I'm Sorry... ≫ Zach Abels

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"Time is passing, every second counts , Memories flashing like Polaroids."

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"God, he's amazing," Ness was excitedly sitting on the living room couch, chatting with her brother, Brandon.

"That's cool,"Brandon rolled his eyes as he didn't care about his sister's love life.

"He smokes."

"I'm sorry, what?" His head flew up to Ness.

"He smokes weed, Brandon," She repeated.

"Nuh-Uh, you are not dating this stoner. After all, you could follow his steps. He can make you do bad stuff, Ness. You can get fucking cancer from all of that."

The room flew silent.

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"You're lucky," Brandon sipped a mouthful of water and continued,"You would've ended up like him."

"I know you dislike him, but god damn Brandon can you shut the hell up," She sighed loudly while sitting across the table from him with a mug of coffee imprinted with The Neighbourhood logo across.

"I'm you're older brother so-"

"You don't have to be a bitch about it. I understand he was a mess, but his heart isn't a complete dump," Her voice grew higher,"Plus, have you ever had a real relationship-"

"Not real-"

"You don't know how it feels to be loved," She paused, calming down her anger,"To feel wanted or special. Of course we had our bad days, but every relationship has that. He was perfect. . ."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't you say I'm sorry, it's not your fault, and it's not like you care."

The house grew silent with just the sound of cars, birds, and planes with the windows opened.

"He didn't get cancer from smoking," Brandon looked down at the table, analyzing the wooden platform.

Ness didn't reply but her head looked to the side, outside the window.

"There's so many reasons to get cancer, and I'm one-hundred percent sure it wasn't from the weed or whatever,"

She closed her eyes softly," Then what? What caused it?"

Brandon breathed heavily,"He did it to himself,"

She opened her eyes, in complete shock while moving her eyesight to Brandon,"What?"

Brandon nodded slightly.

"H-he did it to himself? How? Why? Brandon!"

"Because he hated himself. He hated living, Ness," Brandon moved from the table and walked over to the couch while laying upon it comfortably,"It had nothing to do with you. . . . So don't worry, it wasn't you're fault at all so don't blame yourself ok . . . ." He looked sadly at her while licking his lips,"Before he met you, his life was miserable. Every moment, he felt alone, unwanted, as if everyone disliked him. His parents weren't very helpful, they'd push him down, as if he didn't exist. . . ."

He softly sighed and continued.

". . . . He cut. Bruised himself. And almost committed suicide by pretending he was awfully sick and made an excuse to go to the hospital. That's where he almost committed. He had grabbed all of the vaccines or whatever was surrounding him to inject himself with as the doctor left to pickup papers for zeeko. Unfortunately he had passed out from the overdose of pills and such. Fortunately. He was still alive, but received cancer. There's an explanation for how the cancer had become, but it's to descriptive and hard to remember. . . . Ness," his eyes locked on her," You gave him hope. You're the exact reason why he smiled. Why he wanted to still be alive, but he couldn't. He was already dosed with Cancer,"

A tear rolled down her cheek and she turned away sniffing.

"I'm so sorry, Vanessa. He was the one," I may have hated him, but I knew he was it.

She wiped her tears away with the back of her hand and spoke,"How did you know this? You two barely talked-"

"I know things. We know things. He told me. He told me at least a month before he passed away,"

She nodded softly.

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He smiled softly while looking to the side from the table they both sat at.

"I love your smile," Ness smiled as well, licking her chocolate ice cream.

Zach looked down at his cone, and kept smiling,"It'll be nice if I could smile every day," he looked up before giving another lick,"For you."

Ness blushed and pushed her cone to the side while staring at Zach,"I want you to smile for yourself,"

"So um, about Jesse. . ."

"What about him?" Her mood completely changed.

"Nothing . ."

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