Jess's P.O.V
"Emma, you must be confused. I'm not moving. Where did you hear that?"
"Your mum told me. She said you knew. You don't know?" I shake my head and look at Luke. He has a blank expression on his face. I don't know what he is thinking or feeling but he must be in shock.
"Luke, babe, talk to me. Are you okay?" he looks up and me and starts tearing up.
"Jess, you can't leave, please don't leave me." By now he had got up from the chair and had fallen to his knees beside the bed, crying into our intertwined hands.
"Luke I'm not going anywhere. I don't know what is happening. But I promise you I'm not leaving. Never." I smile as he looks up at me.
"What did you want to tell me then if it wasn't that?" I look up and realise Emma still doesn't know I'm getting an operation and she knows how much I hate the thought of them because of my Dad.
"I have to get an operation. They need to move my rib bone and put it back into place because if they don't I could die as it could damage my lung."
"Oh my god. How are you so calm with everything that happened with your Dad's operation? I would be freaking out." She suddenly realises what she said and starts to stumble over her words as Luke looks up at both of us.
"Why? What happened with your dad?" he questions, but he doesn't get a reply. He starts to look back and forth from me and Em.
"Babe, you can tell me I won't judge you know that." He gives me a reassuring smile kind of telling me that everything is going to be okay.
"My dad was shot when I was younger but the paramedics announced him dead at the scene, but they got it wrong. He was still alive when he got to the hospital so they did an operation, but sadly it wasn't successful. They said if he had got there quicker and earlier then he would still be alive. Ever since I've been afraid that if I ever got an operation the same would happen to me, that they would be too late to save me. That's why I hate this hospital and that's why my dad isn't around and why you have never met him." By now I had tears pooling at my eyes hoping that they wouldn't fall. I had to be strong and keep my promise.
"Babe its okay to cry." I shook my head.
"No. I made my dad a promise to look after my mum and to stay strong and not to cry about things. I can't break that promise Luke, unless there is nothing else I can do but cry." Luke gets up from the floor and gives me a hug.
"Ahh too tight, too tight Luke." he lets go of me and says sorry. "It's fine. You didn't mean to. Your just too strong that you don't know your own strength." I giggle.
"Jess, are you sure you want to go through the operation?"
"What do you mean, Em? This is the only way she will get better. Do you want her to get worse?" Luke's voice becomes louder with each word he speaks.
"Luke, calm down. It was just a question. And of course I will get the operation. If I don't I could die and I couldn't do that to my mum or you or Luke or the boys. I have to fight for survival. It may not work but at least I will try and stay alive and be on the planet."
By now Em had left so it was just me and Luke in the room. He didn't talk much since his outburst at Em earlier. It felt like I was talking to myself. He was answering with one word answers and I was slowly getting more and more pissed off.
Just as I was about to question him my mum walked in the room.
"Hey Jess, how are you doing?" she smiles but I don't smile back.
"Why did you tell Emma that we were moving? Is it true? Are you moving?" her smile turns into a frown at my tone of voice and by the look on Luke's face he is surprised at my bluntness.
"A couple of months ago I got a job offer at another company and this would be great for us and it's a better income. I hadn't decided until you got attack by those girls and I knew it wasn't safe for you here and that we needed to move." I shook my head and looked at Luke who was looking at the floor so I wouldn't see him cry.
"Mum, I'm not moving with you. I can't. My life is here. Dad is here, I can't leave him behind and just forget about him. And I have Luke and Emma and all my friends. I can't just pack up and leave because you think it isn't safe. It is safe. I'm not going anywhere you with because I'm staying where I am."
"No you are coming with me and that's final. You have no one to stay with here."
"She can stay with me." He stands. "I have a spare room that no one uses, she can stay there." He looks from my mum to me.
"No. I am her mother and what I say goes and that's final." She grabs my arm and pulls me off the bed. I scream and fall to the floor in pain as I could feel the rib bone poking into my lung. I suddenly found it hard to breathe as Luke tried to lift me from the floor.
"Why would you do that? You could kill her. If she dies it will be all your fault." My mum looks down at me and begins to cry. She leaves the room with tears running down her face.
"Luke. I can't breathe." I wheeze. His face turns pale before he calls for a doctor. He gets up and opens the door to shout so someone could hear him.
"Please we need a doctor, my girlfriend can't breathe." He comes back to me so he can get the oxygen mask on my face.
"Luke. I can feel the hole."
"What hole?"
"The one in my lung." As I answer him my doctor comes in.
"What happened?"
"Her mum pulled her off the bed and she... she fell to the floor then she screamed in pain and began breathing really heavy then she told me she couldn't breathe. She says she can feel the hole in her lung." As Luke explains what happened the doctor tries to help me breathe.
"We will have to take you into theatre right now." I nod as he injects me so I will be knocked out for the operation.
"I love you baby, okay? Remember I love you." Was the last thing I heard.
