|just tell me that you love me z.m.|

2.5

Waliyha's eyes felt heavier than before as she laid on her hospital bed, hand in hand with Bella.

"I'm sick." Waliyha coughed, groaning while trying to lift her hand up. She gently puts it down, opening her eyes to meet Bella's big ones.

"Bells, you need to stop putting the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket." Waliyha says quietly, really meaning what she said. Waliyha felt weak, and she knew that this visit might be her last so she spent all night thinking of what to say to Zayn and Bella.

She knew of their situation, and didn't approve one bit. If she wasn't in ill health, she would have gotten up and slapped the fool out on Zayn but she couldn't.

"I don't-"

"Yes you do my love, and it is pitiful. You can't keep bearing the burdens that don't belong to you."

"But I love him." She said honestly. Zayn strolled into the room with a granola bar and bagel for Bella.

"Think about what we spoke. Zayn, my sunshine, come."

Zayn sat in his designated chair next to Waliyha, holding her frail hand as Bella left the room. Waliyha was so pale, and could hardly open her eyes. She held his hand to her heart, a warm smile on her face.

"My advice for you, my favorite one... is one that really comes from the heart. The greatest lesson I could teach you, I believe, is to stop bullshitting yourself. Stop whining, complaining and feeling sorry for yourself. You need to live and experience things, but not too many things. You have your soulmate right beside you yet you chose some stranger. I'm so disappointed in you habibi."

"I thought she wasn't coming back, Wal-"

"So when I pass you're gonna replace me a week after? Have you no integrity." Waliyha's voice, although low, was angry.

"You're not leaving me, you can't." Zayn sobbed, hot tears freely cascading. "The doctor says you're fine I don't understand."

"I feel myself fading, Zayn. If I don't survive just know that I love you and want what's best for you- and Bella is that. She loved you so much, and you need each other. You guys make up a whole, without Bella there is no Zayn and without Zayn there is no Bella. To understand one you need to know the other. In my bedroom, inside my music box, there's a ring. It was Grandma's, and I believe it should be Bella's."

"Wal you're going to be alright, I won't let anything bad happen to you I promise."

"Zayn I've learned. I've explored, I've loved and I've laughed. What more could I want?"

"Waliyha it's time."

This was her third surgery this week, the other two failed and this was her final attempt. After this attempt she wished to be left in peace.