You Know I'll Be Your Life (1D)

Chapter 3: Forgetting Friends and Finding Family

JAMIE'S POV

 After an exciting (note the sarcasm) meal at Chili's we decided to walk around the mall. It was two-thirty, and the boys had to be at the concert venue by four, so we only had about an hour left with the boys, then the concert and then they were gone, only to forget about us tomorrow morning. We passed an Aeropostale, and Harry let out a frustrated groan. "What's up Curly?" Lex asked him. 

"Don't you have a Jack Wills?" he asked, tugging on his curls.

"Um, no? Are they, like, popular in England or something?" He groaned again.

"One day, one day, you are coming home with us and you can have Nando's, go to Jack Wills, go on the London Eye, you know, all the stuff in England there is to do." Lex looked at me excited.

"Yeah, right, tell me when this is gonna be, right after tomorrow, when you forget all about us?" Why, why would I say that? I mean, sure, they're international superstars, but they're probably going to make some big promise about how we'll keep in touch and then they'll visit us every few months. Yeah, right. There was another reason, but I don't think I'll tell you yet.

"Why do you think we're going to forget you, love?" Liam asked. 

"You're international superstars, and we're just, us. Nothing special, nothing new. Nothing that would stand out and make you remember." They all looked at me, shocked.

Niall gave me a weird look while signaling he wanted to talk to me later. I think he knew I was lying. Well, now I have to tell him the real reason.

**LATER**

 It was time for my talk with Niall. It was three-forty-five and Niall had just pulled me into a storage closet. I know, cliché right? "Tell me, why do you really think we're going to forget you?" Niall seemed trustworthy enough, should I tell him? I sucked in a deep breath. I'm gonna tell him.

"W-when I first found out I had cancer, I had just gotten a call from one of my best friends, Brittany, saying my boyfriend cheated on me with my other best friend. At this point, my mother was helping me into the car to take me to the hospital. I fell asleep in the car, only to wake up three days later in a hospital bed, with my mom telling me I had stomach cancer. I then called my best friends and boyfriend of the time, only to find out they didn't really care about me and considered themselves no longer friends with me. Any other friends I had were told to stay away from me because I was 'contagious' and my mom soon didn't want to see her daughter in the hospital, weak, so she's been working almost nonstop." I could feel the tears streaming down my face. "Everyone's forgotten about me, nobody cares anymore, except for Lex, but she's so young and innocent still, she doesn't realize what a screwed up mess I really am." I felt Niall wrap his arms around me a give me a gentle hug.

"I promise we won't forget you. You're too special a person. You really are beautiful." I responded by wrapping my arms around him and returning the hug.

"I'm an only child, so I never had a protective older brother figure. Thanks." He just smirked at me. I looked up at him confused.

"Well, one thing you should know, older brothers like to tease their younger siblings." My eyes widened. He picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. I pounded my fists on his back, laughing and screaming at him.

"Boys, we have just become Jamie's older brothers. Well, unofficially, but still. We are her unofficial official older brothers." Well that wasn't a confusing statement. I felt a 'WTF' look come on my face. I looked at him. He just gave me an innocent look and shrugged. The boys surrounded me and gave e a huge group hug, making it the second one of the day.