White lips | Gilbert Blythe.

Part 13

Evelyn ||

My throat stung as I coughed. My head pounded as I sat on the tree . My brain is telling me to leave but my heart is telling me to stay. I need this fresh air for just a little longer. I coughed hard into my hands and felt liquid come up. I brought my hands away from my face to find them covered in blood. I coughed again and more blood came out. My head started spinning and everything went . I gripped onto the tree branch. I looked out and I saw a figure running into the woods. My lungs started to burn worse, and now I couldn't breathe. I coughed and held my stomach as my head felt like it was about to blow. Then the earth started moving and I couldn't see well. I placed my hands on the branch and put my foot out to start getting down. My foot slipped and I yelled as loud as I could as I went down, down, down.

I closed my eyes expecting to hit the ground, but instead when I opened them I found a very blurry Gilbert Blythe.

"G-G-Gilbert," I croaked out.

"Yes you're going to be okay," He told me immediately as he started to run with me in his arms. I held onto him and kept my face in his shoulder. I coughed a lot and soon everything was getting blurry again. Then, it went black.

// three hours later //

I gasped for air and sat straight up. I immediately coughed and soon had Gilbert by my side.

"She's awake!" Gilbert called and I heard my mother coming.

"Evelyn you scared me!" She yelled as she hugged me.

"I'm okay," I croaked out.

"Luckily, the doctor said you should be okay but you're treatments are not done,"

"Ugh," I rolled my eyes, "I need this to be over,"

"There are only two weeks left," My mother argued, "you've already come this far I think you'll survive,"

I sighed and sat back down in my bed. I grabbed Gilbert's hand and squeezed it as my mother left the room.

"Gilbert," I looked up at him, "I need you to save me,"

"I can't save you from this," He said and climbed into the bed and cuddled me, "you have to save yourself,"

//

One whole week has gone by and I have not gone crazy yet. It was the same thing every day. Get up, watch Gilbert walk to school, get my treatment, look outside from the window, lay in bed, wait for Gilbert, Gilbert would come from school, talk to Gilbert, say goodbye to Gilbert, go to . It became a routine a while ago and it is back. I have one more week and I can finally kiss that routine goodbye and go back to my original routine.

//

This is it, we have visited the doctor and he has finally confirmed that my lungs are fully healed. I jumped up and down with excitement and I screamed as I ran outside. Gilbert's at school and he still doesn't know that I've been cleared. I'm currently sitting on my porch, enjoying the beautiful fresh air and the warmth of the sun, as I wait for Gilbert to return from school. I pick a flower from the ground and take a long whiff of the flower's smell. Nature really is beautiful. I'm so happy to be back outside. I got lost in picking flowers that time seemed to go by in a snap. I turned my head to see Gilbert coming up the trail. He squinted at me and then his eyes lit up when he realized it was me.

"You've been cleared!" He yelled running towards me. I smiled and screamed yes as I ran towards him. He picked me up and hugged me. I breathed in the smell of his and dug my face into his comfy sweater. I cried tears of joy as we continued to hug. He went to let go but I pulled him back. I didn't want to let go. I smiled into his shoulder.

"I'm so happy," I said, finally letting go of Gilbert.

"I am too," His smile was wide.

"Come on let's go have some fun," I grabbed his hand and pulled him along through the field.

//

Soon we were dancing under the stars. Gilbert twirled me and I landed back in his arms. I couldn't have asked for a better first day back outside. That sentence sounds so strange but yet it is so true. I'm pretty sure if I didn't have Gilbert I wouldn't have made it. I would have gone crazy, I would have landed on the ground when I fell out of that tree, and I would have gotten very hurt or even died. He's saved me so many times and he doesn't even know it.

"Gilbert," I whispered as we laid on the ground and watched the stars.

"Yes,"

"Thank you for everything," I looked at him with tears in my eyes, "you have saved me,"

"I love you," He smiled, "I would do anything to save you in a heartbeat," A slow tear rolled down my cheek and I turned over to kiss him. It was a slow, passionate, full of love, heartwarming, kiss.

"Let's promise we'll have each other forever," I stuck out my pinky. He wrapped his around mine and smiled. We kissed once more sealing that we will be together forever.

//

and that's the end folks:)