Awww, as usual, I see kinda sad that this story is ending, but I hope everyone enjoyed it, and I hope you all enjoy the ending! Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed, or favourited the story, its meant so much :)
I don't have any plans for any more stories at the moment, but Im sure i'll wind up posting a few song fics, and you never know, I may get an idea for another multi chapter story!
Happy Christmas to all those who celebrate it, I hope everyone has a lovely time over charismas!
Chapter 21: 6 months later
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~*~6 months later~*~
Spinelli woke gently as she felt a tickling to her arm, as she came to her senses, she realised that TJ was lied hugging her, tracing lines gently along her arm.
"Sorry, did I wake you up?" asked TJ.
"Na, its fine" replied Spinelli.
"How are you feeling this morning?" asked TJ, Spinelli smiled, and rolled around to face him.
"Good, although that's a bit of an odd question to ask" replied Spinelli.
"Yeah I know, and I know you were sure, I was just checking I guess" replied TJ.
The previous night, TJ and Spinelli had slept together for the first time. It had happened on its naturally and neither had planned it, although TJ had ensured that it was what Spinelli wanted to do, reassuring her that he didn't mind waiting for longer. Spinelli insisted that she was sure it was what she wanted, but she was still surprised at how romantic the whole thing had been. The times she'd had sex with Lawson, she'd felt awkward, and almost dirty after and she'd never enjoyed the intimacy with him; it was completely different with TJ, being with him really made her understand the term making love.
"Thanks Teej, I really am fine, like I said last night, I'm sure it was what I wanted, and I'm still sure of that fact"
"Good" replied TJ "So how's your application coming along?"
"Oh I forgot to tell you, I sent it off yesterday" replied Spinelli.
"That's brilliant, I know you'll get in. They'd be mad not to accept you" replied TJ.
Spinelli had decided to follow her dream to become a nurse, and had applied to study nursing, via an open university course (A/N: Do you have those in the US, there's companies that offer the opportunity for people to study degrees at home) and the ward she'd worked on, and agreed to offer her a placement to start off her training.
"I hope so" replied Spinelli "Jane has been so helpful she's given me all her notes from when she trained, and she's given me a few books too, they're really interesting"
"Geek" teased TJ
"Shut up you"
"So what time did you say your parents were getting here?"
"Six" replied Spinelli
"Ok, well I'll get dinner ready for then" replied TJ
"Did you want some help with dinner?"
"I think I'll pass" said TJ with a smile.
"Are you saying me cooking is bad?" joked Spinelli, propping herself up.
"No, as I've told you, I like charcoal food" laughed TJ "But spaghetti bolognaise doesn't really work as a charcoaled dish"
"Hmm, I think you might just be right on that one" laughed Spinelli.
She and TJ could always joke between them, her cooking being one of their favourite subjects to laugh about as it really was awful. However, unlike what happened with Lawson, Spinelli knew the jokes weren't personal and they never left her feeling bad the way Lawson's comments did. Thinking about it, Spinelli realised just how different her relationship with TJ was. She and Lawson never laughed like she did with TJ, mostly because he had no sense of humour unless it entailed someone suffering or getting hurt.
TJ was finally free of all casts, eight weeks after his accident, and he was now receiving physiotherapy, to get his strength back in the limbs that had been broken. The burns on TJ's face had healed well; they could only be slightly noticed in a certain light. TJ was a little conscious of this at times, and of the burns on his shoulder, which were more notable, but Spinelli had reassured him that they didn't bother her in the slightest. TJ gotten used to the burns, but it hadn't happened immediately, as it was a change to his body that he had to accept and live with.
TJ had attended Lawson's funeral with Spinelli, but they had been the only ones there. Lawson had pushed away his friends when he'd left school, and it hadn't taken long after that, with his continuous drinking and abuse, for Lawson to push away his family too. For his family, the final straw had been when he'd stolen a considerable amount of money from them in order to buy alcohol. Spinelli had felt a little sad at the funeral, but hadn't cried, she'd just wished that things could have been different for Lawson, and that he could have lived his life on without her, and without the alcohol.
Spinelli had nervously called her parents after Lawson's funeral, and had apologised, and explained everything. Just as TJ had predicted, Mr and Mrs Spinelli had been thrilled to hear from their daughter, and had forgiven her without a second thought. Spinelli had spoke to her parents on the phone for hours, and explained she'd met someone else, of course, she'd told them that this person was called Zack, to maintain TJ's secret. Since their first phone call, Spinelli had seen her parents on a few occasions, like she'd suspected, her parents didn't recognise TJ, and believed him to be Zack Slater, because of the distance, Spinelli had few opportunities to her parents, and they had always come to visit her, to avoid TJ being recognised back home.
TJ and Spinelli had been to watch Mikey in his lead role of the hunchback of notra dame, which they'd both enjoyed, and although they didn't speak to him, they could see he was happy with his life.
"Can you believe it's been six months?" asked Spinelli thoughtfully.
"Seriously?" said TJ in surprise, calculating the dates himself "Yeah, you're right, that's gone by fast! How does it make you feel? Do you think about Lawson often?"
"Now and then I guess, although I'm thinking about him less as time is going on"
"That makes sense" replied TJ "You seem a lot happier now, you seem to have gotten your spirit back, it was always one of the things I love about you"
"Yeah, I guess I have changed a lot, I'm a lot happier now" pondered Spinelli "heck, now I even believe in Father Christmas again!"(A/N: Spinelli is referring back to her statement in chapter 5, where she said love wasn't real, and that it was just like Father Christmas, you only believed in it as a child)
"Huh?" mumbled TJ, looking at Spinelli with confusion.
"I mean that I love you, you idiot!" said Spinelli with a smile "I didn't really believe in love before, but now I do"
"I love you too" replied TJ, kissing Spinelli.
When they were together, TJ and Spinelli were happier than they'd ever been in the last ten years; it was as though without each other, something was missing. Occasionally, they did bicker with each other, just as any couple did, but they never had real fights. Likewise, there had never been any hint of violence from either party, nor would there ever be. Spinelli had known this would be the case, as the relationship between her and TJ was different than that between her and Lawson. TJ and Spinelli were soul mates, neither could deny that fact.
~*~The End~*~
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Well, there it was, the ending, I'm sad the story is over, as I've really enjoyed writing it! I hope you guys liked the cheesy/happy ending! I hope everyone has a great Christmas!
RandalXSpinelli: Thank you :) Im glad you liked the endings for the gang, I know you said you'd of liked them to be in it, so this was as close as I could get :) It is sad that the gang fell apart, but I thought the story would work better that way, as they'd recognise TJ. I think the 90s is my favourite era of music too, I really don't like the crap that's in the charts now (well I do like the odd song) I love all the chart music, from the 90s era, I also like the club type music from the 90s and the metal, I basically like it all lol! Thanks for reading my story, and I hope you enjoyed how I ended it!
Sexehbunneh: TJ was only joking when he mocked Spinelli, he wasn't actually being serious, I know this chapter said that, but I just wanted to make sure it was clear :) I remember you saying about your sister, that is sad :(
Rose-Aki: lol Im glad you found TJ and Spinelli joking around about her cooking funny, I wanted to make sure it was clear just how different their relationship is to the one she had with Lawson, and just how fun it is! It was sad what happened to Gus, and that the gang aren't friends anymore, but I thought the story would work better if Spinelli wasn't friends with them, mainly because they'd recognise him, but I thought it'd still be nice to include them in some way! I hope you liked the ending, and how everything turned out for TJ and Spinelli!
UshEmmy: Thanks! I wanted to include the gang is some way, it was kinda sad that Gus died, but nice that the other members of the gang's lives are going well. I know the Ashley A/Ashley Q thing was a surprise, I wanted to do something a bit different, and paired up the other two ashelys so thought pairing those two together would be fun! Ashley T's character was always quiet (in reality it was because she was the only Ashley character that didn't have an actor voicing her, she was voiced by the same person who does Ashley Q's voice) but I thought I'd use that, and make it that she was quiet, because she never really felt she fitted in with them, and as a result, she found Mikey! Or it could be because he wound up rich, I thought I'd leave that up to everyone's imagination!
Omgpear: Yeah, I felt like I had to split up the gang for the story to work, otherwise they'd recognise TJ and Spinelli probably wouldn't have been in the awful situation she was in. Splitting them up gave me a good chance to be a bit creative with the story as to what happened to them, I had the most fun pairing Ashley A and Ashley Q up! Knarf is in the pale kids episode (www. youtube .com/watch?v=sIhziS_HjyM) just delete the spaces and brackets! I loved the parents night episode, I can so picture that scene and that quote from Mrs Spinelli in my head! I hope you liked the ending!
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Big Cliffy Meanie x