Don't Leave Me

Part 4 - Alternative Ending - The Miracle

*Isla's POV*

Darkness

Emptiness

Wanting

I didn't want to die.

I wanted to live.

If I could go back in time, I would receive the treatment early.

Maybe. Just maybe I would have more time left in the world.

Especially more time with Cameron.

Was I in a coma? Am I already dead?

I could hear my mom close. Probably crying in my ear.

I could hear the beeping of a machine.

It's steady.

I'm alive.

And I want to live.

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*Cameron's POV*

It was eight in the morning and my mother called worriedly last night before she went to bed.

I didn't know what the doctors were doing to Isla to make her well, but I stayed just in case something went wrong.

"Hey boy ." Isla's father said, "Why don't you back home and get some rest. I assure you that I will call you if something happens."

I nodded more asleep than awake and called my mother.

"Cameron!" I flinched at the sound of her loud voice through the phone. "Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"Yeah... It's eight." I answered choosing my words carefully.

"That's too early for me, you know I love my sleep. What do you need? Is Isla alright?"

"I need a car ride home and I don't know what's going to happen to her now."

She stayed silent for a good five seconds before she responded.
"Alright, I'll be there in a sec."

I hear tumbling and stuff falling before I hang up.

Ha, I woke up my mother.
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"How's it going Cameron?" Was the first words out of my mothers mouth as I got in the car.

I rubbed my eyes to try and focus on her, "Hi mom, everything's fine you know. Isla didn't flatline for a few seconds, she is not almost dying, I didn't have to give pints of my blood so that sees might have a greater chance at living. Everything's just great."

My mother looked at me with pity in her eyes, "I really am sorry. But thank god you're okay."

"I don't think am really in danger here. Whose more important than me is that girl that has been stuck in that hospital bed for too many days and who's close to the brink of death. That's the only important person right now."

She drove the car in silence until we reached home.

"We should have never moved from our old town." She murmured under her breath I almost didn't catch it.

She got out of the car and so did I.

"Excuse me Mom? I'm glad we moved here because I found a girl that I really care about. And even she dies one of these days, I will NEVER regret meeting her." I felt so much rage come to me that I started to feel lightheaded.

"Um mom," I asked through my blurry vision, " Mind catching me"
I saw her confused look just before I collapsed on the gravel and felt a warm liquid coming down my head.