I purposely disassociated from reality, and all I could hear was the ticking of the clock hanging above the door.
In my defense, I had no idea how I was supposed to react.
I hear the doctor say "you", "have", and "cancer", and my entire body just decided to shut down.
It totally refused to acknowledge anything else, even though the doctor wasn't done talking yet, but right now, the only thing my body could register was the sound of the clock ticking.
"River?" mom said as she grabbed my shoulder. I turned to look at her and saw that she and my dad shared the same look all over their faces--red, tear-stained, and just all around sad.
"Yeah?" I asked my mom, completely oblivious to whatever the doctor had been saying after he told me the three key words that basically spelled my doom.
I had cancer.
I was gonna die.
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