Spoiled

Pain and Strength

When we pull up to the hospital all the boys start flipping out trying to get me out of the car and inside. Jai stays close by my side and yells at the boys when they go to grab me. Beau then runs to get a doctor.

"STOP!!" I yell to them. Everyone freezes and Beau walks over to us again. "Y'all need to chill, you're acting like I'm going into labor when I only have a minor burn." I say. I push off Jai and jump out of the car.

Vic connects her arm with mine and we walk inside with the boys following behind us. I walk up to the front desk and explain my condition and show the nurse my burn. She nods and we go and sit in the waiting room waiting for the doctor.

We all sit together taking up most of the waiting room. Vic and I talk as we wait.

"Mrs. Murphy." a man says walking into the waiting room. We all stand and he looks at us confused.

"That's me." I smile.

"Come with me." he nods. I start walking and everyone follows close behind me. The doctor takes me to a little bed thats surrounded by white curtains. "You need to wait out here." the doctor says shutting the curtain on everyone.

He then walks over to me and gives me a shot to numb my pain and then he puts some cream on my arm, wraps it and gives me some medicine to take. I thank him and walk out to find all my friends sitting on the floor. They all look up at me and I show my arm.

"I'm going to live." I joke. They all jump up and Jai pulls me into a hug. I laugh and hug him back. He then grabs my hand as we make our way back to the lobby.

"Is that your mom?" Vic asks causing me to turn my head. I see my mom walk out of the Children's Cancer Ward with my family. Why are they walking out of the CCC? Ohmygod its moving day!

"Vic we missed moving day." I gasp running down the hall towards my family. Vic follows close behind me. "Mom, Dad." I yell running towards them They all turn towards us. All there faces are laced with sadness and dried tears.

"I'm so sorry we missed moving day." I say running up to my mother. She looks over at me and wipes under her eyes trying to fix her makeup.

"It's fine Alex it's not that important." she says turning to go away. She walks up to my dad who hugs her and they start walking towards the elevators. Brent turns and walks over to us.

"You can still go and see her but do it quickly. You know how this goes." he says to me. I nod and he turns and follows my family to the elevators. When Jenny was 4 she was diagnosed with leukemia, she's been in and out of the hospital for years. And last year they said that she seemed to be cancer free. The doctors have said this before but for some reason this time was different, we actually believed them this time.

Jenny finally came home for the first time in 6 years. It was amazing to have her home and to believe that she was healthy and was going to live. But last week Jenny had her monthly appointment and they said they found something and Jenny was going to have to move back into the hospital. And today was the day she moved into her new room in the cancer ward. We can't see her for another week after this because she needs to get used to the routine of not seeing us all the time.

I should be happy I missed moving day. It's always to heart breaking to bare. It hurts seeing my family in so much pain and the fact that I need to leave my sister in a room where many other kids family have cried and the room where many other children have passed from the same disease that my sister has.

I can't bare it. But I have to...for her.

The boys walk over to us and I smile at them sadly before stopping them.