"Wake up sleeping beauty," I say and open the curtains to Kate's room and she groans, pulling her blanket over her head.

"Go away Venus," she groans and twists the other way.

"We have college," I try to sound as enthusiastic as I possibly can. "Also, it's my first day so I'm hyped."

She slowly sits up on her bed with her eyes closed and mutters something incoherent to my ears.

"If you're cursing me then I don't care. But, c'mon get up," I demand and pull her out of her bed.

"It's only 10 Vee," she whines and I take her to the bathroom.

"Yeah and our classes start at 11," I respond and her eyes flutter open.

"What?" She screeches and quickly pulls out her toothbrush. "God damnit. I needed to get ready."

"Yup so get ready," I say and leave her bathroom.

After half an hour of rushing around and showering she is finally ready. "Ta-da!"

"You look good Kate," I compliment her and she smiles.

"Yeah? Thanks so do you with this new jean jacket style," she replies back and looks at me. "We should really go tanning sometime again."

I chuckle. She is still stuck on my pale skin, it doesn't look that bad. Maybe it starts to look like someone drained all the blood out of me but not yet.

"Let's go," she demands and pulls me downstairs with her.

"Good Morning girls," Liam greets us wearing his business suit as he's doing something in the kitchen. "Venus, thanks a lot for the breakfast."

I just smile in return and Kate sprints towards the kitchen and grabs the omelet I made for them. Liam tries to take one of the omelet but Kate swats his hand away. "You'll have to fight me for this one," she says and I chuckle as I stand next to the counter.

"What? Why?" He asks and she smiles and takes a bite of the omelet and moans.

"Because it's made by Venus, duh," she smiles, looking at me. "I haven't ate a single thing made by her in three years. I'm craving some ravioli."

"I'll make it tonight," I suggest and she nods in return.

She jumps in delight and Liam just laughs at her. "I have to go to office now, I'm late," he says, kissing Kate's forehead and she smiles warmly.

"Bye Venus," he gives me a side hug and I smile. "Bye."

When he lets go of me, for a moment darkness covered my eyes and I loose balance. Just as I'm about to fall, he quickly gets ahold of me. I shudder in his arms and Kate quickly runs towards me.

"Venus?" Liam calls out and slowly pats my cheek, trying to wake me up.

Before my eyes close again, I notice him holding onto me tightly. He scoops me into his arms and lays me down on the couch softly.

"Vee?" Kate asks and I nod. "Are you okay? What happened?"

I open my eyes slightly and look around to find Liam right in front of me and I'm apparently laying on Kate's lap.

"I- I'm- I'm fine," I try to sit up but Kate doesn't let me. Instead, she pulls me down towards her lap and I sigh.

"No you're not. You literally fainted right in front of my eyes. We are going to the doctors Venus," she demands and I shake my head.

"They can't do anything," I whisper and smile weakly at them.

"What- what do you mean?" A concerned Liam asks as he brings me a cup of water.

I slowly take a sip of it and take a deep breath in. I put the glass on the table and face them. "It's- it's my cancer," I reply back, weakly.

"What do you mean it's your cancer?" Kate asks as she looks at Liam and then back at me.

I take a deep breath in and decide to tell her something which I wasn't planning on telling anyone. But, she already knows everything so might as well I tell her.

"I'm- I'm dying," I reply back, almost as a whisper and their mouths hung open.

"But I- but I thought that you were fine. I thought the chemo and radiation healed you," she says and I shake my head. "You- you came back to New York."

"Now I have stage IV leukemia, and the cancer cells are growing rapidly. The chemotherapy and radiation helped a lot in the beginning but it didn't seem to kill many cancer cells after six months," I answer back and her eyes are widen in shock.

"So- so what does that mean?" Liam asks, scared of what I might answer.

"It means that I will eventually die," I reply back with a weak smile. "Which is the reason I came back. I wanted to see you guys before death stole me away."

"No," Kate cries and holds onto my hand. "You're not dying Venus, I'm not letting you die. We are gonna go to the best cancer doctor or whatever they are called and you will be fine."

I weakly chuckle and take another sip of the water. "I went to them, they can't do anything anymore. They are now wishing for a medical miracle."

"No, Venus," she cries and I clutch onto her hand. "I- I can't. You, you can't die."

"Kate, it's fine. I'm tired of it all anyways, and the more treatment I get, the more it weakens me. I'm done with treatments now," I tell her.

"No," she is in denial.

I look at Liam and back at Kate and he holds onto her tightly. She just cries in his arms and keeps repeating 'no.'

"I don't have much time to live, so I'd rather do things that I want to. I want to go to rippling forest so we can camp in woods. I want to go to Paris because I missed it. I want to go to the carnival and sit on the Ferris wheel. I want to do so much in so little time Kate. I need you," I tell her and she wipes away her tears.

"As long as you're with me, you're not dying. We will do everything you want Venus," she says and looks at Liam.

"The carnival starts soon too but it already started in Albany. I will get the tickets so we can go after your class," he suggests and I nod in return.

"I'll prepare stuff for the camp which we will go after the carnival," Liam says and I smile.

"Thank you," I mutter and he nods in return.

"Then, we can go to Paris after finishing the camping trip," Kate says and smiles at me.

"Perfect," I whisper. "Can you- can you call them all there?"

"I'll make it happen Venus, if they like it or not, they are coming to it all," she winks at me and I smile.

"Let's go to college then," I say and she doesn't budge.

"You're not feeling well," she debates.

"I'm fine now, c'mon," I slowly get up.

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I walk inside the university building and I feel many eyes on me. Isn't this just like the first day of high school?

I groan and keep walking with Kate. She holds onto my arm, keeping me from falling of weakness.

"Oh my god, she's back," one of the girls say and I turn to face her.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" I ask, sarcastically and she snorts.

"Haven't you been eating Venus? Your skin is as pale as a white fucking board," she tries to insult me and I chuckle.

"Honey, are you still thinking on getting that rhinoplasty because I think it's more necessary now than ever?" I ask and her mouth literally hangs open and Kate chuckles next to me. I hate to insult her but I need to act like I used to.

She huffs and leave us and we continue walking.

"Damn, you didn't loose the bitchiness at all Vee," she says and I smile. "I'll be right back."

She leaves and I stand there, looking around. I start to walk but collide into someone and their books fall to the ground. "I'm sorry," I mumble and start to help them pick it all up.

"It's fine," a deep male voice replies back but I don't bother looking up to see his face and neither does he.

He gets up and turns around, forgetting a photograph on the ground. I quickly pick it up and get up behind him. I don't mean to pry but I turn the photo around and it's of the girl that I met at the night of Cayson's birthday party.

"You- you dropped this," I mutter and extend the photograph towards him.

He slowly turns around to face me and I look up at him. His emerald green eyes meet my hazel ones and the photograph almost falls out of my hand. He looks at me with a confused look on his face, still in shock.

"Venus?" He mumbles under his breath and I look away.

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