Holding On//A.I.

Chapter 4

Zoey's POV//

In mid-September, I relapsed.

My cancer attacked, full force, and I was terribly sick.

I spent most of my days in my room reading, watching t.v, cuddling with Ashton.

I was weak. I couldn't get out of my bed.

Ashton would come over every single day  and comfort me. It was nice knowing there was someone who chose  to hang out with me. He wasn't stuck with the burden of me, like my family.

And one day, he brought his friends over too. Apparently he was in a band with three other guys. Would've been nice to know earlier.

Ashton was the drummer.

There were Luke and Michael, the guitarists. One had a lip ring, the other had hair red as an apple.

And Calum, the bassist. He had dark hair and eyes.

Luke also brought his girlfriend, Karli.

We all became friends instantly. They were all humorous, and they knew how to cheer me up. We all became inseparable.

~

One morning, the gang showed up. Ashton had bought me a bouquet of daisies. My favorite.

Karli told some joke that made everyone laugh. I was laughing uncontrollably.

I started wheezing and I couldn't breathe.

Then blackness.

Ashton's POV//

"Aww....she's sleeping." Michael whispered as he poked my girlfriend's cheek.

I watched her. She was barely breathing.

"Oh my God, Mike, no she's not! She's unconscious!" I yelled as I pushed him out of the way.

"What do we do?" Karli asked frantically.

"I don't know!" Calum yelled while Luke tried to calm Karli.

"Michael, go get her mum. I'll carry her downstairs."

I gently, but quickly, picked up Zoey and carried her downstairs, right behind Michael. He started running and yelling for Zo's mom.

"What happened?" Her mum yelled as she ran over to me.

"We-we were laughing and she just-she just passed out?" Karli told her.

I just stood there in shock. I couldn't speak.

"Ashton, Luke, Calum, take her to Sydney Medical. Karli, Michael, help me pack her suitcase. We'll be right behind you." Zoey's mum ordered.

"Come on, Ash!" Calum snapped me out of my daze.

We ran to Calum's car. He drove, Michael rode in the passenger seat, and I sat in the back with and unconscious Zoey.

"Drive, Cal!" yelled Mike.

"I know what to do!"

~

She's so perfect, I thought as I watched Zoey unconscious on her hospital bed.

I looked at all tubes going in and out of her body.

She looks like a machine.

Her mum came in.

"Ash, you can go on home if you want. I'll be here out in the lobby."

"No, I'm okay. I wanna be here when she wakes up."

"Okay. I'm glad she has you, Ashton." She smiled and walked out.

~

I'd been with Zoey at the hospital for four hours.

I decided to get comfortable, so I pulled up a chair next to her bedside, and sat down.

I looked at her small, pale hands.

She may have been unconscious, but her hands were still her hands. The hands I held every day.

I reached for her hand, and I held it.

"I won't leave you, Zo." I whispered as I laid my head on the side of her bed.

Just as I had started to drift off to sleep, I glanced back over.

Zoey opened her big blue eyes.

"You're here." She whispered as she smiled.