I Won't Give Up On You! (Short Fanfic)

Chapter Six

Oli wakes up with a violent headache and no sense of rest at all. He looks to Lacey’s side of the bed and then remembers the events of last night. Oli curses himself, gets up and goes to look for Lacey before he does anything else.

Once Oli gets down stairs and into the TV room, he sees Tom sitting on the couch surfing through channels, looking really blank, but no Lacey anywhere.

“Tom, have you see Lace this morning?” Oli asks his brother who looks up at him for a brief second, then focuses on the TV again.

“She had an early appointment at work.” Tom grunts.

“Oh, did she tell you what time she will be back?”

“Yeah, she told me she wasn’t coming home. Well at least not today. She’s going to stay at a friend.” Tom grunts again.

“What!” Oli shouts in panic, ignoring Tom’s obvious bad mood. Tom gets up from the couch and stomps over to Oli. In one swift move, tom draws his arm back with his hand in a tight fist and punches Oli square in the jaw.

“OW! What the fuck man!” Oli holds his jaw and applies pressure to ease the pain, but he can already feel it start to swell.

“Seriously man!? Ketamine?!” Tom shouts, Oli realises that Tom is in a bad mood, because Lacey told him what happened last night.

“You know what? I hope Lace never come back! She deserves so much better then all your crap! Can you even begin to see how scary that must have been for her” Tom fumes, balling his hands into tight fists. “Just imagine if it was Lacey having the fit and you were the one watching helplessly.”

Oli’s mind goes into a panic as he can visualise Lacey going into a fit and thinking she might die. His heart squeezes in pain at the imaginary loss of Lacey, and his head drops in shame, understanding the fear and anger.       

Oli doesn’t want to lose Lacey in anyway and wants to get clean for her, but he just doesn’t know if he is strong enough. It’s times like these where Oli wishes he could just sit with Lacey and get advice, but he can’t with her being so mad at him. So without a word to Tom, Oli goes back to bed and just broods and brainstorms ways to fix things with Lacey. He does nothing else all day except go to the doctor’s appointment Lacey made for him, and goes straight back to bed to sulk afterwards.

He didn’t want to go to the doctor, but with Tom threating to take him there in little pieces if he has too, and the fact that if he doesn’t, it will surely make matters worse with Lacey, he went.

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After spending a day mopping, moaning, groaning and curing angrily at himself , Oli drifts off to sleep. A few hours later, Oli wakes up to a night sky outside his window, and his room illuminated by his bedside lamp. It takes Oli a few minutes to regain enough consciousness to realise someone is gently stroking his hair. He turns his head to see who it is, only to meet the trouble filled eyes of the girl he loves.