The Millionaire and Her Lover

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

ELLIE

I'm frozen.

What do I do, what can I do. There is nothing I can do being I'm literally frozen in place, frozen in time.

Naomi stares at me with so much hurt, with so much shock, emotion is running high in the room. "What the fuck is going on here?" Naomi yells at us.

She looks more pissed than anyone. Her parents look more shocked than anything. Neither Lindsay nor I know what to do or what to say. We're frozen. We've literally just been caught by Naomi.

There is nothing in this moment of time that anyone can say to aid the hurt she is feeling. We made a pack as kids that I'll never date Lindsay and here I am. Madly in love with him.

"Say something for fuck sake," Naomi yells at us stepping closer.

She's pissed and she has the right to be. We may not be the best of friends now but there was a point in time we were great friends. "Naomi, how about we go get you some air," Alexander says gently pulling her out of the room.

I'm thankful for that. I don't know if I could handle her yelling at me anymore. Lindsay awkwardly gets up and moves to the chair.

Dad walks in and gives me a hug. Not too tight, trying not to hurt me or anything. "How long has this been going on?" Dustin asks us, looking between the both of us.

I look to Lindsay for him to respond. "Since September," Lindsay finally says after a minute or two of silence. Dustin just closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.

Is she mad? Why would she be mad at us? I mean sure I and Naomi are friends and now I'm dating her brother but still. Lindsay's happy, I'm happy, shouldn't that matter to her?

The happiness of her son is all that should matter, she shouldn't pick between her kids happiness. Sure Naomi is hurt, she just saw me kissing her brother. But she'll move on, just like I move on when I caught her in bed with James.

"Ellie I just don't understand how you can do this to Naomi," Dustin says. I knew that was coming. Dustin is an amazing mother but she favours Naomi and that is a flaw that is easily detected.

Lindsay picked up on it growing up and so did I. Even Naomi did. She used it to her advantage. But Dustin most likely doesn't know about the falling out between me and Naomi.

Clearing my throat so I can speak I look at Dustin. "Honestly Dustin, I don't give a shit how this affects Naomi," I tell her causing her face to resort to confusion.

But it's the truth, I don't. "Call me a shitty friend, go ahead but you don't know your daughter or even half the shit she's done, to me or anyone or the reason our friendship is barely there."

My voice comes out raspy. I did just wake up from surgery not too long ago and now I'm defending myself. How great. "She was the reason me and James broke up, I found her in bed with him and you probably don't know that she is dating him now, or the fact that she wants me to put my entire life on hold so I could wait for her to go to college."

Naomi is a truly shitty friend and if it weren't for me dating Lindsay, she would have been dropped. I don't need her around.

"Mom, Naomi has been nothing but a terrible friend to Ellie, plus why should we have to give up being happy because she's upset about it?" Lindsay jumps in before Dustin has a chance to speak.

Lindsay and I have and will have rough patches, but every relationship will. We'll get through it together.

Dustin looks away from us. She's fighting hard not to be on our side. "Just let the kids be happy Dustin, Naomi will figure out how to come to terms with this when she's ready," Dad says trying to get Dustin to understand.

We're not trying to hurt anyone. But we just want to be happy and were tired of giving up our happiness for someone. It's time for us to be happy.

Dustin just turns and leaves the room. That went well.

Shortly after Dustin left Dr. Jennings comes in smiling. "You gave me quite the scare girl," She says and I laugh. I think I gave everyone quite the scare last night. I mean I almost died because of my birth control.

"Heh, sorry," I sheepishly say as she checks my vitals. I wanted to see Lindsay so bad that I didn't even let the doctor from earlier check my vitals. I just wanted him to hold me and tell him everything was going to be alight.

Honestly, I did expect him to break down in tears like that. I honestly gave him quite the scare. "Dr. Jennings, would you mind explaining to them what my condition is?"

They should know, especially Lindsay, I live with him for crying out loud and I'm fucking in love with the man.

Lindsay looks at me confused. Dad just takes a seat on the other chair as Dr.Jennins leans against the wall.

By the end of her explanation, Lindsay was holding onto my hand. Dad's hand is trembling. "How long do you think she'll survive?"

Honesly, I want to know as well. I didn't get a chance to ask because well. My birth control wanted to be somewhere else. But still, how long will I survive?

"Personally I believe she'll live a full life, this medication does wonders Ellie, Yes if you look up you'll see that there is a cure for this, it's a bone marrow transplant, but me or Dr. Keagan are comfortable going forward with that procedure." Dr. Jennings tells me. So there is a cure. But I thought bone marrow had to come from a sibling or a donor.

Dr. Jennings stands straight. "As it stands right now, your healthy as you can be, your body should respond fine to the medication and your young. This proceed isn't necessary and is extremely hard to find a perfect match seeing how your an only child."

Dad scoffs, dad is struggling to come to terms with this.He was basically told I can die at any moment but I should live a full life. "Can't you just put her on the transplant list or some shit?" Dad asks.

Dr. Jennings clasps her fingers together and looks at dad. "Unfortunly, she's just not there yet, the transplant bored won't see her as an urgent case and she'll most likely be on there for years, to the point it's not even worth it, I'm sorry Ellie."

Lindsay gives my hand a squeeze and I lean my head over towards him. We both need to be in the comfort of each other. I don't know how we're going to go forward from here.

Will he even want to be with me? I've basically been given a death sentence, one that's unclear. He'll be with a ticking time bomb.

Do I even want to put him through that?