*-- and here we go

[adel]

this lovely post right here is tagged for benny-poo. i got super bored and decided to type this crap of a messy thing that is 1212 words while i actually had muse! so hope you enjoy and know that it will get better!

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things were better here.. right? adelina found nothing that she could complain about yet. her house was nice.. a nice medium sized, which was good for just a single girl and her dog. right? well at least she thought so seeing as of lately she had been stuck just in the small house, one bedroom with her mother. it was all they could afford. with her treatments for her cancer... all the medical bills piling up they didn’t have much money between them, defiantly since she didn’t have her father around anymore.. and his insurance money was locked away in a safe until she was twenty one, which clearly wasn’t doing her any good being well, eighteen at the time the cancer struck.. so that only left them to move from their normal life, to a middle of nowhere tiny rink a dink house that might have just blown over if they wind blew to hard.. it was what they had though, and she had no room to complain. she got the bed room, where she spent most of her time.. where she would lay for hours, only getting up to use the bathroom or throw up.. or o possibly get food. thats the only place she would go, but it wasn’t like she needed to be out of bed much. defiantly in her condition.. that type of living lasted a while.. all the way until she was twenty one.. when that insurance money went pouring into her bank account allowing her to pay off the previous bills, which hadn’t piled up to much more seeing as she had went into remission when she was around nineteen. something her and her mother were very prod of. it showed she could do it. she could fight a cancer that took so man peoples life, but for how long was the question.. how long could she keep fighting this disease that no matter what she did would be somewhere ein her body, somewhere in a cell just waiting to explode and wreak havoc over her whole body? how long could anyone live like that? well.. she wasn’t about to..

being the stupid naive twenty one year old she was.. she went out and partied. not just light partying, but heavy.. drinking.. dancing.. around smoke.. she was going to live her life if it was the last thing she was going to do.. and that might just have been the last thing she was going to do. she could remember that day like it was just the previous night. there she was standing in the middle of a club somewhere in london, dancing on a guy like there was no tomorrow... and that was the last thing she saw.. collapsing on the ground. no one doing anything until one of the bouncers picked her up to move her out of the way of the dancing drunks.. trying to wake her and failing.. being shipped out to the ER, things took a turn for the worse.. apparently if you have had lung cancer you shouldn’t be around constant smoke and putting your body in the line of fire like that.. what a bright one adel can be right? if only she had thought for a moment about what she was doing. how she was throwing herself into a different party each night like there was no tomorrow, might have actually made her not have a tomorrow. with so much smoke entering her body, along with the drinking, lack of sleep, and just wild lifestyle, her immune system had weakened and that one ticking time bomb cell decided to explode.. and set off a deadly chain reaction within her own body.. here shew as.. killing herself from the inside out. and this wasn’t just like the first time, where she didn’t know she had it, where she didn’t know that she was a carrier, she was fully aware and yet she didn’t take precautions.. that time was her fault. she admitted it, but she never figured it would come back like it did.. and this time. twice as reluctant to go away.


having cancer, living somewhere she was clearly to comfortable for, wasn’t the best thing in her mothers opinion, and so.. you know that woman, having only one peice of family left, who happened to be adel, would uproot them from their little house in the middle of no where country side london, and move them to none other than america. not just anywhere in america, but a small town she had never heard of in the middle of maine of all states! why not florida? or georgia? or like.. somewhere actually fun. but no.. maine. what was there to do in maine besides sit around? or was that the point.. at first.. she didn’t understand. she didn’t understand it was for her own good, but after a few months past everything was getting better. with the doctor much closer.. treatments going smoothly, and a calm new.. cleaned air city to live in, things actually looked up for her, which was good, seeing s adel never pictured herself dying before she even turned twenty five.. maybe she didn’t have everything unpacked. or a healthy social life, but she was honestly getting better, once again. the cancer was going away, and the doctor said if she took a few more treatments she could be good as new, even though her hair wasn’t in the best condition.. she did have extensions to make things look a bit better, but.. that was her last worry as of right now.

being in the city going on three months, was good. things were good, and now she had just taken her last treatment, and her life was actually going to be good for once.. she could get use to the different accents. the foreign feel of this place, all for life.. that she could do, but now.. it might actually be easier. stumbling across none other than ben nix on the computer earlier to day seemed to brighter her whole appeal. ben had been someone she was so close to as a child, and teenager, someone who she dreaded leaving back in london, only to find that he was only a few miles away.. that alone made her feel like everything was going to be ok.. laying on the couch, watching one of her favorite cartoons, her hair pulled back into a pony tail, and just as she had said on the computer, laying there in a t-shirt and soffee shorts, she couldn’t have been comfier. not the least bit, and that same smile that had been plastered on her lips when she closed the laptop nearly fifteen minutes ago was still there as she heard the faint knock on the door.. the knock signaling that he was here.. quickly jumping to her feet she looked herself over in the mirror.. she wasn’t completely gorgeous right now.. no makeup, and clearly looking as she was weak from the chemo she had ignited in earlier, she smiled faintly and opened the door slowly looking him over with a small smile.. “well hello there stranger.”

[ben]

It was a rare occasion that he managed to get a high off of something that wasn’t alcohol, drug, or party related. Natural highs from pure emotion had not come around for him in so long that he almost felt silly feeling so excited over something that wasn’t going to involve his usual description of “having fun.” Now that he had slowly closed his laptop up, sat quietly at the guest bed for a few moments and thought, he realized that sitting on a couch with a woman who was not exactly healthy really did not sound like an amazing time at all. But, you know what? Ben was still just as eager to jump up from his temporary sleeping spot and slip some shoes onto his feet so that he could dart off down the road to meet up with his long lost friend. It had truly been a long time since he had seen her and he supposed that knowing something familiar was around would make him feel a little better about hanging around here until his sister deemed him fit enough to fend for himself. But that was a whole other story entirely right now. Right now he was only curious about Adelina, the pretty young girl who had left him so many years ago. Who was she now?

Ben contained his emotions though, keeping his facial features plain and uninteresting as he strolled out of the room with his thumbs resting the pockets of his blue jeans. The hallway was empty and made him feel like he was putting on a show for nothing but he still held it together as he made his way down the stairs and finally passed his sister as he nonchalantly moved to the front door. He caught her stare out of the corner of his eye and forced on a half grin as he turned his eyes toward her. He could see that she wanted to stop him in his tracks and question him to no ends. But they had already had several fights upon his arrival about that. She wanted to help him. He wanted her to leave him be. She was stuck and so was he. And that was where they had last left off and now she was afraid to break the ice that they were treading. He could see her reluctantly look away as he closed the door behind him.

Considering he didn’t have a car and also considering that getting any kind of ride seemed silly, Ben was going down the road on his own two feet. Adelina had told him her place of residence and if Google maps and his intuition wasn’t being a horrible bastard on this fine day then he would be able to be at her doorstep in absolutely no time at all for the most part. Maybe not in the ten minutes that he had assured her of at first but he could walk there in less than an hour (according to his poorly researched resources).

Was it strange that he was finding himself feeling slightly uneasy? Was it weird that imagining himself in some simple visiting scenario with an old friend was making his heart a little bouncy? When they had been friends when they were kids it had seemed easy enough. They were comfortable around one another (at least he was with her). They had been comfortable enough o be… quite close in some aspects. He had loved her in a way. In a way like… loving swimming or something. You enjoyed it, it kept you going and feeling good, but if it was taken away you’d do alright. Just not be as happy. Swimming? Really, Ben? He was really horrible at comparing things… he could be horribly not poetic at times. He just made sure to note to himself not to compare her to swimming if he somehow found himself rambling on. He wasn’t sure how she would take that.

It wasn’t long before Ben found himself at the house that Adelina had described to him. For a moment he stood away from it, tapping the toes of his shoes against the ground. He really didn’t want to show up to the wrong house. He had a feeling that would instantly put a damper on his mood and make him unpleasant. He was probably just being silly though. Yeah….

With a quick exhale through his nostrils, Ben started up toward the door and once upon it gave it a firm knock. It wasn’t long before he was faced with a woman who seemed to fit just what he had seen on the internet only a while earlier. Not to mention, there were some undeniable features that she had on her. Features that promised him that this was the girl he had come to see today. No wait, not girl. She was a woman. God damn, she was a woman.

“Hello to you too,” he spoke with a half grin on. He placed his hands on either side of her face and leaned forward, putting a small kiss on her right cheek. “Looking just as lovely as I recall. Invite me in?”

THIS IS TAGGED FOR KAIT/ADELINA. THERE ARE
864 WORDS AND I AM SORRY FOR THE WAIT </3