6th November 1991
Lilianes POV
Freddies condition really got worse those past few days. He'a coughing and sneezing, and his throat hurts. I'm worried, I'm sick if worrying. He is playing it off but he exactly knows what's going on, he's also tired of the medication, it's really exhausting. We're not allowed to get emotional around him, so I can't cry when I'm with him. We still work in shifts to take care of him, Freddie acts as if he doesn't like but deep down we know that he's thankful for us being here.
I quickly wiped away a few tears when the doorbell rang, I wasn't in the mood for some visitor though. I sighed and opened the door and there I saw my chubby friend Roger standing in front of me with his sunglasses.
Thank God.
"Oh- Roger hello, I didn't know it was you- you didn't call or anything , did you?-well your always welcome, c'mon come in." I said as he looked at me a little confused.
"Oh you don't know how many times Fred showed up at my door without me knowing." He chuckled as he came in where he gave me a proper hug.
"Well he's the Freddie Mercury at the end of the day he can do what he wants." I chuckled a she laughed.
"It's Fred after all." He chuckled.
"Uhmm- I don't know if he's awake I could go check quickly." I said as I just wanted to go up the stairs.
"Let Mrs.Mercury have her beauty sleep, I want to talk to you." He said as I turned ti him again.
"Okay, uhh let's sit down then." I muttered as we sat down. "What is it? Problems with Debbie? Don't tell me you cheated again-" I started as he shook his head.
"No,no." He said. "Lil I just wanted to know how you are." He said.
"Ohhh- well I'm alright- y'know. No need to worry." I said.
"Lil I've known you your whole life, you're one of my best friends, of course something is wrong." He said as I sighed.
"Rog I just- y'know- uhhhh-." I started. "I just don't know how to go about this. I mean it's Freddie y'know- he tells me not to worry- but how?!"
"Lil you have us. I'm worried about you- I don't know what will happen with you if- y'know-" He muttered. "I just wanna make sure that you'll be alright- I mean, you have us." He said.
"Roger when Mum died Dad told me I had him, the. Dad and Clarie died and Freddie said that I have him- and what if Freddie - uh- Rog all this is just too much for me." I sighed.
"I know-" He started but I cut him off.
"No you don't- not at all. My whole life I was told: 'Oh Lil keep going, it'll be alright' and I did. But I've reached my point. Someday I just can't anymore. I've lived with this pain since I was a child and Freddie was the only person who could help me out of that. What am I supposed to do?!" I said as he sighed.
"That's not like you." He mumbled.
"What?" I asked.
"Giving up." He answered and he was right. "Life gave you this challenge so you could pass it, not that you lose. Lil it's the way of life." He said but when I looked at him I could see a little uncertainty too.
"Then I'll lose." I whispered.
"Lil!" Rog said. "Don't say that! You're not a looser you are such a strong woman, this won't get you down." He said and I sighed. "That man upstairs laying in his deathbed is trusting you with what he leaves behind. Lil he's counting on you."
"But that's too much Rog. I can't take it." I whispered as I buried my face in my arms and started crying.
"Hey! C'mon! Don't cry. Hey Liliane. Don't cry." He said as he pulled me up from my chair and hugged me. "Lil he's counting on you one last time, like people in a marriage do." Rog said and even his voice broke.
"I'm sorry." I whispered.
"Oh it's alright, cry as much as you have to, but don't mourn your whole life. Lil I'll carry you along the way as long as I have to, but don't give up. We have your back." He said as I nodded into his shoulder and quickly wiped away my tears. "Don't let him down."
"I'll fight till the last second." I said as he patted my back while pulling back from the hug.
"Now that's the Liliane I know." He chuckled as I wiped away the tears.
"I'm sorry, I'm being a crybaby lately." I mumbled.
"You have every right." He mumbled. "How's your health?"
"Pretty good I guess, compared to Freddie." I muttered as I pulled up my sleeve and there was a very light brownish spot. "You see." I muttered as he nodded. "But besides that I'm fit, I stopped the training for now because I want to spent time with Freddie and the kids but yeah." I mumbled, forcing on a smile.
"That sounds okay." He said with a light smile. "Liliane please don't give up." He whispered as I slowly nodded.
"Besides that- uhm - Brian had a single planned, right?" I asked as Rog nodded. "I wanted to tell him to postpone it, because of the situation with Freddie, his health changed drastically in the last 3 days." I muttered as Rogs eyes were filled with worries when I mentioned the heath of his ill friend.
"Yeah well I'm not sure, we should talk to Freddie about it shouldn't we? I think Brian wanted ti come along by himself later anyways." Rog said and I nodded.
"Who's talking to my lovely wife?" I suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"It's Debbie Harry herself." Rog chuckled as Freddie came around the corner. We were downstairs in the living area and Freddie was upstairs looking down into the living area, talking to us.
"Oh Mrs.Taylor." Freddie chuckled. "I'm honoured."
"And so am I." Roger mumbled with a smile.
"Did we wake you?" I asked as Freddie looked at me.
"Yes, but darling- you don't look good- I mean you always look good but- DID MRS.TAYLOR MAKE YOU CRY? DID HE?" Freddie asked.
"Oh no, I just- uhm- a lash- I had a eyelash in my eye." I chuckled.
"I see you- we're talking later." He muttered as he looked at Rog again. "So what are the news?"
"Oh well, actually not much, I just thought I'd visit my young friend Freddie 'The fairy godmother' Mercury." Roger smiled sweetly.
"Glad to hear that Mr. Chubby Taylor." Freddie said and Rogs face dropped.
"That's not fair." He muttered as I smiled at them
two talking like that. They've known each other for more than two decades now, they even shared a store and a flat together.
"Oh dear. So what do we wanna talk about?" He asked.
"How about you ask me to come upstairs and we'll
talk?" Roger asked with a little laugh.
"Will you come upstairs then?" Freddie asked as he nodded and the two nodded and walked off like two kids.
Oh dear.
I sat down on the armchair with a sigh when someone else ran down the stairs.
"Mum! Today is the- uh the camp- aren't you coming?" Jamie asked with a packed backpack on his back.
"No, honey. This year I won't be there. Larry will do it." I said as Jamie slowly nodded. We'd do a Taekwondo camp for one weekend at least one time a year. Everyone is there, the big ones and the little ones. It is definitely fun, no matter what age you are also if we do silly games. We're like a family y'know, I'm giving my best so the kids see the Dojang and these people as a home like I did when I lost my dear mother.
"I understand." Jamie said. "I just hope I don't have to team up with Joe." He grumbled under his breath.
"Oh Jamie! C'mon Joe is a nice boy, I don't understand why you two can't be friends." I said, Joe was really a nice boy. They're all nice.
"Yeah whatever. Say hello from Uncle Rog and the others. Tell Dad to keep Delilah away from my room." He said and I nodded. "Bye Mom! Love you." He said.
"Love you too! And go through the backdoor yeah? Have fun!" I smiled as he nodded and left through the door.
It'll be alright I guess.
Jamies POV
"We're here kids!" Larry said as the bus stopped in the middle of a forest. "Everyone get your asses out of here!" He said as we all walked out the bus and stood there outside.
"Sooooooo." He started as we all sighed, knowing that whatever would come next would be bad. "Please team up in pairs of two first, then I'll explain what will come next." He said with that suspicious smirk on his face. I already saw all the people getting teamed up and the next thing I saw was that Joe was standing there, desperately asking people to team up with me so he wouldn't have to but it was too late. "Joe go to Jamie." Larry said as both out faces dropped and Joe went up to me with his head down.
Just what was I saying earlier to Mum?
"Okay as you see we're in the middle of nowhere so I have these cool things for you!" Larry said and with cool things he meant old maps of the area we were in. Each team got one map and then he took a pile
of ropes out of his backpack. "So now, I want you to tie your hands together." He said and Heavyweight Mark who paired up with his crush was blissfully happy and people who paired up with their best friend were laughing while Joe and I were just starring at Larry with a 'Are fucking serious?!' gaze. "Ohhh Jamie no need to give me that look, I'm sure it'll be fine." He chuckled nervously.
"Why?!" Joe muttered as he took the rope and roughly pulled on my wrist to get it near to his. Joe made a knot and Larry walked around, making sure they were all solid.
"So what I want you to do is to find the way to our camping site which is marked on the map. Who turns in first wins and who comes last will have to do all the dishes and stuff. We'll be waiting in the camp for you, cause we're taking the bus." He said. "It'll be fun I'm sure, don't take too long." He said as we slowly nodded. "If there is something you'll have these." He said as he gave each group a walkie talkie. "So are there any more questions?" He asked.
"Why do we have to tie our hands together?" Joe asked.
"Liliane says we're a family, so we need to tighten our bond and I don't want to stand in the way of doing that." He said with a smirk. "Now that all questions are answered I hope y'all will have a great time! Just don't die or your parents will sue the fuck out of me. Or at least make it look like a- ummm anyways. Have fun! Don't die!" He said before they stepped into the bus and drove off which left us all alone. All teams just nodded at each other and all walked off into different directions.
"Why did I sign up for this?" Joe muttered.
"I feel you." I said blankly.
"Shut it." He mumbled as I just did what he said. After a while he looked at the map and lost it. "HOW AM I SUPPOSED WHERE TO GO-?!" He started.
"You're holding it upside down." I said as I wanted to turn it around and he directly smacked my hand away.
"I know- I was just trying to- SHUT UP." He said as I just rolled my eyes.
"Okay listen I don't care about you, I just wanna get there soon so I'm forced to cooperate, you're just in the way." I hissed as I looked at the map while his face dropped. "You see, we're here and we're moving towards that direction and there is the cross so we have to go there." I said as he slowly nodded when he realised that what I said made sense. We quietly walked the way and stopping a few times to check the map.
"I'm hungry." Joe quietly said as I just said nothing.
He can be calm?
"CAN WE STOP?!" He said as I shrugged.
Nevermind.
"Okay okay! Eat!" I sighed as he somehow managed to get his food out of his backpack. He sat down in a rock and I kicked the tree right beside that rock.
"Could you stop moving I wanna eat." He said.
He's usually so calm maybe he just hates me.
"Can't you eat while walking?" I asked.
"No?" He said as I sighed and let him eat his sandwich. I just wanna get over with this as quickly as possible. We sat there for like 5 minutes when he finished, but we both shrugged when something in the bushes moved. I kept calm while Joe completely panicked. "I swear this is a goddamn wolf it had grey fur I saw it!" He said as he already started running and dragged me along cause our hands were attached.
"It's a racoon-" I started but he wouldn't listen and just dragged me along. Half his stuff was falling out of his backpack while we were running and I even dropped the map. "This is the wrong direction!" I said.
"I don't wanna die!!!! Run faster." He said as I just threw myself onto the ground so he'd stop. "What are you doing?!" He shrugged.
"There are no wild wolves in England they were wiped out like Two- or Three-thousand years ago! Did they teach you nothing in Irland or what?!" I said as he stopped.
"How do you know? Maybe they came back?!" He said as he dragged me behind a bush and stumbled over on the way and caused me to fall over right on top of him and unfortunately my mouth fell onto his. We made eye contact and both our eyes widened as we shrugged back.
"Eeeeeeww! Jamie-." He started while he spit onto the floor and so did I.
"You pulled me down!" I hissed while wiping my lips.
"Why you! Why not a pretty girl." He hissed.
Disgusting.
"You're in the way why did I have to team up with you." I muttered after a while.
"I just got scared earlier, shut up." He said as we looked over the bush and there we saw a racoon going through his stuff.
"I fucking knew it." I hissed.
"Fecking- uh." He started as I just dragged him out of the bushes and walked to that racoon. "Hey! No! NO! STOP! Racoons are scary too! HEY JAMIE!-" He started as I just kept dragging him.
"Fuck off." I blankly said to the Racoon as he showed his teeth and made himself big. "Fuck-Off." I said with a clap in between while Joe was hiding behind me.
This dude.
The racoon made a strange sound and jumped towards me. I moved aside and the racoon landed on Joe.
"Jamie! Help- How dare you!! Ahhh-" He started as he fell back onto his butt and the racoon was on top of him.
I always thought they'd just run away.
"Get it away! Get him away-" Joe started.
"Oh he's actually quite cute." I said as I crouched down and took a piece of bread from Joes Lunchbox and gave it to the racoon.
"Get-him-away." Joe muttered.
"Relax." I chuckled as I let the racoon sniff my hand before I gave it a tap onto his butt so he'd jump off Joe. Joe who was breathing heavily just sat up and starred onto the ground while the racoon was eating peacefully. "You okay? Scaredy-cat?." I said while smiling sweetly.
"Shut up." He hissed as we stood up and walked all the way back to pick up his stuff and the map.
"We've lost quite a good bit of time." I hissed while looking at the map.
"Then we'll run." He said.
"Even if we do I think we'll be late." I mumbled.
"Then we'll run twice the speed." He said full of motivation.
"Oh." I started. "It's 3.30pm." I sighed as I sat down and dragged him down with me.
"What do you mean?!" He started as I sighed.
"It's afternoon tea time, we're in England after all." I sighed calmly.
"You can't just-" He started while I opened my backpack with one hand and managed to get two cups and a few biscuits. "Don't be silly c'mon!"
"It won't take up too much time and keep in mind that we're late because of you." I said as he sighed and looked at the two cups.
"You want me to drink this English shit?" He started while I already pressed a cup of tea into his hand just to shut him up.
"Milk?" I asked.
"I'M NOT A BRIT!" He hissed as I shrugged and put the very little milk I had on me into my tea. "I can't believe we're doing this." He mumbled while I ate my biscuit and downed the whole cup of very hot tea.
"Nice." I sighed as I packed my stuff again and Joe was just starring at me in disbelieve.
"How did you- you just- that shit is hot as fuck how-" He said.
"Just drink." I muttered.
"HOW SHOULD I DRINK THIS IT'S HOT AS FUCK!!" He started but broke off when I gently put a little cold water into his cup of tea before slamming him into the ground and forcing him to open his mouth. I dumped the tea into his mouth before putting the cup back into my bag while he kept laying on the ground. "That was hot as fuck." He said in a high pitched voice as I also dumped a water bottle into his mouth so he could cool off.
"Thank me later." I said before pulling him up and walking off, dragging him with me.
I had to put up with him all day.
I need to get rid of my anger also if that means to do stuff like this.
Might apologise later.
"Why are you so aggressive out of the sudden." He said while holding his cheek like a puppy.
"Hurry the fuck up, I'm pissed." I said as I dragged him along and we started running.
"What's with you?! Was the milk sour or what?!" He said.
"Shut up or I'll beat your ass." I hissed as he shut up and kept running with me.
This dude.
Making a drama out of everything.