The Life of Lilac Hill

Chapter Four: A little bit of backstory and deduction

I wake up in the middle of my living room. Adrianne lays next to me on the floor and Chris is nowhere in sight.

"What happened...." Adrianne mumbles into the carpet.

"I have no clue..."I shake my head and sit up.

"I'll tell you what happened." Chris says emerging from the kitchen. " you two ate waayyyy to much candy last night, came home and had a sugar-crash."

I groan then fall over onto Adrianne, the carpet muffles her giggles.

"S'not the first time this's happened." My dad says, walking down the stairs.

"And probably not the last." My mom says from the kitchen.

"Momma!!" I say standing and running to her. I hug her long and tight, not wanting to let go. "When'd you get here?"

"Early this morning. The stupid hospital let me out under special circumstances." She winks at me.

I turn back towards the living room and Chris is staring at me with a deep sadness. I push the thought from my mind and try to think positive.

~~~~a few hours later~~~~~

I pick up my brush, then set it down again. "You don't have hair, stupid..." I mumble to myself. I pull on a pair of ripped jeans and a tank top. I'm staring into the mirror when I see Chris walk in.

"I look weird. I don't look like a girl anymore." I say turning around.

"Its definitely different, but you make shaved heads look amazing." He pulls me into a hug.

I stand there, in his warm embrace, until Adrianne clears her throat from the doorway.

"You guys really have to stop being mushy, it's gross!" She says, faking a gag. " Plus I'm going home. I expect to see you later for dinner. Don't be late!" She walks down the stairs.

I look up at Chris, and he smiles at me. "What should we do?" He says, resting his chin on the top of my head.

I shrug. "Nothing. We should sit here all day and watch horror movies."

"Oh come on! We have to do something before-" he stops and looks down at me. "Movies."

"I'll go make popcorn." I go downstairs slowly, thinking about what just happend, and overhear my parents talking.

Mom:"we have to tell her! If we don't then..."

Dad: "we can't! If we do it'll spiral her right back into depression! Right back into the person she can't be right now."

Mom: "She has to know that-"

"I have to know what?" I ask, they look at me.

"Honey, you might not be able to graduate...."

I shrug. " not like I was gonna make it very far in life anyways." I walk past them and throw the popcorn bag into the microwave. I know full and well that they weren't talking about me not graduating. It goes deeper than that....

The microwave beeps and jerks me from my thoughts. I grab it, empty the contents into a bowl, then jog back upstairs.

I crawl under the blanket with Chris and fall asleep ten minutes into the movie...

At first I dream about how, from now on, my family would be happy and nothing else would happen...

But then, I'm standing in a room smelling sharply like flowers, people stand around me, people I go to school with, Even Sarah, and Tyler-the popular kids- ...Adrianne and Chris are crying at the front of the room, as I walk towards them, I see the edge of a coffin....I walk closer, and see that it's me, laying in a coffin, dead. My knees go weak and I fall to the ground.

Suddenly I'm back in my bed, tears rushing down my face, and onto Chris's shirt.

"Shh, shh." He whispers, his strong arms wrap around me and pull me closer to him.

"I'm going to die....aren't I?" I say, almost inaudibly.

"No. You aren't. Don't talk like that." Chris says.

"That's why my mom said they'd let her come home because of 'special circumstances'. Because I'm going to die soon... And She wanted to spend what, could possibly be my last days, at home..." My feels act up and my emotions. "I don't want to die...."

" I won't let you...the world won't let you! The earth would stop spinning if you no longer blogged about tv shows and British actors."

I laughed a little, he pulled me closer and continued, "if I made it into remission, then you can fight off a head injury."

About five years ago, Chris was diagnosed with leukemia, and of course us only being 11, we kept coming up with different scenarios of how I would live if he didn't make it....

(Looking back, this was actually pretty bad for 11 year old to talk about...)

Everyday for two years, we made up different stories. Sometimes, We would sit in the cancer wing while he was getting chemo and try and make the other kids laugh with some adventure stories about becoming princesses and princes and riding into the sunset on rainbow breathing dragons.

But slowly, those kids stopped coming to the hospital, and the 13 year old me would cry into my pillow about Chris not being able to go back....

One day, a year ago, Chris and I were sitting in the hospital and the doctor came over,

"I've got some very serious news..." She said to his parents "All of the cancer cells have vanished." And just like that, Chris got his life back again.

He tried out for football, and made captain, asked out his best friend of 11 years (That's me by the way, hello. -le wave-) and she said yes, and he said that his life couldn't be more perfect.

"Hey," Chris says, breaking my thoughts, " we're gonna be late to Adrianne's...." His arms unwrap me and he smiles, the walks downstairs. I grab my hoodie and follow suite.

A/N!!!

Finally updated guys! This one made me a little emotional, but I made it through the feels....

(Side note: it probably only made feels because I'm so attached to the characters -both in the book and in real life-)

Also: to Rachel (you know which one you are) I updated, are you happy now?? Lol

Stay amazing,

~K.Winchester~