All Chapters of A Home For Christmas: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Nina "Momma, momma wake up!" The wind is so cold that my toes are hurting but my mom has got me so wrapped up that I don't feel it as much as I should. The wind got really scary and has broken our tent but my mommy laid over me to protect me and keep me safe because she's the best mommy in the whole wide world but now she's sleeping and I can't wake her up. I wiggle with all I have and keep calling her but she's not answering. Some of the other people who live here are sleeping too but the rest left here ages ago while mommy was laying over me. Finally, after lots of wiggling I manage to get out from under mommy. The wind isn't so windy anymore but she still won't wake up. "Mommy wake up! The wind has gone now, Mommy!" Why don't she listen? I'm scared and I'm cold and I just want my mommy to wake up! Maybe she's not well and that's why she's sleeping. She has told me before that if she's sleeping and I can't wake her up then I have to ask for help and now that it's happening, I'm ge

Riley For the first time today, I'm actually grateful for the snowstorm because it means less traffic and has allowed us to get to the hospital a lot quicker than normal. Once we are in there and Julia is taken away, Nina and I spent almost an hour waiting on news of her mom. It takes so long that by the time that the doctor has come to see us both my mom and Josh are here with us. "Are you the family of Julia?" I nod as I stand up. "Yes." I'm lying but I don't care, I need to know what's going on and now! "OK, so Julia is suffering from hypothermia. It's not as bad as it can get but still, she isn't very well and she will need to stay in for a while so we can monitor her. I am also concerned about her weight, she appears very underweight and it is something that we will need to address once she comes around." My mind whirls with the news even if I did suspect it already but at least she isn't as bad as she could be... small mercys and all that. "Is she awake yet?" "She is but she

Julia I'm taken aback by his question and honestly left a little speechless. Why would he ask me that? There's no reason for it. I know it's not something that I've ever asked someone before, especially someone that I barely know. While my mind whirls, he just stands there staring at me waiting for me to answer, but I don't have a clue what to say. This doesn't make any sense. As if angels are watching over me, the door to the room opens, and in comes the doctor, and boy am I glad to see him. "Good afternoon, Miss Willow. How are you feeling after your little walk?" Bolocks... looks like he's come here to give me a telling off, but to be honest, right now, I'd take a telling off from him over answering Riley. "I'm sorry about that, doctor. I just wanted to see my daughter." he gives me an understanding nod, but it's clear to see that he's still not very impressed. He walks over to my bed and starts reading my chart in between checking the machines beside me. "Well, luckily for you

Julia "Julia?" The moment he says my name I instantly know that I was right, it is him but I'm still confused about why he's here. Whatever the reason I can't think about it now and I know what I need to do. "Who are you?" Yes, that's right, I play the dumb card and hope that I can make it work. "Julia, It's Josh. Do you remember me?" I shake my head as I pull Nina in closer to me. I have to keep this act up because if I don't and he figures everything out then he could destroy my world and I won't allow that to happen. "I don't know who you are, I'm sorry." He gives me a confused look while I sit here holding on too tight to the emotionless expression that I've managed to place on my face. "I know It's been a few years since we last saw each other but I haven't changed that much and neither have you." He's persistent I'll give him that but he won't win here I can't let him. Seeing his face is a blast from the past that I don't want to think of right now, it's too painful and I have

Riley It's been almost a week since I last saw Julia and Nina, and it's been one of the worst times of my life. After I finished speaking to my Mom at the hospital I went to Julia's room even though I already knew that she would be gone, I still had to see for myself because there was still a small nagging part of me trying to convince myself that she was still there, but there was no trace of her ever being in that room, and it hit me like a tone of bricks. In a way that I wasn't expecting. The girl has been on my mind since the first moment that I saw her and as much as I've been confused about my seemingly insane fascination with her, it was at that moment, as I stood in her empty hospital room that I realized that it wasn't any insane fascination that kept bringing me back to her, it was her, just her. That sassy attitude of hers that I got to see the first time that we met and that cheeky smile that she gets when she doesn't think anyone is looking, or how her nose scrunches u