Hey everyone! Welcome to the 10th and final chappy :'( I've really enjoyed writing this story. I hope you liked it as much as I did. Hope you enjoy the last chapter!
Excuse any grammar mistakes. I'm sorry, I didn't have time to re-read my story twice :3
"There's no place like home…" I'm still saying, "There's no place like home…"
I hear someone talking. Their voice sounds far, but not really far away. Their voice also sounds like they're underwater. I feel like I am lying down on something. Something soft is placed underneath my head. I also feel something wet being pressed against my forehead. I then hear a familiar voice echo throughout my ears.
"Chase" the voice says, "Chase can you hear me?" The voice is soft and relaxing.
"There's no place like home…" Pain suddenly explodes from my head and I moan in pain. Why does my head hurt so much? I feel a gentle hand take a hold of mine.
"Chase? Honey please wake up." The voice then becomes louder, "Donald. I think he's coming to."
I groan again. I soon feel like I have enough energy and I begin to open my eyes. Once I open my eyes halfway, everything seems blurry. I feel sort of light-headed. After my eyesight re-adjusts I see Tasha, sitting in a chair to my right, looking down at me. She has a worried look on her face.
Wait; am I where I think I am? Am I really back home? Yes, Tashlinda got me back home! I look around to see that I'm lying on the living room couch.
"I'm back" I croak out as I smile at Tasha, "Tasha I'm back."
"Yes" she says quietly, "You're back dear." She then turns to the kitchen, "Donald. He's awake." She turns turns to face me again.
"I went to the strangest place…"
I see Mr. Davenport walk up next to Tasha and kneel down next to me.
"You're right Tasha" he says to her, "I'll go get the others." He quickly leaves.
"Tasha" I say, "You wouldn't believe it. I went to a magical place that was really colorful and-"
"Hey" she interrupts, her voice quieter talking to me than when she was talking to Davenport, "Don't try and talk so much."
"But-"
"Shh." She takes what I now know is a wet rag off of my forehead and dunks it in the bowl of water on the coffee table.
Since Tasha doesn't want me to talk, I ask her questions.
"Tasha, what happened?"
"What?"
"What happened? And why does my head hurt?"
She placed the rag back on my forehead. "You don't remember?"
"I think I'll remember if you tell me. I was gone for a really long time."
"Yes you were" she sighed, "Well, while you were taking Otis to the vet, a tornado warning occurred. The news told everyone to take shelter. Luckily we have a basement to take cover in. We were going to wait for you to come back, but you were taking a long time to. Donald thought that you maybe had stayed at the vet's and took shelter there." She then muttered, "Of course, that was wrong." She cleared her throat, "After the tornado passed our house we soon went upstairs. We heard barking in the closet so we went there to find you and Otis. Of course, you were unconscious. You must've hit your head on something."
Oh I remember now. I hit my head on Tasha's flower pot. How'd I get in the closet though? Oh, Otis must've dragged me there.
"I remember now" I reply, "I hit my head on one of your flower pots."
Tasha nodded. The elevator beeped and I heard footsteps walking in the kitchen. Soon, I saw Adam, Bree, Leo, Mr. Davenport and Douglas walk over to the couch and kneel beside me.
"Hey Chase" Mr. Davenport said to me, "Glad to see you awake."
"Yeah" Bree replied, "You had us worried for a second."
"We thought you were going to leave us" Douglas added.
"But I did leave you" I say as I start to sit up, only to get pushed down by Tasha, "Well I kind of did. You guys were there with me."
"With you?" Davenport leaned in closer to me.
"Yeah." I pointed to Tasha, "And you were there." I pointed to Adam, "And you were there." I pointed to Bree, "And you were there." I pointed to Douglas and Leo, "And you guys were there too."
"Wait where's 'there'?" Adam asked.
"Maybe we should take him to the hospital Donnie" I hear Douglas whisper.
"No" I cry, "I'm fine really. Where's Otis?"
"He's right here." I see Douglas lift up Otis from the floor.
Otis barked.
"Hey" I say to him, "We got home safely Otis."
"Uh Chase" Leo said, "You've been home all of this-"
"Quiet Leo" Tasha told him. She then turned back to me, "Chase you may think that you're alright, but you're not. You need to stay down for a while."
"He seems to be ok" Davenport told, "Just a little delusional." He smiles at me, "I'm glad you're alright though."
I smile.
He then turned to the others. "Alright has everyone finished packing?"
"Yup" Douglas answered, "I packed Chase's stuff too."
Wait where we moving? Did the house get that damaged that we have to move? I wished to go back home only to be moving to a new home?
"Are we moving?" I ask.
Davenport chuckles, "Oh no Chase. We're just staying in a hotel for a couple of days. I hired some people to fix the windows that are broken here. Don't worry we're not moving anywhere."
I sigh in relief, "Good."
"Hey Chase" Bree said, "We decided since you haven't gotten what you've wanted for dinner these past couple of days that maybe you would want to choose what we eat tonight for dinner at the hotel?"
I sit up a little. Tasha surprisingly doesn't stop me. "Really?"
"Sure" Adam replied, "It's the least we can do for you getting knocked out."
"Ok. Can we order pizza tonight?"
"Of course" Davenport replied, "Anything you want buddy."
"Ugh" Adam groaned, "Out of all the foods, you have to choose pizza?"
Everyone glared at him.
"It was his choice Adam" Leo told, "And since he wants pizza, we're all getting pizza."
"Fine."
I smile. Suddenly we hear a knock at the front door and in comes walking Principal Perry.
"Ah" I say covering my face with a couch pillow, "It's the witch!"
"Huh?" Bree questioned.
"Hey I'm not that mean" Perry replied, "Any who I'm just here to check on Dougie. That was a pretty bad storm we went through."
"Well thanks for wondering about the rest of us" Davenport coughed.
Tasha slowly removes the pillow off of my face. She then puts a hand on my shoulder.
"Chase it's ok" she tells me, "It's only Perry."
"Are you ok Dougie?" Perry asked waltzing over to him.
"I'm fine" he replies, "But Chase here took a nasty knock to the head. He should be fine."
"Oh ok. I also came back to get an apology from you Dougie."
"An apology?"
"Yeah. Your stupid dog scared me. I want to take it to the pound." She starts to walk towards Otis.
Ok that's it. I grab the water bowl from off the table and throw it at Perry. Perry screams.
"Ugh" she shouts, "What'd you do that for you little brat?"
Whoops, I guess I forgot that Perry wasn't really a witch.
"Sorry" Douglas apologized, "He must've hit his head too hard. He didn't know what he was doing. Right Chase?"
I nod.
"Yeah" I reply, "Sorry."
"I'm getting out of here!" Perry cried as she walked to the front door, "It's clear to me that you don't want me here!" She leaves.
"Chase" Davenport starts, "I don't know what's gotten into you, but that's the smartest move you've made all year."
"Uh thanks.." I say not knowing if that was meant to be a compliment or an insult.
"Can we take our luggages out to the car already?" Bree asked, "I want to go to the hotel now."
"Alright fine" Davenport answered, "As long as Chase feels alright and ready to go."
"I feel fine" I assure him, "I just have a small headache. No biggie." With Tasha's help, I slowly stand up from the couch. At first, I lose my balance, but after a while. I'm fine standing up on my own.
Bree hands me my luggage and soon we're all off to the family car. After we put our stuff in the trunk, we all hop inside.
"Chase" Tasha says, "As soon as we get to hotel, you're lying down on one of the beds alright?"
"Tasha I'm fine really" I groan as I roll my eyes.
"You're still going to lie down alright?"
"Fine."
Mr. Davenport starts up the engine and backs up out of the driveway.
"See you later house" he tells it as we begin to drive off.
Before our house disappears from sight, I look at it one last time for the day.
"You know what" I blurt out, "The saying's true. There's no place like home."
"Uh" Bree replies, "….well I guess it is true."
"Yeah" Adam and Leo reply.
"You're right about that Chase" the adults reply as well.
With that, I turn around from facing the back window of the car and face the front again. I begin to think of Davenland. Even though Davenland was just a fake land in my dream, it still felt like I had really
traveled there. It felt so real. I'm going to miss that place. I had some good laughs there. But being back home is way better than being there, because like I said before, There's no place like home.
I hope you liked it. I'm sad this story has come to an end, but I have other stories to write and finish. What'd you think? Sorry if the end was bad. I couldn't think of what to end it with.
"Shattered" should be updated really soon and so should "Blurred Vision". "Cadam" I will try to update soon too.
If you haven't read it already, check out my new story "It Can Wait". It's a two-shot.
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