording tomorrow for Principal Simpson and Officer Turner." Clare tells us just as Luke and Owen's cars pull up out front.

"Hey Beautiful," Luke greets me kissing me gently when he gets out of his car.

"Hi how was practice and what are you doing here?" I ask back as Owen kisses Clare hello.

"Good and Owen invited me for dinner," Luke tells me.

"Mom should be home soon, we have homework to finish and you guys haven't even started." Tris remarks.

"Yeah and we got a ton of it, think you can help me with the math homework Clare?" Luke asks her.

"Yeah no problem just gotta visit the washroom first." Clare says taking her purse and going back to the washroom.

We start our homework, Mrs. Milligan comes home and starts dinner, we all manage to finish by the time dinners ready.

"You want to sleep over Clare?" I ask her when dinner is over.

"Can't Drew and Adam don't want me sleeping at the boyfriend's house." Clare replies and Owen pouts.

"I'll give you a lift home Clare," Luke offers. "I'll sneak over later to say goodnight," Luke tells me.

"Like hell you will, she's practically my sister now and you are not sneaking over at night." Owen states.

Clare scrunches her face and smacks Owen on the stomach. "You are such a hypocrite! You've been grousing all week that Drew and Adam won't let you sleep over or sneak in since I moved in and you're doing exactly the same thing to Luke." Clare points out.

"Well yeah but you're my girlfriend and Maya's moved in so she's like my sister now it's all different." Owen tries to argue.

"It's exactly the same, you can't complain to Drew and Adam anymore." Clare laughs and then kisses Owen passionately.

I kiss Luke goodbye and hug Clare, they say goodbye to Tris and leave. After a shower I watch TV with Tris until it's time for bed. I have nothing but wonderful dreams of me and Luke that night. Owen drives us to school the next morning and we go inside, Clare's coming out of the office with a smile on her face so she must have played Simpson the recording.

"Hey Gorgeous you look happy to see me this morning." Owen grins pulling her into his arms for a kiss.

"I'm always happy to see you but I'm even happier because Katie's getting expelled and Aaron and Tim will be forced to drop the charges." She tells us.

"How do you know that?" Luke asks as he appears behind me and takes me in his arms then I notice Becky and Adam have joined us as well.

"So I take it you played Simpson the recording," I remark.

"What recording?" Owen and Adam ask at the same time.

"Clare you didn't?" Luke questions and now Owen looks at him.

"Didn't what? What the hell is going on?" Owen demands.

"Clare knew it wasn't a coincidence that Tim and Aaron happened to be at the dance when you guys were tricked into being kings. She figured Katie or Alli or both had something to do with it and if she could get Aaron to confess then she could maybe get the charges against you two dropped and get Katie and the others in more trouble. So she went to Scarborough yesterday while you two were in practice and got Aaron confessing the whole thing on tape in the Scorpions locker room." Tris announces and then walks off quickly to avoid the fireworks.

"CLARE!" Adam exclaims.

"YOU WENT TO THE SCORPIONS LOCKER ROOM ALONE?! ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?! HE TRIED TO KIDNAP YOU!" Owen yells very loudly and it attracts a lot of attention.

"Owen hush I'm fine nothing happened," Clare replies.

"Did I just hear him right?" Drew inquires coming up with Bianca.

"A good reporter gets her story from all sources. Anyway it wasn't hard for Aaron to confess that Katie and Alli approached them after the game last Friday and told them to come to the dance. They knew we would be upset and they told the guys to get us out of the dance and somewhere private then they could do whatever they wanted with us." Clare tells us.

"So Katie and Alli basically gave them permission to rape you two? If it wasn't wrong to hit girls I would go find them and kill them right now." Luke says tightening his grip on me.

"So Katie's actually getting expelled?" I ask her because I couldn't be happier that my so called sister will be out of this school.

"Yep Aaron went on and on about Katie being the mastermind and all. She didn't even know you and Luke were dating then but she knew you guys were hanging out a lot and wanted you away from him and Alli wanted me away from Owen. Tim also talked a lot, between the two of them I got enough on Katie that Simpson sees fit to expel her and Alli gets another week added to her suspension. Knowing her parents they'll pull her out of school again and send her to a private school like last time." Clare says as the bell rings.

"Wait where exactly did you hide a recording device?" Drew asks just as the bell rings.

Clare just smiles and walks off down the hall to class; I start walking to French and then realize my book is still in my locker so I run down the hall to get it. I fetch it from my locker and run as I'm trying to make it to French before the late bell when I'm grabbed by the back of the shirt and shoved into some lockers!

"YOU STUPID BITCH I COME IN TO GET MY HOMEWORK AND TO CONVINCE SIMPSON TO LET ME KEEP THE PRESIDENCY AND HE TELLS ME THAT I'VE BEEN EXPELLED BECAUSE OF YOU!" Katie screams at me.

"You got yourself expelled, you rigged the election and you told Aaron and Tim they could do whatever they wanted with us!" I retort trying to push her away from me.

Unfortunately aside from being a raging bitch my sister is also a 2nd degree black belt in karate. She doesn't use it on me but she does smack me across the face.

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!" Clare yells hitting Katie upside the head with her binder, Katie lets go of me and stumbles back. "Face it Katie you lost everything, your boyfriend, your presidency, your school all of it because you couldn't deal with it that people like Maya better than you! Maybe if you weren't such a fucking bitch all the time and thought about someone besides yourself you might still have some of that." Clare snaps at her and takes my arm to walk away.

Katie is not going to let it go that easily of course and pulls Clare back by her hair!

"Let go of her you stuck up wench!" I demand hitting Katie in the back with my text book.

"You're pathetic Katie, it's a wonder you even have friends! What Jake ever saw in you I will never understand!" Clare says belting Katie before she can recover.

"You will never be anything Katie! You think the whole world is just going to bend to your will like Mom and Dad do well it won't! You are a terrible sister and a terrible human being and I hope you remember that when you die alone because no one loves you!" I spit at her, kick her as hard as I can and then Clare and I go off down the hall to our classes.

Thankfully there were no more incidents that morning, when we told the guys at lunch about the confrontation they were pissed and wanted to kill her all over again though. Jake ate with us and at the end of lunch Katie actually called him and tried to get back together. He told her to go to hell.

(LUKE)

"My first game where Maya and I don't have to hide and use secret signals instead of blowing each other kisses." I grin at Owen while we're changing into our uniforms and pads before our Friday night game.

"Yeah must feel nice, you get the coach to do what you wanted?" Owen asks.

"Yep and if we win it'll flash over the score board just after third period." I reply.

No one else asked what we were talking about, the other players had learned to keep their mouths shut around the two of us. Cam hardly ever said anything anymore but at least he wasn't being a jerk anymore and he was kind of becoming friends with Maya, Tris, Zig and Nicole again. I was still lacing up my skates when I heard our music start up so I hurried and got to the front of the line to skate out as captain. Tris, Maya, Clare, Becky, Adam, Drew, Bianca, Zig and Nicole were all easily visible in the front row. Owen blows a kiss to Clare and of course I blow one to Maya now that I can. Our girls blow kisses back to us with big smiles on their faces. The game starts and I turn my attention to scoring goals while Owen turns his attention to beating the tar out of the other team by body checking or walling them. We win 6-2, in other words we smashed the other team. Everyone starts celebrating and I look at the score board to make sure the coach kept his word. He did as I see the screen flashing:

Luke Baker

Loves

Maya Matlin

I look over at Maya and she has the biggest, happiest smile on her face. She blows me a bunch of kisses and I see the other girls gushing. I blow a kiss back and then skate to the locker room to change. Owen and I change as quickly as we can and go out to meet our girls outside the locker room.

"I love you too," Maya exclaims running into my arms and giving me a very passionate kiss.

"You two make me sick," a snotty voice says breaking our kiss apart.

"What the fuck do you want bitch queen?" Owen inquires.

"Just thought Maya might like to know that we're moving and Mom and Dad have signed away parental rights. They never wanted you, you were an accident, the reason Mom got sick and now we never have to see you again!" Katie says and I tighten my grip on Maya.

"Do we need to kick your ass again?" Clare asks getting angry.

"Get lost Katie nobody wants you here, Maya's better off without you and your whole shitty family. I hope you all rot in hell!" I bark at her.

"Maya's part of our family now, my parents will adopt her and unlike you I will treat her right and take care of her the way an older sibling should. You ever so much as try and contact her again and I will hunt you down and break you and the rest of your pathetic family!" Owen growls.

"Fuck off Katie, you are beyond pathetic." I snarl.

We put our arms around our girls and walk towards Owen's car since Becky has my keys.

"Will your parents really adopt me?" Maya asks Owen when we're driving.

"Yeah they already filed the paperwork; they're just waiting to get approved which shouldn't be too hard given your family." Owen grins.

"Sweet soon you'll be Maya Milligan," Clare smiles.

"Actually we're all meeting at our place Mom texted while we were playing and I spread the word to the others." Owen tells us.

"So that's where they were all going so fast, that was sneaky they didn't tell us anything." Maya remarks.

"Yeah I'm good at sneaky," Owen replies and Clare giggles.

Owen parks outside the house and I see Bianca's and Luke's car already here. We get out and as soon as Owen opens the door everyone greets us with big smiles and there's a banner over the hallway that says Welcome to the Family Maya!

"Does that mean the adoption came through?" Maya ask hopefully.

"Yes they did come through, you're now a part of the Milligan family," Rebecca; Owen, Tristan and now Maya's mom tells me.

"And officially our sister," Tris grins.

Everyone says congratulations and hugs Maya while Me, Clare and Owen tell them about seeing Katie outside the arena. We hang out at the Milligan home with everyone for a long time, Mr. and Mrs. Milligan ordered us pizza and went out to dinner.

"We should do something the nights still early, we won our game, Maya is a Milligan and Clare a Torres and we never have to see Katie again and Aaron and Tim dropped the charges against us after Clare's brilliant under cover work." I say after we've eaten all the pizza and found no good movies on.

"We can celebrate more," Maya suggests.

"We could celebrate privately," I suggest wiggling my eyebrows at Maya.

"I like that idea," Owen and Adam agree.

I turn to look at Adam, he and Drew look at Owen and Owen looks at me, we all have the same look on our faces.

"Not with my sister you don't," Owen, Drew, Adam and I all say at the same time in the same tone and everyone else starts laughing.

"Glad I don't have a brother," Bianca remarks.

"Me too," Nicole laughs.

"How about we go to the ice cream shop for dessert and miniature golfing." Clare suggests.

All of us agree this is a good idea and we divide into three cars. We hang out together until people have to start getting home for curfew. Maya is of course going home with her new brothers so while Owen and Tris are saying goodbye to the others I pull Maya aside.

"Maya Milligan I love you more than anything in the world, you made me a better man and I will always love you." I tell her.

She smiles very widely, grips my jacket and pulls me down ensnaring my lips for the most passionately loving kiss I may ever have.

(MAYA)

"You look amazing Luke is going to fall in love all over again!" Clare gushes to our reflections in the mirror as she fastens my dress.

It's been eight years to the day that Luke and I first shared a kiss and I'm about to walk down the aisle and become Mrs. Luke Baker! It's not like everything had been a fairytale the last eight years or anything. We'd had our share of problems just like any couple, even breaking up a couple of times. Once when he left to go to University in Winnipeg and once after he got drafted to the Maple Leafs. We got back together within a month or so of course, we always came back to each other and much like before my life mirrored Clare's who has remained my closest and best friend for the last eight years. Not counting Tristan of course but he is my brother and not just my best friend. As I was saying my life has mirrored Clare's, for example the way Clare had been kicked out and then promptly adopted by the Torres family, then a week later I was kicked out and promptly adopted by the Milligan's our lives continued to mirror each other. She and Owen broke up when he went off to University in Ottawa but they got back together after a month. I went to the same University as Clare and she broke up with Owen again right after he got drafted by the Maple Leafs, they got back together after a month again.

They are still together; they'd gotten married three years ago in fact in a double wedding with Drew and Bianca. Luke and Adam were the best men of course and Becky and I as bridesmaids. Owen was still with the Maple Leafs, one of their best defense players, he and Clare had a two year old baby girl and two month old son whom were currently being watched by Audra and Omar along with Drew and Bianca's two year old son. Bianca, who was also one of my bridesmaids along with Becky, who is engaged to Adam by the way, anyway Bianca is four months pregnant with their second child. Clare was an investigative reporter at the Interpreter as well as being a fabulous mom. Bianca had graduated with a degree in business marketing and was a marketing manager for a huge cosmetics company. Drew went into advertising and his firm has produced some of the most successful commercials in the last two years. Adam was a highly sought after radio personality and had syndicated shows on over 100 radio stations in Canada and the States. Becky actually worked with Eli now; they ran a theatre company and have had several very successful productions. Tristan is an actor and left us for L.A. but he flew back for the wedding. Zig and Nicole broke up in their senior year at DeGrassi, we lost track of Nicole but Zig is at the wedding and a very popular musician, he travels a lot and plays back up guitar for a lot of bands and singers. All in all we were all doing great and I haven't seen or heard from Katie or my so called parents since that Friday night after Luke's game.

"You ready Maya they're ready to start?" Tris asks poking his head in the door.

"She's ready, we better line up." Bianca says getting up.

Clare kisses my cheek then she, Becky and Bianca walk out the door to line up at the aisle.

"You look gorgeous Sis," Tris smiles offering me his arm.

"Thanks you ready to give me away?" I ask him.

"To Luke, yeah I think I'm ready." He replies.

I take his arm and we line up behind Clare, the music begins and Becky walks down the aisle, then Bianca, then Clare and now it's my turn. I can see Luke at the end of the aisle he looks excited, slightly nervous but extraordinarily happy, which is pretty much how I feel. Owen grins and slaps Luke on the back lightly; the girls are all in position and all eyes on me. Tris gets me to the end of the aisle and kisses my check before giving me to Luke. He takes my hands and smiles blissfully at me as the minister begins talking.

"We have gathered here today to celebrate the joining in marital union of Maya Milligan and Lucas Baker. If anyone here can give just cause why these two should not be married let them speak now or forever hold their peace," the minister says and the room remains quiet. "May I have the rings?" The minister asks then Clare and Owen produce the rings, he holds mine out to Luke and he takes it. "Repeat after me, with this ring I take you Maya Milligan as my lawful wedded wife, to have and to hold for better or worse, as long as we both shall live."

Luke repeats the words with a gigantic smile while slipping the ring onto my finger. Now it's my turn and I do the same, repeating after the minister while putting Luke's ring on his finger.

"May I present Mr. and Mrs. Luke Baker; you may kiss your bride." The minister tells Luke.

He looks at me, grins even bigger picks me up into his arms like he's walking me over the threshold already and takes my lips in a blissfully happy embrace as we share our first kiss as husband and wife! And I couldn't be happier to be his wife and to think it all started with one kiss that stormy night eight years ago.

Thanks to everyone who read. Next Monday will be the premiere of my new story entitled: He Touched Me & I Let him Love Me. If you've looked at the list on my profile it's the one where both Clare and Maya are pregnant. But not by the same guy lol.