Chapter 20

"Oh Angel...I've been so worried and for no good reason...You've been asleep." Jace's voice says full of relief.

"My love you're here? Wait what time is it?" I sit straight up in bed and my face is inches from his. He chuckles lightly and places a feather soft kiss on my lips, "Well my Angel is alright 8pm. I tried to call you on my final break at 5:30pm and you didn't answer, I thought that maybe you were still driving home. I waited for about 45 more minutes, and I still had not heard from you and I guess I started to worry that something happened to you. I found it increasingly hard to focus on work, I mean I feel absolutely silly now for worrying so much. It is truly amazing how you have somehow as if overnight become the center of my whole world." Jace sighs and pulls me into a tight hug crushed against his muscular body where I can feel every ounce of his anxiety drop away.

I smile happy to be in his embrace, "I am sorry my love I had not intended to fall asleep I had planned to call you. I honestly don't even remember falling asleep." I shake my head in confusion. He places his hand on my face,

"Are you hungry Angel? No need to be sorry I am sure that your body was just so tired after your first day of work. How was your first day by the way?"

As if in response my stomach growls loudly and I smile at him sheepishly." I guess that answers that question." I chuckle lightly with him. "My day was great I got to do a lot of work and I feel really good with the position. I did a transmission rebuild on a ford today, so I feel like it was a productive day. How was work for you before I went MIA?" I wink at him.

He chuckles and kisses me again, "I will be right back with some food for us to eat. I am also gonna run home right quick so I can pack my weekend bag since we will be going to see Camerone this weekend. Are you planning to take your bike out there or do you wanna ride with me?" He looks at me as though he already knows me answer.

'Shit I totally forgot we were going home this weekend; great I have got to figure out how to tell Cam about Jace and I.' I start to chew on my lip with the anxiety that starts to build in me. 'How will he react to the news that his little sister and his best friend are now together? Will he make Jace leave?' "Yes, my love I plan to take my bike tomorrow, don't forget we are breaking the news about us to him this weekend and I am not sure how he will respond. Luckily for me I should be off of work by noon tomorrow and I can just start the drive out there as soon as I am off. Do you mind bringing my bag out with you for me please?" I smile at him innocently.

He smiles his deep smile at me, the same smile that makes my heart skip a beat and fills me with need to be close to him in every way. "Of course, I can do that for you my Angel, I should be able to get out of work by 1pm tomorrow so in theory I shouldn't be too far behind you. I am ready to tell him as long as that is what you want. You don't have to rush to tell him if you aren't ready." He gives me this look of knowing as if he knows that it is causing me anxiety to think of telling Cam.

"Well my love I think I should tell him he deserves to know, however on the 'if your ready bit' I don't think that I will ever be ready for that." I smile at him knowing that he will completely understand exactly how I am feeling. "Now hurry and get our food and your stuff I want to cuddle." I give him a stern look to show him I mean business.

"You got it babes." He kisses my lips with full lust and need and just before I can crawl on his lap he pulls away, smiles my favorite smile, and leaves. 'Oh, how I hate when he leaves me wanting more.' I sigh in frustration, 'I will get him back when he gets back.' I get off of my bed and begin to pack my own weekend bag playing out a thousand scenarios in my head of all the things that could happen when we tell Cam our big secret.

"Hey Scar! You're up! How was your first day?" I scream in surprise as the pair of socks I had been holding burst into flames between my hands and fall to the floor.

"Fuck!" I quickly begin to slam my hands on the burn pile of what used to be my socks, affectively putting out the fire leaving a pile of ash. My hands begin to burn, and I can only just barely look down at them before Stella is on the floor fussing over my hands.

"Oh my God Scar I am so sorry! Are you ok? Wait how did that happen?" She is fidgeting with my hands, and I just feel absolute shock, 'how in the world was she able to scare me that good?'. "Scar we have to take you to the Emergency room I am almost positive that you have third degree burns on your hands." She gets up grabbing a washcloth and places it under the cool water before she sits down on the floor in front of me and wraps the cold cloth around my hands.

"Well for my first day it was not bad at all. I got to rebuild a transmission. My hands on the other hand well they hurt for sure. Don't apologize Ella it wasn't your fault I was lost in thought. I am not too sure how I am gonna work tomorrow," I chuckle light heartedly, I can sense that she feels really bad. "I did not even realize that my powers would be so in tune to my emotions. I guess I need to always be cautious. I am glad it was only my sock haha could have been my entire bag. How am I gonna tell Jace or Cam? Clumsy like usual I suppose." I look at her and laugh, "Ella will you breathe please I am fine there is no need to be so panicked I don't need to go to the emergency room either. Breath your gonna turn purple."

Stella lets out a huge sigh before she speaks, "Scar I think that it would be best if..." Before she can finish her sentence we here Jace and James walk into the apartment laughing. "Oh boy what can we do? What do you wanna tell Jace?" She quietly closes my bedroom door.

"Well, you have your tea in here we can just say I had my usual clumsy moment and burned my hands on the tea pot?" I offer this idea to her just in time for Jace to open the door. She nods quickly in response to my idea just as Jace fully enters my room,

"Hey, my An..." he pauses realizing that something isn't right. "Angel what happened?" He looks very anxious the smile that was there just a moment ago long forgotten. Stella stands up and looks at him apologetically, "That I think would be my fault I made some tea..." She pauses and I can see on her face that she doesn't know what to say.

"Babe I am ok. Stella had made some tea and I somehow as I usually do, I tripped and burned my hands..." I sigh and shake my head in disbelief because those sounds all to normal for me. "It was bound to happen eventually I never can be somewhere for very long before y clumsiness kicks in." I smile at both Jace and Stella. Stella seems to take a calming breath and exits my room.

Jace doesn't look like he believes me, he sighs and picks me up off of the floor concern written all over his face, and places me on our bed. He looks me in the eye before he asks me, "Angel how bad is it?" I can hear the strain in his voice. I avoid his gaze and bite my lip just before I answer him.

"Honestly I don't really know...Ella thinks that I have third degree burns. She managed to wrap my hands in a cold cloth before I got a chance to look at the damage..." Jace inhales sharply as his hands quickly and gently start to remove the cool cloth from my hands. I study his face as he is removing the cloth afraid to see how bad it actually is. I quickly look away from his face, it must be really bad for him to be looking that anxious. In a small voice, "Is it that bad?" I still can't look at my hands the horror on his face tells me all that I need to know.

I finally look back at his face waiting patiently for his response. He sighs not taking his eyes off of my hands as he speaks, "Angel this is...worse than bad...I think that Ella..." He finally looks at me meeting my gaze. "...I think Ella may be right...Baby how did this really happen?" I can see the pain in his eyes as he asks me. I cannot look away from his beautiful eyes showing so much care pain and sadness.

"I am not even sure how to tell you this my love, I'm not even sure that I fully understand what happened...." Finally, I am able to look down away from his calculating gaze. His hand finds my chin and lightly tugs on it to pull my face up so that he can look into my eyes, after a second I give in and allow our eyes to meet again.

"Angel, I have a huge secret and tonight I will show you a secret part of me...I have never showed anyone this...Not even Camerone....I just ask for some understanding of what happened my love, please?" All I can do in response is to nod my head in agreement and look at him full of wonder.