Don't Die, My Love

Chapter 8

Erin's POV

     Over the course of three months I've grown very close to Dylan. We always hung out, we did a lot together. He's still doing chemotherapy of course, I hope it's helping. We never really talk about it, and I know he really doesn't like talking about it when he doesn't have to. I mean, I completely understand that. I will admit, I'm starting to feel something more for him, just a tiny bit and it's crazy. He probably doesn't want a girlfriend, especially if it were me. I got up and got ready, then going to school. I have noticed Dylan looks a bit sicker than he was before, but hopefully he gets better. I'm sure he will though, chemo helps. I go up to Dylan who was currently sitting on a bench outside he school. "Hey." I sit next to him. "Hey." He was looking down at his phone, he was reading something. "What are you reading?" He looks up from his phone. "It's just a Harry Potter my mom bought me. I really like reading." I giggle a bit. "I know, I can tell. You're always reading something." He chuckles lightly. "That is true." He puts his phone away before standing up. "We should go to class." I nod and stand up. We then walk to class together, as always.

     In class we were just reading excerpts from a book we were reading, we were reading a series called the 'Divergent Trilogy', it's quite a popular and well heard of series. Dylan's name was called. "What are your two favorite quotes from this book?" The teachers asks him. "Well, they're both from Four, aka Tobias." The teacher nods. "'Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear and how to be free from it, that's the point.'" I smile at that. "And the second one?" The teacher asks once more. "'Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up.'" The teacher smiles and looks at me. "How about you Erin? Two favorite quotes." I think for a second. "'I take a deep breath. I'm not so sure where that swell of desperation came from, but now that I've acknowledged it, its impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.'" I have a good memory, and I had just read that part yesterday. "And the second one?" I think again before speaking, "'We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.'" She moves onto some others. Those quotes Dylan said have meaning behind the quotes. He fears his cancer, and I knew that from day one.