I watched both Huda and Mrs. Martin rush towards the nurse behind the desk. They spoke with her for a few seconds before Huda started running to the exit of the waiting area, while Mrs. Martin continued talking to the nurse.

I furrowed my brows and went back to walking towards Cole's room, with a faster pace this time.

Just as I reached Cole's hospital room, I saw Blake leave the room and close the door behind him. I caught a glimpse of Huda and Cole inside the room from the door's small window and averted my gaze when Blake held my hand and pulled me towards him, a small smile was on his face for some reason.

I looked up at Blake and he gave me a gentle look, he pinched the tip of my mask from above and tugged on it, pulling it down and leaning down to capture my lips with his own. He suddenly chuckled against my lips and shook his head, lowly mumbling something that had to do with some people being a pair of dimwits.

He kissed me again and I didn't look back at the window as Blake placed my mask back over my nose and guided me towards the chairs that were pressed up against the wall. He sat down on one and pulled me against his lap, face to face. I thanked God no one was in this particular hallway.

"Is he alright?" I asked Blake. He nodded his head and tucked a strand of mine behind my ears.

"So who got Scarlet in the end?" I questioned out of curiosity.

Blake lightly laughed and pressed his forehead against mine, "'Charcoal' "

"You got Peacock?"

He shook his head against mine, "Got the other sexy wrinkly character,"

I bit my lip to suppress my laughter, "Mr. Green."

He nodded his head, his lips stretching into a huge grin, "You fucking know it, baby~"

I chuckled and his smile grew softer. I looked down at his hands and fiddled with the colorful bands that were wrapped around one of his wrists. "The bun got ruined," I mumbled, still looking down, my forehead was touching his chin.

"I realized. Do you want me to do today's hairstyle now?" Blake suggested, twirling a blonde lock of mine with his fingers.

I thought about it and nodded my head. I don't know why, but I loved it when he played with my hair and styled it however he liked, it sent tingly feelings down my spine and he always makes me feel beautiful afterward.

He placed the fingers of the hand that I wasn't playing with underneath my chin and lifted my head up so I could see him. Of course, he was smiling. He kissed my forehead and trailed his hands towards my waist. In one swift motion, I was turned around with my back facing him.

He ran his fingers through my hair and hummed, clearly thinking of what to do with my hair this time. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and I heard typing noises come from the device before he brought the phone in front of my face, showing me a fishtail hairstyle.

I looked at it for a few more seconds and turned my head to see Blake, "That look's hard,"

"That's what she said." He flicked my forehead, "Also, so what? We have all the time in the world since those two are probably getting it on in the hospital bed behind us,"

I lowly gasped and was about to avert my gaze to the window but Blake placed his hand on my jaw and turned my head around, "I'm kidding, you idiot." He chuckled.

I slapped part of his leg that I wasn't sitting on and he lightly slapped my thigh back, "You gotta stop moving now, Leprotto. I need to focus on the hairstyle,"

I grunted but immediately stopped complaining when he pinched my thigh and kissed my head from the back. I rubbed the spot he pinched and waited patiently as he watched a youtube tutorial on how to do the hairstyle.

Soon, his fingers started working on my hair and my heart warmed like usual. We were chuckling over random stuff when we saw Mrs. Martin approach and my heart stopped from embarrassment over her catching me sitting on Blake's lap for some reason.

She smiled underneath her mask when she spotted us and I made a move to get off of Blake's lap but he pressed me down, "Hey, Mrs. Martin." Blake said, one hand pressing against my thigh and the other in my hair, holding the unfinished hairstyle.

My cheeks burned under my mask when she eyed the position we were in and I managed to put on a smile for her, muttering, "Hi,"

"Hey darling, how have you kids been? Is Cole in this room?" She pointed her thumb at the door, not paying any mind to how I'm literally sitting on Blake's lap.

"We're alright, everything's been fine, It's just Cole's condition that's been worrying us. He's in that room with Huda if you'd like to see him, they've only been there for a few minutes. It's nice seeing you again," Blake casually spoke like the gentlemen he is.

Mrs. Martin's eyes crinkled from what I'm assuming is her smiling wider underneath the mask and she nodded her head the same moment Huda opened the door, smiling widely when she saw me and going even crazier when she noticed where I was seated.

I wanna die.

She clearly was about to say- or even scream something, but Mrs. Martin gestured for her to walk back into the room with her, leaving Blake and me alone again. Huda pouted for half a second and the door closed behind them.

Not even a second later, the door was slightly opened and Huda's head was popped out of it, she was smiling like a psychopath. "You cute little shi-" She was dragged back into the room.

Blake shook against me from chuckling and I wanted to hide my face beneath my palms from sheer embarrassment, but I didn't, because Luke mentioned not to touch our faces when we're out because of the damn virus.

Oh my god, speaking of Luke... I haven't called him in two days and he knows nothing about what's going on.

"I just realized we didn't tell Luke." I breathed.

Blake continued doing the hairstyle as he reassured me, "Don't worry, Muffin. I already called him and filled him in on everything. He even called Cole several times to check up on him, he tried calling you multiple times but we were asleep. I'm sorry I forgot to tell you."

I shook my head but stopped when I remembered I shouldn't be moving my head while he does the hairstyle, "It's fine. Thank you" I sighed a sigh of relief.

His fingers worked on my hair for a few more minutes before he tied the end of the fishtail with one of the bands that were wrapped around his wrist and breathed, "Done- Holy shit I actually did that," He turned me around quickly to fix it from the front of my face and smiled as he leaned back.

He placed his hand, which had the pungent scent of hand sanitizer, over my cheek after sliding my mask down to my chin. He stroked my cheeks and leaned in to kiss my nose, nuzzling his perfect nose with mine before bringing his lips to my ear, "I love it." He then brought our masks back over our noses.

I couldn't help but smile at that. He held his phone's dark screen in front of me so I could see my reflection in it. I actually kind of like how the top was styled but I couldn't see the back. Blake realized that and easily turned me around in his lap again, taking a photo of the back of my head and bringing the phone back in front of my face so I could see it.

My eyes widened. I'm not gonna lie, I expected way worse from someone who hasn't done the hairstyle before but it actually looked decent. There were a few small strands sticking out of it. It wasn't perfect, but it still looked good.

"Do you like it?" He sounded so buoyant asking me that and I quickly nodded my head.

"I love it. How the hell did you manage to do that?"

He chuckled and brought his open hands in front of my face, "These talented sexy things, Darling. They're also incredible at other things... but that's for another place and another tim-"

I smacked his thigh again and he also lightly smacked mine back for the second time. He then wrapped his 'talented sexy things' around my waist and pulled my back closer to his chest, hugging me tightly and stuffing his face in my neck.

I squirmed and giggled at the ticklish feeling of the material of his mask brushing against my neck and Blake held me tighter, nuzzling his face further and slightly tickling me over my waist. "Don't squirm, Muffin. Unless you want me to walk back into Cole's hospital room with a ha-"

I squirmed and shifted on purpose before he could finish that sentence and his hold around me got even tighter before he brought his hands up beneath my armpits and turned me around for the millionth time today, so my legs were back to straddling him.

"Well aren't you a vexing little shit, hmm?" He narrowed his eyes and slid his hands back to either side of my waist, squeezing it from both sides.

I parted my lips to reply but the door opened and I saw Mrs. Martin leave the room, keeping the door open behind her, probably for Huda. She gave us a kind smile before walking away. I'm assuming she needs to talk with the doctors again.

Blake tapped my thigh, "Come on, let's get back inside," he stood up, with my legs still straddling him, and I tightened them before he slowly let me down so I was back on my feet. We heard Huda and Cole's voices come from the room as we walked to the open door.

♛

Blake and I wrapped our fingers together in a tight hold as we listened to the doctor greeting Mrs. Martin, Huda, Blake, and me outside Cole's hospital room. He had fallen asleep an hour ago and we didn't want to wake him since he had barely gotten any sleep before and needed to rest.

"Right now, based on the CT scan results, we suspect a tumor in his brain..."

My breathing immediately came to a halt and I felt Blake's hand freeze against mine. I could hear my heart begin to pound harder and harder in my ears and a lump began to form in my throat.

Tumor? As in cancer? As in-

"Now, we still have to carry a biopsy to see if it's a malignant or benign tumor. Are you aware of these terms or would you like it if I explained them to you?" The doctor asked us all in a soft voice.

I could hear Mrs. Martin talking but I couldn't piece the words together. All I could hear was the beating of my own accelerating heartbeat and the voice of the doctor in front of me. I couldn't think of anything else.

"Benign tumors are non-cancerous and are grades one or two because of how slow they grow and how unlikely it is for them to grow. They can be easily removed in a surgery that will take place in the same week and it's also unlikely for them to grow back afterward." I felt a spark of hope light up inside me. Blake's hand trembled underneath mine and I already wanted to get rid of the thoughts that I know are invading his mind right now.

The doctor continued, "Malignant tumors are cancerous and are fast-growing, the treatment for them is surgery to remove as much of it as possible, then Radiotherapy and or Chemotherapy may be used to treat any remaining cancerous tissue." Blake's hand shook even harder along with the rest of his body and I barely had time to open my mouth before he was sprinting down the hall.

The doctor gave us another gentle look and I didn't stay another second to hear what else she had to say, quickly running to go find Blake.

My breaths came out quick against my mask and I felt like I was gonna pass out but I kept running until I saw the hospital's doors swing back and forth from what I'm assuming was someone pushing them seconds ago and I caught a glimpse of a familiar tall figure running outside through the doors' windows.

My feet took me to the doors without me even thinking and I flung them open, yelling for Blake as I continued to run behind him.

"Blake stop!" I felt like my lungs were about to give out and my eyes stung with tears at the information we were fed minutes ago. "Blake!" I yelled again in a broken voice and took another breath through my mask when I saw him suddenly stop.

I pulled my mask off and held back a sob. Stopping to breathe, I looked at Blake's back from a distance. His shoulders were moving while his feet were still planted on the ground.

"Blake," My voice broke, tears pooling in my eyes. He slowly began to turn around and I felt like someone threw a dagger right into my heart the second I saw his tears.

His mask was no longer over his face, he was clutching it a death grip. His whole body shook and his eyes showed so much fear, I felt like I could get trapped in them and die suffocating from all the horror swimming in them.

He looked like he was struggling to breathe but he still managed to let his feet travel towards me quickly. I took a few steps closer until he was close enough to wrap his shaky arms around me and breathe quick breaths into my neck.

My body shook with tears too and I brought my arms over his back, letting my tears dampen his shirt while he clutched the back of mine in a tight fist.

"I- c-" He struggled to speak. "Livi it can be canc-" His voice broke and I held him tighter, shaking my head, "I can't lose him, Olivia." He softly cried. My heart broke, knowing he can't go through what he's suffered a million times before again.

My mind didn't even allow me to think of the what-ifs, it couldn't go as far as thinking what the hell was gonna happen to Cole. I was just terrified and seeing Blake struggling to breathe and speak in front of me had me feeling helpless.

I pulled back and held his face beneath my palms, he looked down at me, chin quivering, and I blinked my tears, "You're not gonna lose him, Blake." I know it's wrong of me to say something like that to him when no one knows what's gonna happen yet, but I think a big part of me wasn't just trying to convince Blake, but myself too.

Blake suddenly began to shake harder and more tears gathered around his green irises, I couldn't hold back more of my tears when he looked like this. "Livi," He whispered, trying his best to form a few more words, "I can't br- I can't- he can't di..."

My blood slowly began running cold at the sight of him struggling, his face was getting red. I held his face more firmly, "Blake, please breath-"

"No- I can't," He barely managed to blurt those words out.

"Blake, everything will be alrig-"

"No, Livi, it won't, h-he-"

His face was getting redder and redder by the second and I cut him off, "Blake! You have to breathe right now, please. Try taking a deep breath. They still have to carry a biopsy and there's a chance it's a small one. He'll be fi-"

"NO!" He suddenly burst, letting go of me and pulling away. The wind blew over his brown locks as he started breaking down harder, "YOU DON'T GET IT OLIVIA!" He pulled at his locks, closing his eyes and causing a trillion tears to escape them from the action.

He took a few steps back and kept mumbling incoherent words under his breath, trying to breathe quickly from his nose. He suddenly sunk down to the ground and pulled harder at his hair, his face showing so much pain, I was terrified thinking of what was going through his head right now.

I rushed towards him and knelt down, he was still whispering things to himself as he cried harder and harder, I barely placed a hand over his cheek and didn't have time to catch the words he was muttering before he suddenly screamed, "STOP!"

I flinched and pulled my hand away quickly, thinking he was talking to me. "MAKE IT STOP! LIVI PLEASE!" He cried.

Tears couldn't stop running down my cheeks at the sight of him and I immediately sat back down in front of him and held his face in my hands, "Make it stop," he whispered weakly, his eyes still closed. I cried and scooted closer to him, kissing his tears.

He wrapped his arms around me and I kissed tear after tear until I reached the closest area to his ear. I kissed a tear there before bringing my lips to his ear. I stroked his hair to calm him down and brushed the thumb of my other hand over his cheeks, "Blake, listen to me."

"Can you try focusing on my voice just for now, baby?" He nodded his head against me. I reached for a tissue in my pocket and wiped his tear-covered nose, "Take a deep breath from your nose for me, and don't stop listening to my voice. I'm right here Blake, and Cole's in one of the rooms in the building behind us, tell me Blake, does he look like he's ready to leave you now? Right at this very moment?"

He took a deep breath and shook his head reluctantly. I kissed another tear on his cheek, keeping my lips close to his ear. "Let the breath out. You have me right here beside you, Blake. And we can go straight to Cole afterward. Don't listen to these thoughts now. I know you're scared, and hell, so am I- I'm freaking terrified, but I promise you that Cole is perfectly fine at this very moment and he's probably awake. The biopsy results won't take long, everything will be alright." I kissed him again.

He clutched me harder, and I heard him taken even breaths. He stuffed his face in my neck and kept breathing, I could still tell he was crying because of the tears that were landing against my neck, but so was I.

I didn't know what to say, I just stuffed my face into his neck too and kept whispering reassuring words in his ears as we sat over the pavement floor, both trembling. Somehow, every word I used to reassure Blake did a small part of reassuring me too.