Summer

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I know its shocking and this shows that this book is not like a normal romance story.

Some of my inspirations for this book has been the film Keith and The Summer Series books.

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It was silent. I was crying non stop even Nina was frozen.

No one could comfort me, there was no bright side.

Only a void of darkness.

"No!" Troy shouted suddenly, making my cries halt as I curled into a ball on the floor, Nina slumped next to me.

"Fuck! Fuck!" Troy shouted kicking the chair.

"She can't no! She can't leave me! Not when I need her!" Troy kept shouting I stared at him in horror. Troy never shouted, he never even showed anger.

In that moment my parents arrived and they look startled when they saw us.

And at that moment Patel made an appearance before I could even utter a word.

"The Richards I presume?" Patel asks, my parents nod in shock and follow Patel to the ugly truth.

Fifteen minutes later my parents come back red and with tear stained cheeks.
I had never ever seen my dad cry and his state terrified me.

My mom was arguing with Patel.

"But it was only a scare before! She said the doctor said everything was fine!" My mom shouted.

"Things have changed, Mrs Richards, Scarlett never attended her appointments." Patel said.

"You're blaming this on her?" My mom exclaimed, my dad tried calming her, it didn't work.

"Of course not, I'm saying we could have seen the cancer before but now it has spread, but it would have inevitably spread." Patel says, I want to scream. Nina cries in my shoulder and Troy sits with a face set in stone.

"So what she's going to die now?" my mom says crying.

"Not on my watch, we will do everything to make her better." Patel says sternly. I feel bad for him, this must not be an easy job, but I'm too wound up in misery to care.

"What if she doesn't? Huh?" My mom growls.

"Honey you need to calm down." My dad says quietly, he steers her away from Patel and takes her outside.

Patel looks at us, "She's conscious now, would you like to see her Miss Richards?" Patel says.

I get up quickly.

So does Troy.

"Sorry buddy, only family." Patel says I look at him with shock.

"He is family, practically her son." I seethe, Patel detects the venom in my voice and shows us into the ICU, Nina doesn't even bother to come, I know she hates hospitals.

I grab Troys hand, he doesn't say anything, but doesn't let go.

Its like he's shut down ever since I told him.

Then we see her amongst all the tubes and IV pumping liquids into her. Her frazzled curly hair, her pale face, the same soft eyes looked warily at us.

She looked lifeless.

"Hey." Scar whispers softly, trying to sit up wincing with pain.

I immediately make her lie back down.

She holds my hand, Patel leaves us and Troy lurks in the doorway.

"Scar..." My lip trembles.

"Oh baby girl." Scar says patting my hair as I cry in her lap. Scar was always so strong, she never cried, but I could see the wetness on her cheeks.

"P-promise me you won't die." I howl.

"I can't promise you that." Scar says quietly, I look at her and cry even more as she hold my face in her neck, crying softly in my ear.

The defeat in her voice killed me.

Scar never gave up and she sounded like she had already lost a winning battle.

"You knew." Troy whispered from the door.

We both looked at him.

"How could she-" I start.

"I did." Scar finishes for me.

"W-what?" I stutter.

"I could tell, I was coughing up blood, I was always tired and it was like the symptoms of my cancer scare." Scar says softly.

"Why didn't you get help?" His voice clearer.

"I didn't want to accept it, I thought if I didn't go to my appointments that it would all go away. Stupid of me I know." Scar says silent tears down her face.

"Im sorry." She says.

"Don't be ridiculous Scar." I say.

"I have ruined your summer." She cries.

"No you haven't you are the reason for summer! Summer is nothing without you." I said hugging her.

Troy quietly sits on the bed. Scar holds his hand.

I look away afraid of crying and screaming with pain.

Scar can't go, Troy needs her more than anyone, maybe even more than me.

But I could never admit that.

"You aren't go-ing anywhere right?" Troy stutters, my heart breaks.

"Not yet buddy." Scar give us a weak smile.

Not yet.

I needed a promise, a definite of course not.

But even Scar couldn't promise that.

No one could.

Cancer kills, its incurable, you can stop it for a while, but it never goes.

As I watched Troy lay silently on Scar's lap, as she stroked his hair like a little boy. I realised how important family was.

Troy never had a stable life, a workaholic mom, a runaway dad, the pressure to have a scholarship to go to uni and his two brothers.

Thats all he really had, Cam, Keegs, his mom and Scar.

And one was about to be ripped away.

No. She is going to be fine Shay.

God, if you are up there, I have never prayed for anything, never asked for anything, partly because I'm not super religious, but please for the sake of everyone here. My mom, dad, the Dukes and me.

Make Scar better.

Otherwise Summer will never be the same again.

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