The flower in my throat

Hospital

Isabella arrived with Ray to the hospital trying to help get the coughing to settle. Sighing with slight anger when he moved away or would push her off. She walked to the front desk to get the signed in and an appointment being given one pretty quickly and was sent through. Ray sat quietly while the doctor assessed him only speaking when being asked questions, avoiding eye contact as he could tell Isabella was getting a slight bit irritated that Ray was just allowing the suffering.

They finished the check up to find out, the flowers had grown more and ray without the surgery had about a month to live. The car journey home was awkward and tense.

Once home ray immediately stormed inside wanting to go to his room but saw Emma so stopped for her to see he got back and went off to his room knowing she'd follow and she did exactly that. Once in his room ray sat down on his bed and Emma shut the door.

"Can I sit by you ray? I'm asking because I know you want space sometimes"

"Yea" he moved slightly to make more room for Emma "I'm not going to talk about the doctors so don't bother asking"

"Wasn't going to, you will tell me if you want to. I actually followed you to say that as long as you're okay with it, your dad is happy for me to stay the whole week if I need to"

"Oh right- um"

"Take your time to think about it"

"It might be nice, I mean you don't have to but it's just..." ray went silent staring down at his hands.

"It's just? I mean I'm happy to, of course I am any chance to spend time with you I'm going to take it"

"It's just, if I don't get the surgery I don't have long but I don't know if I should get it. I'm just scared to Emma"

"Ray this is your choice what you do, we are all scared and I don't blame you. Now I'm not going to say shit like 'don't be scared, there is no need to be' of course you're going to scared. However you can either keep worrying yourself or you can think about this, talk to your parents about it"

"I guess"

"Look how about we forgot about it for now and try to have a Normal week or as Normal as we can get"

"Yea alright, you have a point"