See You Around~ Grester (completed)

Chapter Twenty

Grace's POV 

Yesterday I could climb a thousand mountains and not stop for breath. Yesterday I could sky-dive with no fear, yesterday I was invincible. Today however, I was broken and confused. 

I had been feeling weird for a couple of days, this sixth sense of something being wrong. It was confirmed that there was a problem when I realised I was bleeding. I wasn't on my period, that was not meant to happen and I knew it wasn't that. This was different and it scared the shit out of me. 

A million things ran through my brain when I looked down to see blood. At first my brain went to miscarriage but I had been on the pill, eradicating that option. I'm a worrier, I worry for other people and I worry for myself and that is why I so abruptly ran to the hospital- in hope of an answer. 

I knew all the options of what it could be but I forced them far from my brain- unable to think of it without vulnerably breaking into sobs. I kept my head up high as I walked through the double doors, sitting in the reception as I waited nervously for an appointment. I tapped my hand on my leg impatiently as girls like me left the hospital room with blood-shot eyes. Maybe it would be okay, maybe I wouldn't have it, maybe. But as my name was called a bad feeling shot through me and I knew then that this wasn't normal and was not okay. 

They took blood tests and scans and told me they'd contact me when they had an answer. 

"It's not looking positive though, Miss Helbig you must know that it could be cancer."  The doctor had said to me, raising the corner of her mouth in an attempt of sympathy. 

My hands were stone cold with shock. In a way I knew it was, in a way I already had my answer but I went home and for days I sat by the phone, waiting for the call that determined my future. 

It had been five days and I was beginning to think that it was all over, it shouldn't have taken this long. They said a few days not nearly a week and the thought of why they were keeping me waiting made me want to throw up. 
           
"Erm Grace? Your phone rang whilst you were in the shower so I answered it." Chester began.

My body froze, no, he couldn't find out like this. He couldn't know before I knew. 

"It was the hospital; they said for you to come down immediately. Is everything okay?" Chester called from the kitchen before coming to sit down next to me. 

I jumped out from my seat and kissed him on the cheek before sprinting out the house. I drove in a state of panic as I pulled up to the hospital. When I was inside my body stiffened and my hands fell to my knees, my face drained all life and I sat in the chair as the doctor walked up to me with test papers in her hand.

"I'm afraid it's bad news." Of course it was bad news, because nothing good ever lasts. "You have endometrial cancer Miss."