The flower in my throat

Help

"just call them!' Emma shouted back to her dad trying to remain calm for Ray's sake, watching the coughing getting worse "DAD HURRY!"

"Oi don't talk to me like that, It's ringing"

Lucas heard the screaming so came upstairs to figure out the source. Seeing the scene before him and walked over

"Emma deep Breath alright, we are calling them. We can take ray to the hospital but first we need you to settle"

Emma nodded and left Ray with Lucas while she went to calm herself down, she walked downstairs. Holding back her tears and went to go find Yugo. She saw he had ended the call and was collecting stuff that they usual would take with them to go out so helped him pack the bag. He noticed the worry Emma had and the fact she was holding back tears.

"It's okay to cry Emma you know that"

"Yea but if I cry, Ray might worry and I need to be brave for him"

"If anything he'll use it as a chance to try tease you or cheer you up and your being brave already by getting us to sort this and taking action. So go help Lucas and I'll meet you three in the car"

She nodded, a few tears escaped her eyes as she walked upstairs. She sighed in a little bit of relief seeing the coughing had calmed down and waited to see what she could do to help.

The group eventually got to the hospital, Isabella came over and rushed ray in while Emma stayed outside, not wanting to so snuck past the adults and followed stopping outside the room to listen in.

"It's gotten drastically worse, cutting your time off a lot more.  do you know what may have caused this rapid change?"

"Um- I think it might be something to do with the message I got sent by the-"

"The person who caused this?"

"Yea basically saying h- she was going to avoid me for many reasons"

"In that case your options are-"

"Surgery or dying to it?"

"Correct"

Emma silently gasped and walked off sneaking outside as to not get caught and allowed herself to burst into tears grabbing her phone and calling Norman with shaky hands.

"Emma is everything okay? I thought you were spending time with Ray?"

"He's gotten worse Norman!"

"There's no need to shout at me and shouldn't he be telling me this?"

"Yes there is! He's at the hospital getting told his time is shorter then expected! And he wouldn't Norman not after what happened?"

"What's going on Emma?"

"I know you text Ray about maybe keeping some distance"

"I don't get-"

"Norman! He's literally dying because you are slowly disliking him, he is shutting himself away as well!"

"Well he does know we are a thing so it is his fault for choosing to live with it"

"Yea but at least he had some hope that you would like him, you could have at least accepted him and it wouldn't be this bad"

"Emma if all you're going to do is shout and blame me, I'm going to end this call"

"Norman. Don't you fucking dare, if you do I'll just call you until you pick up"

She stared at her phone glaring daggers into it as if Norman could read her face through the phone. She felt a hand on her shoulder and went to snap at them before seeing it was Ray, he gave her a weak smile moving his hand assuming she was annoyed by that. Which caused Emma to tear up yet again, ignoring norman she spoke to the boy stood by her

"Ray, what are you-"

"I asked to come outside for some space to think and I noticed you so I thought come over"

"Oh, makes sense"

"Emma? Hello? Is that ray?"

"Oh sorry are you on a call?"

"Yea but it's just Norman"

"....mkay"

Emma smiled slightly at Ray and gave him a side hug not wanting to invade his personal space but also ensure he was comfortable.

"Look if you two are talking, I'm going to go but before I do can I ask something?"

"Go ahead" Emma spoke, rolling her eyes feeling really irritated by him today.

"Well it's for ray but are you going to get the surgery"

".... I'm being forced to so unless it gets better within the weekend then yea"

"Oh I see"