Slipping Through My Fingers~ Beau Brooks

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

BEAU

The doctors words were spinning all around my head. Some nurses took Zoe away to help her. I was in complete numbness. I tried to speak but no words would come out of my mouth.

"I know this is coming as a shock to you, but you need to be there for her, be her rock, and don't let her see you hurting." The doctor told me.

All I did was nod my head, I felt completely blown away. I couldn't believe it.

"Would you like to maybe step outside and take a few deep breaths of air?" The doctor asked

I rose from my chair and as I walked outside, seeing all the patients that were crying, some were dying, others were screaming in happiness. I couldn't hear a thing, it was like I had gone completely deaf. It felt like I was trapped in my own little bubble.

As I found my way around to the hospital garden. I sunk down on an old wooden chair. I started to take deep breaths in and out. Only then did I let the salty tears stream all down my face. No way. No way could this be happening. And definitely not to my Zoe.

There was a huge possibility she had Stomach Cancer.

Cancer.

There was a chance she had cancer. A disease that ripped many innocent lives apart. She didn't deserve this. No body did. Nobody should have to be dealing with this horrible disease.

I felt myself become hysterical. Zoe may die soon. Zoe might be taken away from me. She was the most important thing in the world to me. She was the reason I am still walking on this planet today. She couldn't leave me, i might get back to the original state I was in.

I pulled out my iPhone and dialled a familiar number.

"Hey brahh what's up?" Skip asked

"I need you" i was sure skip could hear my tears through the phone.

"What's wrong buddy?" Skip asked

"I need you Skip, please come to the hospital as soon as possible" I cried

"Why are you at the hospital?

What have you done wrong?" Skip asked concerned.

"Please come I'll explain everything.. And it's not me this time. It's Zoe" I explained

Daniel paused for a minute.

"I'm on my way" he hung up.

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Daniel sat on the chair opposite. Trying to help me as much as he could! I had confessed everything to him.

"Maybe it's not cancer" Daniel said.

He walked around to me and gave me a man-hug.

"Skip, it's just. I have a bad feeling. Just when I thought everything was turning around and getting better, this happens" I cried into his shoulder

"Beau, no matter what. You have to stay strong. Imagine how Zoe's feeling now. She needs you" he said patting my back.

"I know, it's just I can't bare living without her" I replied, tears falling down my face.

"That's why, if it really is cancer, your going to have to make the most of the time you have left. Live in the moment" he said.

I looked up into Daniels eyes, I could see tears were starting to fill up slowly.

"If she dies, I don't know if I will be able to carry on" I cried, now we were both crying.

"You don't mean that Beau" he said.

"Do you think I'd lie about something that that?" I cried

Then without warning skip pulled me in for another hug.

"I can't lose you, Not again Beau" he said.

I clenched him tightly.

"I just can't live with out her.. I just can't"

We both just stayed there, crying into each others arms. I never realised Daniel cared about me that much. I thought that I only meant a little to him, I didn't think that I was a big deal to anybody.

We finally decided to move, and we both wiped away the tears and walked back into the hospital. I was hoping and praying that this was a dream, a mistake, or my imagination.

I made my way over to the surgery ward. Praying that Zoe was going to be okay.

I hoped that this wasn't gonna be our final goodbye...