I pushed the door open and rushed inside immediately, she was awake and seated on the bed smiling at me.

"I'm still alive, relax Arnav." She giggled.

"This isn't funny Anju, why can't you for once be serious. Dint the doctor tell you anything?" I asked angrily, why was it that I was hurting so much and she was here smiling like everything was okay?

"Yeah, I was told I have a few hours left." She said.

"And that doesn't make you scared?"

"It does, but then it also reminds me, that this are the last few hours of my life, so why would I want to spend them worried or crying or anything, none of it is going to change the fact that I'm dying right Arnav?

Look I came to terms with this long back, the both of us knew this day was to come dint we? Arnav I am okay with this, I have lived my life the way I wanted to, I have done everything I wanted to, so clearly crying or being sad or worried isn't going to postpone my death. I really have no regrets about anything." She said.

At times, it felt like she was older than me, how was she so mature? The door opened and Kabir walked in, he was trying to look fine but he clearly looked like he had been crying out there and was just now pretending to be okay for Anju.

"Except for one maybe." Anju said as she looked at Kabir sadly, the smile she had all this while just disappeared.

"I am sorry, I thought I could handle this but I can't." Kabir said as he turned around to leave.

"Kabir, you promised me you'll stay with me till my last breath." Anju said.

"I know, but I am not as strong as you Anju, it's difficult." He looked at her as tears rolled down his eyes.

"Nothing is difficult, come here please." Anju said, my sister honestly was the strongest person I'd ever seen, I have no idea how she managed to be okay after all this.

Kabir walked towards us as he sat down beside Anju on the bed and hugged her immediately breaking down into more tears, seeing him cry like that for her, it brought tears into my eyes too and here I was trying to be strong for her, but I just couldn't.

"Please don't leave me, I don't know how to live this life without you in it." Kabir held on to her tightly.

"You know how to live it Kabir, you were living before me, you will be fine without me too. We already talked about this, please don't make it harder for me. It's been ages since I felt sad about my health, I don't want to feel that way, and seeing you like this is making me feel that way.

Kabir, look at me. I love you, you've made me so happy in the past few months that we've been together and I am so happy about it, but the both of us knew this day was to come right? So let me go, just like you had promised you would." Anju cupped his face and looked at him seriously.

Who could believe that this teenagers shared such a strong bond, and were so mature even at this age? The both of them were so happy together, I hated that this was going to be the end of me, I hated that the day I never wanted to think of had finally come.

"Now you both, do you want me to die in this hospital room while wiping your tears of or do you want to make the best out of this few hours I have left? I don't want to die in this shitty hospital room please." Anju pouted at me.

"Anju you have to stay here, we can't leave, you aren't well." I said.

"Arnav, I will die whether I stay here or leave, so why would I choose to die here?" Wow, she was talking about death like it was just something normal, I couldn't get how she managed to do that, I wish I could get into her mind and see what she was actually feeling.

Did she even mean what she was saying or deep down she was hurting but she was just putting on a strong and happy face for us.

"Anju!" Khushi rushed into the room and hugged Anju worriedly.

"Thank God you are okay, I was so worried when Kabir called." Khushi smiled as she looked at her happily and hugged her once again.

"I am okay Khushi relax." Anju said breaking the hug.

"Yeah she is completely okay that she's going to leave us in a few hours." Kabir said.

"What?" Khushi looked at her in shock.

"Okay seriously guys, enough of the shock, crying, sadness and drama, I want to get out of this room and do something crazy and if you don't take me out, I'll go myself." Anju said.

"Fine." I agreed as I headed out to talk to the doctor leaving her behind with Khushi and Kabir.

*****

"So what do you want to do?" I asked once the four of us were in the car.

"I want to swim." She said excitedly.

"It's almost midnight Anju." I said.

"So what? we can do it secretly, it will be more fun." She giggled. Usually I wouldn't agree with things like this, but today, I had no option. I was going to do everything and anything to make her happy. I just nodded as I drove us home, the all of us got our costumes then we headed to the place where she liked swimming, we had to literally sneak in there because no one was really going to allow us to swim at midnight.

She seemed really excited about this all, I just wondered if the news about her death wasn't bothering her at all, because as for me, it was the only thing stuck in my mind, and all I wanted to do was scream in pain and cry but I couldn't because that would make her sad and I dint want to make her sad.

"Are you okay Arnav?" Khushi looked at me worriedly.

"No Khushi, I am not, but I have to pretend to be, please let's not talk about this, it's just making me weak and sad. Change the topic." I said.

"Okay." She held my hand tightly assuring me she was there for me. I dint know how to deal with this, how was I supposed to be okay with something like this?

Anju was going to leave me, what was I going to do without her? My life was going to be completely empty without her, I felt so angry at the moment about all this, I really wished I could just scream for once.

God please don't take my sister away from me.

I looked at Anju who was really enjoying the swimming alongside with Kabir as the both of them kept on splashing the water at each other, just like me, Kabir was really pretending to be fine and happy because neither of us wanted to make Anju sad.

She was right, this were her last moments, all we wanted was for her to be happy.

*****

We all changed back into our usual clothes once Anju thought she had had enough of the swimming, and now she was hungry so she wanted to eat pizza with a lot of cheese, it was her favorite meal.

So we had to drive around trying to find a pizza place that was open at this time, luckily we found one so we ordered our pizza, sat at a table and waited for it.

"You two should find Kabir a new girlfriend once I'm gone, but don't find him someone prettier than me, or I'll be jealous." Anju laughed.

"Anju." Kabir looked at her seriously.

"What Kabir? You are a teenager remember? And you have a long life ahead, of course you're going to date someone in the future, there's nothing wrong about it." Anju said.

"What if I want to date you?" Kabir asked.

"Well you already are, but I come with a time limit." Anju giggled making him sad.

"Kabir, I love you. I do but please don't be sad. I know it's hard, it was for me when I learnt about this in the beginning, but with time I accepted it, I want you to accept it too okay? And promise me you aren't going to be sad or anything, just be happy like you always have been, otherwise I'll be sad too and I'm sure you don't want to see me sad." Anju said.

"I want you to be always happy."

"Great then for that you have to be happy too." Anju smiled at him, he nodded as the both of them hugged each other.

Khushi and I looked at each other and smiled, at times, we get the lessons of love from the people we least expect it from. Khushi held my hand into her and dint let it go, I know she was just trying to show me that she was here for me and trying to make me feel okay, but I don't think I was really going to be okay knowing that Anju was leaving me.