AN: I hope you like this one. This took me the whole day since I didn't go to school cause I didn't want to. Hope you enjoy and Yes Chase and Zoey will be together in the next few Chapters. Review Please.

Well his family loves me. They say that I'm the best thing that ever happened to him and that when he came back from the first year that he met me I was all he could talk about. With hear that Chase became seriously embarrassed that his family was telling stories and showing me his baby pictures like I was his fiancé and tried to change the subject unsuccessfully. But his family was very nice and handling everything that's going very well. I wish I could say the same about Chase. He's becoming more distance the longer he stays here and when we go and visit his mother when we get back things are even worse than before. I hate seeing him like this and I know I'm supposed to be helping him but he keeps pushing me away. But I have tried my hardest to make him see that I'm there for him, even though most of the time he acts like I'm not even there. His sisters say that's normal for him he just pushes everyone away while he's here and stays in his room most of the time sleeping or what they say the "fake sleep" cause every time you sneak into his room he's crying and most of the time he has no idea your there. So to prove they were right they snuck me up to Chase's room and he was crying. Then his little sister Amy who everyone calls the loud mouth says very loudly "He's crying again wow!"

"Get out of here! How many times do have to tell you?" Chase yelled which sacred me since he usually never gets mad. But I stayed in the doorway while everyone else ran away sacred of their older brother, just to show that's he wasn't going to get rid of me so easily. Then he looked around to make sure no one else was there and noticed me still standing in the doorway; his anger turned to guilt as he looked up at me motioning for me to come in closing the door behind me and said. "I'm sorry if I've been distant lately, I know I brought you here to help me get through this and you have been trying it's just that I'm used to staying up in my room doing nothing. Well I guess I can't use that excuse anymore can I?"

"Its okay that was all explained to me by your little sisters." I said as I sat down on his bed, as he did the same.

"No, it's not I should've never yelled at you, them it's alright cause we're related. But with you," He paused and took my hands then just stared at them for awhile before he continued. "It's just different with you; I can never yell at you I know that I was wrong I'm sorry." Then to my disappointment he let the go of my hands and walked to the window. I followed him and wrapped my arms around his waist to comfort him.

"Chase, your doing the best you can. Just cause you yelled at me one time doesn't mean that I think you're a monster. Don't deign it either because I know that's what you're thinking. Nothing you do right know can change the way I feel about you." He didn't say anything just continued to stare out his window. I hugged him a little tighter as I laid my head against his back, then I pulled away. As started to leave Chase called after me.

"Zoey, wait can you come back here a minute?"

"Yeah sure, what's wrong?"

"Nothings wrong I just needed to tell you this. Zoey I still love you."

"Wait what; did you just say what I think you said?"

"Do you think that I would lie to you about something like that? Even when we were fighting I loved you, that's why I was jealous. Zoey I want to-,"

But he was cut off by his father popping and saying "You guys I hate to interrupted but it's time we visited your mother Chase. She wants to have dinner with the whole family."

"We'll be right down Mr. Matthews." Then I turned to chase and said "we will finish this later and I'll lock the door so we have some privacy."

"Alright." Chase said very disappointed.

We went to the hospital and had dinner there with Mrs. Matthews. It was fun but I kept looking at Chase who was smiling but every time I looked him in the eye you could see that he was upset. Then it was time to leave she said that she loved us all like she did every night and pulled Chase down to her level and said something then kissed him on the cheek, but as I was leaving Mrs. Matthews started to talk to me.

"He loves, you know that Zoey?" she asked when she was sure that everyone had left.

"Who Chase?"

"Yes Chase." we both laughed at my stupid question. Then I said,

"I don't think Mr. Matthews has fallen in love with me since he's the only other man in the house."

"That I agree with you, my darling." She was so poised that even in her current state she was beautiful. It was no wonder why everyone in the town loved her; she was a wonderful mother and a great wife with a great career that she had before for she got sick. If only I could grow up to be like her.

"Zoey, the only time I have truly seen him happy was on one occasion since I became sick. That had to be when he met you. He had that same silly grin on his face when ever he'd tell me about, that was the same one his father had on when I walked down the isle. That's how I knew he was in love with you.

"I know he was telling me before we came to visit you, in fact he was right about to tell me something before his dad came in to tell us it was time to go."

"Well, two years ago when we were looking at his school year book when he got back from school. That's when he told me something I thought you should know he said, Mom that's the girl I'm going to marry. He was pointing to your picture when he said this."

"Do you think that's what he was going to say?"

"I'm almost positive my dear. Chase tends to mean what he says that's what makes him an honest man so when he said that I believed him. I wish that I could live to see how everything turns out. I think that I going to die in the next couple of days."

"Don't talk like that I know you think that, but things could change."

"Zoey, I was a doctor I know when a body has had enough and mine's singing that it's time. But I can hold on don't worry I'll make sure I say good bye to everyone before I go and in time I to see you and my son get engaged that I promise you. But you have to tell me one thing Zoey do you love him?"

"Yes I've loved him for about a year know, but he doesn't know it yet.

"Make sure that when he tells you say yes, I don't want him to get hurt again."

"Wait, how do you know about that?"

"Do you honestly think that I don't know my own son? He was mopping around the room every time come and visit me every time I ask him what's wrong he'd say nothing so I just guessed he was heartbroken and judging by your action I was right"

"Yeah you were, Chase and I had just started fighting when the summer started last year and we just made up a couple weeks ago. It's a long story but basically my Ex told Chase that I hated him and it broke his heart. But once I found out what happened I ran after Chase and that guy broke up with me but I didn't care because I was in love with Chase. I still am in love with him and I always will be."

She smiled and promised me again that shed live to say good bye to everyone. But even for the doctor she once was she couldn't even predict that her life would end later that night. When we got the phone call that she died first thing in the morning of the next day it was chaos and then I looked around for chase I saw him run up to his room and slam the door behind. I didn't dare go after him just stood there dumbfound comforting his family the best way I could, by crying with them for the lose of Helen Matthews. Who died way before her time.