Zadison one shots

Summertime Sadness

Madison meets and loses Zoe all in one eventful summer.

Madison detested Louisiana as a whole, but she particularly hated it during the summertime. Since she wasn't legal yet, she was unable to enjoy most of the festivities the state had to offer, and if you weren't 21 in this state, you were very limited in the fun department. Which is what led her to her current situation, hogging up the AC at the library to cool herself down before she had to return to her house, which was probably crowded full of her mother's 'special' clients. She stifled an eye roll as she looked at the display cases around her, which had nothing she was incredibly interested in reading about. The only reason she had started coming here more often than she used to was because of the new help they had hired, a very cute girl by the name of Zoe, who always offered her a smile when she entered the small store and left after a few hours too. She wanted to get to know the girl, but she found herself shying away from the opportunity at actually speaking to her. She wasn't normally an insecure person, but she was around the doe eyed girl for whatever reason there might have been. She knew it wouldn't be long before her mother called to haggle her for something dumb, so she decided that she would head out and find the courage to talk to her whenever she came back tomorrow. But once she got to the door, a soft voice stopped her and she turned around to see the taller girl on the other side of the counter, inches away from where she was standing.

"Hi um, I notice that you come in here everyday and you don't really buy anything and I was wondering if maybe you wanted some book recommendations? I might know what could suit your personality, if you would allow me to of course." Her hands were fidgeting once she finished and she felt her cheeks heat up as she nodded at her offer, allowing her to lead her further back through the store and browse the few books they had on witchcraft, which is something she had wanted to learn for a long time now.

"These are all the books that we have on this certain topic at the moment but I can for sure notify you when we get more books shipped in." She gave her a gentle smile as she readjusted some of the books on the shelf next to where they were standing and she couldn't help but smile at the simple gesture.

"Sure okay. Do you have like a newsletter or clipboard or something that I can write my name on?" She shook her head at the question and held out her hand, waiting for her phone she assumed. She slid it from the pocket of her shorts and placed it on her palm, watching her intently as she entered her contact name into her phone and added a heart next to it, giving it back to her with the smile still stretched across her lips.

"Okay, well I'll be looking forward to your text then." She said awkwardly, wringing her hands as she followed her to the front of the store yet again, pausing at the door.

"I'm Madison, by the way." She said with a smirk as she sashayed out of the bookstore, feeling her confidence level rising with each step.

Visits to the bookstore were nearly everyday now and together, the two girls read books on Zoe's break or when the store was empty save for the two of them. Madison enjoyed their time together but she wanted to make it more frequent, which is why she proposed an ice cream date every day up until the last day of summer, where they would go watch the end of summer fireworks and get ice cream after the conclusion of the event. Everyday, after Zoe's shift ended, they would walk down the block and turn the corner, arriving at the only ice cream shop in the town, which she had shared with her father before he left her mother for a mail order bride. Stepping foot inside the parlor was bittersweet for the blonde, but she knew she could do it, as long as she had Zoe there with her. As time passed and the days began to grow shorter, they spent more and more time together, getting to know one another in more ways than one. Madison fell for her and Zoe fell just as hard, but they both knew it could never be anything more, so they kept it platonic for as long as they could until they had their first kiss at the ice cream parlor, shocking most of the very conservative customers that visited the shop daily. Tonight was the night before the end of summer fireworks, and they had found themselves at the local park, swinging hand in hand in silence.

"Madison?" She asked quietly once their swings had come to a rest, her eyes on the setting sun across the way from them. The blonde looked over at her and saw that she had tears welling in her hazel eyes, and she turned her body towards the brunette, tilting her chin so that they were looking at one another.

"Hey it's okay, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere ever okay?" She nodded, her eyes still full of tears and she turned back to the sunset, not speaking again for a very long time.

"I don't want this summer to ever end." She stated, her eyes going over to her. She nodded in agreement and wiped away the tears she still had in her eyes, pressing a kiss against her flustered cheek.

"I love you. As long as we hold onto that, this summer won't ever end, not really at least." She said reassuringly, placing her perfectly manicured hand over Zoe's heart to show her that she wasn't alone and that she would never be again. They began to kiss and things became heated quickly, and they ended up making love in the bed of Zoe's truck, underneath the star filled sky. Once they had finished, they held each other, looking up at the shining moon above them, thanking whatever was looking down on them for this summer and for each other. Little did they both know that their night would end in tragedy and a broken heart.

Sometime during the previous night, Zoe had went into cardiac arrest and Madison drove to the hospital as fast as she could, hoping and praying that there was still time for her beloved. Her hair was streaked with dirt and her knees were muddy from when she had fallen trying to get out of the truck bed, but no one in the hospital working that night had judged her, they just pitied her and the tragic circumstances she had found herself in. What the blonde didn't know was that Zoe had struggled with leukemia for years now, and when they thought the cancer had completely gone away, it reared its ugly head, forcing them to put her into a medically induced coma to try to save her life somehow. She stayed holed up in the waiting room for two days, ignoring the stares she was receiving from hospital staff and people who had come to the medical building for their own personal reasons. She was here for the girl that she had fallen in love with, and her getting better was the most important thing in the world to her. The circumstances involving her coma were still unknown to her and she felt trapped as she buried herself deeper and deeper into grief, praying for a miracle of any kind. When a nurse finally came to tell her news, she already knew what he was going to say before the words even left his mouth.

"We're sorry to inform you but Zoe Benson has passed. We're so sorry for your loss." His words began to fade in and out and she collapsed onto the floor, screaming and screaming until her voice had gone hoarse and she felt her chest began to cave in on itself. She laid on the floor for a long time, until she was pulled up by a set of strong arms and carted from the hospital and into a car. She laid in the backseat, tears streaming down her face as her grandfather drove down the quiet road and pulled into the driveway of his little farmhouse where he had lived since the passing of her grandmother many many years ago. He carried her inside like she was a child, but she didn't protest, she was too exhausted to do so. He took her into her old bedroom and laid her in the bed, pulling the covers up to her chin and tucking her tightly in. He left her alone, but he brought in water and some crackers during the night just in case she got hungry or thirsty. She wanted to speak or cry or do anything for that matter, but she couldn't, she was so so so tired and more lonely than she had ever found herself in her life. Zoe Benson had made her feel things she had never felt in her life and she was the only person aside from her grandparents and her father that had truly loved her and treated her as if she mattered to them. She squeezed her eyes shut and tried to think of the way her smile had looked or the sound of her laughter but all she heard and saw was empty black space. Zoe had somehow captured her heart in the length of one summer and ripped it out of her chest all at once and as she laid there, in the bed she had loved so much during her childhood, she allowed the darkness and the numb feeling to wash over her and she finally succumbed to the loneliness, letting it overtake her with open arms and a greedy mouth.

A/N: Gonna write another part to this lolol but please vote and comment as it keeps me motivated to shit out one shots quicker! Hope you all are well and I hope I didn't hurt any of you with this or my previous one shot omg.