Hey everyone, this is the end! It's a little heartbreaking for me, too. Anyway, thank you for sticking with this story and with me. I appreciate it very much. Read! Enjoy! Review!

Spencer watched on, standing not too far from the entrance. Toby was out getting the car and she was waiting for the couple before her on the dance floor. She gave a sigh, a mix of bittersweet emotions filling her. Hanna walked up to her and stood in the same manner and watched the couple on the dance floor.

"She really is happy, isn't she?" Spencer asked, smiling at the sight of her best friend's smile. Emily and Paige were in their own world. Prom was dispersing quickly. Every few minutes it was emptier and emptier. They were ready to leave; except Paige had asked Emily for one last dance and it just so happened to be Emily's current favorite slow song. Now they were among the last couples on the dance floor, two-stepping slowly to Lana Del Rey's "Lucky Ones".

"She is," Hanna answered, digging through her bag for what Spencer thought was her phone, "You know, they almost put you and Toby to shame," she commented. Spencer looked at Hanna wide-eyed. Hanna looked at her with a sheepish grin before explaining. "You know, because it was cute that you two had the smart thing going on and he kind of relaxed you and you kind of gave him life," she explained, snapping a few pictures of Paige and Emily. Spencer snorted at the explanation. "You guys were cute that way," she added, "But you see Emily and you see that she hasn't had any luck in love and then along comes Paige and look at that smile, Spence," she instructed. Spencer looked back at the dancing couple. Emily had on the brightest smile. She and Paige were talking quietly over the song and Paige must have said something funny because Emily dropped her head and her shoulders shook. And Paige vibrated with pride because she made Emily laugh like that.

"You're right," Spencer agreed, "They are cuter than Toby and me." Hanna nodded beside her. "Cuter than you and Caleb, too," she added. Hanna looked indignant for a moment before she shrugged.

"That's also true," she said, giving Spencer a slight pout. But those two weren't paying attention. As the song ended, Spencer and Hanna watched as Emily leaned forward and gave Paige soft, lingering kiss. She then took the hand of an entranced Paige and dragged her off the dance floor. Paige followed mindlessly, snapping out of it when they met up with Spencer and Hanna.

Paige had a lake house. Who knew? Spencer wasn't all that surprised. The McCullers had money and what they did with it was never totally obvious. And so that's where they were headed. Spencer wondered briefly how eight people would fit into the house, but Paige explained that there were four bedrooms. And at first, she didn't understand why the Lake house had four bedrooms when Paige was an only child but the girl explained that it was for past familial use; like family reunions.

Spencer, Toby, Aria and Ezra followed Emily's car to the lake house. She expected the house to be old and decrepit, seeing as it was an hour and half away and Paige seemed accustomed to taking the backwoods route. She expected that there was no one to keep it maintained, but it was beautifully refurnished. Once they pulled up, they could see the beautiful lake several yards away from the house and how the moon reflected off the calm waters. It was breathtaking.

Spencer was suddenly hit with a pang of sorrow, although it was miniscule and brief. She had known that Paige and Emily were planning to come here alone. She could remember asking a few days before Prom if she and Toby could join them. And they couldn't really deny Hanna's self-invitation even if they wanted to. Still, if they were alone, Paige and Emily could have had this for themselves. This romantic place to just… be. They had a place to be away from the world and spend a few days alone before everything gets crazy. She knew that Paige would be going to the same school as Emily, but she also knew that with going to college, their schedules would become unbelievably complicated. This place was their memory to make. But Paige didn't seem embittered about her girlfriend's friends joining them. She accepted it easily.

They settled in the den of the lake house. Well, most of them did. Hanna and Caleb disappeared into one of the bedrooms but everyone else settled for drinking and board games. It wasn't much that Spencer remembered about that night. It wasn't much, but she could distinctly remember being lifted in Toby's arms and then being set down on a very comfortable, plush bed.

The first thing she smelled when she awoke was breakfast. The headache pounding along her skull did nothing to stop her from getting up and making her way downstairs to the kitchen. When she made it downstairs, she saw Aria at the stove starting pancakes.

"I thought I smelled coffee," She greeted. Aria gave her a bright smile and shrugged.

"There was coffee, but we weren't awake when it was made," she answered. Spencer looked at her quizzically. Her head tipped in explanation, "Emily and Paige are having brunch outside, lakeside." Spencer analyzed the sentence and nodded dumbly. "But I'm going to make your coffee now," she added and Spencer smiled thankfully at Aria. Ezra joined them in the kitchen and offered her a mumbled "goodmorning". Once she returned it she made her way out onto the porch.

She found Hanna there. The blonde was wrapped in a silk blue robe, presumably to fight off the slight breeze in the late morning/early afternoon. Spencer was thankful that the porch presented a relenting shade and that she was not bombarded with the sun.

"Morning," she said to Hanna. Hanna gave her an acknowledging smile and then looked back at what she had been looking at before Spencer joined her. Spencer followed her gaze. Her eyes landed on Emily and Paige. They were under a tree along the bank of the lake, sitting onto a blanket with a picnic basket between them. Emily let out a bellowing laugh after Paige enthusiastically rushed out a story.

"I've never seen Emily laugh like that," Hanna said behind her. Spencer nodded her head curtly in agreement and watched the scene before her. Paige threw an article of food in the air and opened her mouth to catch it. It fell to Paige's face and jumped from her cheek and onto the blanket underneath them. Emily giggled loudly as Paige feigned injury. If Spencer squinted hard enough, she could tell that it was a grape. "You know…" Hanna began, "Paige is going to be around for a long time," she finished.

Spencer bit her lip in contemplation. She wanted to ask: How do you know? It was no secret that she was concerned about Emily and their relationship, but from what she could see, Emily was fine. And even if fine wasn't anything to go off of, she never wanted to see Emily without the smile Paige was giving her. "I know," Spencer replied. Hanna stepped beside her.

"You think you can handle that?" Hanna asked. Spencer gave it some thought.

"Yeah," she answered, "Yeah, I can."

"Dance with me!" Paige said, hopping up to stand on her feet. Emily eyed her with wide, surprised eyes. It seemed ridiculous. Just a bit, but Paige was standing, making sure to avoid the brunch foods with her hand held out.

"Right here?" she asked, "Right now?" Paige shrugged and threw her a grin.

"Right here, right now," she confirmed. Emily stood on her feet.

"But there's no music," she stated.

"I'll take care of that," Paige told her, moving closer to her. Paige took out her phone and scrolled through the menu and found music. Emily smiled widely when she heard her favorite song fill up the space around them. Paige positioned her hands accordingly in manner to follow. "I'll follow your lead," she said. It surprised Emily. Paige usually lead when they were slow dancing, but that was mainly because Emily got lost in Paige's eyes and fumbled on her footing – not that she would tell Paige that.

She let the music guide her and lead Paige into a jumbled waltz. Paige chuckled every time, laughingly apologizing every time she stepped on Emily's feet. They would look back on this moment. They would look back on this romantic, lakeside picnic and perhaps, tell their children. Paige made her happy and she made Paige and that's all that mattered. Her life would be starting soon with college and she couldn't be happier with that she was starting it with Paige.

"I love you," Emily announced after she had stepped on Paige's feet. Paige looked down at her feet before looking up at her, like she'd been surprised.

"I love you too." And what was more important to Emily is that when Paige said it, she could feel it with no doubt in her heart. "I think I need to lead now, Fields," Paige said. Emily cackled but nodded her head as Paige began to lead.

The End