Just Another Cancer Patient

14 •Zayn•

Everyone remembers Zoe right? Right. Okay. (She's Zayn's sister from another mister. Haha jk- she's just his sis.)

Song for this chapter: Mother We Just Can't Get Enough. Just because this song is on Walk To Remember and it's my jam.

I need to make a characters list don't I? I'll be sure to work on that. Not proofread.

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Why is it so quiet? It's never this quiet. Zoe always has her music on 24/7.

I groggily sit up reaching for the desk beside my bed to get my phone.

But my hand connects with air so I open my eyes and realize I fell asleep with Lacey, who seemed to be missing.

I take my phone out of my pocket remembering where it was and checked the time. 2:45.

I had four missed calls and twenty four texts.

Zoe:
Oh dude. You're fucked.

Zoe:
Mom is assuming you're dead. Hey, look, now she's saying she's going to dance on your grave.

Zoe:
If you're dead, can I have your- oh wait. Nevermind, I already took it lmao.

Zoe:
Omggggg. Zaynnnn. I'm stealing your Ben & Jerry's Icecream. Thanks for being dead lol.

Momzilla:
Get home now or I'll beat your ass.

I stopped reading because I knew the texts from mom would only be more gruesome by the second. Plus, I had to take a moment of silence for my peanut butter cookie icecream that I'm sure was long gone by now.

I had to get town right now or my parents would call the cops. I'm not joking either, once, in the seventh grade, it happened.

I hadn't got off the bus because the stupid old tin can had broken down, so dad called the cops telling them I was missing.

So I had to get home pronto.

I write a sloppy note telling Lacey were I went and left it on the bed in plain sight. I grab my coat and car keys, running faster than I ever had in my entire existence.

Twenty minutes later I was hopping out of my car into my driveway, the gravel crunching beneath my converse towards my house.

I open the front quietly as possible and tip toe towards my room. Oh please Jesus. Oh please Jesus.

"Where have you been young man?" My mom asks me turning on a lamp sitting in the recliner. Her small frame covered in her favorite robe, she looked scary as fuck honestly.

I couldn't blame her for being angry, I had been gong to party's since I was sixteen just to rile her up. Which was an asshole move on my part.

"I swear I just fell asleep at the hospital." I explain trying to get her from being so mad.

"So let me get this straight," oh shit. "You fell asleep when you were supposed to be volunteering at a hospital?"

"Yes." I squeak.

"Go to your room." My mom says pouting her slim finger in the direction of the stairs.

"I'm sorry, mom." I say.

She just huffs and doesn't look at me. Mom sure knew how to make me feel like shit sometimes.

I stumble up to my room realizing just how sleepy I am and jump into bed, not even bothering to jump on Zoe's case about the icecream.

I'll get her back later.

;@-"-$/&-"-

I crack up as I lug the heavy bucket of liquid towards Zoe's room, thinking of what her face is going to look like once I dump this ice water of her.

I silently turn her doorknob and as I open the door something scares the holy fuck out of me. I realize what has happened 3.7 seconds later as I feel egg shells running down my back and my hair.

"ZOE!"

"Yeah?" I hear a false innocent voice behind me say.

"What. The.-"

"I'm going to stop you right there. I knew you were going to try that prank so I had to keep you from doing it. No one wakes me up and lives to tell about it." She shrugs and flips her hair over her shoulder and begins to turn to walk away.

"Oh, and you got a little something on your face." She giggles and walks down the stairs.

"I hate girls." I grumble walking to get the second shower for this morning.

After the shower I creep down to the kitchen watching for a knife to come flying at my face or a bucket of acid to pour on my head, but so far, so good.

"Hey son." Someone says behind me and I let out an unmanly scream.

I turn back to see just my dad holding his coffee looking at me like I was crazy. He just shakes his head and mumbles something about wishing he had 'normal' children and walks on.

Thank Jesus school was over and summer was here. Now all I had to do was help the hospital, which wasn't even that bad. Lacey was pretty cool, definitely different than most the chicks at school and the kids who I had to help were pretty fun too.

I pour myself a cup of coffee and nearly choke when my phone rings and makes me jump. God, now any sudden movements or sounds would make me piss my self for the next month thanks to Zoe.

Friend 1:
R u coming to the party l8r

Me:
No can do. Have to serve time at hospital

Friend 1:
Wat? 2 bad you hav 2 deal w\ diseased kids, I hear Beth is wanting to fuk u. Can I hav her now?

And for the first time ever, I didn't give two shits about what Beth wanted to do or any of my friends. I wanted to spend time with Lacey.

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I wanted to give you a glimpse of Zoe and Zayn's mom. Well, his mom wasn't being herself in this chapter, she was being Momzilla, but there's plenty of time to get to know her. I'm not sure I like this chapter either, but I'll live.

I just watched Mulan and can I just say that is the best movie in the history of movies.

•kaylee•