~CHAPTER 54~

*•*•*•I love you.•*•*•*

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"Wake up princess." Chase whispers in my ear and I groan turning towards him and smiling.

"I'm good right here, thank you very much." I say and cuddle closer to him.

Three days ago, when we first arrived, mom had set up the boys in a room and the girls with me. During the days, Chase moved to my room, May was in Seb's room and Lizzie to Lucas' bed which was right next to Cole's.

"You have to wake up."

"Why?"

"Because breakfast is served. And you always eat no matter how asleep you may be."

"What did mom make?"

"I believe that it's waffles."

"Dammit she knows me too well."

"Are those your favorite?"

"Waffles are my comfort food. She used to make them a lot after my pet fish died, and then she made them three times a week when dad died. She knew I was hurting and in need of comfort that I would never ask for so she made them for secretly and then when I found them every day, I would eat them by the tv."

"That's nice."

"Yeah. Mom has always been like that, even when she and dad were only dating. She treated me like her own. Granted she couldn't have her own. I happily acted like her own too." I smile at that.

"You must really love her."

"I do." I smile at him and he smiles right back then kisses me. "Let's go eat those waffles"

I stand up and put of my pants. I've always slept without pants at home. I never did at Henderson, because I didn't feel comfortable enough. Anyone could walk in. But here I do. Truth be told it stir up some downstairs feelings for Chase on the second night, but I didn't let that stop me.

Chasse puts on a shirt and grabbed me by the waist leading me outside. We walked downstairs and found everybody already at the table. I walked over towards mom, who was still by the waffle maker, and kissed her cheek grabbing a plate and joining everybody at the table.

"Plans for today?" May asked once I was seated.

"I'm gonna bake cookies." I say and take a bite out of my waffle.

"And after that?" Lizzie is the one that asked this time and I look at her and say.

"Bake more cookies."

"What?"

"Yep. My nieces and nephews get here today and they love cookies. And if we want them to keep believing Santa is real. I gotta make a shit ton of cookies."

"Then what will we do without you?" May pouts and I look at her smiling.

"There's a lot of things you guys can do." I say and look towards Sebastian. "Why don't you take them to the mall? Or take everybody to the beach."

"I wouldn't recommend that, the forecast says that there will be some really huge waves." Mom says sitting at the table with us.

"The mall it is." Sebastian sasy and they all nod in agreement.

The rest of breakfast goes by smoothly and after we're done eating, everybody went to get ready.

...

"Hey." Chase says from the kitchen entry.

"Hey stranger." He comes over and kisses me. I walk towards the fridge and get the ingredients for the cookies and once u get everything out I start to pour the liquid things first.

"Madd's we're leaving." Cole calls from the front door and I nod.

"Okay!" I yell back and look at Chase. You aren't going with them?"

"Not really my scene, plus I wanted to stay here with my girl." He smiles at me. "Need help?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Do you always bake the cookies by yourself?"

"Yes I do. Sebastian doesn't pay attention and ends up eating all the chocolate chips, and Nat always burns them." I say chuckling and looking at him. "Dad taught me how to make them."

"That's sweet."

"Yeah he always used to make time for us. He could've been the busiest most tired main in the world and he would still take an hour out of his day just for us."

"He sounds like a great man." I smile at that and nod.

"He was." I ask Chase to hand me the flour and he does.

"What about your nieces and nephews."

"What about them?"

"You never talk about them. I wanna know what I'm getting into with this whole 'Christmas at the McKenna house' thing." He says shrugging and I stop what I'm doing to look at him.

"Christmas at the McKenna house?" I laugh at that. "Sounds so ritualistic."

"Isn't it?" He smiles at me and I shake my head.

"We're not murdering cows then spreading their bloods on our cheeks. How weird do you think we are?" I laugh even harder and he shakes his head.

"I've been your roommate for four months, princess."

"Oh that's foul." I laugh again. "But you're good, there will be no guest burning ceremony this year."

"Ha ha ha." He laughs sarcastically making me smile at him.

"I know, I'm hilarious."

"Completely."

"Well re-directing the conversation. My nieces and nephews are much like myself, but that's just because Marcus and Shawn raised them. They basically raised me too, along Natasha and my father."

"They are the most amazing children you will ever meet. Well Nathan is the youngest at 3 years old and then it's Austin he's 5. Lexie is 6. The legacies twins that are 9. And the oldest is Caleb that's 18."

"You have an 18 year old nephew?" He asks as he rolls up the cookie dough into balls.

"Yep fun fact he is actually a month older than me."

"Does he bug you about that?" He asks and I nod as I place the cookies in the over standing by the counter where the rest of the cookie dough is.

"Every chance he gets." I laugh at that and he nods. He looks at my face and I roll my eyes. "Do I have a booger up my nose? Chase it's not funny."

"You have cookie dough on your face."

"Where?"

"Right there." He then puts cookie dough where he pointed.

"You didn't. You know you have flour all over your hair." I grab the flour bag and he starts to take steps back.

"No, don't do it."

"Don't do what?" I pause. "This?" I throw flour all over his hair. And that's how the 'flour/cookie dough fight' started.  We kept fighting and somehow escalated from flour/cookie dough to everything that was on the counter. "Truce?"

"Okay." When he fished saying this I heard the familiar voice of my brother

"Maddie you're favorite brother is here." Marcus calls from the front door.

"Seb has been here all this time." I call back as I go to the doorway Chase following me. I went to hug him, but he put his hand up.

"You are covered in cookie dough." He points all over my body.

"You noticed, I was trying to do something new with my style today." I pose like a model making Chase laugh.

"Oh yes, hilarious. I'm not hugging you until you bathe." He shrugs and I scoff turning towards Shawn.

"That's mean. Shawn do you want a hug?"

"Sure Maddie, after you take a shower." He smiles at me and I laugh shaking my head.

"What? You usually take my cookie dough hugs." I turn to Chase. "See what you've done Shawn wont hug me."

"That's not my fault you started it with the flour."

"You're such a liar." I say smiling at him I look back at my nieces and nephews. "Do any of you want a cookie dough hug?"

"The nephew that is older than you will take one." he opens his arms coming close to me.

"Was that necessary?"

"Not at all." He chuckles. Soon after, all of his siblings come hug me.

"I missed you guys." I smile breaking the hug.

"We missed you too." Mark says. "Who's that?"

"Oh right. Nieces, nephews, brother-in-law and brother."

"I just love how she put me last." Marcus whispers to Shawn.

"Shh old guy. Anyways, everybody this is Chase, my roommate and... boyfriend."

"Boyfriend? I thought you didn't even want to admit your feelings to yourself." Mark says sarcastically and I wince.

"Yeah it's a long story." Hope and Jo come running to me.

"Is that the guy we helped decorate his room?" Jo asks and I nod

"They did what?" Shawn asks.

"I told you to keep it a secret."

"Where's Seb?" Mark asks looking around.

"He went out with Nat and everybody else." I explain and he nods.

"So you two were here alone."

"Not alone, alone. Cinnamon, Coconut and Cupcake are here... somewhere."

"The dogs don't count."

"Then yes we're here alone."

"That's lovely." He sighs. "Kids go get settled in."

"Remember left side of the house this time. Grandma has other guest this year that are staying at the house." Shawn reminds them and I nod.

"Okay dad." Lexi yells from the top of the stairs and make a left turn."

"I wanna carry that baby so bad." I say then look down at my attire. "I'll be right back. Keep the baby ready for me. Get to know each other." I point between Chasse and both of my brothers.

I ran up the stairs and towards my room. I grab my things and get into the bathroom. I most probably took the fastest shower ever, not wanting to leave Chase down there with the wolves for too long. No boyfriend of mine has left mentally stable after meeting them.

When I finish my shower I dry myself and change into a fresh set of clothes. I put on some deodorant and perfume and walk downstairs again. I see that they were just conversing and lean against the door frame loving how they're getting along. I walk further into the kitchen and grab Nathan that was in a high chair.

"Hey Nate." I smile at him and put up my hand for a high five. "How are you my dude?"

"Good." He replies and I smile at that.

We walk over to the oven and I check on to cookies and see that they are done. I place Nathan in the empty sink.

"Maddie don't put my child in the sink." Marcus says from the table where he's watching everything go down. "That's not sanitary. Nate could get sick."

"All of your other children are still alive Mark." I say as I bend over to get the cookies out of the oven. I grab the pot holder and open the oven, grabbing the cookies placing them next to the stove across from Nate who was still in the sink.

"You need to stop that." he says and I nod.

"Your children love it when I put them in the sink." I say and turn around. "I always clean the sink before putting them in." I say and he shakes his head still not liking the idea of their kids being in sinks. I walk over to Nathan and pull him up and out of the sink. I walk towards Marcus and hand him Nate. "Here's your child."

I walk back to the cookies and see that I didn't make enough and that the cookie batter is finished since there was a war in the kitchen that you can't see anywhere. Looks like they cleaned up. There are also no more ingredients.

"Looks like there are not enough cookies and no ingredients so I'm going to have to go to the store."

"You want me to go with you?" Chase asks and I shake my head.

"Nah, I'm good, that's just around the corner." I walk towards him and kiss his head, then proceed to kiss everybody else's head. "You may continue conversing about whatever as long as it's not about me."

"See you in a bit." Marcus says and I wave over my head walking over towards the key bowl. I see that the keys that are left are for the Rover and the volky beatle. I grab the ones to the Rover, needing to face my fears, and walk to the garage.

"Hey, honey. I know it's been a while." I open the door and get in. I missed this car. I open the garage door, smiling when I see that my sunglasses are still in this car. I pull out of the garage and drive down the driveway. I grab my phone and put on some music singing along.

I drive away from the house and keep driving towards the supermarket singing to my jams not having a thing to worry about. I have the boy of my dreams waiting for me at the house. I have amazing friends. It's been a minute since I got my last nightmare and I really do believe that things are starting to look up for me.

Yet I didn't know that this was the day that I would die. I wasn't expecting my death to come the same way as my father's.

I didn't hear the honking of the tow truck on my left side. I didn't bother to listen to the squealing tires on the asphalt as I tried to keep driving to my destination. I couldn't drive to my destination though because I just kept rolling and rolling and rolling away from it, and closer to my death. I was upside down and dripping blood from god know where, with tiny pieces of shattered glass scattered all over my hair and my seatbelt choking the life out of me as the life is being snuffed out of me.

This is seriously not fun.

I tried to reach for my phone. I get to it and hit emergency contacts and hit Chase's number since it's the first one. It rings a while and he finally answers.

"Princess?" I faintly hear.

"I love you." I groan out and he starts asking questions.

"Princess? Where are you? What's happening?" I stop hearing him after a while and stop responding too, as it all starts to turn to black, and I start to remember it all too well.

I experience life, I experience laughs and I experienced love. My pillows are always right. When I see it as my death I don't see it as tragic as it felt when my father died. I closed my eyes ready to leave.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

Well it looks like it's a bit chaotic so I'm going to let all of you sit in your thoughts. Before I do. I do want to say that I'm truly very sorry. With lots of love the author you hate the most.

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