Ashley's POV

Scarlett had always been a pae girl, but not this pale. It had been two weeks since she was last concious, the sameday she was ill. She was still out cold, in a coma. Seeing her like this ws killing me, she had a severe Basilar migraine and it was killing her too. I couldnt just sit and watch her die, there had to be something someone could do to help her.

"Its time to go, Ash." Andy said as he put a hand on my shoulder.

"Cant i stay a little longer?" I asked through my tears. I cryed everyday since Scar had been admitted to the hospital.

"Im sorry Mr Purdy, We need to do a few more checks." A nurse butted in, scaring th shit out of me.

"Ok." I said, simply.

I got up and stroked Scarlett's hair, then i kisssed her forehead. I always did this before i left, and it made anyone who was in the room at the time smile a little, in this case, the burse and Andy.

Andy's POV

It hurt so much. Not having Ashley smile, or to hear Scarlett's velvet-coated voice, or to see her peircing green eyes. She was my best friend, we'de known eachother since i was four. She was two and always stumbling around my bakc yard in an atempt to catch me up when we played tag.

I watched as Ashley stroked Scarlett's hair and kissed her forehead, he always did this. Refused to leave without doing so. It made me smile everytime i watched him, but it pained me to see the sadness in his eyes after he rose to leave the hospital, he mainly got sad after that because of how cold she was.

"Come on bro, lets go." I said and we went back to the hotel to meet the guys. We were going up to Alex and his girlfriend's room for a while to see OTL.

"How was she?" Jinxx asked us.

"Te same." Ash replied, sadness consuming his voice.

"Oh." Jinxx said as he put his head down.

We all missed her so much, it hurt all of us. Recently, CC got so upset he made himself sick. It really worried all of us, and he still hadnt fully recovered.

"How you feelin' CC?" I asked him.

"Better. Ish." He replied, pausing in between words.

"Still throwin' up, or is that the better part?" Ash said and l;aughed once, but with no emotion.

"A little, but not as much qas yesterdasy or anything." CC replied, seeming kinda cautious. "Hey Andy, do you mind if i talk to you for a sec?"

"Sure." I replied and followed him away from Jinxx, Jake and Ashley.

"I need to tell you this, i cant keep it secret anymore." he said, pain dripping from his voice.

"Sure, what is it CC? You know you can tell me anything, we're brothers." I said smiling slightly as i put a hand on his shoulder.

CC paused for a moment, and then spoke. "I love Scarlett." He said.

"Wai-What?" I asked him in disbelief.

"I love her, Andy. More than anything." He replied.

"Oh." I said, what the fuck was i SUPPOSED to say to that?!

"Is that it? 'Oh'?!" He said, seeming quite angered at what i replied with.

"What the fuck do you want me to say?! Good for you? Go get your girl? Make her happy?" I shouted.

"Well. I'm sorry for opening my fat ass mouth to tell one of my best friends, no wait, brothers, what has been burning in my mind for the past month or so!" He shouted back. That made the others look at us with concerned expressions.

I put a hand up as if to say 'Its ok.' Jinxx nodded once in responce.

"I'm sorry, its just, i needed to tell someone." CC said quietly after a while.

"So. What? You decided to tell the guy who is best friends with BOTH OF THEM?!" I relied, raising my voice again.

"I'm sorry man." He said and put a hand on my shoulder.

"I guess its ok. But i still think you should have told someone else. I've got a LOT of shit on my mind as it is and you know it." I glared at him, but not harshly, just more looked at him from under my bangs.

"I know, i've got a lot on my mind too, like you know, i made myself fucking sick worriying about Scarlett. I just needed to tell somebody." CC said. I smiled slightly in return.

"Come on, lets go back to the others. We need to go see OTL." I said, CC agreed and we walked back over to Ashley, Jinxx and Jake. By that time, Sammi had truned up too.

"Hey Sammi." I said, smiling.

"Hey Andy, how are you?" She replied.

"Im good thanks." I responded.

"Then what were you guys shouting about?" Ashley asked us.

"Nothin. Never mind Ash." I replied and lookedd at CC who was looking back at me.

"Yeah, we had a disagreement, but its all good now." He said and smiled hesitantly at me, i returned the smile.

"Ok, so... Do we get to know what this 'disagreement' was about?" Jake asked using air quotes.

"It's nothing, just forget about it." I sighed.

"Ok." He replied and the subject was dropped.

"We gunna go see Alex, Fynn, Danny and Bobby then?" I asked.

"Yeah, lets go." Sammi said as Jinxx wrapped his arm around her waist. I looked at Ash, who was watching the whole thing with anguish and envy in his eyes.

"Why so late?" Bobby asked once she had opened the door.

"Urm. No excuse. Next question." I said quickly and laughed once. Bobby joined in with my laughter.

"Ok then. Come on in then guys." She said and moved aside so we could all get passed.

"Sup guys?" Alex greeted us.

"Hey Alex." Jake grinned.

"You met Carla yet?" Alex asked us.

"Only heard about her, it's nice to finally meet you Carla." I said and shook Alex's girfriend's hand.

"Hey there." She replied. "Im a BIG fan of you guys, you're amazing!"

I laughed. "tghanks, its always great to hear thiose sorts of compliments, espeacially when we're not feeling too great." I said.

"Yeah, im sorry about Scarlett. But your welcome for the complimets." She said and smiled warmly at me.

"Anybody wanna cola?" Danny asked everyone.

Then there were mixtures of responces such as; "Hell yeah" and "Sure" coming from everyone.

"So how was Scarlett?" Bobby asked afetr settling down in Danny's lap. I then saw Ash tear up. Probably cuz thats what Scarlett used to do with him. I felt so bad for him.

"She's not too good. The doctors cant do anything more for her. We just have sit tight and wait." I stated. I hated being the bearer of bad news.

"Shit." Danny said and tilted his head back.

I walked over to Ashley and sat beside him.

"Wanna talk bro?" I asked him. He just nodded. "Kay, come on out to the kitchen with me." He did as he was told, he got up, went to the kitchen and sat on the counter.

"You ok Ash?" I asked him.

"No, Danny and Bobby are reminding me of Scarlett and I." He said, tearing up again.

"Ashley. You know me nd the guys are alwys here for you if you wanna let shit outta your system. You can talk to us about whatever. You know that." I said and put a hand on his shoulder in reasurrance.

"Thanks Andy. I know i can talk to you espeacially, you love Scar like a sister. You were always there for eachother, even when our careers took off." He replied and sniffed.

"Yeah, i know, sometimes she feels like th only familyi have apart from you guys and my parents." I said, which made him smile.

"Jeez dude, i feel loved." He said and we shared a small laugh.

"Hug it out?" I asked. He smiled and nodded. We then embraced in an awesome guy hug.

"Ok, more bro, less mance from now on yeah?" Ash said and i chuckled and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah. Totally bros." I laughed.

We went back to the living area and talked about how Scar was and all the things we missed about her.

"I miss her smile." Alex said quietly.

"I miss her kisses." Ashley said in monotone.

"I miss her company." I said. I couldnt take any more of it so i walked out and went to my room and just lyed on the bed in silence.

"ANDY!" Ash yelled, running into the bedroom.

"What?" I asked.

"Its Scarlett, the hospital phoned and said that they want us ALL to come in." he replied.

"What? All TEN of us?" I asked. This must have been serious because Ashley's voice was dripping with worry.

My eyes widened when  i realised the seriopusness of it all.

"Ok, hold on, we'll need the OTL bus, its bigger than ours." I said and jumped off the bed to get my boots on and me and Ash both ran abck to Alex's room.

"Everyone ready?" Sammi asked as  we burst through the open door.

"Yeah." Bobby said as she looked at me and i nodded. We all piled out of the hotel and onto the OTL bus. We got the the hospital in 15 minutes and imediately jogged up to Scarlett's ward.

"Mr Purdy, Mr Biersack, and friedns i see, thank you for coming." the nurse welcomed us.

"Whats wrong with Scarlett?" I asked.

The nurse's facial expression changed insinctively. It did NOT look good.

"Scarlett is getting weaker by the minute. This may be the her last few hours. I called you personally so that you could all be there with her when she passed." She said. My heart stopped completely.

"No." Ash whispered. he lost and just collapsed on the floor in tears.

Ashley's POV

"She cant go, she cant leave me." I whaled through my never-ending stream of tears. Bobby wrapped her arms around me and we cryed together, that turned into one massive group hug/cry.

"I wish there was more we could do." The nurse said helplessly as we came out of the hug.

"i know. Thank you for doing all that you could." Andy said. The nurse said we could go in and spend Scarlett's last few hours with her, and say our goodbyes.

"Andy i need to talk to you out here for a second." i said as the others went in.

"Sure Ash, what is it?" He asked. He knew how much i was hurting, i know he felt it too.

"It cant ebd like this. It cant." I started. "I-I was going to ask her to marry me." i finally whispered.

"Ash." He replied with a pleading voice, a voice that said 'stay strong' more than anything.

"But then she got sick and i didnt get the chance. Andy she cant leave me. Not like this." i said as i pulled the ring i was going to give to Scarlett from my jacket pocket. It was a crystal heart on a silver band.

"Oh my god, its beauiful Ash." he told me.

"Yeah, and i never got the chance to even propose to her." I said as more tears fell from my eyes.

"hang in there Ash. Why dont you give it to her anyway." Andy said. I looked at him, confused, but when i finally got it, i nodded.

We walked into Scarlett's ward. Everyone moved aside so we could see her. I walked to her bedside and lifter her left hand. I slipped the ring on her ring finger. A perfect fit. She was beautiful.

Bobby, Sammi and Carla started crying and hugged their boyfriends tightly.

I envyed them. Why do they get to be happy and im alone with the one person i have ever loved in the world slipping away from me so quickly.

I'll never see her beautiful eyes or her smile again. It wasnt fair.

"I cant do this. I'm sorry Ashley." Sammi said and ran out, shortly followed by Jinxx.

The only sound in the room now was the heart-rate moniter, which had gotten about twice as slow as it should do. Then a single, continuous beep. She was gone.

I can honestly sai that i have never cryed as much as i did before. I didnt care that i was crying into Andy's shoulder either. Scarlett was gone and i had never felt more alone than i was then.