Esperanza (Hope)

Chapter 6

One week later

Suddenly everything happened so fast. I heard my mother storming in the hospital, the doctor guiding her into a shock room and he spoke to her, my mother’s eyes got filled with tears and she stormed out of the room, the doctor trying to stop her.

"Mum, what's wrong?" I asked worriedly. 

"It's your brother. They diagnosed cancer on him, without a single doubt. They are sure", she sobbed and ran out of the hospital.

I probably stood there for multiply minutes. My whole body was numb and I couldn't move, didn't know what to do. 

My brother has cancer.

My brother has cancer. 

My brother has cancer.

My whole brain, my whole being got filled with that sentence. 

I slowly sank to the floor, tears in my eyes until I started screaming.

A nurse nearby immediately ran over to me and probably brought me in a hospital room but I still screamed. 

I screamed so long until everything blackened around me and I passed out with only one thought in my mind. 

My brother is going to die.

Memory of 6th July 2009

I was in the most beautiful place imaginable. 

Everywhere around me were banks of flowers and a big rainbow in all the various colors made us an entrance. 

Yeah, that was the day when we visited Sharon, my mother’s mother. 

She was such a happy, young lady but she made one big mistake. 

She married Paul Dyks. 

He mistreated his wife (my grandmother) and also my mum. 

That's what mum told me a few years ago. 

On this day however Paul was on a business trip and we enjoyed a whole day with lots of fun. 

"Why don't you finally break up with him?" my mum asked her while thinking I wasn't around but I hid behind a bush and heard everything. 

"I love him, sweetheart. I can't break up with him", she said. 

"How can you love someone like him? He is a monster!" my mum shouted, totally desperately. 

I never saw mom looking so desperate and helpless. She was usually the kind of woman who always laughed. 

What is wrong with Paul? 

I mean, I never met him. My mum only takes us to my grandma when he isn't around 

"Mum, please. You know my offer. Live with us. Chris and Luis already adore you anyway", whispered mum desperately.

"That's sweet of you my girl but I'm going to stay here. Paul won't survive without me", she said. 

"This is not your problem mum. You did everything for him that you could and if he still doesn't change he's obviously not worth it", my mum replied, trying to calm her voice down.

I silently vanished and went into my bed. I could barely sleep this night with all the thoughts in my mind.

On the next morning I couldn't do anything but to talk to mum about listening to their conversation. 

Surprisingly she wasn't angry about it. 

"Mum, why don't you like Paul? What did he do?”  I asked carefully. My mum looked at the landscape. The beautiful mountains that were visible from the balcony were enormously high.