Stay With Me

Chapter 11

Bruno's POV
Leukemia Cancer? This can't be happening. Am I dreaming? I can't be hearing this correctly. But sadly, I was.

"Sense when?" I whispered.

"Sense the day I first met you." Arianna responds.

"And you didn't tell me until now?!" I yelled.

"Bruno, I didn't know how to!"

We yelled at each other back and forth. Then, I said something I didn't mean one bit.

"If I knew this earlier I probably would have felt different about you." I looked away.

"What?!" She said. "I warned you not to fall in love with me, but you did!"

"How couldn't I Arianna?! You're perfect! Everything about you is irresistible!"

"Oh please. That's such a lie." She looks out the window.

"It's not! You can't have Leukemia. Please, just please tell me that's a lie."

Arianna shook her head.

"It's true." She wiped away her tears.

"Look we can talk about-"

"Take me home." She interrupted me.

"What?" I questioned her.

"Take me home right now." Arianna said calmly.

"But Ari-"

"Take me home right now!" She yells.

The whole car ride was silent. Not one word was said. The car ride was filled with awkwardness. When I pulled up into the parking lot, without hesitation, Arianna walked out the car immediately. Not even a bye, a kiss, or a sound escaped her lips. I can hear the apartment door slam all the way from the car. Boy was she mad.

Arianna's POV
'If I knew this earlier I probably would have felt different about you."

His words echoed through my head. I slammed the door from my apartment, threw my stuff onto the floor. As I walked through my dining room, I tossed the chairs to the floor. So much anger built inside me.

"I knew I shouldn't have told him!" I yelled as I broke down into tears.

I looked down at the ground and blood drops were dripping. Touching my nose, the blood went down my finger, onto my palm. Quickly I stood up and walked over to the bathroom. As I looked at my reflection blood was dripping down my nose. I cleaned myself up. Once the blood stopped, I poured myself a glass of wine. I got undressed, then ran myself a warm bath. As I rest in there just thinking, my cellphone began to ring. There was no point in moving. I stayed still in the bath tub. I reached over and placed my wine glass on the counter top. The phone wouldn't stop ringing. I took in a deep breathe, and submerged myself into the water. For a good minute I was down there. I raised back from the top, and get out of the bath tub. Checking my phone, it was a bunch of miss calls from Bruno.

"Delete." I say, as I deleted all the miss calls.
I got dressed and went to go lay in bed. What was there left to do? The guy I fell deeply in love with can't even accept the fact that I am dying.

Bruno's POV
I drove off to the bar. It wasn't the best for me to drink, but everytime I had a problem going on in life, I either smoked or drinked. It was a stress relief. When I'm with Arianna, she helped me relieve it without doing either of those.
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"Bruno. Let's go man. Come on." I hear Phil tell me.

"N-no P-phil. You stop it." I mumble.
I was completely intoxicated.

"Bruno! Now!" Phil grabbed my arm, and walked me outside.