My Dearest Encounter

Prologue

Hey guys. The prologue is a little morbid but please don't let that stop you from checking out the chapters. Enjoy.

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Everyday starts and ends the same for me. Fall asleep crying, wake up crying. I have been mourning my mother's death for a week now. My mother was Julianna Hamilton. I was not notified about my mother's illness until the day she passed away. She was diagnosed with cancer, brain cancer to be specific.

There were days when she would come home with severe headaches. I would ask her what was wrong but I could barely comprehend a word she would say. I thought it was nothing because she was a hardworking woman and it had to be because she was so stressed from work.

But last Friday night was the worst I have ever seen my mother in my eighteen years of living.

She came home and as soon as her feet stepped through the door she fell to the floor and she started having a seizure. I was watching tv at the time in the living room and turned around to see my mother having a seizure attack. Her body was shaking up and down on the floor. Bubbles were forming in her mouth then it started running down to her chin. I learned in school that you were not supposed to touch a person while they are having a seizure. I got up and ran to my room to grab my iPhone off my night stand and call 911.

Within ten minutes the ambulance arrived. I told them what had occurred earlier.

I went in the ambulance with my mother to the hospital.

When I arrived there the doctors told me to stay in the waiting room.

I waited hours, upon hours for a doctor to give me an update on my mother but I did not receive any. I had no idea what was wrong with her . I fell asleep crying in the chair I sat in.

The next morning I woke up and wiped the stained tears off my face. I walked to the station where the nurses were typing information in their nearby computers.

"Excuse me, my name is Layla Hamilton and I came in here last night with my mother. I was wondering if you could tell me how she is doing and if I could go see her?" I asked the lady with her work tag written on it Scarlett.

"Yes ma'am and what is your mothers name?"

"Her name is Julianna Hamilton."

"Okay, hold on one minute while I find out what room she is in." She said typing words on her keyboard.

"Yes ma'am your mother Julianna Hamilton is in room 402. Take the elevator to the fourth floor and first door on the left should be her room. " She said then gave me a pass to her room.

"Thank you." I said taking the pass from her then walked to the elevators and waited for one to open.

When I got to the fourth floor it was not hard to find her room. I walked in room 402 and spotted my mother on the hospital bed sleeping.

Her head was shaved and I am in total shock. There are IV's running through her arm and she had on a breathing mask. What was so serious about my mother's health that her head had to be shaved?

I walked close to her bed and tapped her shoulder. Her eyes drifted open and she looked at me.

"Mom you had a seizure last night and you are in the hospital." I stated

" Honey I am so sorry I didn't tell you. I didn't know how." My mother said then tears started to rolling down her cheeks.

"Mom it's okay your going to be fine." I said then wiping the tears off her cheek with my thumb.

"No honey I am dying. I am diagnosed with brain cancer. I have known for a while now but I never had the money to get treatment for it and it has gotten worst. I never told you because I was terrified of how you would take the news." She stated with a sad stern tone.

Tears started escaping my eyes uncontrollably.

My mother dying was the last thing I would have ever expected. It never occurred to me that she had health problems.

I had so much I wanted to tell her but the words would not leave my mouth.

"Layla I want you to be strong and never give up on your dreams or yourself. I believe in you. You have made me a very proud mother. Never let anyone bring you down because you have it in you to be someone great. When I leave this Earth don't cry just remember I will be in a better place. You father will take very good care of you. You will find love and be happy. Just remember I, Julianna Hamilton will always love you. Be strong and never lose ho-" My mother's voice started to crack, later leading her to gasp for air.

"I am going to get you some water mom. " I said while wiping my face with my tear drenched t-shirt.

On my way back from the nurses station with the cup of water in hand for my mother ; a group of doctors rushed passes me almost knocking my mother's water out of my hand. When I saw them run into my moms room my heart started racing. The doctors were calling codes while more doctors rushed to my mother aide.

When I approached the door I saw my mother's body laying on the bed with no life left in her body. It was in that moment when my heart stopped and so did world around me.

I dropped the cup of water I was holding and rush to my mother's side.

" Mom wake up, mom wake up please." I cried shaking my moms body to bring her back to me.

"There was nothing we could do. I am sorry." One of the male doctors said and then he left with the others.