Author's Note: I'm very sad to upload this final piece of "Forget Me Not". It's a bittersweet feeling, but I assure you that it's not the last you'll see of me on this website! I have another story uploaded called "Begin Again", and I'm currently working on a couple pieces to upload once "Begin Again" is in good standing. Here is the very last piece of "Forget Me Not"! I hope you enjoy it and are pleasantly surprised by the little surprise I threw your way.

Epilogue

Sixteen months later—July

"Hanna and Analeigh are coming back from New York today!" said an excited Spencer as she shuffled a deck of cards. After Analeigh graduated from high school and Hanna's boutique got very successful, the two had gone to New York; Hanna, to open up a store in SoHo, and Analeigh to go to college. Spencer couldn't have been prouder of the both of them. "Dianna came home from college a month ago, but she's been travelling around, looking for work over the summer." Dianna had gotten into UPenn (how very Hastings of her), and she loved it there.

"Have you spoken to Wren? I heard that after he turned himself in to the police about Dianna, he was deported and sent back to England," Spencer said. I already knew.

I stared at Spencer. I loved her, and at the same time, I loathed her. Maybe it was because how, despite all the hardships I had put her through, she managed to be so happy and defy us all. She beat us without really even trying and she was extremely happy.

I just looked at the cards she placed in front of me. I hadn't really spoken much these days.

She sighed in defeat. "I can play one last game of 31 before I have to go home. I invited Hanna and Analeigh over for dinner. We have a really big announcement to make."

I paused before I said, "You should probably go now, then. I would hate for you to keep them waiting."

I could feel Spencer looking down at me, but I didn't look up at her. "Just go, Spencer," I said, my voice lacking in emotion.

"Can I ask you a question, Aria?"

It was the first time I heard Spencer use my name in ages.

"I've done so much for you, even after you did all of these things to me. I kept you from going to jail for the rest of your life, Aria. I think the least you could do is look at me while I'm talking to you," she snapped at me before she threw the deck of cards on the table.

However, Spencer's meeting with me barely put a damper on her plans. She had such a healthy glow these days. She walked inside the house she shared with Toby to see that Hanna and Analeigh had already arrived. She went over to give Analeigh a hug and kiss on the cheek.

"Hey, Mom. You look so beautiful," Analeigh said.

Spencer smiled. "You do, too." Spencer was glad that Analeigh had finally gotten accustomed to calling Spencer her mother.

Spencer turned to give Hanna a hug. Hanna hugged her eagerly. "Spence! I've missed my partner in crime!" Hanna exclaimed as she hugged Spencer.

"Has Dianna showed up yet?" Spencer asked as she pulled away from them.

Analeigh shook her head. There was a knock at the door. Toby came downstairs and opened the door. Dianna walked inside. She hugged her father.

"So you said you had big news to tell us all?" Hanna asked.

Spencer nodded and smiled. Dianna greeted the three of them eagerly. Toby took a seat next to Spencer and held her hand. The diamonds on her engagement ring and wedding band glistened slightly as she moved them.

"Spencer, you're killing me with the suspense here," Hanna complained.

Dianna and Analeigh laughed. Spencer sighed. "It's really big news." She turned to Toby before saying it. "I'm pregnant," she said.

Hanna was the only person who knew the full extent of how much she wanted and tried to conceive a child in her twenties and later early thirties. A person isn't as fertile in their later thirties, and conceiving for Spencer was hard enough as it was. She was the most shocked.

"Are you girls upset?" Spencer asked nervously.

Analeigh and Dianna shook their heads incessantly.

"I'm so happy for you, Mom!" Dianna exclaimed before hugging Spencer.

Analeigh smiled. "I'm so happy to be a big sister," she added.

Spencer smiled gratefully. Toby squeezed her hand reassuringly. "I guess it's just a lot easier when you're not trying and you're with a person you love," she commented.

Hanna smiled for her friends. She broke the two out of their happy, oblivious state. "Okay, so I want all the details when you get them. How far along? When are they due? Is it a boy or a girl?" she asked.

"Six weeks, March, and we're not sure yet, but we want to wait, though we might just be tempted to find out before the baby is born," Spencer said.

"I think it's a girl," Toby confessed.

"I think it's a boy," Spencer disagreed.

"Girl!" Toby argued.

"Boy!" Spencer shouted.

"Girl!"

"Boy!"

Hanna sighed a happy sigh. She turned to Dianna and Analeigh. "Some things just never change."

Analeigh and Dianna smiled. They looked over at their parents who were more in love than they ever had been. Sure, the road leading up to this was long and certainly not easy, but some things were worth the journey. Love was always worth that journey, no matter what the risk was.

Analeigh thought about the entire story. To think it all started with a search for the perfect heels…

Likewise, Dianna thought of how it all started for her. I guess now I have Alison to thank for everything.

Spencer and Toby thought similarly. It all started with a game of Scrabble. That was what made me fall the hardest.

And Hanna sat by through it all. One day, she was going to write a story about it. She knew it would be a bestseller, because it was the best story ever told. It was even better than Romeo and Juliet. Hanna suddenly knew why. Spencer and Toby were Juliet and Romeo, except their story? It had a happy ending.

As I'm finishing this, I was told that I have to dedicate this book. I would say I dedicate this book to all the people who doubted me, but this story is so good, I don't think you guys deserve to have this dedicated to you. So I would like to dedicate this story to my family. Though we can be dysfunctional, I don't think I'd be capable of this without your support. Thank you, Mom, for supporting me in whatever I do. Thank you, Dad, for getting me the books and the computer and everything which I use to write this story. Thank you also for your Friday night stories which give me so many ideas. Thank you, Grandma, for most of Hanna's lines. I have never met a more sarcastic person in my life. I'd also like to thank a couple of other people. Thank you, Ms. Sanchez, because I know I wouldn't be able to do this without you believing in my writing. Thank you, Michelle and Julien, for being there through everything. You guys are really my best friends. Thank you, Amanda and Meghan, because you guys just keep me so entertained (and also inspired some of Hanna's antics). And I can't say it enough, but I thank you readers for being there through it all. I never thought this was possible, but you guys believed in me and you made me believe in me. -Kayson