Without Grace

Chapter 3

" Grace has cancer, it's a brain tumor... I have more bad news, she only has two weeks to live, I'm so sorry" I collapse again and onto the floor as I cry. I'm making a big scene, who wouldn't I mean I was just told my daughter only had two weeks to live. The doctor said she'll have to stay here for the night but they can't do anything for the cancer. Chemo wouldn't help she has had it for so long you couldn't do anything to help it just enjoy the time she has. We decided we wouldn't tell the kids or Grace we didn't want them to worry. Mark and I stayed in the waiting room all night. I fell asleep leaning on Mark, I woke up in the middle of the night and I was hungry. I had a dollar in my pocket so I walked down the hallway holding my stomach, because it was cold and I was starving. I got to the vending machine and there was Chex-mix. I put my dollar in typed in the number 144 and what do you know it gets stuck against the glass. I pound the glass but I'm so tired I barley hit it, nothing happens so I head back to the front desk. I see the lady asleep at the front desk, I don't even want to try to wake her so I go back to the waiting room Mark is not sitting in the waiting room instead I see a nurse that tells me to follow her. I follow her and I see Mark crying. I rush up to him and ask what's wrong.
"S-sh-she's gone" he says as he is still crying. I fall into his arms and think back to this morning thinking about it I didn't have Heaven, Grace, and Cooper. Well I guess it's true I don't have Grace anymore.