When Life And Love Gives You A Second Chance (A One Direction Fan Fiction)

Chapter 11 - Good-bye

Niall's POV)

Management wouldn't let me leave and it was getting frustrated! I was so stressed out all night long. Everyone forced me to go to bed. As if I would get any sleep? I just tossed and turned and soon the entire bed was wet. What if she was hurting herself? I knew she would never do that be she just sounded so... Weird… 

I was thinking about sneaking away but I didn't have a car to drive and a train was out of the question since I would be recognized and I really didn't have time for fans. I texted Summer a few times during the night but all I got was blurry answers and it only got me more worried. Then it was morning and again they forced me to go down and eat breakfast. I didn't answer when spoken to; I was just so heartbroken, so sick of worry.

I didn't eat and when I don't eat there's something wrong with me. So the boys said they couldn't stand seeing me like that and Harry promised to drive me. All the boys ended up coming with us. They said they couldn't do the concert without us anyway. We sneaked away from our management. As we were on our way I started to relax more. I was soon going to see her soon. Just a few more hours.

I told her to meet up in my house since we could speak in private because my parents was on a trip.

When we pulled up to my house it was 3pm. The boys asked me if I was going to be okay or if I needed help but I told them that this was something I had to do on my own. 

I opened the door and found Summer sitting on the couch. She had used the spare key. I ran up and hugged her. Then after a short kiss I looked at her. I expected her eyes to be red from crying but they weren't. She barely looked sad at all, just really happy to see me. She smiled. 

"Tell me what's going on." I begged. 

"I can't… Let's just enjoy this night together and I promise you I'll tell you in the end." 

"Do you have cancer or anything like that? Are you... Are you dying?!" I couldn't help the tear that escaped my eye just because of the thought. 

She laughed a little. "No I don't have cancer." she said and smiled. "Please, I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important. Let's just enjoy it." 

"Okay" I said.

I cooked food for us and we ate it during laughter and kisses. I was trying to act normal but the lump in my stomach grew bigger and bigger as the night went on. 

We watched a movie upstairs in my bed. She was lying right next to me and I had my arms around her. When it was over she turned it off, sat up and faced me. She was finally going to tell me. 

"You won't believe me." she said looking down. 

"You could tell me that you're a vampire and I still would believe you, and I wouldn't really care, I would love you the same." I lift her chin up so that she could look in to my eyes and see that every word was true. But when you say something like that you don't expect hearing something close to it. But she took a deep breath and said: "I'm dead." 

Niall’s POV) 

She told me everything and I believed her. She also said how happy she was this time. She said she had lived a much more happy life and she said it had a lot to do with me. She said she was grateful and that she accepted the fact that her life might end within just a few hours. She just wanted to tell me because so she wouldn’t want to be alone.  

I didn’t want her to leave but she told me that she probably didn’t have a choice. That she would die either way.    

I grabbed her in my arms as we lay down on my bed, both on our sides, facing each-other. We spend a long time just looking at one another. A melody formed in my head. Her eyes started to tear when I begun to sing. I sang quietly while looking deep into her sad eyes. 

“Shut the door, turn the lights of. I want to be with you, I want to feel your love. I want to lie beside you; I can not hide this, even though I try. Heart beats harder, time escapes me, trembling hands touch skin. It makes this harder. And the tears stream down my face."

And the tears did stream and my voice broke so many times because of my dry throat.   

“If we could only have this life, for one more day, if we could only turn back time.” Her tears wouldn’t stop when I sang the part about having life for just one more day. 

“You know I’ll be your life, your voice, your reason to be. My heart, my love, is breathing for this. Moment in time, I’ll find the words to say, before you leave me today.” It was easier to sing the words I wanted to say. I let music speak for my feelings. I wanted to tell her that I could manage life without her but I knew this wasn’t her fault, so I didn’t want to make it harder for her.   

When I finished the song I gave her a long kiss. Desperately I wanted it to last forever; I didn’t want her to leave. After the kiss she never opened her eyes. I stayed awake watching her trembling breaths become calmer and slower as she drifted to sleep. I moved closer to her and soon fell asleep, still with tears running down my chins.    

As I woke up in my bed that morning with an empty space beside me, I knew. I knew that I had four best-friends and a tour together with them. I knew I had fame and that my life was going to take me places I never been to before. I knew that Summer wasn't going to be there for any of it. I knew where she was.  

I sat up, rubbing my tired eyes with my fingers. She was gone. She was gone. She was gone. She was gone. I kept repeating it my head. It felt like I was going to cry but all my tears had run dry. I removed my hands from my face and notice a little note lying next on a pillow.  

“I love you”, it said.

I knew she didn’t want to say good-bye because we would meet again someday. I think I sat on my bed all day long. Just staring out in the air, wondering where life would take me next. Everything I was going to do next, I was going to dedicate to her. Every song I was going to write and every song I was going to sing. It was all going to be for her. I knew I was young and I would probably find someone else to spend the rest of my life with sooner or later. But I wouldn’t let go of Summer too fast.  

Summer’s POV)  

When I woke up next to Niall in the morning, I sat there for a while just to take in the last moment. Then I got up, picked up my jacket and shoes and started walking down the road. I walked the way home. I was going to come around the corner again.

  I was so grateful for this second chance I’d been given but I guess it was over now…   I really had done everything good with this second chance, not so many mistakes. I’ve become a better person and a happier person. This time I had done everything write and I didn’t leave papers with mean words behind for my parents to read.  

I smiled as I walked down the street and when a light appeared in front of me; I took a deep breath, smiled even bigger and started to run towards it.  

TO BE CONTINUED…