Chapter 400 Over The Year.

• A full year has gone by, Brian and Elizabeth moving into their new home. Joan moving into the guest house, Tyler and Zach getting their own room. This house was even more special to them both, it had their family in it. Making it a real home. Elizabeth is happy with finally having some of her own family here with her, getting to share her happiness with them. It's two years that they have been married now, and its stronger than ever.
• Elizabeth was now getting ready to go on tour again, the last tour. The main and final one for this book. She had mixed emotions about it, saying goodbye to the series was hard. It meant she was saying goodbye to the time, she met Brian. And in a way saying goodbye to her fantasy man Zach. All that got her here was ending. She wondered if she could do this again? Write something that would make the people fall in love with her, all over again? Or would this be her one and only? She then thought, either way, she got what she really wanted out of this. A new fresh start, with a wonderful man she loved. Everything they have been through was worth it in the end. Not to mention, all she has become in the last two years, she has grown so much in so many ways from the naive small-town girl.
• For the last year, she hasn’t heard much from Ethan as he did what he said and went traveling around the world. He put Karen in assistant living and moved on to see what he finally wanted out of life. He saw that Elizabeth didn’t want him, and never would look back. He was doing the same. Getting to travel to see things he never got to see before. Enjoying the sights and sounds. It was the best time of his life. He didn’t have to carter to anyone, no wife, no kids, no parents. He was himself, to only care and worry about himself. He saw that letting go of the burden of his mother, actually set him free. As he looks back at his life, he sees all the wrong, that they did to his marriage, and he let them. He also sees how his actions drove Elizabeth away. He doesn’t regret it as much as before, seeing that maybe not being with her now is a good thing. If he looked at it, clearly they never really had anything in common but their children. He sits back on the beach of Miami thinking about how Elizabeth moved on and found someone she was happy with. Was it possible to be this happy with a person? He knows at the beginning he was, and so was she, just things went wrong. Things faded. He wondered if the same would happy to Elizabeth and Brian? Then he just thinks maybe not, they been through so much and got through it. He saw that being with Jessica was only a short term fix and lead to nothing either, expect to have a son. He knew to have anything that would be worth it, he would have to fix himself first. To find himself, to be happy with himself.