This Is All I Ask

Anna returns to tell everyone that she has cancer. They are all shocked, but Seth is hit the hardest. Can Summer be there for him?

Disclaimer – I don't own anything… but if I did I'd choose Adam lol. Also italics in bold at the end are lyrics by Jessica Simpson, which I also do not own. Reviews most welcome please!

Chapter 1 – The Return.

There were many things running through Anna's mind as she sat on that plane. Looking out of the window, she wondered if this was the last time that she'd be here. There were a lot of things she was going to miss. She tried to take it all in, but tears blurred her vision and she closed her eyes, desperately hoping that this was all a dream.

Of course it wasn't a dream, it was real life and the world was moving and she was moving back to Orange County.

Returning to Newport was just something she had to do, but it wasn't going to be easy. Life wasn't easy.

She just had to get out of Pittsburgh, where her family and friends were suffocating her, asking if she was all right.

No, I'm not all right! I have cancer ok?

Sometimes she wished she was alone in the world, alone to deal with the cruel blow life had dealt her with.

I'm leaving; I'm leaving for good.

The doctors said she had a fifty-fifty per cent chance without the chemo and slightly more if she did take the chemo. But it was her decision and she didn't want it. The chemo was only going to make her sicker in the long run.

Something like cancer was such a life changing experience and a whole shock to the system. Anna never thought it would happen to her, no one else had had it in her family.

Life never asks you what you want, it's just gonna have it's way. And sometimes it doesn't give like it takes.

How would she tell the others? Turn up, say 'hey guys, I've got some news – it's cancer.' Or, sit them all round and create a sombre atmosphere, in the dark.

She just didn't know.

One way or another, that's what she came back to do. To tell them she was dying.