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•Part twelve

You woke up with only Theodore laying next to you, he was reading a book before realising you were actually awake. Jamie was gone, so you thought that your dad came to take her to the hospital to check the mark on her arm.

"Good morning, where's Jamie?" Theo asked.

"Oh, I think dad came and took her out shopping for the day." You lied, you didn't want to tell him in case he didn't know yet.

"Oh ok." Theo said then paused. "I know. Do you?"

"About the thing on her arm?" You asked and he nodded. "Yeah, I know as well. It doesn't look that serious so obviously I hope it's not."

"Really? Do you not remember what happened to Claire from that camping thing Uncle Remus sent us to?" Theo reminded you.

When you were twelve and Theo and Jamie were ten, you three got sent to a campsite for the weekend by your Uncle as he thought it would be a good idea.

There was a girl called Claire who told a story on the first night. It was a true story about her she said. It all started with a tiny red dot on her chest, to a lump where that dot was and it got bigger every day until they got it checked out.

The lump was cancer.

The story sounded unbelievable that something like that could have happened to someone like Claire, but you and everyone else realised it did actually happen once she took her short, blonde wig off.

"Now I don't think that it's nothing." You told your younger brother.

"I haven't ever since she was wearing short sleeves around me. Did you know it's been there for almost a month now?" He asked you.

"What?!! No!" You already got even more worried for your little sister. "Why wouldn't she tell me? I'm here sister."

"I don't know. She didn't even tell me, her own twin brother. I had to find out myself." He sighed. "What if something bad happens to her?"

"It won't." You said. "I hope."

"Me too." He said. "Right, let's stop talking about this before you start crying. Let's go get some food. I need to eat or I'll get hangry."

"Agreed."

•••

After getting some food with your brother in the great hall, you two sat with Anthony and his new friend Lee Jordan.

"Hi, Lee." Theo said. "You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm alright thanks." Lee said.

"You two know each other?" You asked.

"Yeah. Lee was at the Weasley house a few summers ago. He's friends with the twins." Your brother told you.

"Where are the twins?" You asked Lee.

"Fred's basically gone missing and George spent the night in another dorm, probably in some girls bed like usual." Lee simply said.

The four of you ate breakfast and since it was a Saturday, none of you had any school related work or stuff to do so you four made plans together. The plans weren't really just for the four of you, it was more the whole of fifth year and up.

There was going to be a party in the Gryffindor common room and lots of people were going to go, it would be weird if you didn't. Plus there would be a chance that Fred would be there and you felt like you desperately needed to talk to him and apologise.

You four were just talked when your attention went straight to the person who just touched yours and Theodore's shoulders.

Jamie.

"Don't say anything, just come straight with me." Jamie said, which made you and Theo get up.

"Are you okay?" You asked your younger sister.

"Yeah. I'm okay." She told you and took you to her dorm. "So is the man behind this door."

She opened the door and your father was sat on her bed, looking around the dorm before standing up as you and Theo jumped at the chance to hug him.

"Your here!" Theo exclaimed and hugged him for the second time after you sat next to him.

"I missed you." You said and wrapped your arm around your dad who was now sat back down on the bed.

Jamie grabbed two small stalls for her and Theo that was in the corner of her dorm to sit on in front of you and your father. She had definitely been crying and it even looked like your father had either been upset or had been crying as well.

She started silently crying when your dad opened his mouth to start speaking. Theo put his hand on her knee and moved his stall closer to her to hug her and comfort her.

"Kids, I think Jamie's got something to tell you two." Your father said, sniffing mid-sentence.

"I can't." She said and stood up, sobs leaving her mouth and grabbed some tissue to wipe her eyes dry. "Dad, can you please tell them?"

"Yeah." He said. "I want you both to know that this isn't going to change anything, we are all still a happy family and will definitely be doing everything and anything to help this. To help your sister."

"Dad, what's going on? Your scaring me." You said in a very worried voice, Theo looked scared as well.

"As you kids know, your sister went to the hospital today to check something on her arm. A small, red mark that was on her arm. Overnight, that mark has gotten bigger and there was a small lump in the middle of her arm." Your father said and a tear fell out of your eye. "The doctors were able to tell us what and why that mark was there."

Jamie chucked a wet tissue in the bin, grabbed a whole box of tissues and sat back down next to Theo on her small stall. She was still crying so she got a tissue out.

Before your father carried on, she passed everyone each a tissue.

"Jamie has cancer."

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