Neighbors (a Hayes Grier fanfic)

chapter 13~ tears

*Brooke's POV*

"Hayes, please stop yelling at me," I whispered, hanging my head low.

His eyes softened, and he sat down next to me.

"Baby, just tell me why you lied," he held my face in his hands, and I felt my guilt consume me.

"I, um, I didn't want you to be upset that I was hanging out with another guy without you," I gulped, he's not going to buy this.

His eyes narrowed, "Do I have a reason to be worried? You hang out alone with guys all of the time," he's right, damn.

"Yeah, but I wanted you to keep hanging out with William," that was the best lie I could come up with, really? Smooth, Brooke.

However, Hayes still bought it, and kissed my head, "It's ok, I know Gilinsky wouldn't try anything," his mouth broke out in a grin, and he pulled me into his embrace. What he doesn't know can't hurt him, right?

We made small talk about how much fun the skate park was, and how good the funnel cakes were at the carnival, until he kissed me goodnight, and promised to be back tomorrow.

I was downstairs in our movie room watching The Fault In Our Stars. All of the sudden, I heard the doorbell. I walked upstairs to answer the door. It was Jack.

"Gilinsky? What are you doing here?" I asked him.

"Hey baby Brooke" He smirked.

Baby Brooke?

He picked me up and ran downstairs to the movie room.

How did he know I was down there?

He sat down on the couch and sat me on his lap. He kissed me. I kissed back, forgetting about Hayes. We were making out. I heard somebody walk down the stairs. I ignored it and thought it was just my parents. Just then, Hayes walked into the room. He was in shock. A tear rolled down his face and he ran upstairs. I screwed up big this time. I ran up the stairs after him, but he was already out the door and running towards his house. I ran to his house and tried to go inside, but he door was locked. I sat down on his porch.

"Why did I have to be so stupid?" I thought to myself, "Why would I ever kiss him."

After that I woke up. I sat up. It was all just a dream. Thank goodness. I looked over and Hayes was standing in the doorway.

"I told you I'd come back this morning. Good morning!" He yelled.

"Good morning," I told him, half asleep and still thinking about the dream.

"What was that about kissing him?" he asked me.

Crap.

"Um. I had a dream that we were at a party. We were playing spin the bottle and it landed on Nash. He was dared to kiss me. He did and you got mad. I'm sorry. I would never cheat on real life," great another lie.

"It's okay, I know you never would."

I feel horrible.

Today was Williams last day in North Carolina before he flew back to California. We were going to the lake.

• 1 hour later •

I just finished getting ready for the lake. Not that there's much you have to do. I changed into this fabulous stripped and yellow bikini from PINK. I put my PINK sweatshirt Hayes got me for my birthday over it. I put my hair up in a messy bun.

I heard a knock at the door.

"William's finally here!" I yelled to Hayes, who was watching tv.

I walked to the front door and opened it.

"Hey Will-" I was shocked. It wasn't William, it was Jack, "Wait, what are you doing here?" I stepped outside and shut the door so Hayes couldn't hear.

"Brooke, we need to talk."

"Talk? About what? Whatever it is can wait, I'm waiting for William."

I walked back inside not letting him reply. There was another ring at the door and Jack was still standing there. I ignored him, and Hayes gave me a confused look.

"It's one of those salesman," I told him.

"It looks like Jack."

(A/N; the door has a window or its glass haha)

He got up and started walking towards the door.

"No! Don't answer!" I yelled at him. He looked confused again. "I mean, if you answer, he won't go away."

Luckily, he bought that and sat back down. That was close.

After a minute of knocking and ringing the doorbell, Jack finally left. Praise Jesus, Hallelujah!

Soon after that, William arrived. We walked to the lake and got on my boat. We went tubing, swimming, and we went on the trampoline in the middle of the lake. We even had a picnic on the boat! It was around 4:30pm, and William needed to go pack. We headed towards the dock.

"I'm really going to miss you! Don't go back to California and stay here!" I told him.

He laughed and then looked up at me. Tears began forming in his eyes.

"Wait, What's wrong?" I ran over to him.

"Brooke, I need to tell you something. I didn't just come here for your birthday. I'm only telling you now because I didn't want you looking at me or treating me differently."

I instantly became very worried. What was he going to tell me?

"Brooke," his voice became horse and tears started rolling out of his eyes. "I- I ha- have cancer."

My heart stopped beating. Tears formed in my eyes. Cancer? How could William have cancer? He's so young and healthy. This has to be a joke.

"You'll be starting treatments right? You have a chance of surviving this! You can do it! I know you can! You're so strong an-"

I was cut off by him.

"No, Brooke. The cancer I have is one of the strongest kinds. It's in my brain. They can do treatments, but there's no chance I'll survive. If I don't do any treatments, I'll only have one more month to live. My family and I decided to do one month of treatments so I can live up to four months. However, there is no guarantee ill be alive in four months."

I started balling. He stopped driving the boat and sat down next to me on the seat. He hugged me.

"Listen," he told me and grabbed my face to where I was looking up at him. "I will be okay, for now. I don't want you worrying about me. I also don't want you treating me any differently. I already talked to your parents about this, and they said you can come to California whenever you'd like over the next four months."

I just nodded and kept crying. I tried stopping to make him feel better, but I couldn't. My best friend was going to die. I laid my head on his shoulder, and he wrapped his arm around me, pulling me closer. I looked up at him and he looked down at me. Tears were rolling down my face. He wiped them off my face.

(A/N; haha sorry they sound like a couple lol)

We both started leaning in, and our lips touched. We kissed for a second, before realizing what actually happened. We looked at each other. It was extremely awkward.

I guess it was kind of an in the moment thing, because he's gay and I'm dating Hayes.

Crap.

HAYES.

Oh no.

This keeps on getting worse and worse.

I cheated. Twice.

(A/N; sorry if you're sad that William is dying [wait who am i talking to? haha nobody is going to read this] but I needed something sad and yeah this happened. love you guys lots
kendall x)