Chapter 37….

Jesse was sitting out on the patio with his brother when justin's phone started ringing and he looked at it once,but put it away again and didn't answer it;"Maybe that's sage,justin,shouldn't you answer it?"

"No."answered he;"Thanks for letting me crash here for a while."

"Sure,that's what brothers are for."started jesse hesitating;"I don't know what happened between you and sage,but isn't it better to sort things out together instead of moving out in anger?"

"You're right."said his brother;"You don't know what happened,so please don't give me any advice,jesse,no matter how well you mean it!"

"Come on,justin,things can't be that bad that you don't even want to patch things up anymore."answered he;"Why don't you just tell me what happened between you two that got you so mad at her?"

"I don't want to talk about it and it's nobody's business,but mine!"said justin angry;"I'm glad you're letting me stay here for a while,but if you're gonna keep asking me questions like that I'm gonna stay somewhere else."

"Hey,I'm just worried about you,bro,you love sage and she loves you,so nothing can be that bad that you want to end your relationship!"started his brother worried;"You even wanted to ask her to marry you,justin,you bought her a ring!"

"That was before I found out what she's really like!"answered he,grabbed his suit-case and walked back to his car;"This isn't gonna work,so I'm gonna find another place to crash!"

"Hey,come back here,justin,don't be stupid and just stay!"said jesse surprised as his brother got into his car and drove off;"Damn it!"

That night ginny woke up in a strange bedroom and saw that she was only in her underwear as she threw off the covers,so slowly she tried to get up,but the nausea and her headache made her go lay back down just as lucas came into the bedroom;"Ah,good,you're awake again."

"You son of a bitch!"said ginny angry;"What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything,ginny,what kind of a guy do you take me for?"asked her boss with a hurt look in his eyes;"You passed out in your office,so I took you up here to my apartment above the magazine to let you rest for a while and that's all."

"Oh."started she a bit ashamed and calmed down;"Thanks then I guess."

"What's going on?"started lucas worried as he sat down on the bed and threw a medicine-bottle on the covers;"Why are you taking these?"

"Where did you get those?"asked his friend angry again;"Have you been going through my things,lucas,what gives you the right to do that?"

"I was worried about you okay?"said he and got up again;"You have been looking pretty sick eversince you got back from your long weekend off and this afternoon you passed out in your office,so I went through your purse to look for a number of your doctor and that's when I found those pills!"

"You had no right!"began ginny tired as her headache became worse again and she felt like throwing up,so she leaned back into the pillows and put her hands on the side of her face;"Oh,my god!"

"What's wrong?"said her friend worried as he sat back down on the bed again;"Do you want me to call an ambulance or something,ginny,what do you want me to do?"

"Give me those pills!"whispered she almost,in great pain,as she closed her eyes and tried to block out the pain and nausea;"Please!"

"Okay."answered lucas as he gave her the bottles and quickly got ginny a glass of water from the kitchen;"Here you go."

"Thanks."started his friend softly as the pain and nausea began to fade away not long after she took the pills,but exhausted from it all she also slowly fell back asleep.

Cathy was at home while Ashley had just left for work and carly was sound asleep when the doorbell rang and to her surprise she found nick standing on her doorstep;"Hey,cat."

"Hey."answered his ex-girlfriend a bit uncomfortable as her dream came to mind;"What are you doing here?"

"I was in the neigbourhood."said nick,as uncomfortable as cathy was;"Look,cat,about yesterday..."

"What about yesterday?"asked she softly;"Nothing happened yesterday,so what's there to talk about?"

"I think we both know what would have happened if we hadn't been interrupted."started her ex hesitating while he grabbed cathy's hand and came into the hallway as he closed the door behind him;"Don't we?"

"Maybe this isn't such a good idea."answered cathy as nick slowly pulled her closer towards him untill they were so close together that their faces almost touched as he stared into her eyes;"Nick…."

"All I can think about lately is you,cat,it's driving me crazy."said he without taking his eyes off her and gently touched her face with his hand;"I keep dreaming about touching you and…."

"Me too."answered his ex softly,feeling the sexual tension that was building up between them,as she felt nick's fingers finding their way down her neck and towards the opening in between her breasts;"We shouldn't be doing this!"

"Why not?"asked nick with a faint smile as his other hand found its way underneath her blouse,on to the bare skin of her back;"I've missed this,cat,I've missed you."

"Nick…."began she hesitating,torn between wanting him so badly and thinking that this wasn't the right time,as it felt like his fingers were setting little fires along her naked skin;"This isn't…."

"Ssssh!"whispered her ex while he leaned forwards and kissed her neck as he pulled her body up against his and she could feel his desire through his jeans;"Enough talking!"

"Nick…."said cathy again in a weak attempt to stop nick as he pushed her up against the wall and drove her crazy with his kisses and his hands;"I…."

"Do you want me to stop?"asked he,looking straight at her,but the look in her eyes told him that she was already beyond that point and with a big grin on his face nick leaned forwards again and kissed her mouth;"Do you?"

"No!"answered his ex while she pulled him with her into her bedroom,where she pushed him on to the bed and sat down on top of him;"No,I don't!"

At the club justin was sitting at the bar,drinking,when his brother sat down next to him;"Do you think that this is gonna help,justin,getting waisted?"

"What are you doing here?"asked he annoyed;"Why don't you just leave and mind your business!"

"Sitting here and drinking isn't the answer and you should go home to your girlfriend,who's worried sick about you!"answered jesse;"Do you have any idea what you're putting her through?"

"What I'm putting her through?"started his brother angry;"How about what she put me through,jesse,have you asked her that?"

"I know what happened,because sage told me and if you hadn't been such a hothead and rushed out of there,mad,then you would have known that she didn't cheat on you!"said he;"Go home and sort things out with your girlfriend!"

"Do you expect me to believe her when I know what I saw?"asked justin;"I saw her kissing with her ex and she's being lying and keeping things from me for weeks now,so why should I believe a word she says?"

"You saw her ex trying to kiss her and that's a big difference,justin,so grow up and don't act like such a baby!"answered his brother as he walked away;"Sage loves you and if you're willing to throw that away because of some loser,who's messing with you guys because he's angry at sage then you don't deserve a girl like her!"

For the second time that night ginny woke up in lucas' bed and felt a bit better then she had the first time,so gently she got out of bed and in her underwear she slowly walked out of the bedroom and found lucas in the kitchen;"Hey."

"What are you doing up?"asked lucas worried as he quickly helped ginny into the livingroom and on to the couch;"How are you feeling?"

"A bit better."said she softly;"Look,I'm sorry about earlier and I shouldn't have lost it like that towards you,lucas,I know that you're only trying to help."

"Don't worry,ginny,I'm a big boy and I can handle it."answered her friend and quickly grabbed a blanket when he saw that ginny was shivering and put it around her;"Why don't you tell me what is really going on and what's wrong with you?"

"I..."began ginny hesitating and at first she wanted to deny that there was anything wrong when all of a sudden all the stress from trying to keep it together since she'd had since she found out she was sick came out and while the tears started falling down her face ginny broke down,crying;"I have cancer,lucas,breast cancer."

"How serious is it and how long have you known?"asked he as he put his arms around her and held her tightly,comforting her;"Why didn't you just tell me?"

"I didn't want anybody to know!"answered his friend,wiping away the tears as she calmed down a bit;"I've known that there was something wrong since like a month or so,but I wasn't sure it was really cancer untill just after my birthday and that Thursday my doctor preformed an operation to remove all the bad cells and a few days later I began with chemo-therapy,which I now have on Mondays and Fridays,which I've had 3 times now."

"You have cancer and you had an operation and chemo-therapy,ginny,but you didn't feel that was important enough to tell me?"started lucas suddenly angry as he got up and turned away from ginny;"I thought we were atleast friends!"

"We are and I'm sorry that I didn't tell you,lucas,I just didn't want anybody to know and I haven't even told my family about this!"said she while she began to cry again;"I guess that if I didn't tell anybody that I could pretend that it wasn't true and that there wasn't a chance that I could die!"

"Hey,it's okay."answered her friend softly and sat back down on the couch as he pulled ginny back into his arms;"It's gonna be okay and you're not gonna die,ginny,I won't let you!"

To be continued….