My 18th birthday had come and gone. I didn't know that Miss Roberts had something planned for me until that day. From the day we fucked again for the first time in a very long time, she and I would hook up in different places to take care of our sexual needs. It wasn't every day, but it was often. As in once a week, sometimes it was two week before we hooked up again. We were great friends and it showed, but my feelings for her had gotten very very deep. I didn't know what it was since I had never had those feeling before for anyone. I hid those feelings because we were so close. I suspected that she may have been feeling the same way about me mainly because she never dated anyone ever again. She only wanted me, and I just wanted to be hers. Two weeks prior to my birthday she and I stopped hooking up. I wasn't at all bothered by that at all. Why you ask? Well, because we were way to close of friends. However, my birthday was an amazing amazing night. The sex was out of this world that night. We fucked in so many positions that it was t funny.

A month or two passed and she seemed like she was getting sick a lot more. I started to worry about her because of it. She and I remained close, and our relationship never changed. We still talked about everything. But she was getting worse and worse as the days went by. What ever it was, it was hitting her hard and fast. I finally talked her into going to the doctor after she refused since they couldn't tell her what was wrong at first. The poor girl was loosing weight like crazy, and she couldn't afford to loose weight. She was tiny as it was. She took a few days off of work and I went to visit her everyday, hell we basically lived together at that point. So it was more like I went home to her. She was having very severe headaches and started to have trouble remembering certain things. She would also complain about how one side of her body wasn't working and seemed to be weak on that side. She was nauseous a lot and she would loose almost everything she ate. She even slurred her speech at times and had a difficult time speaking at times. I was worried sick about her, and she knew it.

So I made her make an appointment to go see another doctor. I even drove her to the doctors office and everything. When she came back out she looked pale as hell. I tried asking her what was wrong and she very politely and sweetly told me that she didn't want to talk about it yet. As time progressed all of her cheerleaders came to me asking me about her. Hell, even the principle called me into his office to ask me what was going on. He could read my face and knew that something was terribly wrong. It had now been a little over a month and I took care of her as much as I could. She still helped me with my homework and everything. She went to another doctor, and had a cat scan and MRI. I wasn't there for those because I was in school every time. She had blood work done and other stuff done. One day she had just gotten home from her doctors and called me. I had just gotten home fm school and got ready to go home to her.

"Hey babe, what are you up to?" She asked.

"Not much, I just got home from school. How are you feeling?" I asked.

"Not too good." She said. It sounded like she was crying.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I need to talk to you." She said.

"I'm on my way." I said.

"Ok, the back door is unlocked." She said.

I got up and almost ran to her Appartment. I opened the door and saw her sitting on her couch in the fetal position. I felt this overwhelming feeling of worry sweep through me. I walked up and she looked up at me and stretched her arms to me. I sat down and wrapped my arms around her.

"What's wrong?" I asked as she cried.

"Ssshhhhh. I just want to be held for a minute." She said.

I held her tight as I felt her tiny weak body shake. After a few minutes she let go of me and turned sideways so that we were face to face.

"Adam, I want you to know something before I tell you what the doctors told me." She said.

"Ok." I said.

"You have to promise that you won't say anything till I am done." She said.

"I promise." I said.

There was this silence that I have never heard before that just filled the room. All I could hear was her crying. We sat there for several minutes like that before she finally got it together and looked up at me.

"I know that our relationship never should have happened, but I want you to know right now, that I don't regret any of it. In fact I would do it all over again, without hesitation. You changed my life in way I never thought was possible. I was an angry, bitter person and I had so many issues in my life. So much so that I didn't care what I did or what happened to me. When we got caught, I got scared because I didn't want to go to jail, but I didn't really care. Then you did what you did to protect me and it surprised me. I never expected that to happen at all.

When you came into my life, you gave me a reason to live, a reason to wake up. I never thought that I would ever have a friend like you. You have to know that you made me a much better person than I have ever been. Just ask any of my friends and family back home. They say that I'm a different person. They say that they love the change I made. You have been thee most amazing person, the best person I have ever met in my life. There are very little to no guys like you out there. No person male or female has ever done what you have done for me. No one has ever placed their neck on the line like you did for me. I want you to know that." She said as she all but sobbed.

"You're scaring me Janine." I said.

"I just have to tell you that I am literally the person I am today because of you. I never thought that I would ever be happy. I have never been this happy before. I never thought that you would be the one person who would show me things in life that I never thought existed. You showed me more over the last year and a half than I ever thought was possible, more than I have seen or experienced in my entire life. I have to thank you for everything you have done for me. I have to thank you for being so amazing to me, and for being who you are." She said.

"What's going on?" I asked worried sick.

"I don't want you to worry about me. I want you to keep being who you are and what you are." She said.

"I will." I said.

"You promise me that you won't change." She all but demanded through tears.

"I promise that I won't change." I said

She looked me in my eyes and took both of my hands. She started to all but sob as she tried to speak for a minute but wasn't able to since she was crying so hard. She pulled herself together and wiped her tears away and grabbed my hands again.

"Listen to me, baby, I have cancer. It's called De Novo Glioblastoma, they say that it's the most aggressive form of brain cancer." She said.

"What?" I asked as my entire body went numb and my world crashed to the ground.

"Yeah." She whispered as she watched my eyes fill with tears.

Have you ever seen a big man about 7 foot 4 inches tall and 224 pounds break down and cry like a baby? If you were there, you would have seen it first hand. I didn't care if anyone saw me crying like I was. My best friend, my sister that I've never had, had brain cancer. The one person that I cared about the most in life had a life threatening sickness and there was nothing I could do to protect her now. It was then that I realized something. Something I had never experienced before in my life. I was in love with her! That's what those feelings were, I had been in love with her for a long time! I felt helpless and a very deep sense of despair wash over me.

"Oh my god." I said between sobs.

"Adam, Adam, it's ok sweetie, it's ok." She said as she let go of my hands and started to wipe my tears.

"I'm so sorry." I said as I sobbed hard. So hard that I was shaking.

"Don't be honey, it's ok." She said as she wrapped her arms around me and held me as she sobbed as well.

I have no idea how long we sat there sobbing together. All I know was that it was a very long time. Mom had called me several times but I didn't answer. My mind was on Miss Janine. After, well, I have no idea how long, she decided to lighten things up a little.

"Well, there is one thing that I can say I did before I died." She said as she smiled.

"What's that?" I asked."

"I got fucked rrrreeeealy really good and had so many, many multiple orgasms." She said as she laughed.

"Yeah there is that." I said as we both laughed.

"How long?" I asked.

"I don't want to talk about it, please, at least not now. I just want to be here with you and that's it." She said.

"That works for me." I said.

"Good." She said.

"By the way, you're the first person I have told about this." She said.

"Why me?" I asked.

She wrapped her arm in mine and laid her head on me and snuggled against me tightly.

"Because I'm in love with you. I love you." She said making me start crying again.

I turned to her and lifted her head by her chin gently and pressed my lips against hers and kissed her very softly. Her tongue slid into my mouth first and we just sat there kissing very slowly and softly.

"I love you too." I said as we both stared into each other's eyes crying.

"I know. It's pretty obvious, and it makes me the happiest girl alive. There is one really big, and for me the most important thing that I have learned from you." She said.

"What's that?" I asked.

"What true love is, what its like, and what it is suppose to be. I never thought I would ever experience that, but you gave that to me."
She said.

"Just know that I do not regret any of this. There is only one thing that I do regret." I said.

"What is that?" She asked.

"I wish I would have told you that I loved you sooner." I said.

"You didn't have to baby. I already knew, actions speak louder than words. Every one of my cheer leaders know that we aren't really brother and sister. They all kept telling me that you were in love with me. And trust me, I knew. I just wish I would have told you sooner." She said.

"I already knew, I just didn't recognize it." I said.

"You're a young teenager, you're only 18. You didn't know what to look for, but, you are so much further ahead of anyone your age because you know what true love is. You should be proud of that." She said.

We sat there and day dreamed about us. Getting married and having a family together and everything. She was most definitely the woman I would have married. I told her that I knew what to look for in a woman now and I wasn't going to settle for less, and it was going to be a woman like her.

Later I ended up calling my mom and talking to her. That night and into the next two days, I never left her side. I stayed with her all day and all night over the entire weekend. I made dinner for her and everything. I pampered her like crazy for those two days. Here is what made it harder for me, she was going home to her mom since the best treatments for her cancer were suppose to be there. She was leaving on Wednesday so she decided to go to school Monday and break the news to her cheerleaders. That night she told me about her cancer, we waited till later before she face timed her mom and told her. Her mom broke down too and that's when her mom told her to move back in with her and soon. She did the same thing to her dad and her sister. Let's just say that it was a very dark night for all involved. I had never cried so much and so hard in my life.

On Monday she had placed her notice in that she had to quit along with a doctors note. That Monday she and I were going to go meet with her cheer leaders after school. I went through the day in a daze and it was obvious that something was wrong. I was distant and didn't say much. After school all of her varsity squad met in her room and I went to go pick her up. We got to her room and it was just her, me and her cheer leaders. We shut and locked the door and then Janine and I sat on the desk together and she interlocked her fingers with mine, wrapping her arms tightly to mine. Our fingers squeezed together as she leaned on me.

"Ok girls here it is. I have to thank you all for making my years as fun as they have been. You all have been like my sisters and I want you all to know that I love you all. I want you to know that I am really going to miss all of you so bad." She said as she and all of the girls started crying.

"What's going on Miss Roberts? Whats wrong?" Several of them asked.

"Baby, can you tell them please?" She asked as she sobbed and wrapped her arms around mine and snuggled against me tightly.

"There is no easy way to say this." I said as I started to cry myself, making the girls cry even harder.

"Whats wrong?" One of them asked.

"Miss Roberts....Miss Roberts is really sick. She may only make it another few months. She has brain cancer." I said as I all but sobbed.

"Oh my god!" One said as they all crowded around us and hugged us tightly.

Miss Roberts never took her hand off of me as they all hugged her. After a while the girls all pulled desks up and crowded around us.

"You all already know that Adam and I aren't really brother and sister right?" Janine asked.

"Yes we do. We've always known that." Several of them said.

"We know you two are in love with each other Miss Roberts. It's really obvious." Another said.

"Yes we are. But you can't say anything to anyone about it." I said.

"You can trust us. No one will ever know, we promise you both here and now that we will never say anything." Another said.

"If anything we are very jealous of you Miss Roberts. Why can't every guy be like your boyfriend?" Another said.

"I don't know. I wish they all were like him." She replied.

"You all have to promise me something" Janine said as she started crying again.

"Anything." They said.

"I love this guy more than I have ever loved anyone. I never really knew what true love was until he and I got together. I'm not going to be around for very long, so you have to promise me that you will take good care of my man. Watch out for him and just be there for him. Right now he is going to need friends and people there for him. Please help him through all of this." She said as she cried hard.

"We will. We promise that we will take care of him." Several of them said at the same time.

After a long period time of us crying and such, we all finally gathered out bearings and started just talking. That's when we revealed to the girls that we had actually been together for the last year and a half. They were not surprised at all. We all sat there and talked and cried for a while. After that we drove home and I helped her pack her things. It was the most painful two days of my entire life. I had to stay strong and not loose it that entire time. We went to bed and slept in each other's arms. Then we got up and gathered her stuff. I sat and waited with her for her mom to get there. Once she arrived I helped her load the car and get ready. Once we were done, Janine pulled me into the garage and made sure it was just me and her.

"I am going to miss you." I said as we both started crying.

"I'm going to miss you too. I love you so much." She said as I held her tightly.

"Please tell me that I can come and see you." I said.

"I expect you too. You're my boyfriend." She replied.

"Don't ever change baby. You are a very amazing man." She said.

"If you make it, I want to start our life together." I said.

"And we will, I promise you right now, that if I do make it through this, I will be more than happy to share the rest of my life with you." She said.

"We can get married like we talked about and everything." I said.

"Yes we can and we will. I would never let you get away. But if I don't, I want you to live your life. Take however much time you need to grieve and then live your life. Keep being you." She said.

"I will, I promise you. I will never forget you Janine, I love you." I said.

She and I kissed for several long minutes. After that, she gave me one of her favorite necklaces to remember her by. After an extremely painful good bye, I watched her leave. I went in her appartment and laid on her couch and didn't move for at least a day or two. Mom knew what was going on, she knew we were in love with each other. She even promised me that she would help finance our wedding when she made it through her cancer. I didn't get back to school until Friday. As time went on, mom would fly me to where Janine was, every weekend. I met her family except her sister, she lived with her dad. Her family considered me as their own because of what I did for her. They always met me at the airport and took me to their house where Janine was. By then, they knew that we were in love with each other and surprisingly gave us their blessings. They made sure we had plenty of alone time allowing me to pamper her.

Over time, she started getting worse and worse. Then we were hit with a bomb shell. The chemo wasn't working. She started getting worse and looked anorexic. I stayed by her side every weekend as she suffered. I was watching her die. You have no clue what it's like to watch someone you love go through that unless you have been there. Four months later, towards

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