A/N: I've really gotten onto this idea. I couldn't get it out of my head once I thought of it. I know, I'm starting another series, but I can't help it. I like this idea too much. It's all going to be in Gwen's POV.

Disclaimer: Man of Action owns Ben 10.

January 25, 2011
6:29 P.M.

Day One

I think my heart broke today. I'm really scared for a ton of reasons. I'm not sure exactly what all's going on right now. With Kevin. With me. I'm really scared. I want to be afraid, but I don't want to be at the same time. I know the general statistics and all and I'm hating every second of it.

Here's generally what happened, in short at least.

Kevin didn't show up. Again. Ben and I went out to take on the Forever Knights, being irritating nuisances again. I'm still not sure why they won't just give up when we slaughter them every time, but that's another story.

I was upset, definitely. No questions asked about that. Kevin isn't supposed to let us down. He's a teammate and a friend, not to mention my boyfriend. He hasn't called. He didn't leave me any messages. I didn't get a reason why he didn't come. It made me mad so I took it up with his mom. I called his house, which I hardly ever do because he's never even there most of the time, and she picked up perky as ever.

As soon as she knew it was me, she was almost automatically talking about how much Kevin talks about me and such. He said a lot about me. She thinks he loves me. That's all that really matters, but this was the zinger.

When I brought up how he didn't show up today, she went silent. It was a long time. I asked if she was still there and she said she was. I kind of let her stay quiet for a while. Then she finally said something that made my heart stop in my chest.

I swear it broke. I swear I don't know how in the world I'm going to make it through these nineteen days. I mean, I'm already miserable and it's only day one. I decided to chronologically order all this so that maybe one day someone can figure out what happened and help someone else out there. Why? Because I think it'd help and Kevin would want it that way. He's like that, but no one would be able to tell behind all that bad boy stuff he puts up as a front.

So… Kevin didn't show. He didn't pick us up. Never called. Never said anything to us. We had hardly seen him for weeks. And I thought it was getting ridiculous because he would email me, but he wouldn't return my calls. And he would text. It bothered me and I was just thinking "Seriously? You won't call me back? Did I do something wrong?" He was still responding like he normally would. Kevin was playful and such. I knew he was just teasing me and that was fine by me. I liked it because it was him. If it was Ben, I would've knocked his block off. Not like that would do any good. It wouldn't matter. But if Kevin read this, he'd love to see me say that. He loves bothering Ben almost as much as he loves bothering me.

Are you getting this? He wasn't talking to me. Why? Oh, his reasoning broke me. I wanted to curl up and die. The worst part was that he hadn't even said it to my face. That really bothered me. I had to hear it from his mom. It was… it was annoying. It was really annoying.

"He didn't tell you, did he?" Kevin's mom sounded so innocent and so vulnerable when she said that. I could just imagine some sort of heartbroken face on her usually cheerful features. It hurt just to think of his mother sad. She was never supposed to sound sad. It was her. She wasn't supposed to be sad. It wasn't right.

She just told me one simple thing and my whole world fell apart like a book tearing at the seams. Maybe this'll help someone some day. I'm hoping it will. Because maybe me writing out this sequence of events will let someone else explain a solution that had previously escaped me. But I have eighteen days left, right? As long as Kevin decides to talk to me again. Or at least acknowledge my existence.

"Sweetie, Kevin has cancer."

That was the perfect way to ruin my already miserable day. To know that my boyfriend only had nineteen days to live, eighteen as of tomorrow.

A/N: Next chapter will be longer. This was intro. I really just wanted to get it down. So… yeah. Reviews are greatly appreciated.

~Sky