She was crying again, but this time, Sam knew they were tears of happiness. Their time had finally come. They would still have things to talk about, to overcome, but they would do it together, wouldn’t they? They would fight for the immense love they had always felt for each other. “Well, yeah. I mean… You had agreed to meet me tonight, but then, you seemed to have changed your mind about it. I was definitely going to come to your house if it was necessary. And dragging you here if you had resisted. Or screaming how much I love you right there in front of your parents and the entire neighborhood.” He smiled imagining all those things he could have done for her. “I would do anything for you, you know that.” He let his heart spoke, smiling content in his chest. “You’re my person too, Merce.” Sam answered, hearing everything she had to say. Tears had started to run down his cheeks once more, almost making him impossible to look at her. Emotional, the boy wiped them away, looking at her with so much love. She was telling him all those things he had wanted to hear for years. She was telling him them there, at the lake, the place that was so important to them. Almost nine years had passed. Nine years that they had spent loving each other from afar. While they were dating other people or just trying to find their place in the world. “You’re my heart. And I would wait all my life for you to accept me if I had to, because I just can’t live without you. I said this once and I really meant it. You’re my everything, Mercedes Jones. And I would never ask you to change. I would never ask you to do anything you didn’t want. I need you to know that. I love you. I love all of you. And I will try, every day I will try to make you as happy as you make me. I’ll try to be the man you really deserve. I will fight for you, for us, for our future.” He told her, noticing the sun begun to set on the horizon. Pulling her toward him, Sam didn’t doubt and sat her on his lap, wrapping his hands around her waist, leaving a kiss on her shoulder. “Don’t kill me, okay? I just longed to be close to you.” He whispered starting to hum that famous song he had sung to her once, while they watched the sunset.