I told you not to fall in love with me, Mikey Fusco. ~Fan Fiction~ **Completed**

twelve

"Got the news today, doctor said I had to stay. A little bit longer and I'll be fine." Nick Jonas' voice rang out of the speakers to a song that I can relate to, "A Little Bit Longer." Mikey looked at me from from across the table connecting our eyes. He then proceeded to get up and take my delicate hand to lead me to the dance floor.
"But you don't know what you've got until its gone. And you don't know what it's like to feel so low. And everytime you smile, you laugh, you glow. You don't even know, know know. You don't even know."
Mikey and I swayed to the song as I zoomed out to think about how this song connects to my life and the struggles I have been phased with.
"All this time goes by, and still no reason why. A little bit longer and I'll be fine. Waiting on a cure but none of them are sure. A little bit longer and I'll be fine."
This lyric brought me to think, there is no cure. Not for cancer. I'm living to die. I am dying. No one can fix that either. Everyone says "stay strong. You'll be okay." But what's the point if I'm just going to die anyway. Yes, there is chemo. But that's not helping me very much. Thinking about all of this made a familiar feeling shoot throughout my body, anxiety. My stomach knotted and I felt suffocated. Like there was a chain chocking me and dragging me further and further into a dark pit. I let go of mikey me tried to runaway, but running only made it worst. I dropped down onto knees as a gasped for air, and took my two hands onto my stomach and applying pressure. I would have never realized I was crying if mikey did not wipe away the tears that shed, like many times before. Mikey cooed at me, trying to calm me down.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm dying mikey! And I know I say this all the time and I have so many breakdowns over it but I'm dying! I love you so and you've done everything for me! I don't know what I'm gonna do without you, and it hurts so much knowing I'm going to have to leave this universe without the people I love! There's no cure mikey! There's no chance that I'm going to live till I'm 80!"
"Ryder! People beat it first of all. And second of all, do you think it's easy on me? No! I'm trying to make your time last the longest I can and the happiest times of your life. I don't know if everything is going to be okay. No one does! So put your head up high and keep trying to fight, because people do come out of the battle of cancer with a win. It may be hard, but your a strong girl that I love to pieces." Mikey knelt down and kissed me. It was a short and sweet kiss, but everything just seemed to be okay. Not perfect, but not horrible. Everything was okay. I stood up, with the help of Mikey. I forgot that there was other people, some people that I didn't even know or barely knew. They were all looking at me. My face instantly turned from snow white, to beat red.
"I'm sorry guys.. Thanks for coming." I tried to smile, and make everything okay. They all smiled at me and returned to there seats. "I'm sorry mikey. I love you." "I love you too Ry." He pecked my lips and we returned to our seats.
It was all quiet and awkward. That's when my bestfriend, Jess, spoke. "Hey Ryder, do you remember when all eight of us became friends."
I smiled at the memory, one of the best memories I've ever had.
"Yeah."
"Have you ever told them the story?" Andrew asked pointing to the other side of the table. "No." O giggled.
"Alright, I'll tell it!" Emily jumped up with excitement. I missed her interesting, over- exaggerated stories. We all stared at her. "It all started with Ryder liking Ryan. Ryan had a girlfriend, but everyone thought that Ryder and Ryan had a thing. So we went out to Applebee's with Ryan, Andrew, and Shawn. Ryan's girlfriend got mad at her and they broke up because of Ryder. That's my girl." Emily gave me a shyly smile.
Amanda picked up. "Anyways, we all went outside into the strip mall that was attached to it. In there was a pharmacy. It was closed cause it was like 9:30 at night. Whatever. Andrew decided to wander over to the package that was lying out in front of the door. He picked it up, examining it. His eyes became wide and he yelled 'is this a tampon?'"
Jess than took over from there.. "Amanda went over to him and took the tampon package and open it. All the boys were disgusted by this. Amanda then.." Jess couldn't finish her sentence so I took over, giggling slightly.
"Amanda took the tampon and soaked it in a puddle of water. Andrew was being a little bitch about it, so he started yelling and running away. Amanda proceeded to throw the wet tampon on Andrews face!"
Gia started the next part. "It became an all out brawl between us just throwing it at each other. After we all calmed down, we just sat in a circle together. When Ryan started spitting. He than said 'I have a piece of cotton in my mouth. And that's how team cotton was formed." 

All eight of us just looked around at eachother. It was like we were all looking into each others mind and remmebering the same event that occured. It was amazing. 

That's when Mikey's friend, Louis, pipped up and started talking about memories when they were on America's Best Dance Crew. All four boys smiled, mimicking what we did when we recalled our memories. Everyone was sharing memories about each other. Mikey and I told humiliating stories about eachother, like when I was at the store and yelled out to everyone asking why is there waterproof matress covers. And I told when Mikey laughed so hard at that, he knocked into the shelf and knocked it down. 

Before we even realized it, three hours went by. I hugged everyone who came, and thanked them.  "I'll walk you up to your room." I smiled and grabbed Mikey's hand. He lead me through the maze of doors and brought me into the elavator. 

"Ryder, you love me, right?"

"Of course Mikey. More than anything in this world."

"If you beat the cancer, will you marry me?"