Twenty

A/N: Extremely long chapter, hopefully it's not too boring. Thank you for the reviews and I'm glad you liked the twist in the last chapters. Enjoy

Mike came to pick them up from the hospital. A date had been set to start the chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Two weeks from that day. Oscar had to have seven doses over the following three weeks. Once that had happened, he had to have a check up a week later to see if the number of abnormal cells had reduced. If they had the bone marrow transplant and kidney transplant would be able to go ahead the following week. For Oscar and Alana with constant trips to the hospital, it was going to be a long seven weeks.

Oscar and Alana were sat in the back of the minibus, heads close together. "Could you lose your hair?" Alana asked. Oscar shook his head.

"No, the drugs being used in my chemotherapy aren't the ones which make you lose your hair," Oscar said looking at one of the thousands of leaflets the pair had. "oh look. This affects you. Once a donor has donated a kidney or any organ such as bone marrow, the donor may experience side effects such as dizziness, tiredness and weaker muscles. The effects are short-term and will eventually wear off. If they persist see your doctor." Alana rolled her eyes.

"yippee!" she said sarcastically. "This is you though, after a transplant the patient will feel tired which will quickly pass and give way to new energy although the energy may not be used because of weaker muscles. So I'm going to be tired and not wanting to move and can't, but you you're going to want to move but won't be able to. Brilliant."

Mike pulled up at Elm Tree House. He turned in his seat to look at the pair. "I should point out, nobody knows but they are going to ask. We decided it would be better coming from you two although if you don't want to tell them, we will," Mike told them. Oscar nodded.

"No you are right, it should come from me," he replied as he slid open the door and got out. Alana followed him into the house. It was exceptionally quiet. There was low mumblings coming from the living room. Oscar took one look at his sister who was looking back at him with determination. He nodded and walked towards the living room, Alana supporting him as he was still a little weak. She pushed open the door and everything went quiet. Oscar looked around the room. Everyone was staring at them. Tee jumped up off the sofa so Oscar could sit down facing everyone. Alana smiled at her. She mouthed the words 'Thanks'. Oscar sat down and looked at everyone. He looked at Alana who nodded encouragingly.

"I suppose you all want to know what happened?" he asked. There was a lot of murmured agreement. "In that case you might all want to take a seat as what I'm going to say may shock you." He waited until they were all sat down before continuing. "Recently I've been getting bruises easily and have been having headaches. Yesterday I cut myself on the school fence, I bleed a lot. I then also became tired and my muscles felt weak as Alana supported me into school. I collapsed on her though and she dislocated my wrist, but I can forgive her for that," Everyone laughed at this point. "Especially after what she's done and is going to do for me." At this everyone stopped laughing and started looking scared. Oscar was serious. "I lost a lot of blood and needed a blood transfusion, there and then. Only problem was they had run out of my type of blood. Alana is exactly the same blood type so she gave her blood to me through direct transfusion to build up my blood supply. She saved my life.

She saved my life last night and she's going to do it again. I have some abnormal cells in my blood. They are leukaemia cells." At this everyone made a noise of surprise, shock or horror. "I have leukaemia. I need a kidney transplant and I need a bone marrow transplant as well as chemo and radiotherapy. To get rid of it. The leukaemia has attacked my kidneys and Alana is going to donate one of hers as well as some of her bone marrow too me. She's going to save me." Oscar looked around.

Harry was looking scared and was holding tightly to Rick who was carrying him. Tee and Cassie were looking closely at Alana to see her reaction. Alana smiled at them. Tyler and Gus were trying to work out what they had just heard, Gus writing it all down in his notebook."How did you get leukaemia?" Gus asked. Oscar shrugged.

"I don't know," he replied. Jamie, Frank, Johnny and Carmen were all staring at Oscar, worried for their friend. Rick and Elektra were the only two who Alana and Oscar couldn't read what they were feeling.

Elektra stepped forwards, opened her mouth to say something and then changed her mind. She turned on her heel and ran out the door but not before Alana saw the tear running down her face. She leant down to Oscar. "I'll go," she said. She walked out and went up the stairs. She stopped outside Elektra's door. She took a deep breath and knocked. Elektra didn't reply so Alana pushed open the door.

Elektra was laying face down on her bed. "Elektra, it's me," Alana said. Elektra rolled over and looked up at the only other girl who could feel as bad as she did at that precise moment.

"it's not fair," Elektra said. "Why Oscar? What's he done to deserve this?"

"nothing," Alana replied quietly. "look I know it's a shock and I know it's upsetting, I really do. But you have to trust me when I say he will be alright. He's got all of us looking out for him and eventually he's going to have my kidney," Alana joked. Elektra giggled slightly at this.

"I suppose but you don't understand, not really," Elektra told her.

"Then tell me," Alana said.

Elektra nodded. "look ever since you got here, I've hated you, you know that. But your brother is different. I found him nice, he sticks up for you and cares about you. I have nobody like that. When I read your file out and he had a go at me, I felt a strange feeling of... of..." Alana raised her eyebrows. "Love. He loved you and at the moment I wished I was you." Alana bit her lip.

"you fancy him. That's why you reacted like this. I did wonder," Alana told her. "look, one thing I know about my brother is that he is not good at reading signs. So if you love him, tell him, he won't let it affect your friendship if he doesn't want to go out with you but he won't realise unless you tell him."

"No, he already read the signs and knows," Oscar said from behind the door. He pushed the door open and looked at his sister. "violent reaction to the fact I have leukaemia, the person is either going to be family or in love with me." He came in and sat down back to back with his sister on the bottom of Elektra's bed. "Alana's right. I'm going to be fine but if I'm not, I want to spend it with the two most important girls in my life. My sister and my girlfriend." At this Elektra looked sad to hear Oscar had a girlfriend whilst Alana was trying not to laugh. "Alana and you, Elektra." Elektra looked up at him, stunned, tears sparkling on her cheeks. "I've loved you since I got here but you and Alana were constantly at each other, I didn't do anything about it because she's my sister. But now I can."

Oscar leant in towards Elektra and kissed her on the lips. Behind him Alana stood up, took one look at the pair and walked out. "not something I want to see," she muttered under her breath.

A/N: How sweet. Bet you didn't expect that.