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Chapter 10 Rose

Lily is in the hospital now and is getting treated. But I still can't see her because of our conditions, but I got my phone charger and some art supplies from dad so I could finally charge my phone. But, I enjoyed talking to Oliver with paper. I did text Lily and we talked for a few hours. She told me about dad being sick too. She was so scared but she felt so bad for now understanding what I have to go through saying I was alone in the hospital.
But I wasn't alone, I had Oliver. We would talk about our families, friends,and college. I know that he goes through what I do so I can talk to him super easily which is a first for me. He did find out about my left leg when I went to get more tests done but to my surprise he had his right leg amputated. Then I knew he and I were going to be close friends.
Once I got my art supplies I started drawing again, while also doing my homework from college. Online college isn't as bad as you think it is. Yeah you have to be on zoom meetings for your lecture but at least you don't get stared at for only having one leg. Yes, I am a straight A student but some classes were hard for me. Gym class was the worst because I could never do what anyone else did. I was always sitting in a corner or tossing a ball from my wheelchair. But, doing it online they just give me papers to fill out then I am done without the extra hassle. I had been so caught up in school work and Oliver that I forgot about my cancer for awhile. But, I have to do a check in and another round of testing to see if the treatment is getting better in two months so I am definitely not looking forward to that. Even with all of this stress in my life it doesn't bother me as much as it did because I had Oliver, Lily, and my dad. I know that we will get through this together. After Lily moved into her room, she started acting weird and I don't really know why. She has never been secretive with me but now she is acting super shy which concerns me. I want to talk to her more but we can only text. Our birthday was in five days and we were both in the hospital and we can't even see our dad. This week has been very stressful, but I could always rely on Oliver to cheer me up. He wrote to me, " Hey, are you ok? You haven't talked to me in awhile?" I told him no and that I was really stressed out. It 6took him a while to write back but when I looked he had hung up pictures of me that he drew. I was so touched, and my heart warmed right up. He told me that he draws a lot because he can't play football so I drew a picture of him playing football and hung it up for him and he smiled. Everytime we talked I couldn't help but blush when I saw his black combed hair and cute freckles. No matter how crappy life was he was always there across the hall to make me smile. As I was finishing my English homework my phone buzzed. When I picked up my phone I saw that my friends posted on Instagram. I was heartbroken to see that all my friends went everywhere that I loved to go and were so happy to see each other again. It felt like they completely forgot about me. I tried to ignore it but for the next few days they only posted about hanging out together and doing whatever they wanted. I didn't know how to feel about it because they were having fun togethr while I am trapped in this stupid hospital room. We had been friends since preschool, I didn't want to be mad at them or try to find new friends like others were telling me too. But, I had a lot of time to think about it because I wasn't getting out of the hospital anytime soon. Luckily, school work and hospital treatments kept my mind off of my friends for the next few days. Now, there is only a few more hours until my birthday and I wasn't as excited as I thought I would be. I wouldn't be getting cake and presents for obvious reasons, but worst of all I couldn't spend it with my best friend. Lily and I always blew our candles out together on our vegan carrot cakes and opened our presents side by side. One of my favorite memories was when our dad tried to dress up like a clown when we were four. But because of his gigantic shoes he slipped and his cupcake was smashed all over his face. We had never laughed so hard as we did that day. It made me wonder what's next for us? We are headed different ways in the future so what did the future have in store for us?