ATTN: no part of the story has changed. I've only just added this first ATTN to it and gave you guys a little more information at the last ATTN.
Chapter eight: The sun begins to fade
Summer drove down the long and narrow roads with Seth in the passenger seat of her beamer. He was still unconscious and his head lay against the shaky glass of the car window. Summer was driving so fast that there was a high possibility she was going to get into a car crash, but that didn't scare her; not as much as the fact that she could loose her fiancé anyway. One final turn to the right brought her to the entrance to the A&E. She parked ever so crookedly and spontaneously opened the door. She ran to the other side to grab Seth out of the car, many people standing near the entrance.
"CAN SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE?" Summer shouted, she was getting aggravated but mostly it was just fear. Lots of men in white coats came running towards Summer's silver beamer.
"What do you need maam?" One of the doctors asked? His nametag read: Dr. Marc
-"Well for one thing I need a hand with carrying him and I need you to do whatever you can to make him come conscious!" Summer's voice started to get croaky, just like it gets when you try to talk right before you cry.
-"Maam if you could just calm down everyth---"
-"DO NOT TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH TONIGHT!" Summer brought herself to the floor crying and screaming in hysterics. Facing the floor made her unaware of the fact that they had layed Seth to a stretcher and wheeled him in.
"In….Out….In….Out." she took deep breathes in order to consider calming herself down. She gasped in a hell of a lot of air and looked up only to find that Seth wasn't there and neither were any doctors. Summer screamed and started pounding her hands towards her head, a lot similar to how Oliver reacted when Marissa found out the truth about Natalie Bishop. She stood up and ran through the parking area and the sliding automatic doors. As she entered the waiting room of the A&E she noticed Seth being wheeled in through soon-to-be locked doors.
"SETH!" She shrieked running towards the doors that shut just as she was about to run through them.
"LET ME IN! LET ME IN!" She screamed, pointing her not-so-steady finger at the receptionist.
-"I'm sorry maam only family members are allowed to enter there."
-"I AM FAMILY DAMN IT! Or at least I'm supposed to be if everything wasn't so fed up!" Little kids in the waiting room laughed at the bad word Summer had just screamed out.
-"Miss, since this is a hospital and kids are situated in all areas of the building, we would really appreciate it if you could not use such inappropriate language." Summer lifted her head up and faced the receptionist; her messy hair covering her face and eyes as evil as a devil.
"LOOK!"
-"Sssshhh…. Please, there's a baby." The receptionist pointed towards a tiny little baby sleeping inside a pram.
"Look, my fiancé just got wheeled in. We just got engaged yesterday and neither of our parents took the news good. To top that my just-got-engaged to fiancé fell unconscious in a driveway and now I am not allowed to go through some goddamn doors to see him and make sure he is okay?" She asked. Her voice became more firm now, but there was slight sarcasm in her voice. Who am I kidding? There was HUGE sarcasm in her voice. The receptionist took her speech to heart and gave understanding. She nodded and smiled, faced downwards and pressed a button causing the doors to open.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" Summer shrieked. Happiness started fulfilling her voice but not enough to help her forget what sort of situation Seth was in. She ran through the doors and faced left, right, ahead and had no idea where they had wheeled him in. Her lips started to tremble as she sprinted through the corridors looking into every room. Tears rolled down her face like a waterfall and then she bumped into someone.
"Summer Roberts? Why are you in a rush?"
-"Hi Denise! Look I don't have a lot of time, my fiancé just became unconscious and I have no idea where he is."
-"Well do you know what doctor he was with?" Summer looked to the floor and thought hard to remember what name was on the doctor's coat.
"Dr. Matt? I think." Denise shook her head in disagreement.
"That's not possible, he's in room 22 performing a tummy tuck to Liesel Rothbert. God Bless her if that makes a difference." Summer continued thinking.
"Dr…Dr…" She mumbled to herself.
"God! I know it begins with a M!" She stomped her right foot hard against the floor.
"DR MARC! The doctor that wheeled him in was DR MARC!" Summer yelled.
"Well I did just see him wheel a tall, thin brown haired boy into room 12. Happen to be your fiancé?"
-"YES! That's him, tall skinny brown haired. THANK YOU!" She yelled, running down the corridors and waving Denise goodbye. She stumbled into room 12 and saw Seth lying on a hospital bed with his eyes closed and his chest slowly moving up and down.
"Are you allowed to be in here?" Dr Heeley asked, facing towards Summer.
"Yeah, I'm his fiancé. I was the one that was screaming outside. Where's Dr Marc?" Summer said, finally calming herself down now that she knew where Seth was.
"He um… he had to go and help some other woman."
-"Some other woman'? That doesn't sound very professional."
"I'm a new doctor here. It's actually just temporary." Summer gave a faint smile and nodded.
"So you two are engaged?"
-"Yeah, just got into it yesterday but since then everything has pretty much sucked."
-"Oh, sorry about that."
-"Thanks. Is he gonna be okay?" Summer asked, walking towards the hospital bed and gripping hold of Seth's left hand.
"Well we don't know what happened to him yet but we are gonna take some tests and we can tell you what happened to him in a couple hours." Summer breathed in.
"But I mean… By the looks of it; does it seem serious?"
-"Well if he's been unconscious for quite a while and his chest is moving as slow as that; it might be." Summer ran out again and cried, continuously gasping for air.
"In the mean time you might want to consider calling his parents and letting them know where he is and what's happened. There's a pay phone right outside the room to your left." Dr Heeley said as he wrote down some details about Seth on a piece of paper.
"Yeah sure. I'll keep them informed." Summer said, the steadiness in her voice rushed away and guilt washed over her as she had let go of Seth's hand. She walked outside room 12 and leaned against the wall. She stared blankly towards the payphone to the left and knew that she couldn't handle talking to Sandy. Kirsten sure, fine – she took the news well and was supportive but Sandy? 'Nah, you're not ready for this' She thought to herself. She desperately wanted to inform Kirsten and Kirsten only but she didn't know her cell number and there was a fifty-fifty chance that if she called the house phone; Sandy would pick up. Summer sighed and sat down on the chairs that were positioned directly opposite the pay phone. She leaned her arm on the arm rest and her head against her hands. She blinked slowly three timed until her eyes became heavier and heavier. 'Don't fall asleep now, not now.' Summer thought to herself, but the sadness of Seth and the memory of Sandy's reaction quickly put her to sleep.
Summer dreams about all the good and bad times with Seth
-Every girl needs a white knight
-Seth Cohen; white knight
-They weren't there when you had to read your poem aloud, and your hand was shaking
cos you cared what the other kids thought
-Poem? What Poem?
-I Wish I was a mermaid
-You remember that? That was like sixth grade.
-I would like to remind you of the time, when you kissed me by the pool at my
grandfathers birthday party
-What are you talking about?
-I just, I think we should be friends
- I don't wanna be your friend
-So you chose Anna?
-No; Yes
-The whole reason why we broke up; is because for me; it's always been you Summer.
And I've tried to deny it, but I can't. You're undeniable.
-Why are you doing this?
-Because Summer, I like you; this much. And if you don't feel the same way about me then, someone's gonna have to give me a hand down because it's really high up here and I could fall and that would be embarrassing; more embarrassing.
- I can't believe this
-It's all over for the big public make-out session
-That'll be ten bucks Cohen
-It's for a worthy cause
-What do you want from me Cohen?
-I just want you
-No you don't. You had me; you had me at Christmakkah in a freaking Wonder Women costume and you chose Anna. You had me three months ago and you left.
-Yeah and I wanna make that up to you….
-It has nothing to do with me, it is about you and it is always about you. You know it seems that you only want me when you can't have me. You like the chase and that is all. So you know what? You can have it. I'm going home
-What are you doing here?
-What do you think Cohen?
-Zach and I got to talking
-Aww did that make you guys think of me? That is so sweet
-We have Summer
-What, no
-It's our last week, of our last semester, of our last year, so we have to make it…last
-Can't argue with that logic
-We applied to Brown so we could be together
-Well, I changed my mind
-Just say it, Cohen if you don't love me I promise I will go to Brown by myself and I will be cold, and miserable, and alone; and I will never bother you again.
-I don't love you anymore
-I just want to say I'm sorry for lying to you and----
Summer's dream about all the good and bad times with Seth finishes as she is woken up by Dr. Heeley tapping her on the shoulder.
"Excuse me maam?" Summer's eyes slowly opened as she tried to relocate herself into the hospital. She lifted up her head and rubbed her eyes.
"Is everything okay?" Summer asked as she finally brought herself back to life and had enough strength to stand herself up. Dr Heeley clicked his pen and clipped it to his pocket he held his clipboard next to his body and looked into Summer's eyes.
"The tests are finished and we've gathered enough information already to know what happened; but first did you inform his parents?" Summer turned her head towards the payphone. She shook her head and looked back at Dr Heeley.
"Um, No I fell asleep." Summer said looking up at the tall figure. The doctor nodded and allowed Summer to enter room 12 with his hand as an indicator. She walked into the room and saw Seth laying there with tubes going in and out of him and lots of plasters around places in which they must have taken blood tests.
"Oh my god." She said quietly running over to Seth's body and gripping hold of his hand.
"He's gonna be okay right? Please tell me he'll be fine." Summer said facing Dr. Heeley with watering eyes. The doctor shut the door and sat down on a chair.
"Throughout all the tests we have done and the results that we have gathered; We have noticed that Mr Cohen's collapse in the driveway was triggered by the fact that he must have recently smoked pot." Dr Heeley gave Summer some time to gather that information before hitting her with the real bad news.
"Oh my god." Summer gasped, finding it hard to breathe.
"Mr….Seth Cohen; has developed a very early stage of Lung Cancer." He blurted out. Summer gasped for air, she couldn't breathe at all and she felt like she was about to faint herself.
"Is it serious? I mean I know it's serious but I mean is he gonna die?" Summer asked, fearing the word of death, she just had to make sure he was going to be okay.
"He'll be fine right now, but if something like this happens again there's only a 10 chance he'll live. I'm sorry." Summer fell to the floor in tears.
"Not Seth, no, no, NO!" She screamed. Crying and banging the floor.
"Maam, I know this must be an extremely hard time for you, but in the mean time we would appreciate it if you went into his domain and rid everything that could make his condition worse. For example cigarettes, bags of marijuana, cocaine, any kind of bad use of drugs." Summer didn't even take notice of Dr Heeley's words as the news of her fiancé having lung cancer was bad enough. She brought herself up and sat next to Seth on the hospital bed; she clenched onto his hand and whispered in his ear:
"I love you Cohen. I always will." Dr Heeley, gave an evil grin and slowly closed the door locking it behind him. He walked towards Summer with his shiny leather shoes clicking on each step. Summer lifted her head up from Seth's chest and face Dr Heeley.
"What's going on?" Dr Heeley opened his white overcoat and picked out something long and shiny.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Summer screamed.
ATTN: I don't wanna stop there, but I have to. I hope you folks liked that chapter because it is gonna be the last chapter I write for 4 weeks. It is the biggest cliff-hanger so far and I made it extremely long on purpose. If you read everything carefully you should figure out the clue. Hope you like it and PLEASE OH PLEASE review this one! I'll be going on holiday next week but there is a chance I'll update it before then, which would be good luck to you guys! – Okay hold on, I'll give you guys a chance then; Chapter 9 will be up at the end of the week BUT then I can't write for 4 weeks because I will be on holiday!