Author's Note: Thank you to everyone for all the feedback and love I have been getting! I can't believe people are reading this and actually enjoying it :) I will try to have the next chapter posted by Tuesday. I think there will be a few more, it really depends on everything but this is not the end and I will be continuing :)

Disclaimer: All these wonderful characters belong to the amazing Rainbow Rowell. Some of the scenes, events and dialogue from this story are taken from the book, all I am doing is changing the circumstances


A few days later, Cath had gotten a call from fucking Kelly. He told her that her father had been checked into St. Richards because he wasn't doing so well. Cath should have known. Cath should have called her dad more. Cath should have done something…but she hadn't and now her dad was checked into a hospital because he wasn't okay. And that made Cath feel awful. She needed to go to him, she needed to do something now even if it was a bit too late.

Cath had called Wren right after she got the call from fucking Kelly. She obviously cared, and she did seem worried but she wasn't about to drop her life to go to him right away. Cath could understand but she wasn't happy about it.

Next, Cath had called Reagan but she hadn't answered her phone.

Cath knew she had to go. There was only one person left to call…she wasn't happy about it but she would do anything just to be there for her dad. Even if it meant breaking the promise she made to herself and calling Levi.

She hesitated but ultimately knew what she had to do. So, she picked up her phone and called him. He answered after the first ring.

"Cath?" He answered as if he were confused that she called him. As if it were a mistake as much as he didn't want it to be.

"Hey…um how are you doing?" She didn't want to start off by asking him a favor. She didn't want him to think she was using him…even if she kind of was. Even if he would let her.

"I'm okay…just working right now." He replied still confused.

"Do you usually answer your phone when you're at work?" Cath asked.

"Typically, no. But I saw it was you…and I really wanted-"

Cath cut him off even though she knew it was probably a bit rude to do so. "When you get off, is there any way that you could drive me to Omaha? I know it's a bit of a hassle and I'll be sure to give you the gas money…but it's a family emergency."

"It's a family emergency?"

"Yes."

"I'm coming now."

"Levi, you don't have to-" Cath started saying but Levi cut her off this time.

"I'll be there soon."


Levi arrived at her room a few minutes later and knocked on the door. Cath took a deep breath before opening it and letting him inside.

"Thanks for doing this…I owe you one." Cath said not exactly looking at Levi. Instead, she was looking down to the floor.

"No, you don't" Levi said. "You really don't, you can call me anytime if you need help. You don't owe me a thing."

Cath wished Levi didn't always talk like this. She wish he wasn't so nice, so kind, so adorably sweet. It would make forgetting about him and moving on so much easier.

Cath nodded but didn't say anything. She feared that anything that she said would be something she didn't want him to know. Keeping her mouth shut would be the safest option for everyone at this point.


The ride there was mostly silent. Levi had popped in a lecture to listen to and Cath only payed half of her attention to it. She kept her eyes out the window and watched as the trees went by. She couldn't look at Levi because every time she did she thought about the kiss that they shared that night or the kiss he shared with the blonde girl at the party. Both of which she wanted to rid her mind of.

When they arrived at St. Richard's Center for Mental and Behavior Health, Cath said, "Thanks for this. You can just drop me off here."

"I'd feel better if I saw you in." Levi said.

Cath wasn't in the right mind to argue so she allowed him to get out of the truck with her and walk inside.

After they entered, Cath walked up to the front desk and Levi had sat himself down in one of the chairs.

Cath had tried to get to see her dad but they wouldn't let her at the moment. So she sat down on a chair beside Levi.

They were both silent for about ten minutes before Levi spoke up, "No luck?"

"Nope. I'm probably going to be here for a while…You can go." Cath said looking up at him but not into his eyes. That would be too much.

"All I can do now is wait. So a waiting room seems like the perfect place for me. But you don't have to wait so you can go." Cath said only half wanting to see him leave. The other half of her (the half she didn't like listening to) wanted him to stay and be there for her until all of this was over.

"I am not leaving you alone in a hospital waiting room." Levi insisted.

Please just go. Please. I can't have you here. But I can't handle it if you go…please stay. Go. Please stay. Cath didn't know what to think. Thinking was too much. Everything was too much.

Cath just sighed. "Okay…"

Levi stood up to go find some coffee and after a few minutes of him flirting with some of the workers at the hospital, they let him inside the main doors.

He was gone awhile and Cath didn't want to think about why. Yeah, he was getting food. But he was more than likely doing other things too. With other girls. Because that's what Levi did, right? Cath knew that wasn't exactly true but she couldn't stop thinking about it. She tried to distract herself but there weren't many things in a hospital waiting room to keep you entertained.

Levi came back a while later with two sandwiches. "You want turkey or ham?"

"Turkey" She replied still not allowing herself to meet his gaze.

Levi and Cath ate in silence until Levi spoke up a few minutes later. "Cather, I'm really glad you called me today."

Cath didn't know how to respond to that, so she didn't. She just continued eating her turkey sandwich.

"And I want you to know," Levi continued. "That you can call me when you need something. I know you want nothing to do with me and I understand why…but you can. If you ever need something."

Cath didn't look up. "Thanks."

"Is there anything I could do, to make this better or to help you right now?" Levi asked wishing desperately that he could do something to make Cath smile again. She didn't do it often but when she did, it was beautiful. He knew that maybe this was a bad time to be asking this. How can you expect someone to be happy when their family member was in a hospital? It was stupid to ask right now, but he just had to.

"No." Cath said because there wasn't a thing he could do. That she knew of, at least.

"Cather, I am really sorry, about that night. About everything that happened between us. Maybe this is a bad time to tell you but I just had to. I am so sorry. I wish I could go back in time and change everything."

"Okay." Cath replied. What else was she supposed to say? That she had forgiven him? She hadn't. That she was okay with all of this? She wasn't.

"Cather" Levi said his voice dropping in volume as if that was the only volume he could manage to speak at. "Is there any chance that you will ever forgive me? It doesn't even have to be soon, it could be five years from now…but do you think you will ever forgive me?"

Cath looked up for the first time since they had started this conversation. She hesitated for a moment but then she nodded slowly. "Yeah. I think so…"


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