"She was still in love with you, you know?"
"She wasn't, if she was, why would she agree to break up? People in love don't do that Delilah! It doesn't work that way."
She stared at the phone, pressed against her palm before facing him again.
"Doe...
Elena ran up the stairs to Owens room and opened it without a warning. She looked around his with a pissed off look on her face. "Uhm.... hi El, what do you want?" Owen asked, slightly irritated that his sister broke his concentration.
"I swear i heard their voices." She said. He raised his eyebrows. "Who's? My friends? Cause i was just gaming so that would make sense." The Joyner girl shook her head. "No. Marianna and Lylia's. You know ... my bestfriend and her sister?"
Shit. Please don't be onto something...
To be honest, he was scared. Like ... really scared. Elena couldn't find out about their secret yet, he promised Marianna not to tell her.
"No clue what you're talking about." He answered his sister, who walked out of his room with a huff, slamming his door in the process.
He quickly jumped of his chair to get his phone.
Marianna Smith 💕
Me She's onto something.
*2 notifications from snapchat*
Marianna was sitting on a plastic uncomfortable chair in the boring hospital waitingroom, scrolling through her phone. She opened her snapchat and saw two messages from both Joyner siblings. She opened Elena's one first (as her message was above Owens)
Lena Joyner 🖤
Lena Joyner 🖤 The weirdest thing just happened. I heard your voice coming from Owens room wth?? 😂😂
Shit shit shiiiiittttttt. God damnit Owen Joyner.
Me HAHAHHA WHAT???
Hopefully she won't caught on ....
She opened the next one
Owen Joyner
Owen Joyner She's onto something.
Me Yeah she messaged me... Do you think she knows??
Owen started typing as soon as she sent that
Owen Joyner I sure hope not... She came into my room saying she heard you but i shrugged it off. She was NOT happy.
The Smith girl laughed as she imagined the scene her bestfriend just described.
Me Yeah so did I What do you think is gonna happen when she finds out tho?
Owen Joyner Idk.... Nothing good ig... How are you btw?
Owen waited a few seconds before the answer came in.
Marianna Smith 💕
Marianna Smith 💕 Good considering the situation .... Wait hold on, the nurse just called us Brb
Marianna clicked off her phone and walked to the room the nurse previously had been in. The doctor was standing next to the bed. The doctor sighed sadly. The whole Smith family had gathered in the room, all standing around a bed. A man in his mid fourties was laying on it, his eyes closed and machines everywhere. The silence in the room was so tight that a knife couldn't even break it. They all knew that it was coming at some point, the question was when.
The man cleared his throat. "I know this is not what we wanted .... but you need to start saying goodbye ...." Alexis Smith's arm went around her daughter as Marianna's eyes slowly filled themselves with salty tears. She blinked them away and stared at her father, who looked nothing like himself anymore. His hair was gray, beard fully visible and he had lost so much weight. Too much weight for a man his age. His eyes opened, looking like a glossy blue. He followed the people through the room as they walked from one side of his bed to the other. It was a scary sight honestly. Marianna didn't know how much he could hear or see. She just hoped it wasn't much.
Her mind had been so far away that she had totally missed everything the man had said to mostly her mother. She didn't want to know. One week left ... counting down the days would feel horrible, she already knew that.
The oldest sibling looked at her younger brother and sister, who silently supported eachother as they tried to process what had happened.
Sometimes Marianna, Lylia and Ross joked about wanting to be a family of four instead of five. But in four they meant having one sibling instead of two. Not losing their father.
Their mother had taken the hands of her 15 year old son and daughter, looking at her oldest with a sad but understanding look in her eyes. Her eyes said everything she wanted to hear that moment.
'Let's go.'
The ride home was silent, no one knowing what to say. What was gonna happen after this week? No one knew. They didn't want to find out. But the remaining Smiths couldn't stop it. Even if they wanted it oh so badly. And they really did.
Once home, all the children locked themselves in their rooms. You could hear shuffling from Ross' room and Lylia was heard falling onto her bed, the creaking sound of the wooden frame giving it away. Marianna sat on the floor next to her bed. Deciding if she would tell someone. She needed to get it out of her system, but who could she call... As if they had their own mind, her fingers searched for the name of the person who knew everything, every single detail of this fucked up situation.
Me They gave him one week.
Her phone lit up almost immediately.
I'm on my way.
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A/N
Welp....... that hurt.
The emotional twists in this chapter though - And writing this while listening to sad music really does things to your emotions. Maybe not my best decision but oh well...
