Half A Year

Chapter 6

Shannon's P.O.V.
"And sent." I yawned as I closed my laptop and grab my phone to the side texting Lizzie for the first time to inform her that the photos she asked for is already on her inbox. Its almost 3 am and I doubt she's going to r

Hi Lizzie! its Shan. Just want to tell you that I just sent the  pictures to you. Hope you don't stare at them to much. Haha.

It was only seconds away when my phone started to ring making me jump and almost drop it on the floor.

Lizzie calling...

Shit alright. My heart starts pumping in my chest so hard its hard to keep up and its making my fingertips tingle, it makes them go numb and sweat coming off my palms and I don't know what pushed my senses to answer it because the next thing I knew I was holding my phone up to my ear.

"Hello?"

"Hi" She whispers, soft and cold and it did something to my chest like a tightening sensation from the inside. "I got your email." She chuckles softly, the kind where nothing's even funny. Why does she sound so sad.

"Yea, sorry it took a while. I was at work the whole day." She doesn't respond but I can hear her heavy breaths down the line. "Is everything okay?" I asked

"Yea, just— Its just uhm." She stops and I know something's wrong. I can feel it, I can tell, just by the way she sounds and for some reason, I'm starting to panic.

"Are you alone?" I asked and in the slightest sound I hear her hum in response and I know what I said about not getting too attached but my heart is screaming right now and its drowning that thought away. I think she needs someone. "Do you want to go for a walk? We don't have to talk just walk." I scrunched my eyes tight cursing myself for what I'm putting myself into.

"Its 3 am." She whispers. "You're suppose to be sleeping."

"Well, we're talking right now and I'm wide awake. So what do you say?" I breathe. " Walk with me?" She thinks about it for a while and then groans.

"You know what, fuck it. If he's going to walk out on me after an argument then I might as well go for a walk too." So that's what happened and I'm still not so sure this is a good idea. But here it is, and the next thing I knew I'm walking down the street to pick her up from her apartment and it seems like the weather is not going to get good at all for a walk. God, the universe is sending all the signs that this is in fact a terrible idea or maybe something more. We're just going for a walk, nothing's wrong with that right, I just want to make her feel better and maybe give some fucking advices for them to settle whatever there is that they're arguing about.

I pulled my jacket tighter to my body to give it some heat because apparently, having blood cancer makes you even colder when its cold and even though its the middle of May and summer's coming soon, the weather seems pretty trippy tonight.

Lizzie's apartment is a ten minute walk from mine and its on the block where huge apartment buildings are align. What do I expect, I'm meeting up with a very well known actress so I'm not surprised walking here surrounded by huge buildings. I slowed down when I got to her building and its thrice as big as what I've got but then again, I shouldn't be surprised by that.

I'm outside

I sent the message and wait trying to steady my breath, that walk was a bit tiring maybe because I haven't slept yet and its 3 in the morning and here she comes, and she grabs my arm before I could even say hi, pulling me to the direction I came from just a minute ago.

"Oh hi, I thought I'd come by to see you." I say and she starts slowing down and glances up to me and even though she has a cap on, I can still see her bloodshot eyes coming from crying and it literally broke my heart. She smiles a sad one before letting go of my arm and folding hers against her chest while we walk side by side.