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Zach stared at the photo for a while, recognising Cammie and Kai's similarities. Kai had Cammie's eyes.
"Im sorry" he finally said, turning to Cammie, who was now sitting next to him on her bed,
"Thanks" She said, giving him a sad smile.
"Mind if I ask what happened?"
"No" She shrugged, "He had Brain Cancer, but he hadn't been diagnosed until his cancer was already at Stage 4. We all tried to help him, to kill the cancer along with the doctors. But, the chemo didn't work out, and" She paused, swallowing the bile in her throat, telling the story only ever brought the memories back of everything, but she trusted Zach.
"Its okay" He said, soothingly putting an arm around her, "you don't have to tell me"
"Thanks" She squeaked, tucking a strand of her hair behind her ear. Zach was never a guy who dealed with awkward situations, because he always made sure he wasn't in them, but something about this situation that anyone else would find awkward, he found comforting and since he liked Cammie, it was even better.
Cammie stood up, walking over to the window, and opened it. Zach suddenly having another cigarette craving as he did normally, he followed her to the window, taking out the packet and the lighter. "Mind?" He asks, taking one cigarette out, putting the tip in his mouth and holding the lighter up. She shrugged, as he lit it, blowing a cloud of smoke out the window.
"You should really consider quitting, you know that?" She advised, "It's not very good for you"
He chuckled, "I know"
"How about a deal?" She smiled, "You quit"
"Okay, and whats your part of the deal then?" He smirked, taking another drag of the cigarette, and blowing the smoke out the window as he did before.
"Oh. I thought that you could just quit then everyone would be happy"
He chuckled again, "No I don't think so" He joked, "Either you do something as well, or there is no deal, it's just me doing what you want me to do"
"Hmm, I dont know, what is there for me to quit?"
"You tell me"
"How about this, I help you quit and you try"
"That could work" He shrugged,
"Okay well, we'd better get started" She took the unfinished cigarette out of Zach's mouth and threw it out of the window, onto the sidewalk below.
"Hey! You never said now" He moaned, walking back over to the bed, and sitting down, grumbling under his breath.
"Well if you never start, then it will never happen"
His responded by simply rolling his eyes.
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The hospital decided that today was the day Raine should come home with Macey, so that she will have more of a chance, of regaining her memory surrounded by her family, and her normal routined life. Three hours before, Raine first arrived, and you would have thought the hospital was her real home, since she actually knew her way around, especially her way to the bathroom.
"You want anything?" Mom asked, as she walked into the living room where Macey and Raine were watching tv.
"No I'm fine, Mom" Macey answered, then looked to Raine,
"Do you have any potato chips?" Raine smiled sweetly
"Sure honey" Mom smiled, then walked back to the kitchen for the potato chips,
"Anything coming back?" Macey asked, hopefully,
"Not really" Raine shrugged,
"Just gotta keep trying" Macey explained, and Raine nodded, smiling.
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Cammie lay in bed that night, staring at the picture of 6 year old Kai, on her bedside table, the darkness of the room, dulling out some of the pictures features, but the light seeping through the window from the street lamps outside, allowing some vision of the photograph.
Cammie had been careful not to think about Kai's death since summer last year, since it always made her upset, but you can never runaway from things like that, especially when you were extremely close with your short-lost little brother.
Only then did Cammie realise that Zach, after all she thought before, was amazingly comforting, and boyfriendy-brother like if that made sense. In the short version of Cammie's thoughts. She liked Zach, and not the friend zone kind of way either. The like-like kind of way.