Him ; Bastille

Dream ; 26

I've decided to redo this chapter completely since the previous one was *very* unimaginative. I'm also a little bit stuck on the plot at the moment so I apologise for not updating regularly as I was. Thank you for sticking around and I hope you enjoy the sudden change!

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— 10 years later —

"So?" Mum nervously asks after siting herself down on the sofa, she also presumes the worst by the looks of her pale face. My mum and Kitty have been really close since the day they met each other all those Thanksgivings ago. Kitty tightly holds my hand as I try not to crack a smile, she's adamant that she wants to share her news and not me...I've never seen this woman look so proud. Me and Kit are completely over the moon with the results. She's been given a second chance of life. Of course we presumed the worst. Sometimes it feels like the world is against us...but not today.

Not today.

With that Kitty breaks a wide smile as my mother literally leaps up out of her chair and frantically dives into Kitty's arms. "It's gone! Isla! There's no evidence" Kitty laughs in relief. My mum backs away from Kitty giving her some space. I don't think they both know how to react, I'm not even sure either. We've already cried like a baby between us, we even fucking danced. In the car we belted out mainstream pop songs without a fucking care in the world— even if we hated the tune...we still sung in celebration.

The medicine Kitty has been using for ten years has clearly worked. Her cancer...which was going to kill her someday somehow just fucking dissolved. Every six months at her routine check up the doctors became amazed at how different her MRI scans looked. With that been said, of course it took an operation to get rid of the last cluster of it. Since she had to stop taking the chemo tablets and get actual chemo her hair fell out...but within weeks of the cancer being removed and back on the tablets as an extra precaution...it started to grow back. Now she has a whole head of angel like hair, she dyed it almost straight away because she always wanted to go blonde. This morning was her first check up since the op...and it's finally gone.

Gone.

"I think I'm living in a dream right now." Kitty smiles as her eyes fill up with tears. Immediately I go to put my arm around her, but my mother decides to sit between us...well on my fucking lap. I roll my eyes and look the other way as dad cracks a smile seeing me literally suffer. I would hold my middle finger up...but I've been brought up to love and respect my parents and all of that bullshit. Plus I'm 32...I can't get away with that anymore. Unlike Syd. She literally get's away with everything, stuff that I could not even get away with when I was 22. "Congratulations, Kit" he smiles. I can see that he is getting a bit teary eyed. "Thank you." Kitty smiles as my mum can't help but to hug her again like she's a rag doll. Kitty does not mind whatsoever...so I can't complain.

"Why don't Dan go and call Sydney and say you're going to meet up at Millie's school? Then after that we can all go out for a nice dinner? Mine and mum's treat of course." I look at my dad in total confusion. "Why do I have to be the one to go to Millie's school?" I mean...I love my niece but there really is no need. "Because you can drive, plus it's raining...you wouldn't want them to be waiting outside in the rain for a bus?" I tilt my head backwards in frustration. "Syd can drive though. She passed her lesson like three months ago!" With that mum hisses 'do as you're told Dan' through her teeth.

"She doesn't have a car yet, remember? You was meant to give her a loan and help fill in the paperwork?" I'm not a bad brother. It sounds bad but I'm not. I just have a lot on my plate at the moment. The thing is that I've got my dream job...with financial help from Kitty of course. She's still Miss Moneybags. I'm a lead singer in a four man band. The best part about all of this is that I know for a fact my band aren't shit. We're okay...not the best, nor the worst.

A lot has changed for Syd though. 'Popular girls get their comeuppance' it's a shitty quote but in a vague way it's very true. Sydney's comeuppance is Millie, her 5 year old daughter. As soon as Millie turned 1, Syd cashed out her single parent benefits/child support and moved to Essex. Since mum and dad wasn't happy about the move — and Syd was secretly running out of money — I put money in her bank account without anyone else knowing. Syd has gave me her money in the past for music equipment and shit...plus she's my sister and I really fucking adore my niece/goddaughter. Syd and Millie moved closer to a city that isn't as popular as London in hopes for more job opportunities — I mean that is a much more valid excuse than the reason why I moved to Long Island permanently with Kit.

However, I love my London. London is a part of me. With the Pompeii funds — our most popular single — we brought a house besides mum and dad to visit. We near enough live here, however, Kitty gets home sick so we have to go home every now and again.

"But I haven't got a car...and it's going to take like two hours because of the school rush." With that dad digs into his pocket and throws me the keys from across the room. Thankfully I catch them. "But..." my voice trails off. Kitty at the corner of my eye smirks at me. She's been trying to get me to drive for ages. I mean I can but taking the tube or a bus is so much quicker. I hold my middle finger up at her as mum slaps me around the head.

"Fine then." I snap standing up as mum laughs sinking down into my pit on the sofa besides Kitty. Kitty loves it. She adores my parents love. I think it's because they're so different from her own. Kitty's family are also supportive...well they have been more inclusive and not leaving Kitty out of family events, like parties, since Hunter and Alice got divorced. Just like Kitty warned them, Alice took Hunter to court for everything that he had. She won the case and Hunter apologised to his little sister. However Kitty now tries to distance herself from them, I don't really blame her.

I smile at her once more before going out of the living room and to the front door.

And now to collect the most annoying person in the world and her spawn...