Penelope pouts her lips and squeezes her eyeballs shut, scrunching her nose.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"I'm thinking."
"Looks like a lot of effort to think."
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Penelope is a local sunshine girl trying to get through life and make friends. S...
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I wake up and my entire body is throbbing. I couldn't even sleep on my back. The pain. The pain was too much.
I slowly get out of bed and stretch until my legs shake and my butt cheeks jiggle.
"Penelope?" I hear my mothers faint voice.
I take a deep breathe and open my door, going across the hall to my mum.
"Hi mama. How are you feeling?" I puff up her pillow and brush the hair off of her face.
"I'm okay, honey, you?"
"I'm good." I lie.
"What happened with your dad after i fell asleep?"
"I just helped him to bed." I smile.
I haven't told my mum what happens with dad. She has enough stress with her sickness as it is. And i don't want to change her opinion on dad.
The docters say she won't get better. So i want her last memories of him to be loving and happy, how they have been their whole life's.
She's partly deaf, i don't know if it's a side affect of the cancer or it just happened. So i think that's why she can't hear unless your right near her.
"Did you get the flowers?" A pale smile spreads her lips.
I nod, "Do you like them, mama? I can get different ones if you don't like them-i hope they don't make you sneeze, wait do they smell bad, i didn't really check, oh go-."
"P, honey, they are beautiful."
I nod, "Okay."
"Now go enjoy your day, the suns shining."
"Will you be okay?"
"Of course,"
I kiss her forehead before returning to my bedroom.
I peal off my singlet and turn around in the mirror looking at my back.
Bruises spread across in an array of colours. Blue, green, purple, black, yellow. I could make a rainbow.
I wipe my tears and quickly get dressed for the day making sure my outfit covers my back.
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