Summer Love ~

•Chapter 17•

•Darcy's POV•

The next morning I woke up to find myself on the sofa bed in Niall's apartment, someone must had slept next to me because the covers on the left side where all messed up. I looked around the living room and spotted Zayn sleeping on some pillows on the floor, but there was no sign of the other guys.

I decided to get up and have a shower to freshen up because I had a massive headache after last night, alcohol didn't agree much with me. 

As I got out from the shower dressed in one of Niall's shirts that I found in his wardrobe and my dark blue skinny jeans I heard the front door open, and the apartment was instantly filled with loud voices and laughter, they were back.

''Good morning Darcy, look what we go for you!'' Louis told me with a grin on his face as he lifted up one of the brown paper bags that he was holding and gave it to me. 

I opened the bag to see what they had got me and a smile spread on my face when I saw the familiar Starbuck's cup and some chocolate chip cookies sealed in a plastic bag.

''Thank you so much, but keep your voices down because Zayn is still sleeping'' I told them as they had started to talk in loud voices again.

''He surely does sleep alot, maybe we should get him checked up'' Louis replied as he ran off to the living room where we had spent the night, and Liam and Harry hurried after him after they had told me good morning and Harry gave me a warm hug. I still couldn't believe that we had met after all that time!

''Good morning princess, I hope that you slept well on that tiny sofa'' Niall told me before he gave me a kiss on the lips. We were just beginning to deepen our kiss when we heard a yell coming from the living room that broke us apart immediately and we rushed to see what had happened.

When we got into the living room we saw the boys laughing so much that they had tears in their eyes as they looked at Zayn who had been sleeping peacefully a few minutes ago, but now he was dripping wet and was swearing at them for waking him up by throwing a bucket of water on him.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing at the expression on Zayn's face and he soon joined us and started to laugh as well. The night before Zayn had surely appeared to me like the most quiet of the group and thought that he was the kind of guy that never laughed, but he proved me wrong.

After he had dried himself with a towel, we walked together into the kitchen and started to eat the food that Liam, Louis, Niall and Harry had bought while Zayn and I were sleeping. It was like a morning feast because they had bought a lot of food, there was even a pizza for crying out loud! We were all very hungry after last night though and we surprisingly ate everything. 

After we had washed all the plates and cleaned Niall's apartment as much as we could, although it was still quite messed up, we decided to go to Hyde Park since it wasn't very far away.

When we arrived at Hyde Park I couldn't believe my eyes as I saw the hundreds of fans surrounding us. Harry immediately grabbed my hand tightly while Niall grabbed the other as we made our way out of the crowd of screaming girls, some of them where crying and some where firing questions at us that we didn't answer.

After some time of being chased by fans we found a quiet spot and settled down on the grass as we enjoyed the warm Spring sun. Finally Winter had came to an end and my favourite season of the year had started, it was my birthday in two months!

''You have some loud fans! How do you cope with them following you wherever you go?'' I asked them while we were playing soccer together.

''You get used to them after a while, I know that they may all seem crazy but without them we wouldn't be where we are today.'' Liam answered me with a smile. I could tell that he was very thankful of the fans from the way that he talked about them, in fact they all where.

I had been looking at a crow that had landed not far away from me, when I felt something hard hit me squarely on the nose. I instantly fell back and when I touched my nose to see if everything was fine I saw blood! My head had started to spin and I was getting dizzier by the second.

I heard Niall and Harry yelling and Louis apologizing but they all seemed a million miles away and I was engulfed in darkness.

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''Love wake up, please wake up'' I could hear Niall's panicked voice and I felt his hand in mine.

I tried opening my eyes, but they didn't obey me immediately. When I finally opened them I saw Niall and Harry looking over me in deep concern. I didn't understand why they were so worried we had just been playing soccer in Hyde Park. But as I started to look around me I realized that I was sitting in a hospital bed.

''Why am I here? What happened? Get me out of here!'' I yelled with wide eyes as I tried to get up from the bed but I couldn't since I had was connected to an IV.

''Shh, calm down Darcy, I'm sure that you are alright everything will be alright'' Niall told me as he tightened his grip around my hand, I saw that he had tears in his beautiful blue eyes and suddenly tears filled blocked my vision.

''Please tell me why I'm here.''

''Louis accidentally hit you while we were playing soccer and your nose started to bleed. The bleeding didn't stop and you were unconscious so we had to get you to the hospital immediately in an ambulance. You have been here for about five hours now.'' Harry answered me. He was also deeply worrying about me and I grabbed hold of his hand and gave him a weak smile.

''I'm sure that I'll be fine'' I tried to assure them both. But I knew that I wasn't fine, I would never be fine.

Niall was about to tell me something when a middle aged woman with a bright smile entered my room.

''May I speak to Miss.Sacco privately, please?'' The woman who must be the doctor said.

Niall and Harry both nodded and kissed my forehead before they left me alone with this woman with the bright smile. It didn't matter where I was or what I had but her smile seemed to brighten my mood and lift my spirits a little bit.

''I'm afraid Darcy that I have some bad news for you, but I think that you already know what I'm about to tell you...'' She started.

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The kind doctor left my room after half an hour and this time only Niall returned by my side, he told me that the doctor had allowed one person next to me since I needed some rest.

''What did she tell you? Are you going to be alright?'' He asked me eagerly.

I nodded my head slightly telling him that I was, but in that instant I felt a pain in my hear. I was lying to him but there was nothing that I could do, I couldn't tell him that nothing was Ok, that there was no hope for me to ever recover.

He gave the brightest smile that I had ever seen on his face, though he still had tears in his eyes and kissed me softly.

I had leukemia.

I had had it for about a year and a half and the doctors back at my homeland had told me that I only had only three years to live after they had tried to cure me and they saw no improvement.

That left me another year and a half to do whatever I wanted.

To breathe...

a/n: Hello darlings! I'm sure that you didn't see this coming! This is such a plot twist, but it's the way that this story should go, and if you are worried that it will turn all gloomy and sad I can assure you that it won't!

I hope that you still liked this chapter though and I'm eager to hear what you think. The first to comment will get the next chapter dedicated to them :) xx