decay // Jakob Delgado

1 : the news.

- Layla's POV -
"Hurry up Layla" I hear my mum scream at me from downstairs, rattling her keys. We're going to the hospital to get some tests done on me, since I've been up and down with feeling extremely sick for the last couple of weeks and my family and friends are getting quite worried.

"coming!" I tell her as I hit send to the message I just wrote to Jakob, all it said was 'I'll let you know anything as soon as I can, love you" since he was quite worried about me.

I jump into the car, put my seatbelt on and turn the radio up as high as possible, that only lasted about a minute until mum got mad and turned it down. Typical parents.
About 20 or so minutes later we arrived at the hospital, i was pretty nervous, I mean if you were getting big ass needles shoved in you I think you would be too.

"Layla Wilson" my heart races when they called my name out, I stood up and walked over to the doors, I walked into a room where I waited for about 10 minutes just playing with my fingers.

"So Layla, how have you been feeling" the doctor Half smiled at me.

"You could say I've been better" I laugh a bit but sigh at the same time.

"So we're going to do a few tests on you today to find out what's been going on with your body" he talks to me like I'm 3, I can already see this is going to be the longest Sunday of my life. The doctor rolls a few machines in and some massive needles, they didn't look ok too appealing.

"Okay" I say rolling my eyes at the sound of 'tests', he grabs my arm quite firmly and puts this thing around it, then sticks a long needle into me, taking blood, it makes me feel quite light headed. He tells me he's going to send the bloods away and we should have some results in about half an hour. I go back out and wait in the waiting room.

"You feeling okay" my mum asked me .

"I just got a needles shoved 3 quarters of the way through my arm, yeah I'm fine" I rolled my eyes knowing I was being a bitch, but I couldn't help it.

We waited a while without speaking, then I got a text from Jakob.

J: 'Hey gorgeous how's it going :( X'
L: 'I've definitely been better, it will be over soon and I'll come to yours and see you and I'll be absolutely fine"

He doesn't reply, but that's okay since I was called in straight after, I sat in the same room as I did before, except this time I was even more worried.

"Layla, we have your results back" he looks at his computer than back at me

"Yeah what is it" I say nervously tapping my feet.

"Its not good news, you've been diagnosed with stage 2 leukaemia, im so sorry" he looks down, my eyes fill up with tears and it feels like my stomach is in my throat, I'm more shocked than I was when Jakob asked me out, this was just not happening, I did not have cancer and this is all a sick dream or something. I walk out of the hospital not saying a word I don't talk the whole car trip home, neither does my mum, she told me I was a fuck up so we don't have the closest relationship and now she won't even talk to me.

"Drop me off at Jakobs" I ask my mum pretty firmly and she does so.

I knock on the door in tears, desprately, Jakob opens and I hug him, crying into his chest. He says nothing just hugs me more, assuming the hospital trip went wrong. We go up to his room and I lay on his, looking at the ceiling with tees rolling down my cheek.

"Will you love me less" I say still staring at the ceiling and bringing one of his pillows up the my chest.

" no I love you so much you know that" he says while coming to sit next to me.

"I have cancer for god sake Jakob, I'm going to die" I sit up and cry even more.

"Layla your so much stronger than you know and we will get through this, together, I promise" he hugs me, I hug him back and we stay in that position for a while.

"Promise" I look up at him.

"I promise" he kisses my forehead.