Just a waitress (a jace Norman fanfic)

Chapter 26- home

A/N ahhhhhhh! Sorry I just have to say how sad and mad I am that Henry danger lost! They deserved it so much! I literally started crying when Austin and ally won. But I just hope they had fun. Better luck next time! So here's a chapter! Love y'all!😘💜
Christine's pov
Today is the day. It has taken forever but today is here! I'm being released today! Now I know how Lucy felt when she was running around packing like crazy and rushing the time to pass. I emptied my closet and threw everything into my bag. Some of it may have not even been mine. I had been so lonely for the past week. No one to talk to. And all I could think about was jace. I sat alone at all meals and didn't say a word more than necessary. But now I will have my old life back. My biggest fear is that it won't be lien my old life though. That people will always treat me differently as the girl who tried to kill herself. What if that's all that jace sees in me? I could worry about things like that all day. But for right now I'm just glad to be getting out of here. I'm getting picked up at noon, then I'm going home, then I have tomorrow off before I go back to set! Which I will be spending shopping with Lucy. They told me I didn't have to go back to set for a week, but honestly I just want things to go back to the way they were. I wolfed down breakfast and ran around doing things double time. As if me doing things way faster than normal will actually make time go faster. By 11:30 I was going to die of boredom and excitement to be getting out of here! I did yet another sweep of my room for the millionth time and once again found that I had left nothing behind. Then I went around and thanked all the nurses and doctors who helped me or even just talked to me. I know it seems kind of weird. I would have recovered eventually if they hadn't helped me. But without their help I wouldn't have been able to get back to the same old me, maybe an even better me. Noon came and I was waiting for what seemed like forever. Waiting for the car that would take me away from here forever. Waiting for that smile that made my heart melt every time. I was kind of going to miss this place. A lot happens here in just three weeks. I made new friends. But I also wanted to forget about the kiss and never have to tell jace. The dinner I can forget, the better. But I'm not sure that's possible. I keep having dreams where I told him and he freaks out and says. "Your a lier Christine! You betrayed me! Why wasn't I good enough for you! I will never forgive you! I hate you Christine!" I said that last part to him. Maybe that's why it shows up in my nightmare. But what if he can't forgive me? I did betray him when he loved me faithfully the whole time. "Christine? Christine! Earth to Christine!" I was ripped out of my flashback by hands shaking my shoulders. I snapped out of it and looked into deep brown eyes and dirty blond hair. Then his smile warmed my heart. "Jace! I can't believe your here!" I yelled and jumped into his arms. He hugged me tight. It probably looked strange because I hugged him like he was my soldier husband who just got back from World War II. And you don't see that in front of the hospital generally. "I've missed you so much!" He said. "You saw me last week!" I said and he held my hands. "Every minute without you is an eternity to me. Promise you won't leave for that long again?" I smiled. "Fine. But only because I don't think you could make it!" We laughed. "You ready to go home?" He asked. For a while I couldn't remember what home was. But home is where the heart is. And my heart is forever with jace. We packed my bags in the car then got in. I held his hand the whole way home and we talked and laughed. When we pulled into the driveway jace jumped out and then opened the door for me. I got out and jace swooped me up bridal style. I let out a little scream, then a laugh. He carried me into the house. "What about my bags?!" I said through laughs. "Oh! Those were important?" He smiled. He put me down and we went back and grabbed my everything from the car. I brought it all up to my room and started unpacking. I had to put stuff in my bathroom. I walked to the closed door. I was terrified that when I opened it my blood would still be smeared across the floor. But when I pushed it open it was spotless. Like I had never been there. That was a relief. I let out a breath I had been holding. I finished unpacking. Then caramel ran in with a wagging tail. She jumped on me and I fell to the floor as she licked my face. "Caramel! Get off!" I laughed and pushed her off. She still seemed super wound up. "Looks like someone needs to go to the park!" I grabbed some toys and the leash and went to Jaces room. He was on his phone. "Jace? I'm going to the park with caramel. You want to come?" He looked up and for a second I thought I saw sadness. But he quickly hid it. "No that's alright. I have homework to do." Something seems off about him. I would have pressed the matter further but I think caramel would have exploded. So I said okay and closed the door. We walked to the park and played for a while. But my mind was not far ff of jace. What was he hiding? What would make him sad but he wouldn't be able to tell me?

Jaces pov a little while earlier.
Christine went upstairs to unpack. I've never felt happier. She was finally on the way to normal. I walked to the dining room table. I noticed that someone had gotten the mail. I looked through it. Mostly junk. Then in the back I saw an envelope addressed to Christine. It was from some child services agency. I know I should have given it to her, but I was curious. I ran up to my room and closed the door. I sat on my bed and broke the seal of the envelope. I scanned down the paper. Until my eyes fell on something awful. "In the event of your parents death or if they are in any other way unable to care for you, you will be moving to the closest available family member. At first you did not seem to have any living relatives. But we have discovered a great aunt Cornelia sanders in Florida. She said she is willing to take you. But since you already have a family caring for you it is up to you and the guardians to decide whether or not you will be relocated." Florida?! She can't move to Florida! What am I going to do? The choice is hers. But what if she doesn't want to stay? I can't live without her! I'll just give it to her when she's super happy here. Then she won't want to leave! I heard the door start to open. I panicked and threw the letter under the bed. Christine walked in. When I saw her face I immediately felt bad for hiding this from her. Just seeing her reminded me of how much I would miss her. She started to notice how I felt so I quickly hid my sad face. I told her I didn't want to go to the park and she left. The minute the door closed I jumped up and grabbed the letter. I have to find a better hiding place for this. I looked around my room considering every possible hiding place. My eyes fell on my desk. I remembered that there was a button under it that opened a secret drawer. I opened it and put the letter in and closed it. I kept telling myself. "I'm doing this for her. Because I love her." But I knew that really I wasn't doing this for her. I was doing this for me. Because I didn't want her to leave. Because I couldn't be happy without her. Because I can't live without her. Because I love her.