Falling for You

Chapter 3

Chapter Three:

I was sitting on the front steps of the hospital as I waited for Mrs. Goodwin, my foster mother, to come and pick me up since Jules and Lyla had school now.

I looked at the people passing me by. Old women and men in wheel chairs, pregnant women coming in, families with new babies in their life coming out. I couldn’t help but wish that could be me. Grow old. Have a family. Fall in love. But I guess so not.

While I waited, I saw someone familiar coming near me. I narrowed my eyes to make sure I was seeing right. Oh, crap. It is him! Alex Levin. The most popular boy in our school, with the heart of gold. Sigh.

I looked at everywhere and everyone but him. I started getting nervous. Oh my god. What do I do? Do I say hi? Do I ignore him? I mean, I guess so we are friends since we did talk…once.

I decided to just look down and ignore him, but as he came nearer, I couldn’t help but peek at him. I looked at him from under my lashes and always got caught. But hey, he was looking too!

At the end of the peeka- boo game, I don’t know what I was thinking- actually, I wasn’t thinking anything since my mind just went blank and I did the most bizarre thing ever. I smiled. I actually smiled at him. I looked at him directly in the eyes and I smiled. But it wasn’t those cute smiles. Oh no, I gave one of those stupid awkward smiles. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

But, what made me giddy was that, he smiled back. And it was the cutest smile ever. He gave me this cute little toothy grin and made him look cuter than he already is. I looked down as soon as he smiled and when he had passed me. I started banging my head on my hand. Idiot. Who does that? He’s going to think you have a crush on him! Well, you do…

Urgh! But, he looked so cute when he smiled. Okay! Whatever. Just forget this ever even happened!

While I was fretting over how stupid I was to smile, Ella was already here. My foster mother.

As I walked to the car, I couldn’t help but look behind me to see if Alex was there. No, he wasn’t. Thank god.

I got inside the car, again thinking about the smile. I have to tell this to Lyla. He smiled at me. He freaking smiled!

I could barely hear what Ella said because all there was in my head at that moment was how he smiled. Oh god, he smiled. The whole way to the foster house, I was smiling, ignoring Ella.

As soon as we were in front of the house, I ran out of the car and went straight to my bedroom. While I was changing my clothes, I couldn’t help but jump up and down and squeal because he smiled! He smiled! Can you believe it? Alex Levine smiled at me! Me!

I decided to call Lyla up and tell her all about this. As soon as I told her this, what she did was slightly disappointing since I was expecting a squeal with me but she was all like ooo and ahh. Real annoying if you ask me.

“What am I going to do Lyla?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean he surely thinks I have a crush on him now! Doesn’t he?” she chuckled at that.

“You are so whipped.”

“Psh! Like you aren’t!”

“Yeah, well unlike you I admit it.”

“Oh, shut up and help me Lyla!” and then did a thought come in to my head. I am dying and I am thinking of liking someone? That may be the stupidest thing ever.

“Lyla, you know what’s really stupid? I have most probably only 2 months to live and I am crushing on some guy, who most probably will never glance in my way ever again. I am such an idiot.”

“Emma! Shut up okay? You won’t die! You will take those therapy sessions! Okay?”

“Lyla! No! I won’t take them! I don’t want to!”

“Why the hell not?!”

“Because, then I will go bald!”

“You care about becoming bald? Your life is on the line Emma!”

“And so is my hair!” I yelled back.

“What is going to happen if your hair falls off Emma?”

“I- I become ugly Lyla! You don’t know if, after the therapy sessions or the surgery the tumor will be completely gone! Then what? Huh? No one will ever look at my way again! And if they do, all they will be giving me are pity looks! Do you know how horrible it feels so have people giving you pity looks like you will be dying any minute? And get this!” I laugh a bitter laugh.

“I will! I can die right now, right here! And I can die during the surgery! So, what’s the whole point? If I die, I would like to die feeling at the least a little bit beautiful, Lyla.” I whisper the last part. There was a moment of silence before I hear Lyla take a deep breath and let it out.

“Emma, what if you live? Then what?” she asks whispering.

“I won’t live Lyla. I know I won’t. Didn’t you hear the doctor? My episodes have been getting worse and worse day-by-day Emma. There will be a time when after the episode I won’t just wake up. Dr. Grey is saying that the surgery might work Lyla. It might.”

“When did he say that?”

“He didn’t but he still meant it Lyla! You could hear it in his voice!”

“No, Emma. You are just hearing what you want to believe.”

“I-” But before I could say something more I was interrupted by Lyla.

“Just- Just think about it okay? Bye Emma.” She says cutting the line on my face. I pull away the phone from my ears and look at it my eyebrows scrunched up in confusion. I sigh and fall back on the bed, my head making a light thump against the pillow while my bed squeaked a little due to my weight.

A/N: 3RD CHAPTER! :D soo...vote? comment? SHAAARREE! :P

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