What people don't know

Chapter 17

When my alarm goes off at 6 am in the morning I groan, I rub my eyes and I look at Corbs. He's slowly waking up and he stretches his arms. I get out of the bed and I open the curtains a bit so some light gets into the room. "Morning Ellie" Corbs says while he sits up straight, "Morning Corbs" I say and I smile. I love it when he calls me Ellie, it's a nickname only he can use. "So today's the day you're gonna start with beating cancer" I say and Corbs smiles. "Yes it is, Imma beat it so hard Ellie, it's gonna be scared to come back ever again!" he says and my smile gets bigger. It's just like it used to be, us agreeing that Corbs would beat cancer so hard that it won't come back, but well that didn't work the last time... I walk to the little bathroom we have and I turn on the shower, "I'm gonna shower real quick and then I'll start with the breakfast!" I yell. I get in the shower and I just wash my whole body, when I'm done with that I change into my beautiful workclothes. I walk to the small kitchen table we have, I hung my grey sweater there yesterday I hope it's dry now. I pick it up and I sigh, pff it's not even dry yet. I walk to my room and I grab a black sweater with no text or pattern on it and some sport shorts. I just live in those clothes and I'm not gonna look pretty when I go to the hospital later. I just let my hair dry to the air, I walk back to the bathroom to put some make up on. I only put on some concealer and then I walk to the kitchen. I see that Corbs moved from his room to the little kitchen table, "Why is your sweater so wet?" he asks while he moves it to a different chair. "Oh it started raining like crazy yesterday, and uhm our car broke down" I say and I lie. It didn't break down, some assholes sabotaged it. I need to take a cab there otherwise I won't be on time, do they have any how expensive that is?! "Why you lying Ellie?" he asks and he looks at me, I bite my lip. It was stupid of me to think that he wouldn't notice me lying. "Well let's just say that there were some assholes in the restaurant and they thought that they needed to sabotage our car" I say while I focus on the bread. "How did you get home then?" Corbs asks and I know that lying to him isn't gonna cut it. "Well one of the guys came back to give me a tip cause they didn't, wait! I haven't even checked how much it is!" I say while I walk to my little back pack. "But?" Corbs asks, "Well he also gave me a ride home" I say while I search through my bag. When I finally find the folded dollars I lay on the table. "How much is this Corbs?" I ask and I rush back to the kitchen so the eggs don't burn. I flip them on the bread and I walk to the table with the two plates. "Elle this is 150 dollars" Corbs says and I'm shocked. "How much?!" I ask confused and shocked. Why the hell did he gave me so much money? "This is so much!!" Corbs says and I nod, "I know Corbs I know" I say and I slowly sit down at my chair. I push Corbs his plate to him and we start eating. I'm completely in my thoughts, I just can't think of a reason why he gave me so much money. It must've been a mistake, that must've been it! When we're both done eating I put out plates away. "Okey Corbs I'm gonna pick you up at 12.30 pm and then we go to the hospital okey?" I ask and he nods. "Yup" "Okey so now you're going back to bed, you need to save all your energy. Watch some youtube or something" I say and he nods. "Yeah I will, and take the tip to buy a taxi or uber" he says while he hands me the dollars. I take them and I put them away in my little back pack. I walk to the door, my hand reaches for the doorknob when we suddenly here a knock on the door.