Hold Tight (A Justin Bieber Love Story) ((BEING EDITED))

Chapter 74

My mouth drops when Rylee walks back into the gated backyard with a puppy in his arms.

"You're parent's got us a dog?" Justin says in excitement as Rylee sets the puppy down and it runs around.

"Yeah, well, mom thought it would be a good idea to have the kids grow up with a dog, kinda like Rylee and me, and it was our friend," Layla says with a smile.

"Plus, we heard someone has never had a puppy before," Rylee says winking at me. It was true, i have never had anything close to a pet, so this was exciting for me as well. 

"Aw, what kinda dog is it?" Cara asked as she sits on the grass and plays with it.

"A German Shepard, but it's the all black kind so it doesn't look like one. We got it from a friends dog's littler, so this puppies parents are cop dogs, so you have a good protector now," Rylee says as we all sit on the grass, well except Layla.

"Cole look," I say as i set him on the ground between my legs and the puppy runs up. Cole stares at the dog for a while before throwing his hands in the air giggling and hugs the puppy close.

"Her name's Lexi," Layla says with a smile. I look back at Lexi now over by Cass and Justin. Cass doesn't know what to think of the fuzzy thing in front of her it looks like, she is just looking at it in fear.

"Aw, baby," I say with a small laugh at the face she is making, looks like she is about to cry. 

Another few minutes go by of us all just watching the twins and lexi play in the yard before someone speaks.

"So, how's Brooke doing?" Kyle asked looking at me with a little sadness. I shrug and lean back into Justin who is sitting behind me now.

"I don't really think she understands what is happening, she is happy though.. She says she made a lot of new friends at the hospital....I just can help but hate this, she is so young and hasn't even got to live her life yet," I say not tearing up, because i promised i wouldn't because i can not change what is done.

"Yeah, she is a sweet kid...Who know's maybe the doctors are wrong and she will live longer than a month...I mean, people do that all the time, right?" Andrew says trying to convince himself it sounds like. I shake my head.

"Brooke is getting sicker everyday, even if we can't tell, the cancer is spreading rapidly and there's nothing the doctors can do. Not even radiation is helping at this point, she already lost all her hair, she is getting thinner and pale," i say sitting back up.

"At least she is happy, that is the main thing," Justin says making everyone agree with him. I smile at my kids as i look over at them, i just have to stay positive.

A few weeks later and it's only two days before the doctor said was Brooke's last day, and by the looks of her condition he is correct. She has been in bed for three says now, not able to walk or move much. We all came to visit her.

"Hey Brooke," I say as i carry Cassidy over to her. She smiles and sits up a little. I set Cass on the bed so Brooke is holding her kind of.

"I missed you guys," She says looking back At Justin, Cole, Layla, Zack, Rylee, and everyone else. They all smile and sit around the room. 

"How you feeling to day baby?" I asked as i sit on the bed still helping her hold Cass. She shrugs and just focuses on Brooke. 

"when's the new baby going to be here?" she asked in a little voice making us look at Layla. Layla wasn't supposed to be due for two more weeks, and we know how much Brooke wanted to see the baby.

"Soon Brooke, soon," Layla says holding back the sadness. Brooke's face lights up a little as she smiles at her.

"Oh you have company," the doctor says as he walks in with a few nurses. Brooke frowns and lets me take Cassidy, i look at her confused, then our dad walks in with the sadest look ever.

"Kids, why don't we take a walk," He says as we all leave i hand Cass to Rylee as soon as i see the doctors setting up a few needles and tubes.

"What are they doing?" I asked looking at the stuff, i knew what it was right away and i went to go stop them but my dad grabs me.

"Jess, let them do their job," he says holding me back as i struggle to break free and start yelling.

"NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS IT ISN'T FAIR!" I say as my dad pulls me out and closes the door, pulling me out of the hospital leaving everyone else there. I kick and scream until we are finally in the parking lot and he holds me in place with tears of his own.

"JESSICA! Look at me!" he says making me stop and look at him with full anger. I push him away from me.

"Why did you agree to something like this? She could still have lived longer!" i shout at him making him close his eyes.

"You don't think i knew that Jessica, you don't think i didn't want to see her live longer? She is suffering Jess, in pain and hurting....I don't know about you, but i wasn't going to sit here and watch her suffer any more, she was already going to die tonight or tomorrow anyways," He shouts back at me making me flinch back. He looks at me with softer eyes and sigh.

"You are just letting them take her life right now....You call yourself a father to her? You are no better than the man i lived with for eighteen years, you're the monster. Brooke could have fought this like the stong little girl she was, but you're selfish. You just don't want all this stress of the constant bills and looking at your daughter and realizing she isn't perfect, that she is broken," i shout not even seeing everyone had walked out, or that i was speaking what i felt about myself, and how i felt when no one wanted me.

"Jess," Justin whispers handing Cole to Rylee and walking close. I step back still looking at my dad.

"I hate you," I shout at him before walking away. I hear footsteps behind me but i don't stop walking.

"Jess stop," Justin says as he grabs my are carefully making me stop and look at him.

"He just let them......this isn't fair," i say as he pulls me to his chest and i cry. 

I'm not sure how long i cried but we ended up getting home at 2am. The twins were out and Justin was off putting them to bed. I walked into our bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. Look at yourself Jess, you lost another person because you did nothing to stop it. Brooke could have lived longer,s he could have made it through this with all our support. I was so busy thinking i didn't realize what i was doing until it was to late.