Committed ✦ Wilk

Epilogue

After the court case was settled, Melody and Alex were both locked up and had pretty heavy charges against them. The process was lengthy, and caused a lot of stress, but Sam and I stuck by each other and got through it. The months had flown by with so much happening each day.

I had became so much closer to all of my family - including my mom who I talked into moving out to California. After a long conversation with my dad, and lots of tears, and apologies, they had decided to put their differences aside and act like mature adults for my sake. Of course they weren't going to be best friends, but they were actually friendly to each other, thus causing Suzette and my mom to get along. The three of us even began taking a yoga class one day out of the week to escape the boys for a little bit and all of the chaos that we had in our daily lives. Mom is using the internet to find a new piece of man candy, and they both tease me about how I am going to grow old with Sam - but that's exactly what I want. 

Dad and Su even sold their house to move out to their beach house in Santa Monica. From the money that they got when their house sold, they surprised Sam and I with a place. We were so thankful, and we even had enough money to buy new furniture. There were also extra bedrooms so we invited Nate, and Jagger to move in. Jagger and Jay had gotten pretty serious, and Jay stays with us on the weekends when he isn't busy with school and work. I'm finishing my last year of college and transferred my credits over to a college not too far from work, and the house. I met a lot of girls who were in the same situation as me - young ladies getting an education to support their children. I became friends with a lot of them, and we occaisonally go out and have a ladies night. 

I even went through with making a change to my hair and cut it off a little past my collar bones, and had it dyed to a caramel color. I felt a lot more confident, and I learned how to do makeup that made my now constantly tanned skin glow and look luminous. I felt awesome, and on top of the world. I was always snapping pictures of Raina and I, and goofy pictures with Sam were my favorite.

Raina even learned how to say ma-ma, but da-da was still her first and favorite word. She was creating new sounds every day. She was constantly crawling everywhere, and liked to follow Nate around. On top of all of that she was even trying to take steps, but her little legs weren't quite ready.

The house is constantly busy with the boys always being over, but I don't mind, they keep the place interesting. There's always some type of music flowing around, and Sam and Nate are in the studio nearly every day, becoming more and more popular in the music industry. Jag graduated and is now attending one of the many colleges in L.A, while living with us since it is a short drive to and from school. Life has become interesting, and I'm the happiest I have ever been.

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"Oh my gosh there are so many people here," I smiled as I walked into the kitchen. Sam, and the boys were all standing around chatting it up. We're celebrating Raina's first birthday, and I had invited my friends from school, and girls from the yoga class and they brought their kids. Most of them were under the age of four, and some were even Raina's age. "Hey, you made it!" I smiled as my friend Gia walked in. 

"Yes," she smiled and hugged me. "Wouldn't miss it for the world!" She was definitely my closest friend that I had, and her son Ben was only a month older than Raina. "Hey, guys," she smiled at all of the boys.

"Hey, Gia," they all waved. 

"Where's Raina?" She asked.

"Out back with Jag and a couple other kids," Sam said. "I'm actually going out there, come on, Ben let's go see Raina!" Ben smiled and Sam picked him up and carried him out back where everyone else was. All of the guys followed and I realized that it was about time to open up gifts.