The next day Abi went to school like everything was normal. Max was trying to be strong but was slowly losing it, Tanya couldn't eat or sleep all she did was cry and Lauren was turning to the bottle again.

"Tanya"

Tanya looked up to see Cora. They hadn't told her anything. The only people who knew of Abis diagnosis was Jack, Derek, Max, Lauren, herself, Carol, Bianca, Alice and Joey.

"Mum" At that moment Tanya forget her rivalry with her mother and gave her a hug.

"Why are you here" Tanya asked.

"Max called me"

"Did he tell you" Tanya asked through her tears.

"Tell me what"

"Abis got a brain tumour" Tanya told her.

Cora gasped and pulled Tanya into another hug. "How"

"I don't know" Tanya sobbed.

"It will be alright darling, Abis like you. She will make it"

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That night Abi came into the house to find Lauren passed out on the table. "Lauren"

Lauren woke up as Abi snatched the drink away from her. "Is that what you do when life gets tough, you drink yourself to oblivioun. News flash lauren you're not the one with a tumour" Abi snapped. Lauren slowly began to cry and Abi felt a bit guilty. She wrapped her arms around her sister as to comfort her.

"You were always the one doing the looking after" Lauren told her as she wipped her tears. "Even when you were small"

Abi gave her a smile as she continued to hug her.

"You always made sure this family was ok. Why does this have to happen to you, when i deserve this" Lauren asked

"No you have had a hard time" Abi tried to tell her

"But i was the older sister and i wasn't there for my family like you were. I drank myself into a coma half the time and i let you down"

Abi shook her head at her.

"And that's not going to happen again. You will survive Abi because you're a branning, where not half bad at facing up to things once we've woken up, because we're strong"

Abi began to cry "I want to be strong, but im scared"

"I know but you're not on your own" It was laurens turn to hug her. Out of the corner of laurens eye, she saw Max listening from the hallway. "This time, im going to look after you" Lauren told her younger sister "And be a proper sister to you, i promise"