Hey guys, sorry for the delay. I'm back at school and very busy. Thanks for all the reviews though and staying with me. After this chapter I plan on doing a big time jump to lead up to the grand finale. Thank you so much though, please read, review and enjoy:) p.s if you don't know what a segway is look it up;)

chapter 44: good things must end

I woke up sweating slightly. At first I had no idea where I was and I was extremely confused. That was until I saw a familiar face staring at me.

"You okay?" Henry asked sleepily.

"Bad dream." I replied, taking a moment to calm down. It had been the same nightmare I'd been having for nearly a week now.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Henry asked sitting up slightly.

"No it's fine." I yawned. I lay back down on the bed. I rolled over and hugged Henry tightly. I wanted to feel safe, and in his arms I did. I hadn't felt safe in the apartment and I hadn't even felt safe when I slept at night.

"Go back to sleep Stel." Henry said softly. He kissed the top of my forehead lightly.

"Please don't leave me." I hadn't intended to say it and it sounded slightly pathetic, but it just slipped out. I didn't mean it as in stay with me forever, I just meant it as in don't leave me now.

"Stella Scarlett Diana Reid, I love you, and I won't leave you." Henry replied gently. I buried my face into his chest and fell asleep. In that moment I felt like the luckiest person in the world to have a boy like Henry in my life.

I woke up to the smell of pancakes. Slightly confused I opened my eyes to see a figure above me. I jumped up straight away, smacking my head on the headboard.

"Well that was clever." The person laughed.

"You scared me." I moaned, rubbing my head. Henry smiled as he brought over a tray with pancakes on. My heart melted as I saw he had made me breakfast.

"Henry you really shouldn't have." I said blushing.

"It's no problem, anyway they're not all for you." Henry smiled playfully. I nudged him slightly, before I dug in. They were pretty good.

"Henry if you don't become part of Law Enforcement when you're older, I think you'd make a pretty good chef." I commented.

"Na, I'd probably cut my fingers off, or burn the kitchen down. Rossi is the only one who lets me cook. Mum doesn't trust me after I set fire to the kitchen last year." Henry laughed.

"Care to elaborate?" I asked.

"Turns out that cheese on toast should be checked on." Henry replied. This made me laugh, all the things Henry could have accidentally set on fire and it was cheese on toast. Even Dad could cook that.

"Even mum let me cook cheese on toast." I laughed.

"What do you mean, even mum let me cook. Weren't you allowed to cook in the first place?" Henry asked intrigued. Shit, I knew I shouldn't have said that.

"I uh, may of set the kitchen on fire." I mumbled.

"What? How?" Henry laughed.

"Well Molly convinced me to get fake nails, and lets just say, me and fake nails don't get on. I looked up how to get them off and it said that you had to heat up nail varnish remover. What I didn't realize is that you don't put it on a direct flame and that it's extremely flammable." I mumbled. Henry was in hysterics.

"So you heated up something that was extremely flammable. You know for a genius you can be pretty dumb sometimes." He said, laughing extremely hard. With my good hand I punched him lightly.

"I can be pretty violent." I muttered.

"You don't say." Henry smiled.

We finished of breakfast, then got ready. I decided to go back to my room so I could have a bath. I was pretty pissed off that I couldn't have a shower because of my cast. Bathing was difficult enough. It took me nearly half an hour just to wash my hair and body. Altogether it took me a whole hour to bath and get ready. I was so frustrated after my bath I ended up just shoving on a pair of jeans, a loose pink t-shirt and a pair of mismatched socks, dad was really rubbing off on me. I also couldn't be bothered to do much with my hair, so I just left it wet and down. Finally ready, I made my way to Henry's, his door was slightly open so I decided to go in. I walked in to find Henry sitting on top of his bed, on the phone. Not wanting to disturb him, I sat at the end of the bed.

"Well maybe you should talk to him. Come on Adam, you've got to try." Henry sighed.

"Fine, I'll talk to him later, but only if you ask out Sophie. Right then we have a deal. I look forward to seeing the happy couple on Monday. Now, if you don't mind I've got my own girlfriend to look after. Yeah, bye." Henry said. He hung up the phone and sighed a little.

"What was all that about?" I asked, moving up so I was next to him.

"Adam and Harry have got into an argument. Apparently Harry's been acting weird lately and he just flipped out at Adam for no reason." Henry said.

"Well surely there's a reason for it." I suggested. Harry was the sweetest person I knew, so he wouldn't flip out for no reason.

"I know, Adam won't talk to him, so he asked if I could talk to him, I told him only if he asked Sophie out." Henry smiled slightly.

"Did he agree?" I asked.

"Yeah he did." Henry smiled.

"At last." I cried.

"You don't know the half of it, they've been flirting for about a year, it's been painful." Henry replied.

"Well I can't wait for Monday." I smiled.

"Me either."

"What took you so long to get ready?" Henry asked.

"Don't even ask. I can't have a shower because of my stupid cast and even still it takes me forever to have a bath." I sighed.

"Aw poor Stella." Henry said playfully. "Maybe if I kiss it better it would help."

"Because that's going to work." I rolled my eyes. Henry did it anyway.

"Better?" He asked.

"Yes, your kisses magically healed my broken bone." I smiled.

"That's what I like to hear." Henry smiled, tickling me.

"Henry stop, no, I'm ticklish." I giggled.

"Never." Henry laughed.

"Henry, stop." I tried to moan, but instead it came out in laughter.

"Fine, but I'm going to have to do this." Henry smiled. He leant in and kissed me. When we broke apart we both just smiled at each other. Suddenly there was a knock at the door, Henry and I quickly sat up.

"Come in." Henry said casually, causing me to burst out laughing for some reason.

"What are you guys doing?" Rossi came in confused. Henry started laughing too and soon we were both in hysterics.

"What's so funny?" Rossi asked.

"I don't even know." We said at the same time.

"The pair of you are insane." He muttered.

"You know you love us Rossi." Henry smiled.

"Yeah sure, anyway what are your plans for today?" Rossi asked.

"I wasn't quite sure." Henry replied.

"Well if you wanted I could lend out my garage to you." Rossi smiled mischievously.

"What's in the garage?" I asked, knowing that it wasn't just going to be a garage.

"Oh, why don't you see for yourself." Rossi grinned. Henry and I didn't need telling twice. We got up off the bed and made our way downstairs to the garage. Rossi gave us the key to the door. On the outside it looked like a normal garage, but when we unlocked the door we were completely blown away. There in front of us was one of the coolest garages I've ever seen. It was more a games/gadget room than a garage. It had a large air hockey table, a pool table, two quad bikes, two segways, and lots and lots of video games.

"Well this is nice." Henry commented. Nice was an understatement.

"Henry this is fucking amazing." I cried.

"Beautifully put Stella." He laughed.

"What can I say, I have a way with words." I smiled back.

"So what do you want to start with?" Henry asked. I didn't really know where to begin, it was all so much.

"I'm thinking segways, then quad bikes, then a game of air hockey." I suggested.

"Sounds like a plan." Henry agreed. He opened the garage door and we jumped on the segways. It took a while of getting used to, but once we started, we had the time of our lives.

"I'll race you a lap of Rossi's." Henry said.

"Okay, but prepare to lose." I agreed, already whizzing off.

"Hey, I didn't say go. Stella Reid you're such a cheat." He shouted after me. I ignored him and whizzed ahead. I'm an extremely competitive person and I didn't want to lose against Henry. I turned round the corner, leading into Rossi's main garden. Henry was long behind me and I wasn't willing to stop now. I was about half way through the main garden when I heard a piercing scream. It was Henry. Instinct took over and I turned around to find out where he was. I went back round the corner to see Henry and his segway on the floor. Henry was sitting flat on his bum, clutching his ribs. I ditched my segway and ran towards him.

"Henry! What's wrong? Are you okay? What hurts? What happened?" I asked frantically, his face was contorted with pain.

"My ribs. I flipped over." Was all Henry could say.

"Can you stand up?" I asked. I was really worried about him.

"Think so." He muttered. He gently stood up and I guided him to his segway.

"Can you get back to the house?" I asked him. Instead of replying though, Henry straightened up and smiled.

"See you at the garage." He laughed zooming off. I was so angry I just stood there. I honestly thought he'd really hurt himself. Too angry to even speak, I hopped on my segway and slowly made my way back to the garage. I thought I would have calmed down by the time I got back, but my anger just increased. I parked my segway into the garage and stormed past Henry, towards the door.

"Guess, I won." He smiled. I turned around and gave him my death glare.

"Don't even speak to me." I hissed.

"Stella it was a joke, calm down. Where's your sense of humour." He replied.

"Well funnily enough, I don't find thinking my boyfriend is hurt funny." I shouted.

"Stel, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry you, it was just a joke." Henry said, shocked at my anger outburst.

"Just don't." I spat, turning away.

"Stella please I'm sorry. Slap me, hit me, punch me-"

Henry happened to be interrupted by my hand slapping his cheek. I didn't mean to do it, but it was a sort of spur of the moment thing.

"Oww." I moaned clutching my hand.

"Stella! I didn't mean it literally, you're not suppose to actually hit someone when they say that." Henry moaned. He held his cheek which was slightly red. I was nice enough to not hit his cut cheek.

"Then why did you say it" I asked.

"I don't know, to make you feel better."

"Call it quits?" I asked feeling a little bit bad.

"Fine, but next time I do something wrong, please don't slap me." Henry begged.

"I know, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Do you want some ice?" I asked, my anger seemed to of disappeared.

"No it's fine, it wasn't to hard." He replied. I leant forward and kissed his cheek.

"There I kissed it better." I smiled.

"Thank you. Typical Stella to actually slap someone." He said, rolling his eyes.

"Well next time don't scare me like that. I care about you too much." I told him.

"I won't, I promise." Henry smiled back. For the rest of the day we stayed in the garage. We went on the quad bikes, but decided it was best not to have any-more races, and we had a game on the ice hockey table. Henry even taught me how to play some of Rossi's video games. Overall, it was a pretty good day. For dinner we ordered Chinese, and afterwards we watched a movie in bed with Henry's signature hot chocolate. Yet again Henry and I talked till we couldn't keep our eyes open. Yet again I went to sleep feeling warmth and loved.

The Next Day.

For the first time in about a week I slept without having a nightmare. I actually had a rather pleasant dream with Henry in. I ended up waking up to my phone buzzing. Sitting up gently, so I didn't wake up Henry, I checked my phone. Dad had sent me a text saying that he was going to leave soon. At first I was confused at why he was leaving so early, then I saw the time. It was nearly one. We'd slept for half the day.

"Shit." I blurted out.

"I love waking up to my girlfriends sweet voice and her poetic choice of words." Henry mumbled sleepily.

"Henry its one in the afternoon." I laughed, knowing it would fully wake him up.

"What!" He shot up.

"Dads coming to pick me up soon." I told him.

"I was going to make you breakfast." Henry sighed.

"Henry, I don't care, this weekend has been perfect enough." I smiled, kissing him lightly.

"Well, we should uh, get ready." Henry mumbled taken a back.

"Fine, but I'll be quick this time." I said, already out of the door. I ran to my room and stripped my clothes off. I wanted to spend as much time as possible with Henry. I shoved on a pair of jeans and a long sleeved white top. I quickly put my hair up into a ponytail, brushed my teeth, put my mismatched socks on and ran into Henry's room. Unsurprisingly Henry was already ready.

"Pretty impressive Reid." He smirked.

"What can I say, I had someone I wanted to be with." I replied. I sat next to Henry on his now made bed. I just didn't want this weekend to end so I kissed him lightly on the lips.

"Stel, if you're going to kiss me, kiss me properly." He smiled. He leant in and kissed me passionately on the lips. He didn't hold back one bit, and to be honest neither did I. After what felt like forever, we pulled apart. I couldn't stop the smile which spread across my lips.

"Stella, Henry your parents are here." Rossi called out. I sighed a little, realizing I had to go back to reality. With heavy hearts we packed up our stuff and made our way downstairs. Dad and JJ were waiting in the hall, talking with Rossi.

"Hey Stel." Dad smiled.

"Hey."

"Have a good time?" He asked.

"The best." I replied honestly.

"Henry why is your cheek red, it looks like you've been slapped." JJ commented. I felt a ball of guilt inside of me.

"It's nothing." Henry smiled.

"Well we better get going, come on Eileen- I mean Stella." Dad laughed. Both mine and Henry's cheeks burned as we realized what Rossi had done with the video.

"Yeah you don't want to miss your dance class Henry." JJ laughed.

"You will pay old man." Henry glared.

"Don't go about thinking that's the only video I have of you two." Rossi warned. Henry and I gulped at the thought of the footage he could of accumulated over this weekend. This perfect weekend.