Game of Love (the Game Fanfic)

Chapter 16

My baby is gone once again. I don't have the kids in the house, and because Jay is gone his crew, that I have grown closer to, are gone also. For the entire time that we have been living together, we have never been more than a couple days apart.

So far Jay has been gone for a week and I half. I insisted on taking the day off of work to pick him up, but he knows that I have a busy day ahead of me.

I am making my usual breakfast: a fruit smoothie and an apple. Once I was finished my entire morning routine, I hopped into my car and drove off to the hospital.

As soon as I get settled in, I am rushed into a thousand different directions. For some odd reason, the ER is down a couple of nurses so I had to go back and forth between the ER and pediatrics.

Once the day started to wind down, I started to stay in pediatrics more. I was able to visit my favorite patient, Jonathan. Jonathan, has leukemia. I have been Jonathan's nurse from the day he was diagnosed until now. I don't think about what could happen with him. I just pray.

I walk into his room, which is decorated with all his favorite superheroes, to check up on him. "JJ?" I say peeking my head into his room. "Hey Nurse Aaliyah! I heard you left me for the ER," he said looking a bit sad but clearly joking.

"You know I couldn't leave you JJ" I say walking around to his monitor. Today Jonathan is getting another dosage of his treatment today. At times he can become violently sick. Today just so happened to be one of those times.

He tried responding, but coughing just overcame him. When he starts getting into these coughing fits, he becomes so exhausted. I gave him a little bit of medicine for comfort. He crept off into a calm sleep as I looked at his mom with a sympathetic expression. I pray and I pray, but JJ has progressively gotten worse and it is not looking good.

4:30pm rolled around and all I wanted to do was go home and melt in Jay's arms. Seeing Jonathan in this state absolutely breaks my heart. As soon as I sat down in my car, I lost it. I couldn't stop crying and screaming.

I hit the button in my car for the gate to open up to my house. I sat, just sat, for about ten minutes so that I could stop crying. I walked in and saw the love of my life. Luckily, he was alone. We both stood there looking at each other.

I dropped my bags, right where I stand, "He's dying."

Jay knew exactly who I was talking about and there was no need for him to say anything. He walks swiftly over to me and wraps his arms around me. "Baby, I am so sorry," he whispered in my ear.

"C'mon lets get you upstairs," he said picking me up bridal style and climbing the stairs.

Jay put me on the bed while he went into the bathroom and started running me a bath. Once the bathtub was full, he led me into the bathroom. He had lit candles, turned on slow music and put bubbles in my water.

He walked me in with his hands around my waist, then turned me around. "Baby, I know this his hard because you've been with Jonathan since he was diagnosed, but, unfortunately, you cant save them all. The fact that you care so much, is one of the reasons why I fell for you."

The only thing I could do was kiss him...and kiss him so more. "Okay babe, go get in the bathtub and relax," he said backing out of the bathroom door.

Today was supposed to be a day, that Jay and I spend together, and go do something fun because we haven't seen each other in what seems like forever. He sacrificed all of that to be by my side ad help me through this.

I'm not sure what is going to happen with JJ, and I'm not sure when his final days will be but I know that the pediatrics center will not be the same without him. Neither will I.