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Heather wasn't sure how long she stayed in front of that door but she was certain it was over an hour because the next thing she knew that annoying guy Owen was pounding on her door yelling to her that Bridgette had just set the table and it was time to eat.
"Melissa!" Owen knocked loudly on the door. "Bridgette wanted me to tell you that it's time to eat and I wanted to let you know that I'm excited we're finally having dinner together as a family!"
"I'm not in the mood to eat, Owen!" Heather yelled. "Beat it!"
"C'mon Melissa!" Owen continued to knock. "How can anyone not be in the mood to eat?"
"I told you to never call me that!" Heather groaned and forced herself to get off the floor. "I'll be down in a minute! Just give me a chance to brush my hair and get my make-up fixed. I need my actual clothes and make-up because what I have now is never going to work!"
"You could borrow some of Bridgette's clothes." Owen told her. "I'm sure she wouldn't mind."
"I'm not borrowing her clothes." Heather yelled in through the door. "I want my own clothes and my own life back! Stop talking to me or I'm going to murder you!"
"I'll tell Bridgette that you'll be down soon then." Owen awkwardly laughed. "Mom and Dad will be home soon!"
"Whatever." Heather looked in the mirror in her room and pulled some hair behind her hear and smudging her eyeliner a little bit so that hasn't looked like she had been crying her eyes out for the last hour. When she got downstairs she saw that Josh and Blaineley had just gotten back from doing whatever segment on TV that they did, Heather really never paid attention when they told her.
"Meli-I mean Heather, how did you like our show?" Blaineley asked. "We got a call while we were working and they got a bag of your things and we picked them up for you."
"That's great, Blaineley." Heather looked at the garbage bag Blaineley pointed to on the counter. "You mean you're telling me you put my clothes in a garbage bag? Aren't you Mom of the year Blaineley."
"I wish you would call me Mom." Blaineley sighed. "You're going to have to sooner or later."
"I'm going with later." Heather smirked. "Maybe when I'm forty?"
"I think you should try to get along with this family, Heather." Josh sighed. "What do you say?"
"I'm not hungry, can you give me the keys to the vehicle so I can at least go see my friends?" Heather asked them.
"After you eat then Bridgette and you can both go for a drive together and she can show you the neighborhood." Josh suggested to them.
"Yeah, I'd be happy to show you around." Bridgette offered.
"No, I meant like...by myself." Heather told Blaineley and Josh.
"I don't think that's a good idea." Blaineley told her. "We just got you back Melissa and I don't want to lose you again."
"If you want me to like you and trust you then let me go out for just an hour or two and I promise you that I'll come right back." Heather told them. "If you want me to trust you then you need to trust me."
"Okay, fine." Blaineley agreed and handed her the keys. "Don't make me regret doing this."
"Seriously?" Heather looked at the keys in her hand and smiled before running outside to the front of her house and into the vehicle while Josh and Blaineley watched her from the driveway and waved to her as she sped away. "Don't worry I'm a really good driver!"
"You just left her leave like that?" Josh asked Blaineley.
"I'm going to call Jason, he's a security guard from the station so I'm sure he knows how to go undercover and blend in." Blaineley told him. "I'll ask him to watch everything she's doing and call us if anything happens."
"You better hope she doesn't see him." Josh warned her. "It's going to make her more distant."
"I'm not letting her out of my sights." Blaineley assured Josh and pulled her cell phone out to call Jason, the security man from the studio.
It was almost an hour later when Heather got to the park that she asked Alejandro to meet her at. She saw him, sitting on the bench nearby and she couldn't wait to see him. It felt so could to be back in her old stomping grounds even if it was only for a few hours.
"Hey Alejandro, where is everyone else?" Heather walked up to him and smiled before sitting down next to him. "Where is everyone else?"
"They all had plans." Alejandro lied. "Geoff may come by later."
"They don't want to hang out with the girl whose been all over the news?" Heather guessed. "I don't really blame them for not wanting to see me."
"It's not that, it's just everything you've been through, Chica." Alejandro sighed. "It's just hard for them to grasp the fact that we were hanging out with a girl who ended up being abducted. We all hung out at your place and we met Chris, the guy who kidnapped you."
"Yeah, but he treated me really well." Heather reminded him. "You and I played video games and watched movies with him! He's the one who left us have rum for Geoff's Birthday party! He's the one who signed me up for ballet when I was five! He just wanted to raise me the best way he possibly could."
"Heather, I don't want to argue with you." Alejandro sighed. "You know we don't do well when we fight, you can be very hot tempered and unreasonable."
"I know that." Heather crossed her arms. "You don't need to be an ass about it! That's why we broke up. Do you have any weed on you? I need something to calm me down after the day that I've had."
"I only have a little left and it's what I took from Jose." Alejandro admitted. "It's hardly enough for us to share."
"We can still try." Heather smiled and got closer to him. "Please Alejandro? Just a little bit?"
"Si Heather." Alejandro gave in and reached into his pocket and pulled a rolled up joint out and lit it up, took a hit of it and then handed it to Heather. "Here, now tell me about this new life of yours."
"They insist on calling me Melissa and they're TV anchors who gossip about celebrities or something and that's how they knew my Dad." Heather told him as she took a hit and then released some smoke from her mouth. "I have a twin Sister who looks nothing like me, we're not identical and then I have a brother who is blonde, fat and really annoying and he keeps trying to talk to me through my bedroom door."
"That sounds like you have a nice family." Alejandro told her as she handed it to him. "I mean, would you really want to go back with Chris?"
"Yes I would." Heather smiled. "I'm just waiting for him to come and get me, ya know? Take me away from this horrible situation."
Jason was sitting in the car by the park, watching Heather and Alejandro while he stayed on the phone with Blaineley and he watched them smoke even though he wasn't sure what they were smoking and he wasn't about to check that out.
So, are you sure that they're just sitting there at the park?" Blaineley asked him.
"Yeah, they're not doing anything that bad, just smoking and talking." Jason confirmed. "I think I'm going to head back to the studio soon though. The boss says we're doing an interview on some celebrity and he wants me to watch him and pick him up from the airport."
"Just watch them a little while longer." Blaineley told him. "What are they smoking? Cigarettes? I hate smoking! It's horrible on the teeth!"
"I don't know what they're smoking, Blaineley." Jason told her. "I'm happy that you got your daughter back but I don't think they're doing anything wrong but stalking kids like I'm doing now is technically illegal and I don't want the police called on me because of it."
"Whatever." Blaineley gave up. "At least I know she's where she said she'll be. I'll talk to you tomorrow...bye."
"Heather?" Alejandro asked her. "I think maybe it wou-"
"Hey guys!" Geoff yelled and walked over to them. "Heather, this is weird but in a good way! I didn't think we'd ever get to party together!"
"Nice to see you too, Geoff." Heather smirked. "You must be a real badass, hanging out with the girl who got kidnapped."
"Heather, there is this really cool party later this week, you wanna go with us?" Geoff asked. "It's supposed to be really awesome."
"I don't kno-" Heather turned and looked around and saw the car watching her. "Uh...guys? is that car watching us?"
"Hmmmm." Alejandro stood up and looked before putting the joint out, that's when he saw the guy watching him. "Si, I think he is watching us."
"It's almost Midnight so he shouldn't be here." Heather started to run towards the vehicle. "Hey you! I can see you watching us!"
"Should we go after her?" Geoff asked Alejandro.
"No, I got her." Alejandro told Geoff as Geoff shrugged and walked to his car while Alejandro ran quickly after Heather and wrapped his arms around her, restraining her from going any further. "Heather! What is wrong with you, Chica?"
"I got your license plate number mister STN-3701!" Heather yelled to the car that kept going. "My parents work for the news and you'll be on it, buddy!"
"Heather, calm down." Alejandro told her. "Maybe you should just...go back home to your parents?"
"Fine." Heather shoved him away. "I'll go. I just want you to know though that I'm getting the hell out of this place and I'm going to find my Father or Chef and then I'm going back with them."
"Heather, they'll go to jail if they come anywhere near you." Alejandro warned her. "I don't want to lose you Heather, just know that."
"Alejandro..." Heather sighed. "Don't do that. I'm not going to let you make me feel like shit about wanting to go with them. I've had so many great memories with Chef and my Dad and I don't even know these new people I'm forced to deal with."
"Call me." Alejandro took her hand and kissed it. "You know I'm just a call away."
"Sure you are." Heather muttered under her breath and got into the vehicle and drove off. After her vehicle was no longer visible, Alejandro got in his vehicle and drove off as well. He just wanted Heather in his life no matter who she was.
When Heather got home it was after 1:00am and Josh and Blaineley were sitting on the couch waiting for her and Blaineley hugged her almost immediately while Heather was extremely confused and annoyed by this type of emotions. Chris had always shared emotions with Heather but they were never constantly hugging like this and it made Heather feel suffocated.
"Okay, enough of that!" Heather pulled herself away from Blaineley. "I came back and as you can see I'm safe so we don't need to hug every single time I walk in the door."
"Melissa, it's just that I'm so happy to have you back home." Blaineley told her. "I just never thought that I'd see you walk inside the door ever again."
"It's after 1:00am." Josh added in. "Curfew is 11:00pm."
"I never had curfew before." Heather shrugged. "I was followed by some creep, by the way. He was stalking me and my friend while we were at the park."
"That's not cool." Bridgette gasped as she walked into the room. "Sorry. Couldn't help but overhear. We should report it to the police."
"No, I think we're fine." Blaineley assured them. "You know how paparazzi can be, you live with two of them."
"Don't remind me." Heather sighed. "It's okay though. I saw the way that man took off, he seemed to know how to dodge people for the most part, wouldn't you agree Blaineley? It's like he was following me just to keep tabs on me, you wouldn't happen to know anything about that?"
"Mom would never do something like that." Bridgette smiled at Heather. "C'mon why don't we get you ready for bed? I'll let you borrow some of my pajama's if you want."
"It's fine, I have a trash bag filled with my clothes." Heather glared at Josh and Blaineley. "I'll be up to bed soon."
"Sounds great." Bridgette smiled. "What do you say tomorrow I take you to the beach and show you how to surf?"
"Surfing isn't really my thing." Heather told Bridgette. "I'm more of a mall shopping and coffee sipping kind of girl."
"I think you'd like it." Bridgette told her. "You just got home? It's 1:00am, how come she gets to stay out that late?"
"It's not happening again." Josh told them both. "Both of you go to bed, now."
"Tomorrow we can go for frozen yogurt." Bridgette told her. "You do like yogurt, don't you?"
"Yeah, sure." Heather agreed. "Maybe we do have something in common. Do you like Gummy bears?"
"No." Bridgette told her. "I actually hate them, they feel really weird in your mouth"
"They're my favorite." Heather smiled. "My Dad used to get them for me all the time when I was a kid."
"Let's give it a shot then." Bridgette smiled. "Tomorrow I'll teach you how to surf and then we can get some frozen yogurt."
"I guess we could do that." Heather agreed while she let out a yawn. "If you don't mind I'm really tired and I just want to take my make-up off and go to sleep."
"Good night, Heather." Josh told her.
"Yeah, good night." Blaineley smiled. "Sweet dreams."
The next morning Heather was woken up by the sound of Bridgette knocking on her door and yelling her name. Heather groaned and looked at the clock to see it was after noon already and from what she could tell Bridgette didn't care for the time she slept until.
"Heather!" Bridgette knocked. "C'mon, we need to leave now! I'm tired of waiting for you!"
"It's noon!" Heather groaned. "Five more minutes?"
"No way!" Bridgette finally opened the door and opened all the curtains in the bedroom. "Time to get up and enjoy the day!"
"My day usually doesn't start until 3:00pm." Heather told her. "I guess I'll have to get ready. Can't you just go without me?"
"No!" Bridgette laughed. "C'mon! Let's go!"
"Alright already!" Heather got out of her bed and walked over to the mirror and brushed her hair. "I'm up and getting ready right now! I'm kinda hungry, do you think we could do the whole yogurt thing first?"
"If that's what you want." Bridgette agreed. "We can talk and you can tell me all about your life and I'll fill you in on what you missed around here."
"Okay." Heather smiled. "That sounds like it could be fun."
Heather and Bridgette made their way to the frozen yogurt shop and when they got there Heather just got a cup of gummy bears and she watched Bridgette get Vanilla yogurt and add some Oreos to it as well as some hot fudge. When they got to the register Bridgette paid for the yogurt and then the two sat down. As Bridgette started to eat her yogurt and Heather ate some gummy bears, the guy who rang up the order came over and approached them and Heather looked away, hoping that he wouldn't come over and ask about the kidnapping like everyone else has been.
"Sorry, I was busy before and didn't have time to come talk." the guy walked over.
"I wouldn't want to talk to you anyway." Heather told him. "Maybe you should go back to the register?"
"Oh, no!" Bridgette got wide eyed and laughed. "No! You have this all wrong. Heather this is DJ, he and I are in English class together! DJ, this is my sister, Heather."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Heather apologized. "I just am finding it really weird to talk to people lately. "
"So, you're the missing girl that was found alive and well after all these years?" DJ smiled. "I'm just so glad that it ended up working out well."
"It's nice to meet you." Heather smiled. "Hey, you look kinda busy around here, you look like you could use some help. You think you can talk to your manager about getting me a job? Nobody knows frozen yogurt like I do."
"I'm the manager around here actually." DJ told her. "I'm not sure we need anyone else working here though."
"How about I come in tomorrow around maybe 11:00am?" Heather asked him. "You can train me and get me a cool hat like the one you have on? I'm going to get going but I'll definitely see you tomorrow morning, boss."
Heather got up and walked out of the yogurt shop and Bridgette shrugged at DJ and smiled as she waved bye to him so she could catch up with Heather.
When Heather and Bridgette got back home, Blaineley and Josh were sitting on the couch with Owen and some old woman that Heather had never seen before and they were all looking at the girls when they walked in the door.
"You know you don't need to look at me like that every time I come in the door, right?" Heather asked them. "I mean, I'm safe and I've always been safe even when I was living with my real Dad, the one who raised me."
"Oh, we're just here because this is family therapy night." Josh smiled at her. "Since the day that you were taken from us we've been seeing Dr. Welles."
"Please, you can call me Nancy." the doctor stood up and held out her hand for Heather to shake.
"You can call me Heather, I unfortunately won't be around though because I have to take a shower and go to bed. I have a job and I start tomorrow."
"You got a job?" Blaineley asked. "Melissa, I'm not sure I can handle you having a job, I don't think that's the greatest idea right now."
"It's okay Mom." Bridgette sat down on the couch. "She's going to be will working at the yogurt shop with DJ."
"Yogurt sounds really great." Owen agreed. "I think we should go and get some tomorrow, Dad."
"Yeah, sure Owen." Josh quickly ignored him. "I guess we'll have to stop by and see your sister."
"If you want to talk, we would love it if you would join us." Blaineley smiled. "I'd love to hear about whatever you'd like to share with the family."
"I'm going to sleep." Heather left the room and started to go up the stairs. "Good Night!"
"See?" Blaineley sighed. "This is the problem, Nancy. My own child won't talk to me."
"I think she just needs time to adjust." Dr. Nancy Welles told her. "Maybe you should take things slowly and give her a chance to adjust? It's a lot to take in and she needs time."
"I really like having another sister." Owen smiled. "I know it makes everyone else happy to have Heather here."
"I'm still getting used to it." Bridgette admitted. "Don't you two have to get down to the studio? I have some baking I want to get done."
"Yeah, we do need to get going soon." Josh agreed. "Thank you for coming to see us, Dr. Welles. I wish we had more time to talk."
"Bridgette, we need to stay at the office after the show." Blaineley added in. "So, can you make sure the house is clean and Heather is okay while she's home?"
"Heather isn't a baby." Bridgette assured them. "I think she'll be fine while you're gone."
"You know she worries." Josh smiled at her. "We'll be home later. Maybe you guys can watch a movie or something?"
"Maybe." Bridgette smiled. "I'll see what Heather wants to do."
"I'd watch movies with you two." Owen agreed. "It sounds like it would be real fun!"
"I look forward to talking to you next week." Dr. Welles smiled as Blaineley walked her to the door and then grabbed her purse and left with Josh. Once Bridgette watched them drive away she left Owen in the living room to watch TV while she went upstairs to see how Heather was doing.
"Hey Melis-Heather, why don't you come downstairs and watch a movie with Owen and me?" Bridgette asked her as she knocked lightly on Heather's door.
"No!" Heather yelled. "I just want to be by myself for awhile."
"You can't stay in your room forever." Bridgette told her. "I'd like to get to know you."
"Just...Just give me time, okay?" Heather sighed. "I just want to be by myself. Maybe tomorrow when I get off work we can watch a movie?"
"Okay Heather." Bridgette sighed and went back downstairs.
Heather listened to make sure that she was alone and that Bridgette had left her. She walked over to her purse, the last thing she had with her that she brought from her real house the day she went out with her Father, she grabbed her cell phone and looked in the contact list in her phone until she found Alejandro's number and pressed the call button.
"Hola?" Alejandro answered within two rings.
"Hey, it's me." Heather told him. "I'm going nuts in this place."
"Heather, you're such a strong person." Alejandro reminded her. "You can do this. If anyone can do this, it's you."
"I'm a strong person because of my Father." Heather informed him. "You're forgetting that. He's the guy who raised me and he's made me the girl that you think you're in love with."
"Heather, you know that I love you." Alejandro told her. "Chica, I've always loved you but I think that maybe you should move on and try to be happy where you are."
"Will you come and get me?" Heather asked him.
"Heather, I can't." Alejandro sighed. "You know that."
"If you won't come for me then you obviously don't want to be with me." Heather told him.
"Heather, you know that's not true." Alejandro sighed. "I always wanted what was best for you."
"You know what?" Heather sighed. "Whatever..."
Heather hung up the phone and landed on her bed, she didn't want to be bothered with anyone and she just wanted to be in this house as little as he possibly could, that's one of the main reasons she wanted that job in the first place. Heather ended up falling asleep thinking about how in a perfect world she would be back home, watching movies with Alejandro and Geoff and drinking the night away and not anywhere near this new life they wanted to force her to adapt to.
The next morning when Heather woke up she jumped in the shower and then looked in the living room to find Josh and Blaineley watching a movie so she went into the kitchen, grabbed the keys from the counter and snuck out of the house to take the car to work. There was no way in hell was going to walk anywhere, let alone to her first day of a job. When She got there she saw DJ waiting for her with a smile.
"Glad you could make it." DJ smiled at her. "I've never had a missing girl work here before."
"Technically I'm not missing anymore." Heather told him. "I know all about yogurt though so you don't need to worry about me screwing this up. I can get right to work and help you out when you're ready for me."
"Are you sure about that?" DJ asked her. "I can always help you get used to things."
"I'm fine." Heather smiled. "Open the doors! The people outside want yogurt."
"Okay, fine." DJ laughed and walked open to the door and unlocked it, changing the sign from 'Closed' to 'Open' and then looked in the back to see other employees walking into the store.
"I'm ready for the day." Heather walked behind the counter and smiled. "Bring it on!"
As Customers started to line up and fill the yogurt cups up and add toppings to it, Heather was ringing up one customer after the other. One girl was paying for her yogurt when she looked up at Heather and gasped.
"Hey, aren't you Melissa O'Halloran?" the girl asked. "That girl who was found?! I saw you on the news! Can I take a picture with you?"
"Uh...Yeah!" Heather leaned in so she could take a selfie with the girl. "I go by Heather now but this is where I'm working!"
"You don't mind if I tweet this, do you?" The girl giggled. "My friends have GOT to see this!"
"Sure! Tell them all." Heather smiled and rang the girl up. "That'll be $3.27 and I'm on the clock until 5:00pm."
The girl tweeted the picture as she took her yogurt and somehow it ended up going viral and on the news. Within an hour the place was packed with people who all wanted to meet and take pictures with her. Heather continued to take pictures with the crowd and DJ ended up doing most of the work. While she was taking pictures Josh walked in with Owen who was just excited to eat yogurt.
"Wow, it's really crowded in here." Josh looked around. "They all seem to be liking Heather. I guess it's fascinating to some people how she's here now and years ago we didn't even know where she was or even if she's still alive."
"Yeah..." Owen looked around. "I really want to get some frozen yogurt now. Do you want any? I think the Carmel is calling my name! Oh, so is the chocolate! They actually make maple flavored yogurt! Who would have ever thought of such an amazing thing!"
"Oh, I'm good Owen." Josh sat down and looked at Heather and smiled. "Why don't you go and get some yogurt? I'm just going to stay here and watch your sister."
"Are you going to ground her for taking the car?" Owen asked.
"Owen, you go and get your yogurt and let me worry about your sister." Josh sighed.
"Okay." Owen walked over to the line and started to sample all types of yogurt that he potentially wanted to try. While Owen was covering his yogurt in almost every topping, Josh went and lightly pushed the small crowd out of the way so he could get near his daughter.
"I see the secret is out, they all want to see the missing girl." Josh smirked. "I hear it's been all over the internet."
"Yeah, I've been told." Heather agreed. "I think I've been taking more selfies with people then actually working today."
"Can I have a selfie with my daughter?" Josh took his phone out. "This would be an amazing story for your Mom and me...Mostly me, but would you be willing to let me use this picture for the story?"
"Or you could just not do the story." Heather told him. "I'm not comfortable doing that story or having you do it. I thought for sure you were here to bitch me out for taking the car this morning, I'm not really used to this whole walking everywhere thing."
"I'm not mad, just shush and let me get a picture with you." Josh pulled her close to him and took the picture. "This is going to be the wallpaper on my phone."
"That's so lame." Heather laughed. "I should get back to work."
As Heather walked over to the register, another crowd formed around her and they started taking pictures with Heather again, who posed for every single one of them all while DJ was getting annoyed being the only one helping the customers.
"Make sure you tell all your friends!" Heather posed with another girl for a picture. "I'll be here until 5:00pm! That's right, Heather O'Halloran is here working at the yogurt shop on Yellow Bridge road!"
Heather then walked behind the counter and posed for pictures while she slowly rang up the customer at the register. While she was doing that Owen walked over with his yogurt and ate a few spoonfuls of it and then showed it to Josh.
"Do you want some?" Owen asked with a mouthful of frozen yogurt.
"No." Josh told him. "Your Mom and I are both watching our figures. The camera adds 10 pounds and that's why we always buy our clothes in two sizes so people will think we lost weight. You should know by now that Ice Cream is not my friend."
"Isn't it weird how Melis-Heather is posing for all those pictures?" Owen asked. "I guess she's going to get her message across then."
"What are you talking about?" Josh asked him. "Did you even pay for that? Owen, go pay for the yogurt."
"I was just saying she wants to get a message out to her Dad." Owen told him. "I really like having her back in the family but she misses her Dad and she's trying to let him know where she is."
"You're...Smart...I think?" Josh looked at him. "She wouldn't do that."
"I'm going to pay for this and say hi to my sister." Owen smiled and walked away.
"Dammit..." Josh muttered. "She is trying to send a message to Chris."
Bridgette was in the kitchen making dinner, just like she always did. The house was quiet and her parents were gone and Owen wasn't there to bother her or offer to help, only to get in her way and she would never say anything to him about it, she was too nice to do that. The quiet ended when the doorbell rang, Bridgette just assumed that it was more reporters wanting to talk to her Sister, that's how it's been lately, everyone seemed to adore Heather and Bridgette was feeling pushed to the side by everyone, just like they did to Owen 90% of the time.
"Can I help you?" Bridgette opened up the door to see two guys standing there.
"Si, you can." Alejandro spoke to her. "I'm Alejandro and this is Geoff. I'm looking for Heather."
"Of course you're looking for Heather." Bridgette sighed. "She's not here now. How did you even find the house?"
"I'm a friend of hers." Alejandro told her. "Do you mind if I wait here for her?"
"The house is all over the news." Geoff told her. "It wasn't that hard to find. Are you making food? It smells really good in your house..."
"Uh...Yeah?" Bridgette told him. "Do you guys want to come in? You can sit and wait for Heather in the kitchen while I cook."
"Sounds great." Geoff smiled at her. "We'd love to come in."
"Gracias." Alejandro thanked her. "It's a pleasure to be in your company."
"No problem." Bridgette led them into the kitchen. "Can I ask why you're looking for Heather?"
"She asked me to come." Alejandro smiled. "I'd do anything for her."
"I'm going to make a salad now." Bridgette told them. "Try not to break anything? Okay?"
"I love salad." Geoff smiled. "You want any help?"
"If you want. I'm making homemade croutons." Bridgette told him. "I can show you how if you want."
"I'd like that." Geoff agreed. "You'll be cool just sitting here, Alejandro?"
"Si, I do not mind sitting here and waiting." Alejandro smiled at Bridgette. "You help the beautiful senorita while I wait here for Heather."
It was 4:47pm now and in a few minutes Heather would be clocking out and heading home to the house she didn't want to be in at all. The line in the store was long but at least all the people who were taking pictures of her finally died down and left the store. Heather was ringing people up, it was really the only thing to do in the store, DJ was mopping and checking the yogurt machines.
"Wow, you mixed Peanut Butter and Mint?" Heather laughed at the girl who she was ringing up. "I'll have to try that sometime."
"It's really good." The girl handed Heather a $5.00 bill. "Keep the change."
"Thank you so much!" Heather waved to the girl as the next customer approached the register and placed a cup full of gummy bears in front of Heather. "A guy who likes gummy bears! That's what I'm talking about."
The guy at the register had blonde hair and was wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses. He smiled at Heather and that made Heather look at him and was trying to hold back tears.
"Dad..." Heather whispered. "You found me..."
"Shhhhh..." Chris told Heather as he reached into his wallet and handed her a $20.00 bill. Heather wasn't sure why he didn't say anything else and she didn't care, even with the cheesy wig on she knew it was him and that's all that mattered. When she went to open the register to put the money inside she looked at the bill that she was handed, written on the money was:
I love you more
"Not possible..." Heather whispered to him, trying to hold back her tears as she placed it in the register, that's when DJ glanced over at her and saw how she was upset.
"Heather, are you okay?" DJ asked her. "Do you want to take a break and I can ring the customer up?"
"No, I got this, it's been a long day." Heather lied to DJ and then looked back at Chris and handed him the change.
"Yes possible." Chris told her and then dropped the change in the tip cup. "Keep the change."
As he walked out, Heather smiled. He found her just like she knew he would and she got to see him, he hasn't given up on her and that was enough for her to keep fighting and be strong. She knew he had his ways of getting what he wanted and now that she knew he wanted her back, there was nothing stopping him from attempting to do just that.
"Heather, you can go now if you want." DJ told her. "I'm just going to close up and head home."
"Oh, thanks." Heather smiled. "Have a good night!"
When Heather got home, she parked the car in the driveway and saw that only a few lights were on that she could see in the windows, that meant that Blaineley and Josh weren't home yet and they wouldn't be around to ask her a million questions the second she walked in the door, which sounded nice to her, all she wanted to do was have a soda and talk with her Sister.
"Bridgette?!" Heather yelled when she opened the door. "Are you home?!"
"I'm in the kitchen!" Bridgette yelled back to her.
When Heather walked into the kitchen she saw that Bridgette was over by the counter making food with Geoff, this confused Heather and she was almost in disbelief, it was even stranger when she looked and saw Alejandro was sitting in the kitchen too.
"What the hell are you two doing here?" Heather walked over to Alejandro and asked in shock.
"You told me you wanted me to come and get you." Alejandro reminded her. "Well Chica, here I am."
There! Enter Alejandro and Geoff into the picture. Chris showed up and gave Heather just a little bit of hope. I'm basing this on Finding Carter and that's a new TV show, this will be similar to it but some of the plots will be twisted around a little bit. Heather is all over the place with her emotions now and that's on purpose because of her situation but she'll simmer down within the next few chapters. Do you think she'll go with Chris if he shows up for her?