Saving the Last Dance For You PG version (Completed)

Chapter 16: The Pond

Chapter 16:

We were all walking inside hanging on tightly to each others hands.

After a little while we were called back into a small room with two chairs.

I sat down, and my father gave my mother the other chair.

"Thank you hunny." My mother said to my father.

The doctor came in about 20 minutes later with a folder in his hand.

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan I'm Dr. Linton." He said pulling out a blue paper.

I guessed it was the x-ray sheet.

"What's your name?" He asked me.

"Nadine." I said trying to hide my sadness with a small smile.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Nadine." The man said shaking my hand.

"I'm gonna show you your results today, is that alright with you?" He asked gently.

I slowly nodded.

"Alright." He said pulling it out even more and putting it on the wall.

Flipping a switch and making the x ray sheet of my brain visible he sighed.

I gasped when I saw the picture.

I did have cancer and I just broke down when he told us.

Leaving that room and going home was just miserable.

I couldn't stop thinking about it.

My mother and father didn't even say anything the whole way home.

They went inside and I stayed outside lying on the hammock.

Thinking even more about it I broke down.

Pulling my phone out I dialed a number.

The person picked up on the other line and said hello.

"Hi, can you come over?" I asked crying.

It was only a few minutes later when I saw the car pull up in front of my house.

"What's wrong?" Mason asked worriedly stepping out of the drivers' side and running to me.

He touched the sides of my face and rubbed it gently.

"Are you ok?" He asked wiping a tear that was running down my cheek.

I started to cry again and I pulled him closer.

"I have cancer. The doctor just confirmed it." I said digging my face into his chest and hugging him tightly.

"Are you alright?" He asked me pulling away so he could look at my face.

I shook my head violently.

"No. I'm not." I cried.

"Do you want to get out of here?" He asked me.

I nodded before walking with him to his car.

He opened the door for me and I got in.

Not even bothering to buckle my seat belt I put my hands over my face and cried even more.

"I wanted to be a dancer and now that's not going to happen, because I'm pretty much dead now." I said crying.

"Don't say that Nadine, there's still hope, don't give up. It's not over. You can still live your dream." Mason reassured me.

I just didn't say anything, I didn't know what to say, I looked at him sadly.

I really liked him.

'It would be horrible to lose him.' I thought.

He leaned in and gently kissed my forehead.

"You have a future in front of you; you can still live your dream." Mason said smiling a little.

"I'm going to take you somewhere that I go when I feel sad, when I feel like I won't be able to do the things I want to do." He said starting the car.

"Let me tell you something Nadine that I never told anyone before."

I looked over at him with tears welled up in my eyes.

He looked at me, with sadness in his eyes.

"I had a lot of things wrong with me when I was a kid. I had schizophrenia, dyslexia and things I was extremely allergic to. I was bullied very badly as a child, from kids at school and from my father. I saw things in my room, shadows on the wall and it scared the crap out of me. I got horrible grades in school because of my dyslexia and kids at school they knew some of the things I was allergic to. Several times they would sneak peanut butter or almonds in my food and my throat would swell up, where I couldn't breathe."

"My father would laugh when I'd tell him the things the children did. He'd say children are children. The kids didn't get in trouble either because there wasn't proof that they did it. My mother believed me. Several times my mother tried to leave my father, and call the cops but they didn't believe her and now that I think about it that's probably why he killed her. The things I saw him do to her, was just horrible. She deserved better than him." Mason said.

I wiped my tears away and he continued talking.

"You know what though? The only place that made me feel at home more than my actual home was the pond. It was so peaceful there. No screaming or fighting. It was quiet and soothing there.
It made me not want to go home, and I would've run away and never came back if it wasn't for my mom, but after she died there was nothing left to make me stay anymore, so I left."

I put my hand on his shoulder and looked up at him sympathetically.

"I'm sorry all of that happened to you." I said my voice shaky.

"It's over now, that's all that matters." He added parking the car in the parking lot.

"We're here." He said looking over at me.

"Come on, we'll walk together." He said taking my hand and kissing it.

I nodded slowly and stepped out of the car.

He reached for my hand again and I held it tightly.

The park was empty, there was no one there, but the beautiful birds sat on the water looking so relaxed.

I wish I was that relaxed, In fact I wasn't relaxed at all.

Should I have been? I was with Mason after all, he would never hurt me.

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