Broken (A 1D Fanfic)

Chapter 5

A/N: Hello my lovelies. It's Emma still. Ya see, Olivia is out of town for a while so I'm working on another chapter. Ladidadida.. .what'll happen next? Oh, you'll see!

 "Here you are darling. Now boys, be quiet for at least twenty minutes." Nurse Carter injected the needle into my hand, since I refused to take pills. She stood and walked out of the room as I sat down on my bed.

 "A thumper?" Louis asked quietly.

 "Yes, it's a pounding headache. One where you can feel your pulse in your head... and it hurts." I explained. The boys nodded. 

 Liam looked at me curiously. "So, why are you in here? Cancer?" He asked me.

 "Could lead to that. Currently, I have a brain tumor in my cerebellum. It could lead to brain cancer, but I don't plan on letting it get that far. I'm hoping to be out of here in a months time. In two weeks, another surgery will be performed to remove the tumor, hoping it doesn't return again." The boys nodded their heads in understanding while I explained everything to them. 

 "How long have you been here?" Niall, the Irish one, inquired. 

  "Two months. Today I turn seventeen, but I'm still stuck in this hell hole." My eyes travelled across the room as I spoke. A sigh escaped my lips. I looked back up to the boys to see something I didn't expect. Niall had tears in his eyes, Louis and Liam looked on the verge of tears. Harry and Zayn were smiling sadly at me. An audible gulp came from my throat as I looked deep into Niall's clear blue eyes. 

 "Well, why are we just standing around here? Let's go have some fun!" Zayn cheered, snapping out of it. 

My small smile turned into a wide grin. "Let's go to the nearly desserted Games area. I need to beat one of you boys at air hockey." With that, we marched out of the room and to the east wing of the hospital. I entered the room first, shoving the heavy door open. 

 "This is so cool!" Zayn exclaimed in his strong accent. 

 "I challenge you, Zayn Malik, to a game of air hockey!" Both my voice and actions were dramatic as I spoke. He laughed at me, but agreed.

 ******One Hour Later*******

 "Bullocks!" Zayn shouted. ""How did you win AGAIN?" 

 I grinned. "Well, maybe I'm really good at this game." 

 "Or maybe Zayn just really sucks at it." Harry laughed from his seat. For the past hour, Zayn and I have been playing air hockey while the boys sat and watched. Let's just say Zayn hasn't won a game yet.

 "Belt up." Zayn mumbled. "Let's go play football or something." 

 A sigh escaped my lips as we left the game room. "I'm terrible at football." I said, just as Niall picked up the round, black and white ball. 

 "Good!" Zayn winked at me.

 "Belt up." My lips curved up in a smirk. Zayn just rolled his eyes and we began the game. 

 "Harry, pass!" Niall shouted.

 "You're not on my team, you little leprachan!" Harry teased, still dribbling the ball. 

 "Harry, dear, pass me the ball?" Louis batted his eyelashes. Really? In the middle of a football game? Idiot boys.

 "Alanna, watch out!" Liam shouted, sounding way to close to me than he should have been. I turned in his direction to see Louis running backwards towards me, and then he ran into me, pushing me onto the wet grass. My body fell to the moist ground, and pain shot through me. 

 Liam started lecturing Louis while Zayn rushed over to me. "Alanna, are you okay?" I groaned in response. 

 "Ace." My voice cracked when I spoke.

 "You're telling me you're awesome? You sure don't look like you are." Concern was evident in his voice. 

 I slowly started standing up. "Zayn, I'm f--Ow!" My hands flew up to hold my head. Taking deep breaths, I sat back down.

 "I'm going to go get the nurse." Herry announced before running into the hospital. Moments later, he returned with Dr. Nielson and Nurse Carter. 

 "Carter, help her up. Boys, I need you to back up. Harry here has explained what happened." Dr. Nielson began. Zayn stayed put. "Zayn, please step away from Alanna." The doctor ordered. Zayn looked pained to walk away, but he took a few steps away from me. My vision was blurred and I could only see the outline of objects. 

Nurse Carter's voice sounded from beside me. "Alanna, are you okay? What do you feel?" 

 A barely audible reply escaped my lips. "Blackout." I whispered before everything went black and I passed out.

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"We've known her for a whole of four hours and so much has happened. She told us about her health problem, beat Zayn in air hockey at least thirty times, played football with us, been knocked unconcious by Louis and had emergency surgery." Liam's voice, or at least that's what I thought, spoke. 

 I recognized Zayn's think accent. "I really like her." He stated.

 "Already?" Harry's voice questioned from the other side of the room. 

 "Aready." Zayn repeated. "Four hours and I'm falling for her." I could nearly hear the smile in his voice. My brain suddenly registered that a hand was clasping mine. Using all of my strength, I squeezed the hand while opening my eyes. "She's up!" Zayn cheered happily. Everyone leapt up from their chairs. I noticed a petite figure enter through the door. 

 "Alanna, what is One Direction doing in your room?" Poppy froze on her spot, eyes wide and mouth hanging. 

 "You'll catch flies." Harry smirked while Poppy snapped her mouth shut. 

 "It's a long story.." I began.

 "Carter said you had visitors, but I thought it was just your aunt or mom saying happy birthday, not One Direction!" She gawked at them.

"You mean Carter actually let you in here when I already had visitors?" My eyebrows raised. The visitor limit was five, and Poppy made six.. Carter would have never let her in!

 "I never said that Carter actually allowed me in.." A wide grin appeared on Poppy's face. "I asked to visit you, but she said you had too many visitors as it is in your condition. I didn't know what she meant by condition, so I nodded and told her I forgot something in my room when I left yesterday."

"Weren't you supposed to be heading out of town? Back home, you know?" I interrogated her.

 "Yup." She smiled, popping the 'P'. "I spent the night at the cabin just outta town, we didn't make it that far last night, so it was fine." 

 I smiled at the young girl. "For a fourteen year old, you're pretty smart." 

 Harry's eyes widened. "YOU'RE ONLY FOURTEEN?" He shouted.

 Poppy laughed. "Yeah, why?"

 "Don't answer that, Haz. You don't have to explain to this young girl all the dirty thoughts you were having." Louis patted Harry's back before turning to Poppy. "You look older than you are. Like, Alanna's age kind of old." 

 "Wow, thanks, Lou." Poppy said sarcastically.

 "Welcome!" Louis smiled. I swear, these boys are really something.

I suddenly rememebered the boys' conversation from when they thought I was still asleep. "Zayn, you like me." I smirked.

 Zayn's eyes widened and he managed to stutter out, "W-what? N-no I don't."

"Next time, make sure I'm asleep when you say that stuff." I winked at the Bradford boy. The remainder of the day could be fun. My best friend and five crazy boys... Hmmmm..