We Were Something by Jillian Liota

Author:Jillian Liota
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952549151
Publisher: Love Is A Verb Books

CHAPTER 13

PAIGE

“Thanks so much to everyone for being here. I just wanted to go over everything one more time before we dive in.”

I’m tucked in the corner of Ivy’s hospital room the following Wednesday morning, trying to make myself invisible as I listen to Logan give a rundown of the details of the upcoming surgeries and procedures everyone will be going through in the coming weeks.

When Lennon talked to me about being here for Hannah and Lucas a few times over the coming weeks, I assumed it would just be the three of us with Logan in a normal doctor’s office.

I didn’t anticipate that my first day of acting as a Hospital Shuttle would be an all-hands-on-deck kind of meeting, and now I’m in the room listening as he lays out the full calendar for not just myself and Lucas and Hannah, but also Ben and Wyatt and Ivy and their mom, Vivian.

Even Remmy is here, but I can tell she feels slightly out of place as well since she’s tucked herself in this corner next to me.

Though I don’t know how invisible she can make herself with that growing belly of hers.

The only people who aren’t here are Lennon and Mr. Calloway, though the fact that Ivy’s asshole of a father didn’t show isn’t much of a surprise since the man is the most self-absorbed piece of shit ever to walk the face of the earth.

Okay, maybe that’s a little much. I mean, there are serial killers out there. But the man rarely showed up to any of Ivy’s appointments before she was in the hospital. And Ivy has been cagey about him in the one or two times I’ve asked, leading me to think he hasn’t been in to visit her in the two months she’s been here.

The Calloways really drew the short stick when it came to parents.

Though I guess my own stick is pretty short as well.

“It has taken a bit longer than we’d anticipated,” Logan says, drawing me back to the here and now, “but Ivy finally went completely off her meds not too long ago, so we completed her first round of chemotherapy yesterday.”

My eyes widen in shock, and I glance over to where Ivy is sitting in her bed as she watches Hannah interpret for her. Her eyes are tired and her skin is slightly pale, but there aren’t any other visible signs, which is normal after the first round. It’s likely if she goes through two to three more rounds, other signs will become more visible.

I’ve read up a lot on what chemo can do to a body, so the fact that I didn’t realize she was going to receive it as a part of this treatment makes me angry with myself for not paying more attention.

“Beginning today and every day for the next four days, Hannah and Lucas will receive daily injections of filgrastim. This will cause the blood stem cells in your bone marrow to replicate and secrete into the blood stream.

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