third person's pov

after the next day as long as lily's vitals were normal she could leave. she didn't hesitate to leave as cal laughed at how eager she was to leave.

"well when you've been there for days and you can't leave. would you be happy to leave that shithole?" lily asks cal as he nodded his head at her.

"good point lil," cal says as they both get into his mom's car that he's borrowing to pick up lily. "i'm assuming you want coffee,"

"have you met me, i won't turn down my first love," lily says as cal gave her a look as he shook his head at her with a smile.

"that's low even for you," cal says as lily hit his head and he turned to her as she looked away like nothing happened as she'd playing innocent.

"what, i didn't do anything, stop looking at me like that," lily says as cal went to flick her cheek but she grabbed his hand. "don't make me twist it," lily says as cal retracts his hand as they pull up to the starbucks.

"no need to get violent," cal says as lily shakes her head and a couple minutes later they both got their drinks, and are now driving around town. wondering what to do to cure their boredom. then cal drives to the one place where lily won't object. the mall.

once lily knew where they were at, after the car stopped she hurriedly got out of the car and started making her way towards the doors. cal basically had to run after her because of how far ahead she was of him.

"yeah you don't miss the mall at all," he says as when he catches up to her he takes a couple deep breaths. lily glares at cal before she hurriedly goes inside and immediately goes towards some makeup store with cal right behind her.

maybe i should take away her credit card? he thought in his head as he followed lily as she was all giddy completely ignoring that cal was even here.

twenty minutes later

after about a $100 dollars later lily was finally satisfied and walked out of the store with her makeup in their bags. cal groaned as he once again followed her, instantly regretting taking her here in the first place. knowing what she'd do.

they made their way to the food court of the mal and four stores later. "you hungry butthead?" lily asks him as they stop. "of course you are because you have chicken wings for arms."

cal looked at her like she just offended him as his mouth gaped open as he shakes his head at his friend. then again she's always like this making fun of his chicken wing arms.

"i do not, can't believe you'd say that," he says as he crosses his arms over his chest as he's wearing a black t-shirt and a pair of jeans and converse shoes.

"yeah tell that to the chickens they want their wings back. you stole them when you were born," lily says as she continues to do her thing as cal mentally slaps his head.

"whatever, smartass," cal says as lily gave him the finger as she went to choose a restaurant to get her food as she is starving. she is sick and tired of that hospital bland food it tastes disgusting at least to her. it looks like food they give to you at prison. she called it prison hospital food. some of it didn't even look editable to be considered to be food.

a couple minutes later

lily came back with their food as she wanted to be nice enough to get cal his food. he grumbled a thanks before he started eating his food. occasionally giving lily looks as she just smirks at him obviously pleased of what happened.

"your just happy you got your way didn't you," cal asks lily as she nods her head as they are both finished with their food and now walking around the mall.

"yeah totally. god i love getting what i want," lily says as they walk into random stores seeing what's new and interesting.

"you sound like a spoiled--" cal says but lily turned around as she found a fake small toy knife and pointed it at him, which made him stop talking immediately as he let out a nervous laugh.

"you to finish or me cutting all of those freckles off," lily says as cal didn't waste no time in nodding his head at her wanting this to end. he loves his freckles too much to lose them.

once lily was satisfied with what she got and cal looking pale, with fear across his face. the two made their way to a different store when once again lily forgot about cal. though he managed to keep up with her but it was a struggle to do so.

maybe he should get a leash to make sure that she doesn't walk off away from home. he almost lost her literally and he doesn't want to do it again. she got a couple rings for her father because he wears a lot of them. two, she knows that he has a collection of rings that he started when he was younger.

"can we go, my arms are tired," cal says as lily ignores him as she is humming a song in her head. cal rolls his eyes at his friend.

"When you feel my heat
Look into my eyes
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide"

lily loves this song so much as it sometimes makes her cry. okay she cries everytime she listens to it, it's the song that she says to people as it describes her relationship with cal. of protecting him from all the dangers of high school of him constantly getting himself beated the shit up.

it makes her cry everytime cal would come over and he'd have a black eye, busted lip, and all these injuries from fights either vic and ronnie. but sometimes she hides her emotions especially her crying but cal knows her better than anyone. like eden and jack they know lily inside out.

lily continues to hum that particular part of the song as she randomly sung it out of nowhere. lily was snapped out of her thoughts when cal asked this question. "you good lil, you've stood in the same place without moving, gor three minutes," cal says with a small laughter. but that when he sees her with a single tear rolling down her cheek. he put the multiple bags on the ground and brought his friend into his arms, and she wasted no time in hugging him back with sobbing a little.

"what's wrong," cal asks as he rubs her back in an effort to calm her down. she says words but there inaudible as she's mumbling because of her sobbing. lately she's been a little emotional which is fine because of the trauma of what she went through the past week and a half. sometimes all it takes is just songs on the radio and she'll suddenly bust into crying.

"i don't know, and i hate being emotional," lily says with a little laugh as cal chuckled at her response. "i was listening to a song on the radio and look what's happening to me, i look like someone died," lily says as she continues to joke about the situation as cal tries not to laugh.

"well, lets go before you cry again," cal says as it didn't take lily twice to agree. she wanted to leave this damn place before she cries again.

you can tell that she's stubborn about her emotions by a long shot. she hates having people watch her crying and having a meltdown, even cal, her sister and father. she will go cry in peace most likely in her room. until someone comes into her room and makes her talk about whatever is bothering her.

most likely it's cal, as he knows her tricks and cards all too well. maybe he can learn some of those, as when lily isn't being a cry baby (literally), she can be highly protective of her friends especially cal again. like when they were at school and he'd get into all of these fights.

they walked out of the store which was a good thing for lily because when they got into the car and was on their way to drop lily off at her house the same song that she cried before came on. when she realized what song it was she immediately shut the radio off, and rhe she gave it the finger. cal tried not to laugh but for the sake of lily he chose against it he looked out the window and smiled widely at her reaction.

"you done yet," cal says to his friend as she put her feet up on the dash as she rolled down her window and there was a light warm breeze come into the car as its still summer out. but thankfully its not that hot outside so that's another bonus, that lily liked. she never liked the beat but considering where they live you have to be used to the heat. 'its a freaking fucking sauna', as common words from lily, everytime it's scorching hot outside.

"glad you had fun until you cried," cal says as lily smiles lovingly at him. after what felt like days but in reality was five minutes they got to lily's house, and cal helped her get the bags from their shopping spree. well more like lily's shopping spree not his.

the door immediately opened and it was uncle aiden he immediately engulfed lily into a deafing grip of a hug making her weakily hug him back, she also weakly patted his back.

her unclr eventually pulled away from the hug and then kissed her head as cal smiled at the sight in front of him. he pranking uncle was hilarious when he wasn't shockingly pranking people. he was funny either way. in his mind he should be a comedian, he'd make hella people laugh their asses off.

(well there's sebastian stan in a nutshell, sorry just thought i'd put that here, but enjoy the last part of this chapter).

when aiden saw cal he chuckled and the two hugged each other and then cal followed lily into the house and once again everyone hugged the two friends they eventually made their way to lily's room. where they listened to music while they unpacked everything that they bought. then, having a little dancing session, that was fun, then the two friends very closely almost bumped heads when they simultaneously fell backwards onto her bed. which obviously was messed up from ruby without a shadow of a doubt.

"that was fun," lily muttered as her and cal now are cuddling with each other with of course her bucky barnes blanket that she got a couple years ago on amazon. what it was fifty dollars and she couldn't help herself.

she doesn't let NO ONE touch her bucky blanket EVER. if you do she'll murder you. literally one time cecily touched it and lily tackled her to the ground.

flashback to when cecily tried to steal her blanket ehy because i want to make this a little longer

(ignore how long that was, it's called making my books lowkey depressing)

five years ago

lily recently ordered a blanket that she saw on amazon, as she had nothing else to do. she had a valid reason: it was her birthday.

lily, cal, eden, and cecily were pre-teens and just finishing middle school as cecily's mom was still alive. so the kids would sometimes go over to her house and be kids. one day lily was on her father's amazon account and ordered a bucky blanket.

when the blanket came cecily's eyes widen at the sight of it and she touched it, not knowing that lily was right behind her.

"um, hi," lily says startling cecily as she yelped not seeing her friend coming.

"you could've knocked," cecily says as lily smirked at her friend.

"now what fun would that be," lily says as cecily frowned as she handed over the blanket to the rightful owner. "thank you, now don't touchie again," lily says as cecily nods her head.

end of flashback

lily eventually fell asleep in cal's arms as he rubbed circles in her back like jack does when the girls were little. he too fell asleep continuously moving his hand across her back knowing how to make her fall asleep.

lily's eyes were so heavy that every second she left herself growing more tired each second. that and after her coma she didn't really sleep that well. she wanted to leave the hospital almost instantly, but knew it was for the better.

cal knew that for next while that she will have nightmares of what happened which is understandable. he'd be there for her every step of the way being her support system and hold her everytime she cries. wipe her tears tell her that everything is going to be alright.

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hi people. sorry if this was lowkey depressing, i'm going through a thing right now, so excuse that. hope you enjoyed this chapter. i promise i'll try to get more borgie in here, so yeah.

happy holidays.