Chapter 3

2 months later

Jace had gotten use to living with Jocelyn and hadn't thought of his home life in a long time, right now Jace was running an errand for Jocelyn, and he had noticed that she had been getting very ill lately, but when he asked, she would just say it was the pregnancy.

So he thought it would be nice to do something for her, Jace was suppose to pick up some baby supplies around the city, he and Jocelyn had been scouting the city for anything to use when the baby arrived.

At the moment Jace was rolling a buggy he found at the side of an apartment building back to where he and Jocelyn have been living.

A lot of the people didn't even bat an eye at him, probably to busy to look down and see a little homeless boy pushing a baby buggy. It didn't matter to him if they cared or not, he just wanted to go back to Jocelyn and show her what he had brought her.

When Jace first started living with Jocelyn he would get lost, but he finally noticed that the closer you got to the tent, the less prettier things looked. But he didn't say anything about what things looked like to Jocelyn, he didn't want her feeling sad that she can't give everything to her child.

Jace had finally made it to the tent, he stored the buggy next to the tent and put a blanket on top of it, Jace was surprised how often things where stolen down in this part of the city. Once Jace put the blanket on, he went inside the tent and the first thing he saw was Jocelyn's sleeping figure, he knew she needed sleep because he noticed how tired she had been.

He walked over to her and gently tried to wake her, her eyes fluttered open and she smiled when she saw him, " Your back" she said, Jace helped her sit up and said to her " Come outside I have something to show you" Jocelyn looked at him then followed him outside.

When they were outside he took the blanket off of the buggy and turned to show Jocelyn, when he turned around Jocelyn had a sparkle in her eyes like she was trying not to cry. He went up to her and asked her "Why are you crying, did I do something wrong" she shook her head no, then took Jace into her arms,

"Thank you, Jace" she said, she wiped her eyes and took him inside, not before he put the blanket back on.

Once inside, he looked around for the food to eat for supper, two days ago they had gone out; an found a piece of bread that a baker had thrown outside, Jocelyn told him to grab it, before the dogs got to it.

He grabbed the bread from the little side table in the tent and looked at it, there was only half a piece of bread left, he knew that Jocelyn needed more food then him, he broke the bread and passed an larger piece to Jocelyn, he was just about to take a bite when he noticed Jocelyn wasn't eating, "Why haven't to started eating?" he asked.

Jocelyn looked at him and then looked down, he noticed that her face looked very sad all of the sudden; he was going to ask again when she spoke up, " I don't know how I'm going to take care of my baby, I mean look at all we have to eat, not even enough for both of us, we will most likely starve" Jocelyn said, by the end of her little speech she had tears coming down her face, Jace quickly put down his bread and crawled towards her and hugged her to him.

Jace didn't like when Jocelyn cried, she was suppose to be the happiness that kept Jace grounded, but he liked that Jocelyn would show and tell him things that she might have only told a adult, he liked that he could learn the hardships it takes to survive and maybe that's why Jocelyn would tell him.

So he wouldn't think the world is sunshine and rainbows, but he knew it wasn't, he knew the world wasn't perfect and maybe Jocelyn could see that he had already discovered that. He took his hand and put it on her stomach; he liked to do that, Jocelyn stop crying and laced her bigger fingers through his tiny ones.

"Please don't worry Jocelyn, I promised I would help you and I will. We can get through this together, just like we've been doing these past months." Jace said, to anyone else it would have been shocking to hear those strong words come out of someone so young, but to Jocelyn it just made her smile knowing a little angel was looking after her and her baby.

Jocelyn wiped her tears, Jace was happy that he made her happy again. "Ok, I think that I can do this with your help Jace" Jocelyn said, Jace was ecstatic to hear this; he would help Jocelyn with what ever she needed, he would do anything for her.

With everything said, the two finished there dinner and went to bed happy.

The next morning Jace got up a lot earlier then Jocelyn, Jace was having a bad feeling about today, maybe it was that he didn't have that great asleep; Jocelyn had been tossing and turning in her sleep and constantly waking up and waking him up, he had asked what was wrong but she had said that it was just the baby kicking and that there was nothing to worry about.

He had fallen sleep after she said that. Now he just wants to get the feeling of dread out, he doesn't like the feeling. Jace continues to walk when he see's a crow, the crow doesn't do anything but look at him, it starts to freak him out so he decides it's best to head back to the tent,

But the crow keeps following him, the crow is now making screeching noises and now Jace is running fast to the tent, after awhile he stops hearing the loud noises and looks around for the crow, it's no where to be seen, he heaves a heavy sigh and continues to walk a normal pace, Jace thinks to himself how weird that was, Why was the crow doing that Jace thought, Jace continues to think how strange it was, then after awhile he can see the tent.

When Jace reached the tent the feeling of dread came back much larger, and there it was the crow screeching away. Jace quickly entered the tent and there in front of him made him drop to his knees

Jocelyn lying on the floor bleeding with blood surrounding her bottom half, Jace screamed, and then ran over to Jocelyn's head. "Wake up, wake up, Jocelyn please!" Jace cried.

Jace didn't know what to do, but it didn't matter a moment later Jocelyn mumbled then her eyes fluttered open " Jace" she mumbled, Jace was full of relief, " We have to get you to a hospital" Jace said, even though Jace didn't want to go to a hospital, he would have to for Jocelyn's sake.

Jace started to get half of Jocelyn off the floor, she told him to stop, "Why?" he whispered, "Because they will take her away" she breathed; Jace didn't understand who Jocelyn was referring to. "Who do you mean by she" Jace cried, he couldn't help it, his best friend was about to die.

With the last little energy that Jocelyn had she grabbed his hand and said "My little baby girl, Clarissa"

After she said that, her eyes drained in colour and the hand that was in Jace's grip went dull, and that was it, Jocelyn had died.

Jace broke down, "Why, Why, Why!" Jace screamed, why did his best friend have to die, Jace sat there for a long time but probably was only five minutes, when he heard little cries.

Jace lifted his head and looked around, where were cries coming from, he moved around the tent, but the cries were more noticeable the closer he got to Jocelyn, Was the baby still in Jocelyn, Jace thought. Jace moved towards Jocelyn and took a few deep breaths, and then he lifted her dress up.

Jace's eyes widened, there between Jocelyn's dead legs was a baby lying in a pile of slim and blood.