Jealousy ~ Parley/Parkner

Chapter 23

*HARLEY'S POV*

As entered the hallway I picked up the phone.

"Hey Mom, what's up?"

"When am I going to get to see my beautiful boy again?"

I smiled, I miss my mom so much. She is the only person in Rose Hill that I actually like. I don't know what I would do without her.

"um...." I pause to think.

I would love to stay here in New York wit Peter, but I don't know if i I could do that to my mom.

"maybe late August, school starts August 30th right?"

She sighs. "Mom?"

"Harley...."

She was scaring me. What's going on?

"Mother?!" I ask with my voice trembling a little.

"I'm sick Harley."

My heart plummets.

"Like a cold?" hoping that that is all it is.

She laughs, "if only.." she sighs again, "I went to the doctor yesterday and they found a lump. They took me in for tests and tests came back positive for Breast Cancer."

"I can come down in a couple days, I'll- I'll-"

"No, no, no Harley, you get the best out of your stay, spend some more time with that Peter you've told me so much about. I just wanted to let you know so you weren't in the dark about it. I'll be doing radiation therapy in a couple days."

"How bad is it?"

"Only stage 2."

"ONLY STAGE 2?!?!" I sigh and shake my head. "Be strong, I'll come back early August."

"No, Harley-"

"Mom, I want to be there with you, you can't tell me something like this and not expect me to come back."

She took a breath, "Just make it count. I don't want you worrying about me the whole time. I'll keep you updated. Plus your sister is here to help me out."

"Okay....tell Riley I said hi.." I pause briefly. "Love you Mama."

"okay, and love you too H. Have fun."

The line goes dead and I stare at the ended call and take a deep breath.

Everything will be okay Harley...everything...will be...okay.

I look at the door and enter the room with a smile.

"What's this?" Peter turns around as I open the door with an MIT application in his hand.

Harley you have to tell him that you're leaving in a couple weeks...

"Um, well I want to go to MIT so I figured I could get your dad as one of my references while I'm up here. It would look amazing on my application." I sighed thinking about college and my mom. "So why are you looking through my stuff?"

"I wasn't..."

"Mhmm," I gave him a playful smirk.

"That's really cool though, cause I want to go to MIT too."

I put the application back and zoned out a bit but jumped back into reality when I heard "MIT too."

"Are you serious?!"

"Yeah," he flashed one of his million dollar smiles.

I ran up and hugged him, "That's awesome!"