woke up the next morning feeling like crap, i was still in the paper outfit and needles still pinned into my skin, but this time i wasn't alone. there was a girl with a green and blue bandana on her head and milk chocolate skin wearing the same outfit as me watching TV, she saw me looking at her and she smiled.
"hi I'm Hillary whats your name?" she asked with enthusiasm
" I'm Christina how are you?"
" well not so good as you can see I'm diagnosed with cancer"
" sorry to hear that"
" it's ok at least i know that Jesus loves me enough to take me with him"
"yea your right about that.... so.. what you watching"
"animal planet"
" cool i love that show!'
"really me too!" and just like that i had found a new best friend, we had so much in common, she's four years old, her favorite color is pink, loves animals, and her favorite food is seafood. we played games and sang we even talked to each other until we had fallen asleep every night.
"hey Christina"
"yea..."
"your a great friend, you know that?"
"thanks you are too.... hey.... you ever wonder what its like to die?"
"well no.. but i do know that when we die Jesus is there to take care of us"
" but doesn't he always do that? i mean he is Jesus after all"
"yea your right...but Christina can you promise me something?"
"yea?"
"when we die promise we will be best friends in heaven"
"promise" we fell asleep listing to music on my laptop, next morning the doctor walked in with his clipboard again and Hillary wasn't in the room.
"good morning sunshine"
"hello sir"
"don't be like that, I'm here to help you, call me Adam"
"Well Adam i have a question, why do you carry that around with you all the time and where is Hillary?"
" i take notes and she is doing her daily routine"
"of what? me? and what routine?"
" since she has cancer she has a daily routine to see what stage she's in and i observe your every move, it also gives me a schedule of your day"
"schedule? what schedule?" two nurses walked in with masks over their faces and blue gloves on their hands "well right now your going to get a cat scan, its where we scan you to see what stage of cancer you are in, so relax it will be all over soon". i didn't say a word or put up a fight, i let them carry me out to the scanning room; they placed me on a cold platform, i just closed my eyes and prayed, twenty minutes later and they were done with scanning. Adam had walked in, " what's next on the schedule" i asked in a groggy tone
"well for now you can relax and watch TV until its time for your shots"
"shots!?" i tried to run but the male nurses were holding me down, i yelled, screamed and kicked but i was to small to fight them off, they gave me a shoot that put me straight to sleep. woke up in the same room but my brothers were all around me doing their own thing, they refused to leave my side, Chris and Calvin had made a scene the first time they were here,so the hospital decided to let them stay. Hillary was with them as well but she was asleep. Calvin and Chris had brought back some burger king for Christopher, Hillary and I, since the growth is spreading my digestive tract was starting to become clogged up and i was starting to become anorexic, i threw up most of the time and my hair was starting to fall out, i was starting to go delirium, i didn't know what was going on anymore, i freaked out when i thought Christopher was a serial killer. two months had gone by and my growth was turning into a tumor and i was getting worse, the doctors say i will have cancer in a couple of weeks, whats even more worse is that Hillary had died in her sleep, yes i was devastated actually i was greatly depressed i fell into a coma for a week, but then i remembered what she had said to me"live for today but look forward for tomorrow, but promise me you will stay strong for me and i will always protect you in heaven with Jesus beside me we are unstoppable" i will always remember you Hillary and we will become best friends in heaven promise. i saw Christopher walked in the room crying with a blue rose in his hand, it was fake of course but i just love roses something about them made my heart burst with joy, and if i had ever saw a blue rose i don't know what I'll do.
"whats wrong Christopher?" i asked with such concern
first Hillary next is you I HATE YOU!" he said with such rage
"what did i do to you?"
"why do you have to die! huh? you come into this world making everybody so happy and now your just going to leave us like that? i hate you!"
"it's not like i wanted to die, god just wanted that way, maybe he wants me to come home"
"but this is your home! here with everybody especially me, we are like two peas in a pod, you are the other half to my heart without you my heart wont be whole, so I'm begging you please don't leave me" he started to cry and sob, every tear drop he made i can feel my skin tingle, every sniffle he made i feel my skin jumping with his, i wanted to cry but i couldn't; if he had saw me cry then he will not have the urge to move on, so i had to toughen him up.
"Christopher stop crying now, every tear you make you are just waisting time, i no you don't want me to die but i have to its god's way of tough love, so right now all you can do is to accept my death and just spend these last moments with me....please" a tear had rolled down my cheek and he gave in he laid beside me and we both had fallen asleep. the next day Christopher and i jumped out of our beds when Calvin and Chris had rushed into my room screaming and dancing for joy.
"what is wrong with you two!?" i asked as my heart was beating faster than the speed of light
"your going to live!" said Chris with excitement, my jaw dropped and started to cry
"shut up don't joke like that!"
"I'm not Christina the doctor says they have found a cure for you!" everybody was dancing and jumping for joy and i cried and said "thank you Jesus thank you Hillary i always had faith in you two, you guys are unstoppable" Calvin had ran out to go call mom and dad, two hours had gone by and mom and dad had came in with cake, balloons, and almost everybody that we new in new York. we had a little celebration for my survival, it was great i had never felt so loved before, i just wished Hillary was here with me to celebrate this moment, but I'm glad because for the first time, i had cheated death, satin will never get to me, ever. in a month i was going home with my family once again, thank you Jesus, thank you Hillary for saving me, i will never forget you.
