The Making Of US (1)

Chapter ONE

It's summer time now, school has been out for a month now. In the fall Taylor and I will be high school freshman. Its so nerve racking to think about. Especially now since my mom has been diagnosed with stage 4 leukemia. I was spending the weekend at Taylor's house when my mom called

"Oh, hi Ruth how are you did you find anything out from the doctor yet?" I heard Taylor's mom say from the living room. I am assuming that my mom is telling Kim what is going on.

"Oh my! I'm sorry to hear that let me get the girls gathered up and we will head over that way now."

I wasn't for sure what was going on but I knew it wasn't good news. We arrived at my house about 30 minutes later. I see my mom and brother come out of the house and we start talking in the front yard.

Mom says "well Dr. Boswell got the test results back from the bone marrow test they had done a few weeks ago and it came back that I have stage 4 leukemia."

My heart sank, all kinds of emotions hit me all at one time mostly fear and anger. What was I going to do without my mom I thought the worst.

"Now when school starts you guys that's when I am going to be admitted into the hospital to start the first round of chemo therapy. I've already spoken with your father and grandparents and for the time being, Cassie and Nate you will be staying with your grandparents. Then Kim will pick you up from school along with Taylor and bring you home."

I wasn't too excited to be staying with my grandparents. It gets really boring over there well except for the neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher. They have this really cute grandson, I'm not sure what his name is but trust me he is really cute. He's not too tall has blonde hair and the most beautiful blue eyes and thick Irish accent. The first time I saw him was when school was first let out for the summer.

I was visiting my grandparents for a week to help out after my grandma's back surgery. I was taking the trash can up to the curb for tomorrow's trash day

"AHHH FECK IT ALL!"

The sudden cursing startled me and I dropped the can and all the trash inside went spilling out into the driveway..

"WELL FUCK ME RUNNIN GOD DAMN IT!" I shout as I trip and fall.

"Are you alright love, you didn't hurt yourself did you?"

that's when I saw those beautiful blue sapphires staring down at me.

"oh..uhh..hmmm.. yeah, no It's not too bad though, I'll be ok ."

I go to get up but fall back over, I cannot put any weight on my right foot and ankle at all.

"Shit what the fuck am I going to do now?"

"Here love let me help you."

This beautiful boy picked up the trash bags and stuffed them quickly back inside the trash bin and wheeled it the last 10 feet to the curb before returning to help me off the ground.

"jeez this will be a story to tell Taylor later" I thought to myself

"ok love can you walk on your foot at all?"

"uhh I can try if you could just let me lean on you?"

"that's not a problem love. You put your arm around my neck and on three I'll pull you up..ok?"

"ok sounds like a plan." I giggle a little as I reply.

"ok one..two..three... nope not gonna work" he shouted

"great now how am I gonna get back into the hou ahhhh!"

Before I could finish my sentence he scooped me up bridal style and was carrying me over to Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher's house. He had me in the house and sitting on the island in the middle of the kitchen before i knew what was going on.

"let me get a look at that foot" he says before carefully removing my sandal and examining my ankle and foot.

" I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself, My name is Niall and it looks like I am going to be taking you to the hospital miss uhh I don't know your name."

He must be nervous because he is kind of rambling , its cute

"Um Cassie.. My name is Cassie it's nice to meet you Niall. But my grandparents aren't home right now and I can't drive so how am I going to get to the hospital?"

"Well lucky for you I'm 16 and have my driver's license and I can take you and call your grandparents when we arrive, does that sound ok?"

"yea that's fine but let's go it's really starting to swell and hurt now."

And with that Niall scooped me up and carried me to the suv and off we went towards the hospital.

After sitting in the waiting room for over an hour we were finally back in a room. The nurse called my grandpa to come sit with me since I was only 15 and a minor.

"ok sir Cassie is in room 15 first door on the left." I could hear the nurse telling my grandpa.

After walking into the room and seeing my foot he said "Cass, what the hell happened? It looks like a broken foot to me?"

"oh grandpa please it's just a bad sprain, it will be better in a couple dayss don't sweat it." I replied dramatically to him.

"And who is this fine young man with you Cass?" grandpa asked

"oh yeah.. uh this is Niall he is Esther and Nigel's grandson. He was outside when I fell and he drove me here to have my foot looked at." I answered

"Well Niall it's nice to meet you, your grandparents are the sweetest people on earth. My name is Glenn and my wife Darlene is at home maybe Cassie will introduce you later."

At this point the doctor comes in with the X-ray and CT Scan results

"Well doc what's the damage?" grandpa asks

"Mr. McGavin is it? Your granddaughter here has indeed broken her ankle and shattered the cuboid and cuneiform bones in her foot. She has also torn the ligaments and muscle as well so she is going to require immediate surgery to repair those. My nurse will be in to get her admitted to a room upstairs and we will do surgery first thing in the morning."

"That's just fucking great" I yell a little too loudly

"what am I supposed to do all fucking summer now?" tears start to spill over onto my cheeks.

"Now I'm going to miss everything summer is about. Taylor for sure isn't going to want to sit around my house all day and do nothing" I think to myself or so I thought

"Well Cassie, you know I am here for the rest of the summer I'm sure we could find time to hang out. I wouldn't mind just sitting around all day doing nothing as long as I get to see your pretty face. That is if you don't care."

That was Niall's sweet voice I was hearing he was being very quiet this whole time and better yet why would he want to sit around and do nothing all day with someone like me, I'm boring.. well not normally but now with my foot all fucked up for the summer I will be.

I can feel my cheeks burning as they turn crimson red. Did he just say I was pretty and that he wanted to see my face all summer. How could I not pass up an opportunity like this to get to know this beautiful human being.

"Umm I'll have to talk to my mom and see if it's ok with her if you come over but yea sure that would be fun. She's really sick just so you know I can explain that later though."