Chapter 26
Alex's POV:
I wake up at 5:30 thirty in the morning and get my stuff for school and get dress. I walk out to the kitchen to find my mom up making her daily pot of coffee.
"Hey Lexi. You're up way early." She greets me.
"Yeah. Um Em's in the hospital Mom. It may be really bad. She passed out yesterday in second period, and they think it may be cancer." I say sitting down after I grab a bowl and some cereal.
"Oh no, I hope everything turns out okay. Tell her I'll be thinking of her. She's such a sweet girl and I know how important she and that Jay kid is to you." She says pouring us both some coffee.
"Ugh! Don't even get me started on him. He is dating this new girl and she came between Emma and I and Jay. We waited for him to come up last night and he never showed. I can't wait to get to school and deck his smug face." I tell her.
"Lexi, don't do that maybe this girl is important to him. Plus the three of you and your old friend Adam have been best friends since grade one." She says
Adam...
Alex's Flashback:.
"Hey Emma." I call to her walking into our fifth grade class room.
"Oh hey Lex!" She greets as I walk over to her. "I can't believe we only have a few more days of school left." She says I we sit down at the desk in the back of the room next to two empty ones that Jay and Adam sit in.
"I know I'm so happy. My mom said that you, Jay and Adam can all come over and we can watch movies and eat pizza and then you can spend the night on the last day. Sound cool?" I ask her.
"No." She says looking at me and then breaks out in a smile, "sounds awesome. I am so in." She says smiling, we both start laughing and Jay walks in.
"Hey girls." Jay says hugging us and then sits down in his seat.
"Hey Jay." We both say. After I fill him in about this Friday night and he aggress the three of us just sit back and wait for Adam to come.
By time lunch rolls around and Adam still has not shown up and the three of us are starting to get worried, he never misses school.
When we walk outside to the playground the three of us lay down in the grass under the huge tree. I lean up on my elbows and scan my eyes across the playground and my eyes land on Adam walking down the steps. He comes over to us and just plopped down next to Jay.
"Hey man, finally." Jay greets him. Emma and I both sit up and just look at him.
"What's wrong Adam?" Emma ask him.
"I have to move once school is done." He says plucking a blade of grass.
"WHAT?" We all yell at once.
"My dad got transferred to Wasaga Beach or something. We gotta be there by May 25th." He says looking down.
"But Adam we need you here. You're our best friend." Emma says almost in tears.
"Hey just because I'm moving doesn't mean we still can't be best friends. I promise I'll call you guys and come and see you every time I can. Plus I'll only be two hours away." He tells us running a hand though Emma's hair, since she was next to him and me.
"Promise?" We both ask at the same time.
"I promise." He says and then spits on his hand and Jay does the same thing.
"Come on you two. It's a spit promise." Jay says rolling his eyes when he sees me and Emma look at each other and then their hands.
"Ew. I am so not doing that." Emma says crossing her arms and I do the same right after her.
"Come on it won't hurt you." Adam laughs at us.
"Seriously girls." Jay says rolling his eyes with Adam. Finally Emma and I huff and copy the boys and then we all shake hands and promise to keep our friendship alive even though Adam has to move.
That was one of the last times we saw Adam. We all helped him pack and saw him off. The four of us stuck to our promise for a while but after a while the letters and the calls just started to slow down and eventually just stopped. I know Em or I haven't even heard from him since grade 7. I doubt Jay has either.
"Lex. Honey are you okay?" My mom asks cutting into my thoughts.
"Yeah. Um do you mind running me up to the hospital? I wanna see Emma before school. She has a bunch of test today and I just wanna make sure she's okay." I tell her putting my stuff in the sink.
"Sure, are you ready to go?" She ask and I nod grabbing my stuff and heading towards the door.
Fifteen minutes I'm walking though the front doors of the hospital and towards Emma's room. When I get there all of the lights are turned off so I walk in and the sun is just starting to come up so I can make out the outline of Emma and Sean both sound asleep in her bed. God he is so good for her. I haven't seen her smile in her sleep in the longest time. My eyes travel over her shoulders and my eyes land on his hand that is rubbing small circles on her upper arm and the other arm is securely around her waist holding her close to him.
The nurse comes in and turns on a little light over by the washroom. And then waves to me, it's the same one from last night. I wave back and sit in the chair next to Emma's bed as she softly wakes Emma up.
Once Emma and Sean are both up and the nurse went ahead and gave Emma the medicine the doctor ordered though the IV for her the nurse leaves and the three of us just sit there for a minute.
"Morning guys." I greet them.
"Morning Lex." They greet me and Emma snuggles against Sean.
"You going to school?" I ask Sean, he nods his head but doesn't look happy about leaving her and Emma looks even more upset about it.
"You know I bet Mr. S would talk to Ms. H and get you excused." I tell them trying to help them both out.
"No I need to go, but I'm coming up at lunch if you want to come." He tells me. I nod telling him that I will.
Come 7:15 Sean and I both tell Emma bye and that we'll see her at lunch. I walk out of the room so they can say bye in private.
At school, Sean and I both agree to meet at his car the second we get out for lunch and then we go our separate ways to our lockers and class. I grab my stuff for first block and walk into Mr. Armstrong's room. Jay walks in a few minutes later.
He sits down behind me and I can feel him looking at me and messing with his hat.
"How is she?" He whispers.
I whip around and face him. I must look beyond pissed because he scooted back some in his chair. "If you gave a shit you would have been there last night instead of screwing your slut of a girlfriend." I say glaring at him.
"Lex that's not fair you know as well as I do that Cameron wouldn't have let me near her." He says running his hand though his hair.
"That's bullshit Jay. Cause Sean knows this isn't about him, it's about her and he would do anything to make sure she's happy. So don't even try to put this on him just because you are a whiny ass baby that cries every time you don't get your way." I say to him then turn around grab my stuff and move to the other side of the room. I can't stand to be around him right now.
The bell rings and Mr. A walks in with a student behind him.
"Morning class. As you can tell we have a new student with us." He starts. I can't help but think that he looks just like Ad... "So class this is Adam White." Adam!!! Oh my God, he's back.
Sean's POV:
After I get my stuff from my locker and head straight to English. With Emma not being here there's not really much for me to do.
A few minutes later Ellie walks in and sits in Emma's seat. "So your little hag isn't here today." She says looking at me.
"Shut up Ellie. I'm not in the mood for your shit. My girlfriend is in the hospital. And honestly I can't stand you. So leave me the hell alone." I say and she runs her hand up and down my arm.
"Come on Sean. We had fun, and I miss you." She says.
"No you had fun and I got the hell beat out of me cause you're a slut. And like I've told you before I'm way beyond happy with Emma. I'm not going to screw up what I have with her for you." I say pissed.
"Do you love her Sean?" She asks me.
"Yeah I do." I say grabbing my stuff and move over next to Craig.
"Hey man, I heard about Emma. Is she okay?" He asks as I sit down and run a hand though my hair.
"We don't know man. They think it may be cancer. Plus Jay told Alex he would come up last night and he never showed so she pretty much cried herself to sleep over him. I swear the next time I see him he's dead." I say as the bell rings and Mrs. Kwan starts her lesson.
Author's Note: Well I decided to try something new and put the author's note on the bottom. Sammy wrote this chapter. So we just introduced a new characer. What impact do you guys think he'll have on the broken friendships? How will he react when he finds out about Emma being the hospital? Or that Emma and Alex aren't talking to Jay anymore? Does he know Ellie and Sean from Wasaga Beach? What's wrong with Emma? I thought of trying this now. Anyway can't wait to read what you guys think.