It's not a Cinderella story

Chapter 16

"Hello?"

"Coree, it's me," Thank god. I mentally swipe my forehead as I hear my best friends voice in the other line.

"Hey what's up?" I pick up one of my fries and munch on it, sighing heavily that I can now enjoy it.

"It's Silmon."

"What about him?" I ask.

She draws a shaky breath before speaking," I don't know. He came home for the weekend because why not? and we decided to play board games. After a while he got up to get a drink and he didn't come back. Cabe went in to check on him and he was hunched over and coughing up blood and I don't know what to do Coree."

I stand up, my eyes wide. "Why the hell aren't you going to the hospital?" I ask. Tyler mouths 'what's wrong' and I shake my head at him.

"Well Mom and Dad took off to work with their cars just when Silmon came and his car is okay, but he's in no condition to drive ."

"Why don't you drive it you idiot! you have a licence."

"I kind of snuck away to go see you so before they left, they grounded me."

I blow out a breath and squeeze my eyes shut. "I'll be right there."

"Thanks Ree please come quick." I hear Caben's strained cry as he calls for his sister. "I got to go." She hangs up the phone but i don't wait. I through my things in the trash before looking back at Tyler.

"Mind helping me out?"

He nods his head while getting up. He asks what happened I explain what Neo told me and he curses. "It might be a collapsed lung."

I look at him as we make our way to his car. "How do you know that just be coughing up blood? Other things can happen if your coughing it up."

"True, but when I was younger, my lung collapsed and it sounds as if he was in the same position I was in when it happened." We hop in and he powers up the car before heading to the address I gave him. "Text her to see if has had any chest pain."

"Okay." I send off a text to her and her reply is almost instant.

Yeah the past couple of days hes been saying it hurts.

Okay we're on our way.

Please hurry hes trying to get up but he's saying it hurts to much.

Okay hang on.

I lock my phone and stare out the window as the scenery passes by. Neither of us talk and I'm happy for it.

The thing with Silmon is he's special to me, even if he is my best friends brother. One summer, when the hag went to the Caribbean and left me home alone, Neo asked if I could come with her family to there lake house. Of course I said yes because what fifteen year old doesn't want to go to something as cool as that. We spent hours and hours on end in the lake, Angelo took a long break in her abuse so my back was fine, well, besides the scars I had there which i covered up with a one piece. But what made it memorable is the bond Sil and I made one night there.

When her parents went out for awhile to buy groceries and Neomi and Caben were sent to bed early for yet another fight, it was just Sil and I. At first it was awkward because neither of us have rarely talked but then he said something that scared me to the core.