Big Secrets, Little Time

Chapter Seventeen

When the word Leukemia fell from the doctors mouth my whole body went into over drive and shock at the same time.

I started to scream as if I was being hurt. I couldn't stop myself. I felt as if the walls were coming in on me and I had nowhere to go.

RT sat up so he was in front of me. He started speaking but I couldn't hear him or read his lips enough to register what he was saying.

He wrapped his arms around me so my head was to my chest but I could still breath.

His smell made me come back to the real world. He smelt like cinnamon buns my favorite.

I tried to hold in my crying but I couldn't. I had Leukemia and I hadn't even turned 18 yet. Not for another month and a half at least.

🎶 "Beautiful girls all over the world
I could be chasing but my time would be wasted
They got nothin' on you baby
Nothin' on you baby
They might say hi and I might say hey
But you shouldn't worry about what they say
'Cause they got nothin' on you baby
Nothin' on you baby" 🎶

He quietly sang to me as if we were the only two people in the world. If the doctor hadn't known who he was before she definitely knew who he was now.

On the last verse his voice cracked and he started crying with me.

We both shook and cried but we didn't care because we had each other.

•••••••••••

"Get her the treatment!" RT yelled.

"Sir please calm down." The doctor said. "The treatment has a 5% chance of working with the condition she's in so it most likely won't help anyway."

"That's bull!" Brad yelled.

"If it has any chance of working then she wants it!" He yelled again.

"Please gentlemen I'm trying my best." The doctor said backing down obviously afraid of them.

"No you're not." They both said angrily.

RTs phone went off so he glanced at it. He looked concerned but quickly smiled at me and then walked out.

My mom sat next to me holding my hand playing with my hair which just made me feel tired.

"It's gonna be okay." She whispered.

I nodded even though I felt sick to my stomach.

"What if it's not?"

"Then you'll still be happy." She said holding back her tears. "But we're going to fight!"

•••••••••••

"We have a problem." RT said scratching his head after being out if the room for what felt like an hour.

"Another one you mean." Brad said.

RT glared at him but kept talking. "Somebody told the media that I'm here with a girl who is ill and now the paparazzi are outside the hospital."