Author's Note: Hello, everyone! Well, I'm entirely new to this category but I just finished watching the movie on YouTube and I thought it was absolutely amazing. It's so different from a lot of other teen romance movies. And yeah, the whole cancer thing has been down before but they twisted it so well and I never saw it coming! Poor Keith!

So, anyway, since I fell in love with the movie, I knew I needed to write some fanfiction for it and after reading all of the stories, I decided to write one entirely from Keith's POV. Now this won't be the entire movie rewritten from his perspective but there will be some similar scenes. The first few chapters will be pretty short I think. But I hope you enjoy it nonetheless and please review!

Always On the Other Side

Prologue

A single cricket chirped far off in the distance, yet it was the only sound that that the teenage boy heard as he sat on the bank of small lake. He stared unseeingly at the opposite bank where for once, the bright orange blaze of a bonfire could not be seen.

All was shrouded in darkness and peace.

As if time had stopped and the world was frozen on its axis.

Keith Zetterstrom sighed heavily and buried his face in his knees which were drawn up to his chin. He could feel that something was going to happen. Something soon. And no, it wasn't his impending premature death; it was something in the present.

Or maybe it already had happened.

Natalie had figured out his secret, he was sure of it. She wasn't stupid, after all. She was bound to be curious about why he had been mysteriously absent from school for two weeks and why he had a bottle of antidepressants in his jacket pocket. The flipping things didn't work anyway, he thought bitterly. He wasn't depressed. He was coping. He was living as best as he could. But he sure as hell wasn't depressed. He had his truck, his dad, Al, Billy…and Natalie.

Natalie. God, why hadn't he told her himself? She would be so mad at him. But that was how he wanted it. He didn't want sympathy or pity or any of that crap when people found out you had cancer. He just wanted to be…normal.

But he could never be normal. He had never been normal, even before his diagnosis. He had always been something of an outside…a freak. He had always been someone who lived….on the other side of everyone else.

Author's Note: Well, what do you think? Please review!