She Loved Him and He Died

9. Green Eyes and Golden Hair

Shortly after the woman taking a seat onto the cold metal bleachers, the game between the six men was started. Jo had quickly made sure to pack a small first aid kit in her bag that she brought with her before leaving Hero's spacious flat, and now is glad that she had done so.

Often throughout the game Jo would get flustered and hot at the sight of Hero kicking the black and white ball across the field, his hair had gotten darker from it getting wet with sweat and he would continue to push it back with one piece of stubborn hair staying brushing against his forehead.

She sighed and thought to herself, 'would he ever let me braid it?' Many more thoughts of doing things to his hair, such at combing it and washing it and playing with it pass through Jo's mind as the game goes on.

Jo admires the way his athletic body contorts and bends when kicking the ball and running. He often did tricks to show off and would wink at Jo. Her mind grows filled with thoughts of just him...

Suddenly she is knocked out of her thoughts by the sound of yelling. "Hero!" The guys yell loudly.

Jo looks up quickly to see that Hero is on the ground having what seems to be a seizure. Josephine bolts off of the bench and sprints over where the guys are gathered around a jerking and stiff Hero.

"What's happening!" One of them exclaim. Jo doesn't pay attention to who though.

"Move out of the way, I'm a nurse." She tells all of them, immediately they all back off. Hero's arms are contorted in a way they shouldn't be and his head is repeatedly banging back onto the ground.

"Sander, give me your sweatshirt now and Will call the ambulance." She demands. Sander hurriedly pulls off his sweatshirt and hands it to her. Jo ties the piece of clothing around Hero's head to prevent him from banging it on the ground and hurting himself further.

"Hero, I know you can hear me. Remain calm, help is coming." She whispers to him. Soon enough, the blaring sound of the ambulance has arrived to the edge of the field and paramedics are rushing to him.

It pains Josephine so gratefully to see Hero like this, drool spilling out of his mouth, eyes rolled back, his neck is bent at a angle that she knows for sure will cause him pain the next day. She sees that he has urinated on himself and feels sympathy for him that he is going through this.

(A/n: I've experienced seeing both my sister and mother having intense seizures multiple times and this is usually what happens to them during it, but I'm definitely not claiming this happens to everyone. So please don't try to come at me if you think I'm just making this up☺️)

After sedating him and putting him on a gurney, Jo follows after them to the ambulance. "How are you related to the patient ma'am?" They ask her when she shows that she wants to get on with him.

"I am his personal nurse," she tells them and shows her hospital badge.

They nod and let her on, that's something that she didn't tell Hero. She filled out some paperwork so that she is now classified as his caretaker. Jo didn't want to take risks with anything.
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"J-Jo?" Hero stutters once he has awoken, but he keeps his eyes closed harshly showing that the lights are giving him discomfort.

Josephine launches out of her seat and rushes straight to his side. "Hey, I'm right here." She grips his warm hand in her cold one.

"W-what h-happened?" He asks weakly, still with his eyes closed. Josephine goes and turns off the lights before coming back.

"You had a seizure." She tells him simply.

"What? Why?" He pries open his eyes.

Josephine takes in a deep breath before speaking. "Clearly you didn't read the paper," she mumbles to herself. "Seizures is one of the 'many'" she spits out the word spitefully, "symptoms of your condition." She tells him. "Now, I can see that you're asking me with your eyes that if the physical activity caused it, the answer is no. It didn't. It could have happened at any moment."

Hero nods solemnly at her. "I-It was a-scary," he whispers to her. Josephine pulls over a chair and sits down before taking his hand back in hers.

"Go on." She tells him.

"I couldn't see." He stares straight ahead. "I could hear everything going on around me, feel everything but yet I couldn't do a thing... a single fucking thing!" He exclaims in frustration. "I even felt when I fucking pissed myself," he embarrassedly mumbles with a tear leaking from his eye.

Jo is quick to wipe it away from his face, "hey, hey, don't be embarrassed please. It was completely out of your control."

Hero doesn't have the energy to do or say anything but nod. Inside of his mind is a isolated place. He feels as if thousands of thoughts are racing, but at the same time he can't coherently think about a single thing.

He's present yet distant, he feels stuck. Things aren't making sense even though they are so simple. The only thing grounding him is the girl next to him. She has been the only sense of normalcy in his life the past two weeks.

"Jo?" He mumbles out.

"Yeah?" She responds to him attentively, ready to do whatever he asks of her.

"Don't leave me please. You're the only thing I have left." He tells her, meaning every word. He knows, he really doesn't have anything but her. His health is going to shit, his parents are dead, his friends have their own lives to live and his wealth means absolutely nothing to him.

"I won't ever leave you."
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"So you're like d-dying," the mans best friend asks him fearfully.

Hero nods at this, "yep, three years left." His voice is barely audible.

"Wow..." they all mumble.

The room has gone silent. All the men deep in their thoughts.

"I should have never came back," Hero then says.

"What?!" Kadence exclaims.

"You all had moved on while I was gone, it should have stayed that way." He replies.

"You are our best mate, Hero. We never moved on and we never will." Keenly then says.

Each of the guys are now filled with overwhelming sadness for their mate who is sadly almost at the end of his journey....

You know you love me xoxo,
Zoë