Obviously I don't own Ouran, just so you all know. Enjoy.

I was born in a small town in Indiana. It was the kind of place that everyone knew everyone. My family was one of the odd families that was divorced. Dad had moved to some big city, I didn't really care where. Mom and me got along ok though. I had a tight knit group of friends and you never saw us without each other.

"Jessie, you need to hurry up and get better." Alexa complained as she brought me my homework. I had been out of school all week due to a flu.

"I know I know Alexa, you don't have to remind me." I tried to smile, but I was too tired. "Mom's taking me to the hospital in the city tomorrow so we'll know what's going on then."

"Alex, I think its time to go home, I'll take you if you want." My older brother peered into the room.

"Oh, thanks Chris." Alexa looked up. I managed to smile at my brother. Chris and I were only two years apart and were really close. He was 16 and I was 14. In school I was at the end of my 7th grade year and he was at the end of his sophomore year.

"Get some rest kiddo." He ruffled my hair before leaving.

"See you later Jess." Alexa waved.

"So tired..."' I mumbled to myself once I was alone.

"What does that mean?" I heard mom ask the doctor in a low voice.

"She has an advanced case of leukemia. The survival rate of it in previous cases is...zero. Based on how progressed it is though, I'd say she only has 6 months left. There really is nothing we can do. Her condition should get better and worse as it progresses. All you can do is keep an eye on her and make sure that she doesn't exert herself. We don't want to keep her in here unless we have to."

"But..." my mother's voice broke into a sob.

*6 months?*

"Jessie? What's wrong?" Kyle poked me. I ignored the question and continued to stare into space. I hadn't told any of my friends about what the doctors had said.

"So she finally gets back and she hasn't talked to anyone for 2 weeks." Marie prodded. I ignored that one too.

After that it only took my friends a couple of weeks to figure out what was wrong. Every weekend I was driven to town for a check up and every time I got worse. All in all a month and a half had passed since I had found out I had leukemia and I had managed to disappear entirely in that frame of time. Then it was summer vacation, and I moved into the hospital for tests.

"Kelly, looks like you got a roommate." a boy walked into the hospital room. A young girl with brain cancer shared the room with me. She was going through Kimo and so she had no hair on her head and was very thin. The blonde boy appeared about the same age as me and looked alot like Kelly. I silently deduced they were siblings before going back to the silence of my books.

"Not a very talkative one is she?" he asked sitting down next to her bed. "I come bearing gifts." He grinned at his sister. He reached into his back pack and pulled out a Tupperware full of candy.

"Yes! What would I do without you bro?" she smirked at him as she confirmed my guess that they were siblings.

"Oops, hide it, mom's coming." He shoved the thing into a drawer as my mom and Kelly's mom walked in. They had taken a liking to each other and had become friends.

"Sean, you better not be up to trouble already. You just got back from camp." his mom gave him a stern look.

"Me? Up to no good? Never." he stated innocently. I felt a smile start to form across my face. "There, got her." he smiled triumphantly at me. My mother looked down at me surprised. She hadn't seen me smile in over a month.

That was how Sean and I met. It was a normal meeting that changed my life. Kelly's mom wanted to get her family out of the city for recovering Kelly's sake and Mom suggested they move into our small town. I returned to school with someone holding my hand. I began to live at school again, talking and laughing as my relationship with Sean grew. He knew that we wouldn't have long, but Sean stayed by my side as I went in and out of the hospital more and more frequently. Then the offer came.