Seven

Since moving in, Helena and I have been actually pretty healthy, we have had many off days, and when we do we generally don't come out our rooms and tend to get room service via our mums very quickly and promptly.

I was transferred to online College and so was Helena to finish off our final year as College students, tomorrow was officially my birthday and I was so happy to finally be turning 20, means a new chapter in my life and just another year of knowing that I am closer to my dying month more than ever, my mum likes to make it extra special so that I can make sure I leave memories for her to reminisce on. I don't emotionally do much or even care to do the whole birthday works so basically a normal day for me.

"This isn't going to get any better, is it?" I said as I looked over at Helena as she adjusted her eye sight so that she was looking at me and not the screen, she nodded and went back to her screen, I guess she was in art as that was the only time she would be in her zone and not pay attention to me much, "I forgot to say I saw Vincent that time we were coming home from skating" I said as she snapped her head up and looked at me with her piercing eyes "wowser, you want me dead already give me half a chance" I said through a laugh as she rolled her eyes, "you are only telling me now? what did he want?" she asked as I shook my head "he didn't want anything, we just spoke about how I was out and I apologised, he asked me a question as well" I said as she looked at me confused "What did he ask?" she asked as I scanned my brain for the question he had asked me "think it was something like what is up with that mentality?" I said as she frowned and still was so confused "What was that supposed to even mean?" she asked as I shrugged "I was talking about how I didn't want to jinx my death and that I was going to die anyway and he just replied with that" I said as she laughed "non-dying people just don't understand that we literally have nothing to live for" she added as I nodded.

After class I went up into my room and just chilled out in there, when I wasn't hanging out with Helena I was just causally browsing my phone and seeing what was new, what was old on social media, one thing that was very new to me was the fact that Libby and Aaron had decided to take their relationship further and get a puppy, they hadn't moved in together, they were barely able to see each other but decided a puppy was the next big thing...don't, And then I got to the explore page and who would have guessed who I saw all over, from his own posts to fan edits about himself.

I decided to beat the curiosity and snoop on his page at what was the latest with him and well the latest was nothing, he was seen around skating as usually and getting into fights still, a real bad boy still in the making, it was horrible to see and quite the rep he was keeping and showing to his younger audience, I guess I was surfing for far too long because by accident, and I mean really by accident I must of liked one of his pictures and from that moment on I crucified myself, now that man would get a notification that I had liked his picture, but then again he is somewhat famous so he probably gets loads all at the same time so probably doesn't even noticed…

Boy was I wrong, within half an hour of me putting my phone down and going to have dinner I had a follow notification and a direct message notification from the one and only Vincent.

Vincent - Did you like what you saw?

me - did it by accident don't flatter yourself

Vincent - so unlike it if you haven't already

me - did that already I am not that slow

Vincent - never know, you could secretly still like the picture

me - leave me alone

The conversation was short and sweet and didn't really have a backbone to it so was over before it even started, or so I thought.

Vincent - what are you doing tonight?

me - didn't I say leave me alone?

Vincent - and I am asking what are you up to tonight

me - sleeping

Vincent - are you still at home? I am super bored and was wondering if you were still local?

me - yes, I am at home, no I am not meeting up with you

Vincent - I wanna skate and food will be on me

me - pinkie promise I don't have to pay for a dime

Vincent - I am asking you to hangout

me – Just to hangout no weird stuff, I know what you are like. Mr Player!

Vincent - kudos

me - fine.

I gave him my address and chucked on a pair of jeans and an oversized hoodie, to be honest most of my outfits are very much jeans or cycling shorts with oversized hoodies, so my style is pretty much basic and very weak, someone call the fashion police.

I grabbed my board and headed downstairs to where Patricia was sitting in front of the TV and my mum was literally nowhere to be seen, "I am heading out" I said as Patricia turned around and saw the skateboard in my hand and nodded "okay Hun, make sure you don't stay out too long and you have your keys with you, your mums nipped out for a food run" She said as I looked at my phone for the time and shrugged, won't blame a woman for doing a food run at 7pm.

I opened my door and nobody was to be seen, I walked a little more so I was now on the pavement and there on the corner of my road was Vincent, in a baggy jumper and some jeans with a small black hat on, his chains shining as the street lights hit it "really? does that look like my house to you" I called over as he rolled his eyes and skated towards me.

"I was trying to be discreet just in case you had family at home, last thing I want is a dad raging after me" he said as he stood in front of me and smiled, I rolled my eyes and shook my head "no dad, and to be honest think you'd have deserved it" I said as he shook his head and without another word we stood there in silence, "so, let me show you a place" I said as he nodded and we mounted our boards flying through the streets.

"viola!" I said as I got off my board and opened my arms out presenting him with the car park that I was in recently with Helena, Zack and Libby "It's mine and my friends little skate place, we come here when everything else is too crowded or we just want to come here" I said as he nodded looking at the empty space "it's got a weird feel to it? did something happen here?" he asked as I shrugged "I mean there are rumours and myths but who knows" I said as he shrugged and raced off on his board as I shook my head with a smile and joined him.

We mucked around on our boards for a while, him showing me all sorts of tricks and flips and me literally just sticking to skating around and enjoying the wind in my hair, after a while we just decided to sit in the middle of this car park and take all of it in.

"So, your story? why are you always saying that you are dying?" he spoke up breaking the comfortable silence we were in and looking over at me, I looked back at him and weakly smiled "I have lymphoma, which is just my white blood cells don't work very well, it's quite long to explain to you, but yeah, it's my second time being diagnosed with it so really, I am just understanding and accepting that this time round I won't beat it, why would it happen again if I wasn't meant to dead the first time?" I said as his look softened and as always, he had nothing to say, what do you tell a person who has had cancer twice, to stay strong? didn't they do that the first-time round?

"I am sorry to hear that, that must of been so painful to hear for the second time let alone the first time" he said as I shrugged "I mean the second time around I was just numb to it, I knew what was coming and I had accepted it so it was more just let me die doc" I said as he frowned straight away and shook his head "that isn't the mentality you should have at all, you need to appreciate what you have right here" he said as I chuckled "easy for some of us to say, Mr influencer who and I quote is created by the Gods themselves" I said as he rolled his eyes and rested his body weight on his hands which were placed behind him.

"people always give me that, think it's easy having everyone push and prod you into different directions and tell you what to do and not to do, I think you'll find we are on the same boat, it's just we have different ways of living it" he said as it was my turn to frown, he was definitely not trying to compare having cancer to being a famous.

"you can't compare someone who is dying to someone who is thriving, it's not the same thing at all, one of us isn't counting down the days of his life the other one is" I said as he shrugged and looked into the sky at the stars "well maybe you need to start living everyday as if you will die tomorrow then you can do all the things you want to do and live the life you were supposed to have, even better live everyday as if you aren't going to die tomorrow, then you set something to do for everyday so that when the day does come, people can say you lived how you chose to live" he said all empowering and very inspirational, but it wasn't need and I wasn't going to take the advice, "Sometimes reality is way more important than dreams" I said as he rolled his eyes and got up "come on" he said as he reach out his hand and I took it a little confused.