Love at First Sign
Chapter 28
Logan’s POV;
“YOU CAN JUST SAVE THE LAST BIT OF DIGNITY YOU HAVE.”
“TELL ME THAT WHEN YOU FALL INTO A HOLE.”
“YOU’RE A LOSER LERMAN! FACE IT.”
“I DON’T THINK SO MEL, SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!”
“TURN RIGHT! NO, NO, OH MY GOD I’M GOING TO DIE NO NO NO NOT THE TURTLE SHELL and I’m dead.”
“Told you Mel, Yoshi owns Princess Peach every time.”
“Lies,” she taunted. “There’s something wrong with this controller. It won’t let me turn right.”
“Uh, Mel,” I started, looking down at her.
“What?”
“Your pressing the left button.”
“Oh.”
I tried to hold in my laughter but she burst out laughing before me.
“It’s okay,” I said, wrapping my arms around her waist, “I know you let me win.”
“Yeah, cause the tenth time I fell in the water totally confirmed that.”
She started laughing, turning around as the fabric of her shirt rubbed against my arms. She kissed me with her soft lips and I closed my eyes, cradling her waist and taking it all in, the feeling of having her back and getting to hold her again.
She was mine.
“So, you wanna go our or something?” She asked, looking up at me.
“Yeah, um I can’t.”
“Why not?”
“I’m kind of grounded. For like a month.”
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“Alright, since you can’t go anywhere outside of campus for another two weeks, and it looks like you’re going to die if you eat another meal from our school, I have decided to put my culinary skills to good use.”
“Culinary skills?” I asked, grinning a bit.
I mean, I knew she could bake, but the last time she tried to make me Ramen, she almost burned down the dorm.
“You know, when I open my five star restaurant you are so not invited,” she started, walking into the kitchen.
I smiled, holding up my hands in surrender.
“Tonight,” she spoke loudly, walking out of the kitchen and holding a plate in each hand. “For our main course we’ll be having mac and cheese, and for desert, my special chocolate chip cookies.”
I stood bolt right up.
“You’re special cookies?” I asked, making sure I had gotten every word right.
“Mmhmm.”
I took one in my mouth, letting half of the cookie sit on my tongue. I didn’t know how she did it, but she made the cookies just so when the chocolate touched your tongue, it would dissolve immediately, leaving you to chew on the chewy cookie dough together with the melted chocolate.
I held one half in between my teeth, moving closer to her and letting her bite on the other half until our lips met. I let her lips trail on mine, pushing me further back towards the wall.
“I have a surprise for you,” I spoke into the kiss, moving my hands to my back pocket and pulling out the papers.
“What?” She asked, her eyes twinkling in the low light as she looked up at me. I help my hand over her eyes as her mouth broke into a grin.
I held the tickets in front of her face and moved my hand away.
“We’re going to Pittsburgh.”
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I was going to start filming the Perks of Being a Wallflower in Pittsburgh in two months time, and I thought I’d bring Melanie over earlier to check the place out for a week or two.
“You need to stop bringing me on planes,” she said, turning to me as we stepped out of security check. “All I can do is make you mac and cheese.”
“And not stab me after all the times I screwed up, plus it was really good mac and cheese,” I replied, grinning widely.
She interlocked her hands in mine and stepped outside of the airport.
“Whoa,” she stopped, staring at the bright sun, something that was pretty rare in New York.
“Mmmhmm.”
“I cannot believe I’m in Pittsburgh.”
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“Oh, we can visit the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Rivers Casino and and we can go to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. THEY HAVE DINOSAUR COLLECTIONS oh my God,” she went on, walking through the door and looking through the street maps as I set our bags down in the hotel room.
“Or we could stay here and unpack fir-
“No no no, we’re not missing out on all of the things we can see. Common we can unpack later.”
She took hold of my hand and pulled me out of the door. I followed behind her fist but picked up my speed, running until I was close enough, and then I picked her up, hauling her onto my shoulder.
“TO THE DINOSAUR MUSEUM!” I screamed, as she yelled and laughed.
So I ran down the hall, Melanie Martin safely secure on my shoulder.
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“Did you see that dinosaur bone? It was bigger than me. And all those paintings, oh my God there were like a thousan-
“Yes, I saw them,” I replied smiling as I watched the enthusiasm plastered across her face. “Does your head still hurt?”
“Not really, just kind of sore.”
I opened our hotel room door, letting her in as I locked it behind us.
“Did you have fun?” I asked, wrapping my arms around her from behind and waddling her into the bedroom.
“Yes I did,” she replied, turning me around and walking me back towards the wall until my back was against it. “I love you,” she spoke slowly while kissing me.
“I love you too,” I mumbled as she unzipped my fleece and pulled it off of me, leaving me in my T-shirt as she continued to kiss me, running her fingers through my hair. I moved her towards the bed, lying her down slowly as I kissed down her neck. I moved my hands under her shirt but stopped half way as I heard the hotel phone ringing.
“It’s the reception I think, give me a second,” I told her, getting up and walking outside.
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As I came back inside, I saw her laying there sleeping. I chuckled at the thought of her thinking I was that gullible.
I moved towards her slowly, grinning as I tickled her sides.
She didn’t stir.
Her lips had turned chalky white as I shook her, but she didn’t open her eyes.
My heart raced as I ran outside to get my cellphone to do something I never thought I’d have to do.
I called the ambulance, to come and pick up my girlfriend.
My girlfriend who wasn’t waking up.
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I sat outside of the hospital room. I’d been waiting for an hour since the ambulance had brought her here. My hands shook and my heart raced as the fear and curiosity ate me up inside.
The doctor came out of the room, holding some papers in his hand.
I stood up straight away and stared at him, not speaking. But he knew what I wanted to know.
“We, don’t know what’s wrong with your girlfriend yet,” he spoke slowly and softly. “It’s too early to find out, but give me some time, let me run some tests and I’l let you know. Hang in there, we’re here to help you.”
I waited there for a week or two, I wasn’t really sure. I stayed with Melanie day and night, though she urged me to go back and get some rest.
I gave the doctor time.
I waited for him to run his tests.
I waited for what he had to say.
If only I had known what I was waiting for.
“Your girlfriend may have cancer.”
And though I stood there dumbfounded, my mind completely blank, he continued on, his words floated through my head like broken glass.
“We may have found a tumor in her brain.”
-I’m sorry it took so long. I’m planning on ending Love at First Sign soon. That’s why I’ve kind of been taking some time to plan out the ending. It won’t end now, but maybe in 3 to 4 chapters. I’m not sure though if the ending will be what you expected, maybe it won’t. I guess we’ll just wait and see (:
