Lizzie's P.O.V.
It's been a month of battling the cancer for Olivia.And the cancer was winning.She looked like a skeleton laying on the bed.She looked about 30 years older than she should, and her eyes had sunk in her head.Anna didn't look any better though.She wasn't eating much and she barely slept.It was scaring me more than she knew.

Flashback...

"Anna you haven't eaten in a week!"I said to her while she accompanied me to smoke a cigarette."Yea, and? I'm not hungry, my mother is dying right now!"

"SO ARE YOU!" She stepped back a little shocked at my yelling. "What I mean is... You're just... "

"WHAT? I'M WHAT?" she screamed back at me.

"You look like death!" I started crying my tears pouring out of my eyes.I'm not usually one to cry."Anna I can't lose you! You know I have no other place to go.I don't think I can go on without my best friend."She sat next to me, and we cried together.

End...

I sat on the end of the bed while Anna finally fell asleep on the couch.I heard a knock at the door and nearly burst into tears at the sight of him."Vic!" I whispered. I put a finger to my lips signaling for him to be quiet. "She hasn't slept in three days. So do not wake her up!"I stood up off the bed to hug him, and Olivia woke up."Who's here Lizzie?"She asked without opening her eyes, even that had become hard for her, let alone talking."Hey Ms. Olivia! It's Vic" He said, he sounded really excited to see her. "Victor it's so good to hear that your here!" She put on the best smile she could and settled back on the bed. Vic's facial expression hurt me so much, he was on the verge of tears and you could tell he felt horrible. "They've postponed the tour cause all of Sleeping With Sirens caught a virus, I got as far away as possible, so I ended up buying a plane ticket back here to Texas." He looked down to Anna, and that was when he couldn't hold it in anymore."God! I should have stayed!" His voice startled Anna out of her sleep."VIC!" She stood up and hugged Vic's neck.He grabbed her hips and spun her around. "Damn Anna, When was the last time you ate?" There was a lot of guilt on her face and Vic could tell. She looked towards the ground and mumbled words, that absolutely no one could understand.I piped in, "A week." Vic's facial expression changed quickly, he looked almost heartbroken."Can we go for a walk?"He said to her.She nodded and they left the room. Leaving me with the comfort of an almost dead woman and the beeps of the machines.

Vic's P.O.V.

She looked like a walking popsicle stick. That's all I could say about her, it even looked hard for her to walk."The next person in the hospital is gonna be you Anna!" I said as soon as we were alone. "Yea well, if you were me you'd do the same thing!"

"No I'd be there to support my mother, not killing myself in the process!" I wasn't holding back, she needed to hear this no matter how bad it hurt. "You'll be laying next to her in the morgue at this rate!"

"WHAT IF THAT'S WHAT I WANT!?! IT'S NOT ABOUT ALL OF YOU! IT'S ME, MY MOM, AND NOBODYELSE!" She started screaming at me in the parking lot. She was turning heads for sure by now. "HOW IS ME NOT EATING A BIG DEAL? MY FATHER ABANDONED ME AND MY MOTHER IS ON HER DEATHBED!" She started crying again. "Everything in that theatre is going to remind me of her! I have nowhere to go, I have nowhere to run away to! I'm just a deadbeat daughter who didn't go to college and they have no use for me!"We had finally reached my car, she leaned against it for support.I grabbed her arm to make sure she didn't fall, and she yanked away. "Leave me alone! I'm fine!"
"Anna you sound like you're on drugs right now and it's scaring me. Please let me help you."

"Why do you wanna help me? All you want is to get in my pants like every other guy in your position."

"That's what you're worried about?" I laughed, she looked at me quite mad. "I care about you, trust me if that was why I was here , I would have just stayed back at the hotel with mike... But no I'm here with you." She let me touch her so I pulled her in for a hug. "I promise you I'll be here for you as long as you want me, so please let me stay..." We stayed like that for a while before her and I hopped in my car.

"Nice car..." She said staring out the window.

I laughed a little. "Uh, thanks...It's a rental..." She got kind of embarrassed and pulled her knees to her chest. "Lizzie said she would call if anything happened so don't worry too much. Let's go find something to eat."We bickered back and forth until I forced her to give in to finally eat.We settled on a little diner about three blocks from the hospital.Everybody seemed to know everybody in this little town 'cause as soon as we walked through the door people started hounding Anna for answers. "Anna! How's your mom?"

"Maggie said she's in critical condition, what's up?"

"Have you lost weight?

"Where have ya been?"

They all spoke with a little country drawl, that neither Anna, Lizzie, or her mom ever had. Anna put her head down and sat at the bar next to a lady with an apron. "Alright leave her alone everybody!" The woman yelled over the crowd of people."The usual honey, your favorite? And what'll your friend have?" It looked like nobody had noticed me to begin with."Uh I'll just have a burger..." The woman smiled and yelled something to the back kitchen.

I was getting pretty mean stares from the people sitting around at the tables. "Don't be shy darling we don't bite, well at least I don't... Come on over and sit at the bar."She wrote something on a paper and hung it next to the kitchen window. "Alright Anna tell me what's up." She sat across from Anna and looked her in the eyes. Anna proceeded to tell the woman everything. "I see, there's one little thing ya left out sugar." She smiled in my direction. "Who is this little hunk of cute over here?" Anna blushed and I did too but I hid mine better than her."He can introduce himself, he's not my responsibility." The woman scooted one seat down to be right in front of me. "Hi there hun, my name's Shelly. You look like you're one of them band boys, Anna's never brought one of y'all here.." She smirked and looked towards Anna who dropped her head on the table. "You are worse than my mother when it comes to me and guys." she mumbled in Shelly's direction. Shelly laughed and looked straight at me. "Oh, I'm Vic." I smiled, I felt a little uncomfortable considering the whole room behind me was staring at the back of my head. I could feel them trying to get rid of me in their minds.

"Order up!" The man in the kitchen yelled through the window."Thank you Stan!" Shelly grabbed the two plates and sat them right in front of me and Anna.Anna looked down at the chicken tenders, and it looked like she was gonna drool.She looked straight at Shelly. Shelly grabbed a ketchup bottle and sat it next to her plate. "There! Now eat up baby doll." Anna smiled a little and then dug in.My burger was delicious and I couldn't help but eat the whole thing. "For a little man like you, you sure can put down some food.This one's a keeper Anna!" She yelled as she picked up our plates."Here," She handed Anna a to-go box. "Tell Lizzie, there's even a cookie for her in there!"Anna took the box and walked over to the register. "I got it Anna!" I grabbed her wrist as she pulled out some money to pay."I can pay for myself, you drove here."

"Well I can't consider this a date if you pay." Oh shit. Did I just say date? "Just let the boy pay Anna." I heard a voice from the right say. She froze up and looked over to a guy who looked about the same age as her walk through the door."What? Surprised to see me babe?"
"Don't you call her that Sam! You know as well as I do she hates that from you!" Shelly yelled at the kid.He walked over to Anna and grabbed her waste. She cringed at his touch. "Come on Anna give me a kiss, I've missed you babe." well that was the last straw. "Hey dude obviously she doesn't want you to touch her, so let her go." She had fear in her eyes and I was just about ready to punch the asshole in the face."She's my girlfriend! I'll touch her if I want."

"Don't listen to him Vic!He only wishes he could have her back!" Again Shelly was yelling. She looked ready to jump over the counter and pounce at his face."One more word Shelly and I'll get dad to talk to your boss, let's just say you will no longer be employed." He smirked, he looked like the fucking Joker.He leaned in towards Anna she kept leaning back, I snatched her from his arms. He jumped atme and got in my face. "Look dude, " he said sliding closer to me. "You just got here, and you may think your high and mighty, but I'm mightier..." He tried to sound as tough as he could, considering how much of a pretty boy he was.He stood about a foot taller than me, but his arms were skinnier than a stick.In comparison I was much stronger and I was ready to prove it to him."Now, now, now boys..." An older gentleman walked in the room."Well if it isn't the conceited mayor..." Shelly mumbled under her breath.Pretty Boy must have heard, he turned his head to say something but couldn't before the man interrupted him."Hello to you too Ms. Shelly. It's nice to see the diner so lively." He turned to face me, he looked up and down."Since when did we let hoodlums in our restaurants?"Shelly's eyes widened, and before both I or Shelly could release our rage Anna Yelled "ENOUGH ALL OF YOU! Vic please pay and let's go! I want to get back to my mom!" She took the money out of my hand and laid it on the counter in front of Shelly. "Thank you." Anna yelled as we walked out of the place.

"Fuck! Why the hell did he have to show up?" She yelled as soon as we got in the car.

"Who was he?"

"..."

"What am I not allowed to know?" I tried my best to stay calm, my adrenalin was pumping from the almost fight I just had.

"He's... unimportant." She started to stare out the window again. Time past before I said anything.

"Even if he was unimportant, I want to know."She began to get angry but settled down before she said something. "He's an ex. Well that's what I thought. I dated him in high school, two years ago.Then he went off to college, and texted me that he found someone new that was better than me and I never heard from him again, until two minutes ago.He broke my heart and it took me a while to get over him... end of story." She looked out the window again, obviously feeling awkward.

"If it makes you feel any better, the same thing happened to me, she left me for some guy she met at a bar. Supposedly it was a one-night stand turned relationship." I spoke as I drove us back to the hospital. " She TEXTED me one night about this guy and how amazing he was, and how he was always there for her when I was away, She said she was leaving me, and I shouldn't bother calling or texting 'cause she wasn't gonna pick-up." I Parked the car in the hospital parking lot and pulled the keys out. I started to open the door but she grabbed my shirt and pulled me back in. She stared at me for a while before leaning over the seat. She planted a kiss right on my lips and I let her in. We locked lips for a while, she pulled back and looked me in the eyes. "Please don't leave me.." she said tears in her eyes. "Damn you cry a lot," I laughed. "Yea I promise I won't leave you as long as you'll do the same."
"I promise."She said. I kissed her one last time before we climbed out of the car.We walked to her mother's hospital room and handed Lizzie her food. Anna sat next to her mother and held her hand. "I love you momma..." she said as I sat next to her.She squeezed her mother's hand and she woke up and saw us all together.She smiled, "I love you too Anna." She drifted back to sleep.The doctor came in and changed the IV bag. We sat on the couch and Lizzie in the chair. We leaned on the couch and fell asleep. The next morning we woke up to the sound of a long flat line on the monitor.Anna was crying but that was expected. The doctor came in, they tried to resuscitate her, but it didn't work.All I could do was comfort her so I sat there as she cried on my chest, she soaked my shirt, and I felt a tear roll down my cheek as well. I promise I'll take care of her Ms. Olivia. Don't worry.

Notes

Wow is it bad when the author cries....
Yea I cried so what?
I'm like Anna I cry easily...
Yea tell me if you guys like it, it took me a while, and a lot of motivation to write this. :')
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