What would you do?

Callie

Chapter 5

I was lying on my bed, going through my camera roll and I saw a really stupid picture of Callie and I. Oh my gosh, Callie, I still have not told her. I pick up my phone and call her. She answers on the second ring "Hey girl, OMG I have so much to tell you," she basically screams in the phone. I have more to tell you I thought in the back of my head but instead I say "Come over I have a lot to tell you too." "Mmm kay I will be over in five minutes," she hung up. She lived really close to me, we had been friends since we were two and when her family was going through a hard time she basically lived at my house. As my mom says the only reason we are not sister is because god knew our mom would not be able to handle us together. I dont know what I would do without her. A few minutes I hear a gentle knock on my door and Callie comes in. She knew she didn't have to knock, she is over at my house so much she even has a spare key. "Hey" I say, I look up and look back down and start to paint my nails. "Why were you not in school? I was so lonely and bored." I just shrugged. "What's wrong?" I look up surprised although I don't know why I would be suprised she is my best friend of course she would know something was wrong. "Nothing, I'm fine." I give her a weak smile. "Don't even play that card" she walked over to my bed and sat on it. "Tell me what is wrong." She sounded serious. Oh god, not this again. I hate having to tell people this, well I have only told one person but it is one of the hardest things i have had to do. I look down at my half painted nails and bite my lip debating how i would tell her. I hear her shift uncomfortably on my bed and then i hear her crack her knuckles. i have known Callie long enough to know she only does that when she is nervous. My heart sinks a little, to know that she is nervous to what i have to say. I open my mouth and then shut it. i just can't tell her. i look back up at her with a sad look in my eye. She looks at me and says "Tell me Amanda," she looks at me with worry in her eyes. "I have cancer" I mumbled I thought she would not hear, but she did. She stopped and looked at me "You are kidding right? Oh god please tell me you are kidding." She says this with a tone of desperation in her voice. I shook my head "No i have cancer, the doctor said I have less than a year to live." She started to cry hysterically. I wanted to comfort her but i couldn't. I just looked down and let the tears fall. I looked up and put a brave smile on my face and wiped my tears "So what did you have to tell me?" She looked at me "It really is nothing compared to what you had to tell me." I look at her sternly "I don't want your sympathy, I have only have a year to year I don't want to be pity. I want to live it how I always would if not better." I say then wink. "So tell me what you were going to tell me you loser." She looked up and laugh and brushed the tears off of her face. "Josh asked me out." she said as a big grinned appeared on her face. "What!?!" I yelled "OMG callie thats huge how could I have not know by now, tell me everything, what did he say, where, when, how, I need details." She was laughing. "Last night at angie's party we were on the roof talking and he look at me when a slow song came on and pulled me into his arms and we started to dance and he said "Callie you are the most beautiful, funny, and nice girl I have ever laid my eye on. Will you please be my girlfriend." "That is the cutest thing I have ever heard in my life, I am so happy for you." She smiled and grabbed finger nail polish and started to paint her nails. I was so happy for Callie. This was the perfect time, once I am gone she will have someone there for her and she has liked Josh for over 3 years now. I don't understand why it took so long for him to ask her out though because she was beautiful. She a golden blonde hair that went down to her waist and she was tan the the brightest green eyes you have ever seen. She was short like me only she was an inch taller she was 5'1. She was skinny, I was skinny too. We wore the same size clothes most of the time except I had bigger boobs. I got up "I have to pee." I walk over to the bathroom and close the door. I really didn't have to pee but I needed some time to myself. I close my eyes and take a deep breathe. I open my eyes and look in the mirror. I looked at myself, I grabbed my brush and started to brush my hair. My hair reached all the way to my butt and was naturally wavy. My hair was brown and gets blonde at the end. I was pale with freckles on my cheeks. I had ice blue eyes. I flushed the toilet to make it sound like I pee and walked out. "Wanna go watch a movie, I bet you haven't left this house for a while." Callie says. "Ya, sure, can I invite Brad?" I ask. I didn't want to mean if she wanted it to be just us but I really want to spend time with him. "Of course you can, actually it would be better because Josh is going to be there." A small smile crept on her face. I was so happy for her. "What time do we have to be there?" "We should probably be there in like 2 hours." she said. "Okay." I say. I grab my phone and text brad. "Hey do you wanna go to the movies with Callie and Josh and me." I sent it. He responded immediately "Ya, what time?" "6:00" I respond. "Okay, I will see you soon." I put some music on and Callie and me start to get ready. I had not taken a shower for about a week so I hop in the shower. It felt so nice to have the water rush over my body as I feel the dirt come off. When I got out of the shower I dry off. I feel more awake now and nice. I go into my closet and grab a pair of black skinny jeans with rips in them and a tank top that showed some cleavage it was blue and black tribal print. I loved this shirt it had a little cut out in the back and was kind of sexy but still casual. I grab a pair of black converse. I go into the bathroom to blow dry my hair. I out some makeup on, I have pretty clear skin but I put on some eyeliner and mascara on. I come out of the bathroom. I was done and we had about 40 minutes left till we had to leave. Callie was wearing a skater skirt dark red and a black tight crop top and doc martins. She was wearing all my clothes but thats what best friend do.  "Want to go get some food while we still have time?" she asks. I really was not hungry but i didn't want to hurt her feelings, i know she is just trying to be nice. "Sure!" I say a little too happily. "I know you don't want to," she said "I didn't really want to either." I started to laugh and I looked at her. "Wanna go play video games while we wait?" I ask. "Hell ya, i want too!" We go down to the basement where my brother sleeps, he is passed out on the couch, he is one year older then me and has been getting drunk lately. It is worrying me but I am not going to say anything yet. "Matthew!" I yell and shake him. He opens his eyes and moans but he gets up and walks to the bathroom. I wiped his drool off the couch and we sit down and we start to play video games. "Get out i want to sleep." he moaned as he came out of the bathroom. "Matthew go to your bed." I say. "I don't need to hear your commands little girl get out and let me sleep." he said sternly. "Don't call me little girl you are only a year older and we share this space just go to your room and get over it." I say."Fine," he says "But only because you are going to die anyway." I know he didn't mean to be mean, he was drunk. But it really hurt my feelings. I felt my lip start to quiver and I was shaking. I started to bawl. Why would he say that he did not need to tell me I knew I was going to die. He was so mean. I guess he realized what he said after he said it cause I felt his big arms over me stroking my head. He was crying too but I don't know why. "I am sorry I didn't mean it" He was basically begging in forgiveness. "It's okay," I say back to him he was rocking me back and forth and eventually sat back. "I'm gonna go to bed now." He got up. "Wait Matthew you can stay, we are about to leave for a movie." He looked at me and smiled " I love you, have fun." We go upstairs and I step in the bathroom and fix my makeup. Surprisingly I don't look that bad even though I just cried. I came out and Callie was standing there on her phone. "Ready?" she asked me with concern in her voice. I don't know why there was concern but there was. "Ya, lets go." I walked out the door and she followed me I got in my car and she got next to me. I started to drive. I have been driving longer than her so when we go out I drive. It is just the way we work. We got there in 10 minutes. We were 5 minutes early, Callie and I had been friends forever, we were never awkward but there was this silence in the car that was killing me. This is what my cancer is doing to me ruining my friendship. I sigh and get out of the car and Callie follow me. We walked into the movie there Josh and Brad were standing in the front. We walked up to them, they had already bought tickets for the movie we were watching Get Hard. I don't know how they managed to get the tickets since it is R but we did. We started to walk to the movie theater and went inside. We sat in the back row I was next to Brad and Josh. The movie started and I snuggled against Brad and let him out his arm around me. The movie is absolutely hilarious. I honestly totally forgot about my cancer and had a great time. Which hd not happened all week. I am glad I went. Well almost, we were walking out the movie theater when I saw Courtney. Courtney and I had a lot of history. She use to be one of my best friend. I told her everything and then one day she blackmailed me. But that is a long story. She started to walk up to me, oh god here we go."Hey amanda, I heard about your cancer and i am soooo sorry!! I can't belive that could happen." I shot a glance at Callie and Brad a look. How did people know. I felt my face getting red. "Thanks" I mutter. I started to walk but she stopped me."No i am not finished, look i know that we have a bad past but I want to get right with you. I feel so bad." she stood there looking at me. I nodded I didn't know what to say. "Aren't you going to apologize to me?"she said agitated. "For what?" I sneer back. "For stealing Brad" she said just as mean. "You two only stayed for 2 months and you were 13, and I didn't steal him he broke up with you and asked me out. So then you go behind my back and blackmail me for something I didn't do yet you want me to apologize." I say. I had not ever talked to her about this before. I haven't really talked to her at all since she blackmailed me. "Whatever you little prick, when you die I will steal bread from you." she said with a smirk on her face laughing. Brad got between us and took me in his arms. He said to her "Even if you wanted me back you would never get me you little.." she cut him off. "Dont deny it baby" she said pushing me out of the way, "Don't deny that you want all this," and then she pressed up against him and kissed him. Not just a quick kiss but passionate. He pushed her off and said "Keep telling yourself that you thirsty hoe." Brad pulled next to me and put his arm around me. "God, i just came over to apologize and get right with you!" Courtney exclaims. "So what am i to you, do you hate me more and can try to be friends?" She asks. "No, you are just a stranger with all my secrets. Stay away from me. Besides you don't want to make a person that is going to die mad at you" I say. I walk by her and say "You don't know what I might do when i am dead" I make a ghost noise and wave my arms in her face. The look on her face was absolutely priceless. She actually looked scared.The guys walked us to our car. I turned to Brad and gave him a hug I whisper "Thank you for standing up for me" just so he could hear. "Of course baby" he whispered "I love you" he said a little louder. I smiled into his shirt. I pull away him put keep my arms around his waist i look straight into his eyes that were blue just like mine and say "I love you too." I lean in and kiss him then walk to my car. He opened the door and I got in. The guys waved and left, I pulled the car out and looked over at Callie. We just looked at each other and started to laugh.  Out of happiness, and the fact that I totally made a fool out of Courtney. Finally, we were back to normal.