Chapter 22

Evely takes a bite of her sandwich. It's the coronation chicken recipe she made before, but in a sandwich, like she and Noah had brainstormed. She turns to stare back at the food truck, where its owner (Jackson ) is watching her, but he soon gets some more customers and she doesn't approach him. Instead, she goes home where she contemplates her half-eaten sandwich, lost in thought.
Noah comes in and updates her on how the Yes Mighty app launch is going, but she's not really listening. Instead, she takes a bite of her sandwich and identifies the spice combo, I still love you.
Each bite brings back a memory of Jackson. She sniffles a little and smiles as she tells Noah, "I found Jackson Michael " He forces a smile back at her, then hangs his head when she turns away.
Evely goes back to the food truck. Jackson still refuses to speak to her, but she stares at him, trying to figure out what to say. Finally, she settles for a "thank you" and walks away.
Once she's gone, Jackson tasks of his mask and says, "Forget it, I'm not coming back here." And tells logan he can stop hiding; his boss is gone. Logan calls him out for not letting go of Evely but pretending he has. He tells Jackson that it's not fair to let the previous generation's mistakes affect them. It's not fair to Evely. Fortunately Jackson was there that night when Evely's mother forbade her from marrying Jackson
But Jackson asks logan what he would do if it were him instead of Evely. Would they still be friends if he knew that Jackson's father was responsible for the death of his own? "Admit it," Jackson says, "You wouldn't be able to." Jackson admits that he doesn't know how to face Evely or her mother. He doesn't want her to have to choose between him and her family for the rest of her life.
It seems like everyone is hiding everywhere, because Noah listens in on their conversation from around the corner of the food truck and sighs as he realizes how much Jackson has sacrificed for Evely.
At night, madam Georgina asks Noah if she made the wrong choice. Evely used to express herself so freely, yet now her smiles seem more sad than her tears. Perhaps she shouldn't have let the grudges of the past affect the future happiness of her children. Noah responds that he can't really comment on that, but says that Evely 's happiness should be more important than past problems that can no longer be resolved. Madam Georgina nods and says that he's right as she blinks back tears. She no longer has a husband, she can't lose her daughter as well.
Madam Georgina meets with Grandma joh again and says she finally understands what Grandma meant all those months ago about not letting the grudges of the past dictate the future. They both agree that the children's happiness comes first. Georgina is even willing to lie to make that happen.
She tells Evely that she was able to clear up the misunderstanding surrounding her husband's death. She tells a pretty story about how(watson) Evely's dad and mr Michael (Jackson's father) had been collaborators all along. They ran into a group of thieves who stole his money and caused the accident, and watson, who was always focused on his work, tore out the key pages of his notebook and insisted Michael take them. Georgina says that now that this misunderstanding has cleared up, Evely and Jackson can get married. After all, they've been engaged for so long at this point, But Evely responds that her break up with Jackson had nothing to do with her father's accident and the role mr Michael john may have played in it. She tells her mother not to worry. She's grown up and will make sure to live.
logan and Jackson were having a conversation But Jackson also says that his break up with Evely was much more complicated than their fathers' relationship to each other. He now regrets the words he used, but thinks that perhaps it's better this way. Better to let the past be the past. Besides, Evely probably hates him. She hasn't demonstrated any sort of interest in him to logan Sure, he'll still have some regret, but perhaps they should both move on.
But of course, as fate would have it, it isn't that easy. Evely goes to look for Jackson's food truck again, but it's gone. She's about to leave when a man approaches with a phone in hand, asking if it's hers or a friend's, because she's in the phone background. It's not her phone. it's Jackson's. But Evely says she's no longer friends with Jackson. Instead, she pulls up Logan's number and tells the man that he can call logan to return the phone.
Logan got a call from the phone finder and discovers that he met Evely but that she refused to take the phone and return it to Jackson. Jackson takes this as proof that she hates him, telling logan "I told you so." logan tries to argue with him, but he refuses to listen.
But Jackson clearly still misses Evely, because he goes to spy on her at the night market, where she still sometimes works at a stall with Noah. He and Loganwatch as Noah wipes some tomato sauce off her face. They seem happy and look like they're together. Jackson smiles bitterly and says that she seems fine. There's no reason for him to come back. He'll just be a nuisance.
But once he and logan leave, Evely seems to suddenly sense that Jackson was there. She looks around for him and calls out his name, starting to get agitated, but he's nowhere in sight.
Noah walks her home later. When he leaves, she's about to go inside, but then some instinct makes her turn and look... and she spots Jackson hiding behind a tree. She calls out his name, but he turns and starts to walk away. But when she follows and calls out to him again, he stops, but doesn't turn around. Evely tells him that she's grown up. She's not the little girl he knew before, and she heard from her mom that the situation with their fathers was all a misunderstanding. So will he stay?
"I really miss you," she says as she embraces him from behind. She tells him how she now understands what he said about money not bringing happiness, and how she feels so alone. She asks if they can start over. He nods and says, "Let's start over." She closes her eyes happily.
But when she opens them, she realizes that she had imagined the whole thing. There is no Jackson watching from behind a tree. He wasn't there at all.
Instead, Jackson is at a bar with Logan, alternating between doing shots and puking his guts out. He insists that he's drinking because he's happy for Evely. please. Logan tells Jackson that he should just forget about her, then. But he says he can't forget her and drinks some more. He's so wasted he falls out of his chair and needs Logan plus another waiter to help stand him back up. Logan hugs him and tells him that even if no one else loves him, he will love him. Jackson drunkenly blubbers that logan has to protect Evely for him.
Noah tells Evely he wants to report Jackson for copyright infringement. The name of his food truck is too similar to one of their own brands. Evely doesn't want to, but Noah says he's already found a lawyer and scheduled a meeting with Jackson. All she has to do is show up. He tells her that in matters of business like this, she can't let herself be ruled by her emotions.
At the settlement meeting, Evely stares at Jackson while he looks ahead and refuses to look her in the eye. It starts out with Evely's lawyer accusing Jackson of copyright infringement or purposely luring Evely out so that she'll be forced to buy naming rights off of him for a hefty price. But it turns into a much more personal conversation between Evely happened between them, but reach no conclusion, all while logan, Noah, and the lawyer sit awkwardly and listen to them.
Evely calls Jackson out on his mixed messaging. He was the one who left, yet now he's the one leaving encoded number messages to try and express his feelings and make her come back? Why should she be the one who goes to him, when he was the one who left in the first place? Jackson tries to play it cool, but is clearly still a bit bitter and jealous, saying that her life seemed great and maybe she already had a partner and didn't need him anymore. "So now you're trying to blame me?" she asks incredulously. He's clearly the one who has been avoiding her, and she rightly calls out that they wouldn't even have met and he wouldn't have been so forthcoming if not for her (well really, Noah) accusing him of copyright infringement.
"Well now you know," he says. And what does she want to do now that she knows? "Shouldn't you be asking yourself that?" she asks. They look at each other for a long moment, the longest eye contact Jackson's been willing to make for a while. He looks away then sighs, saying if there's nothing else he's out, and flippantly leaves. Silent tears drip down Evely's face.
Logan goes to find Noah, angry that he would try to sue Jackson. He says they should resolve their problem the real manly way. Meaning fighting. Except they end up just posturing at each other for a long time without exchanging fists and tire each other out. Logan decides to do things the civil way instead and have a conversation.
Noah explains himself. Except we can't hear what it is, but we just see a lot of hand motions and impassioned expressions, and in the end, logan and Noah high five.
Evely asks Noah why he wanted to sue Jackson. Noah says that he did it for her, because he knew that without a forced meeting like this, she and Jackson would have never met. He tells her she can treat it like a birthday gift. She tries to say something, but he doesn't let her. Instead, he brings up the birthday wish she owes him, and says he'll make the wish now.
To her surprise, he wishes for her and Jackson to live happily ever after. He doesn't want them to miss each other or have regrets when they so clearly love each other. He turns and sees her crying, and even though his own eyes are red, he tries to keep things light, saying she can't go back on her word now. He already made the wish and can't take it away. The only thing he can give her now is a hug as a friend.
She hugs him, then jokes that he's an idiot for giving his original birthday wish to her, and now giving her own birthday wish back to her. He really got the short end of the stick. They both smile through tears as he says that it's no big deal because she's family. And now, if Jackson won't come find her, they can go find her. Who said that the man always has to take the lead.
Jackson is sitting all by his lonesome when Logan shows up with a woman. It's Ms. Susane the woman whose boyfriend he pretended to be a while ago, and she's now his wife. She lets the two friends talk. Logan starts berating Jackson for being a useless, terrible person. Jackson is shocked that Logan is mad at him. Logan calms down a bit to tell him that he's being extremely selfish while masquerading as being self-sacrificing. There's nothing noble about what he's doing to himself when he's also hurting everyone around him.
Logan points out that Evely changed herself for him, but has he changed himself for her? No. Logan says that he wants to see Jackson be brave for once. Be brave enough to face Evely, be brave enough to face himself. He starts crying as he tells Jackson that it makes him unhappy to see Jackson unable to find happiness. He doesn't like seeing him act the way he did when he lost his sister. Didn't he once say he would treasure the people he cared about? "Why do you think I help you so much? I just want to see you be happy!" logan says. He starts sobbing in earnest and cries, "Why do you have to be like this?" (Awwww what a sweetheart! logan is such a caring best friend to Jackson )
Jackson starts tearing up listening to Logan's heartfelt expressions, and tells him to stop crying. He grabs Logan's wife and puts her between them as a buffer, telling her that Logan might have some flaws but he's really a very good man. He hugs them both, saying thank you, before running off.
Running, running, running... Evely is also running. Running, running, running... Jackson runs through a flock of pigeons who part dramatically for him. Evely runs through a path full of heart balloons. She spots Jackson running and yells, "Jackson Michael, where do you think you're going?!" He slips as he tries to change direction and tells her that he was looking for her.
She repeats her initial challenge to him, but this time with some adjustments, but tells him that in seven days she can prove that her chicken is better than his. He plays along, but gets serious when he asks her to give him seven days to get her back. He apologizes for being selfish when he broke up with her a year ago. Since then, he's found the direction he wants to take his life, yet realized he's still missing something. her. He realized that from the day he first met her, she had made him whole. "Just give me a chance to get you back," he pleads.
Evely flings herself into his arms, saying, "You talk too much." She tells him that she doesn't need seven days. she'll take him back right now. They kiss, surrounded by balloons.
20 years later
Evely and Jackson's family is such a kind and caring family. Evely and Jackson 2 daughters and one son. Alice, christy, and micheal. Alice is an actress while christy is a secetrey working in a high paid company, and Michael being the youngest have just started his university. The two daughters love their parents so much including their brother.