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Chap. 7
Elise's POV
I was scared, actually I was at that point that where there were no words to describe the terror that I felt. So I cried. I cried with my dad, with Embry, with the nurses, with some of the kids from school who came to visit, with my friends in Jersey who called on the phone. I was a mess. I told my dad and Dr. Cullen that I wanted no say in the treatments, they should do what they thought best and I wanted no knowledge of what they were doing.
Through it all, Embry was there. He was scared, I could see it in his eyes, but he stayed with me. He was like a rock that I could cling to when everything else was falling apart. He was there for me. I don't know how he managed to go to school, do his homework and spend every waking hour with me, I'd guess school was shoved aside. I was too selfish to send him back, though because I forgot everything when he talked to me. Whenever he told me stories, jokes or anything I was just a normal teenage girl talking to her boyfriend. But I wasn't.
My treatments started a week after I had been checked into the cancer section of the hospital. Dr. Cullen had warned me that the chemo-therapy was going to be difficult, and I was terrified. My dad had promised that he would be there, but he called that morning to say that he wouldn't be able to come…big meeting. Dr. Cullen happened to walk in on me as I was crying.
"What's wrong?" he asked, sitting down on my bed looking really concerned. His gaze traveled to the cell phone I held in my hand. "He's not coming?"
"No, there was a big meeting," I choked out, "He doesn't understand how scary this is for me."
Dr. Cullen nodded, understanding, "How about I get Embry out of school to stay with you, we both know that he won't be doing anything but worry today?"
I nodded, Dr. Cullen was like another father to me, and I really appreciated having him here, but he was the doctor and I needed someone to hold my hand and tell me it would be okay. Someone like Embry.
Embry's POV
I was sitting in physics completely tuned out of the class and focusing on Elise. Right around now she would be getting the chemo.
"Embry?" I heard my teacher, Mr. Jones call. "How nice of you to join us today, but I'm afraid you have been dismissed. Please proceed to the office after you pack your things."
I nodded, probably really red and raced to my locker where I shoved a few books into my bag and ran to the office.
The secretary jumped as I ran in, "Embry Call?" she asked needlessly, I was the only one on her list.
I nodded again and she said, "Family emergency. Your doctor, Dr. Cullen called and they need you at the hospital to help with a girl named Elise. She needs support he said."
I was out the door before she even finished, signing out and running for my car faster than I had run in my life. I got to the hospital in record time and found Dr. Cullen waiting for me at the door.
"I know you don't like me Embry, but she needs you," he said and smiled tightly as he led me to her room.
Elise was curled into a ball crying on the bed, her back to me. I sat on the edge and put my hand on her shaking shoulder. She looked up at me, her hair matted from the bed, her eyes red and puffy from crying and fell into my lap. I picked her up and held her.
"It's going to be alright. I'm here and they won't be able to get me to leave," I told her, the truth ringing in every word.
I held her until they brought the IV stand into her room, I could feel her begin to shake and she clung to me harder. They told me that I could keep holding her, but they needed to attach the needle, I turned away as they did so. Elise was scared, but she seemed okay for the moment, maybe just a little queasy from the needle, she told me they made her queasy.
The nurse pulled me aside, "Dr. Cullen asked me to explain to you what is going to happen. The chemo is a poison to Elise so she's going to throw up, be tired all the time and gradually lose her hair. Dr. Cullen says you care deeply about her so you need to be strong for her. Chemotherapy is extremely scary and it will be easier for her to lean on you. If you can't do that, then you will have to leave now."
I nodded and walked back to Elise.
The nurse came up to my side holding a bucket, "You're going to need this," she whispered and put it on the ground.
"Embry?" Elise looked at me, her eyes wide with fear, "It hurts…I feel funny." Her voice was so quiet I could barely hear her.
I just hugged her tighter to me and grabbed the bucket, "The nurse gave me this, just grab it when you need it."
She nodded and soon I was running back and forth to the bathroom to empty it. Elise lay in her bed, almost gray looking, her eyes closed tight and her teeth gritted against the uncomfortable feeling of the chemo. Never had I been more scared in my entire life then I was now, watching the tiny, fragile girl fight for her life in the tiny hospital room right in front of my eyes.
