Chapter 11
Make My Last Moments Memorable
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"The good news is that he is going to be okay."
"And the bad news?"
"We found out that Derek has cancer."
DASEY
The whole family was shocked. The news was so sudden to them.
"No… It's not possible. Derek's too healthy to be sick. He… Everything… What?" George just stammered. No words making sense came out of his mouth. He was just too shocked to transfer all this into his mind.
"I'm afraid that this is true. We're seeing to his injuries at the moment and then we're going to see if we can take out the infected parts."
Nora was speechless and Casey just sat there trying to think about why Derek got sick. Why did he get sick? This is really hard to believe… He seems so, so, so healthy. He even has enough energy to bother me every single day!
Edwin and Lizzie didn't hear anything the doctor said. They were at the candy machine trying to choose which candy bar they should share.
A nurse suddenly came rushing to the doctor and whispered something to him.
"Excuse me, please." They went rushing through the doors.
"Mom… What do you think is happening? Why were they rushing to go back? Is Derek going to be fine?!"
"Casey please calm down. Derek is going to be fine." Nora said, "I hope…"
DASEY
(Two days later)
"DEREK! The phone's for you!" yelled a very annoyed Edwin. He was waiting for Molly's call, if she ever did call.
Edwin, Lizzie and Marti had no clue about Derek's cancer. The older kids and the parents weren't planning on telling them until his few months were almost over. They didn't want to scare them.
Dr. Tashloe told Nora and George that they couldn't take out the infected parts because the cancer cells had already spread to Derek's heart. He only had 5 months to live. When Casey heard all this, she ran to her bedroom and cried and cried and cried. All of this wasn't making sense to her at all.
When Derek heard the news he was so shocked he couldn't cry. He was obviously really scared about what was happening but he still tried his best to hide it and comfort George and everyone. But every night, when no one was around, he would cry himself to sleep.
One day Casey decided to talk to Derek about them and his cancer. She wanted to know what was going to happen.
Knock, knock, knock
"Come in." yelled Derek.
Casey opened the door to see Derek on his computer.
Casey tried to smile. "What are you doing?"
"I'm writing in this personal blog I have on the computer that nobody but me can see. It's like a journal."
"Oh… Umm… We need to talk about everything that's been going on."
Derek looked nervous but sadness filled his eyes.
"I really want to know if there's something going on between us. The past few days have been havoc and I don't know what's going on. Before we found out about your sickness, everything was good… but was there something between us and if there is, is it still there?" Casey was out of breath by the time she finished talking.
"What?" Derek couldn't understand what Casey said. "All I heard was Ben Affleck, good and penis." Suddenly something popped into Derek's mind. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking…?"
A/N: "Ben Affleck" is from "been havoc", "good" is from… "good", and "penis" is from "betweenus"
"What are you thinking?" Casey was confused for 5 seconds until she realized what three words Derek heard. "Derek! This isn't funny! I have been crying ever since that day in the stupid hospital." Casey's eyes filled with tears of anger and sadness. "I do not want you to die and leave me. Who's gonna be the one to get me boiling mad and fight with me?! Who am I going to yell at? If you're not here, nobody's going to do that!" By the time Casey was finished, she was sobbing and tears were streaming down her red face.
Derek ran up to Casey to hug her. "Please don't cry. If you cry the rest of my months will be sad knowing that you're sad. I don't want my last memories in this life to be sadness." Derek wanted to cry but he knew he couldn't. He had to be the strong one in front of the weak Casey.
"It's just… I really don't want you to go. I'm gonna be really lonely and it's gonna be really quiet here. I just don't want anything bad to happen!" She sobbed and sobbed into his shoulder.
"Casey. You have to stop crying. Please!"
Casey stopped and looked into Derek's eyes. "It's really hard not to cry when… when…"
"When what?"
"When the boy you love is going to disappear from your life just when you figure out you love him."
Derek was happy that she just said she loved him but he realized that it would be even harder for him to leave her knowing she loved him. But knowing that he loved her too would be even harder. But he couldn't leave without her knowing.
"Casey… It's hard to leave a girl you love especially when you don't have a choice. No matter how much you beg, scream or cry, you have no choice." Tears filled Derek's eyes but he didn't let them fall. "I want to go back in time and tell you I love you. I wish I could have spent more time with you when I had the chance. But we only have 5 months to be together."
The words Derek just said made Casey cry even more and when she hid her eyes in his shoulder he let a tear fall down.
When no more tears could come out of Casey's eyes she looked up.
Derek looked at her and smiled. "Well, we do have five months. Why don't we make it my most memorable five months?"
Casey smiled while tears filled her eyes again. "I'll do that just for you."
A/N: I feel so stupid. I kinda cried while writing this -.- I kinda feel that this chapter was rushed… But I kinda wanted to get the point out. (:
R&R please:D
