Jack and Emma go to the same high school and have despised each other as long as they can remember, but as they grow and their life takes many twists and turns, will their feelings for each other grow too?
My lungs burn furiously as if they're about to collapse any second. My chest aches like it's never ached before. My upper body and breath tightens as I try to fight it. I bolt upright, coughing furiously and I run to the bathroom sink and begin coughing up blood. I stare it for a while before finally giving in.
Logan is right. I need to get myself checked. I skip breakfast as I'm not hungry at all and I brush my teeth and shower.
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I go over to Logan's apartment to see the boys are there and I greet them and engulf Jack in a hug, pecking him on the lips.
"You ready?" Logan asks, picking up his keys from the counter, as I'm about to reply, Jack intervenes. "Ready for what?" He asks. "I'm taking Emma to a doctors appointment" Logan explains then I give him a look to not tell Jack.
"Why? Are you okay?" Jack asks worriedly coming forward and resting his hand on my shoulders. "Jack I'm fine, it's just..." I debate whether I should tell him about my current situation but then he'd be too worried to focus on his music and work. "It's just a check up, probably just a stomach bug" I lie then smile before kissing him on the cheek and nodding towards Logan who doesn't seem so content on my lies.
We say goodbye to the boys who are just gonna hang around with Lydia, Evan and Kong till we get back. As we get in the car Logan begins, "Why'd you lie?" He asks giving me a helpless look. "Logan, it's gonna get him worried for not reason and distract him and what's the point of that if I know that there's nothing wrong with me" I say.
"Look Emma, I was up all night doing research, have you been coughing up blood or anything like that?" He asks worriedly. I look at him and debate telling the truth, but once again, all that comes out are lies. "Nope" I lie but I can't afford to look at him as I say it.
Soon, we arrived at the hospital and hopped out. I wasn't really worried, I was positive I'm healthy but Logan on the other hand was stressing out. We entered the hospital and went to the reception where the lady told us to take a seat and wait till my name is called.
"Loges, you know you didn't have to come with me, I'm 18, not 8." I say softly seeing that he's worried. "Em, I'm practically your big brother and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried, especially after all that research I did" he says, concern plastered on his face. "Speaking of which, what exactly did you find?" I ask curiously.
He looks at me reluctantly and hesitates before opening his mouth to speak until he was interrupted, "Miss Emma Baker?" a middle aged lady looked up from her clipboard, peering up from her thick rimmed glasses, scanning the room. Logan and I stand up and make our way to her, greeting her and shaking her hand.
"This way please" she leads us to a room on the second floor. I take a seat on the patients chair as she does a couple procedures and check ups on me all whilst Logan is sat tapping his foot worriedly and impatiently. She then proceeds to ask me a couple questions about my breathing, my eating and appetite and then a certain question comes up.
"Have you coughed blood anytime recently?" She asks, continuing to type away. I glance at her then at Logan guiltily till I look at my shoes, not being able to look up and answer, "Um yeah" I hesitate, "This morning" I say as she nods and continues to type. I couldn't bring myself to look up, I felt bad for lying to Logan, I've never lied to him before and it doesn't feel right.
"Right..." she starts, "I have got results but I need to take a blood test from you to confirm it if that's okay?" I nod as she brings out the equipment. Soon, she's done with the blood test and as she analyses it, we are told to take a seat outside. We both sit down in silence before I pipe up.
"Look Logan I'm sorry, I didn't wanna worry you even further, I was positive I'd be okay...but now...I'm not so sure" I say finally looking at the big picture. "You didn't have to lie, I could've taken it but that's not really the thing that's bugging me right now" he says before engulfing me in a hug.
I knew what he was talking about. The results.
Before I knew it, the doctor, Doctor Sadie her tag read, came out of the room, holding it open as we entered and took a seat in front of her desk. She sat down hesitantly and glanced back and forth between me and Logan.
"Um, Ms Emma Baker, this is quite complicated" she started causing me and Logan to tense up, more so him than me. "You have been diagnosed with lung cancer" she says softly, trying to break the ice easily though the words were like a dagger through my heart, I can only imagine how Logan must be feeling.
"But, we've never seen this type of lung cancer before, you see the cancer cells are reproducing and taking over faster then we've ever seen, at this rate your lungs and chest can give out at anytime...and that's the problem. We don't know when, we've never seen anything like it." She explains, each word tearing me apart.
"Y-you will be able to cure her, right?" Logan asks who I now realised was tearing up. "Mr. Paul, we have to put her on several meds and she'll be here a lot but unfortunately, with this rare case, there seems to be nothing we can do at the moment. But don't give up, because I'm going to volunteer to be your personal doctor and I will fight this case as hard as I can I promise you" she says with a smile.
"I'm going to have chemotherapy aren't I?" I say, my voice barely audible, simple a whisper. Sadie nods sympathetically, "It's better if you shave it all off rather then having to lose it bit by bit, you can come for that and a couple other things next week, I've already made an appointment" she says softly as I nod hesitantly.
We thank her before leaving, silence hanging over us as we fight the urge not to break down. As we approach the car Logan turns to me and envelopes me in a tight hug, at this point both of us break down in tears. "I've barely lived life Logan" I say through tears which just causes him to break down further. "I will always be here, right by your side" he says before engulfing me one last time in a protective hug.
We drove back home and as Logan parked he asked me a question, "When are you telling the rest?" He asks. "I can't Logan" I say shaking my head. "You have to, you think they won't realise by next week?" He says referring to when I'm going to shave my head.
"I can't tell them now, especially not Jack, I'll do it before next week but when I'm ready" I say as he reluctantly nods. We wipe our tears and make sure we look okay before walking back to Logan's apartment. We enter to see the boys messing around on snapchat and laughing at Jack wearing a wig who instantly throws it off and runs to me as I enter.
"Hey princess, what'd they say, you okay?" He asks. I study his face, searching for the answer or solution to the situation I'm in, but all I found was that I love him way too much to tell him. I put on a smile,
"I'm perfectly fine"
A/N: Hey guys don't kill me please, I just started school and I've already got a shit ton of homework, on top of that the teachers are actually so annoying, like how can you get rude to me and not expect me to get rude back then you have the decency to give me detention🙄On top of that, I'm having boy problems and I don't know what to do💔 Anywho, leave a vote and comment, I love reading your guys' comments so please let me know what u think❤Mkay. Byee.
