Red Leaf Street

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"Four Months"
January 12,2015

I've been in the hospital for hours working on my homework while my mom was sleeping. She was so tired from her head surgery, and she looked so different. Her hair was gone..and now she looked pale with purple under eye circles. I then couldn't take it seeing her looking so...so dead, and so I let go of her hand and then walked outside. As I walked outside, I started crying and then sat on the cold floor
against a wall. After a few minutes, I then felt a warm hand pull me up. It was Daniel. He kissed my cheek and I hugged him as he asked if my mom was doing ok. I looked up at him and said that she was ok, but she's been sleeping a lot. He then nodded, and gave me his flowers. They were bright red roses, my favorite. As we walked back into the room together, sirens were now screaming (meaning something was wrong.) Doctors now ran in and pushed Daniel and I out, I started sobbing as Daniel hugged me, then making me turn away from my mom. I called my dad to tell him to come ASAP, and I asked a doctor what was going on. My dad told me he would come as fast as he could, and a doctor said that something must've gone wrong with her surgery. Daniel then said

Daniel- "will she make it out alive."
Doctor- "we're not sure, but if this keeps happening, she might not survive."

I started shaking with fear as the words came out of the doctors mouth.

20 minutes laterr.. (SpongeBob Voice)

My father and Dawn came in, and asked what happened and why a boy was here with me.

Daniel- "my names Daniel William's, I'm the kid that invited you and your family to the party."
Dad- "ok, I see you brought roses."
Me- "it's for mo-"
(My Dad Interrupted Me)
Dad- "I'm sorry. Thank you for giving Audrey roses, but you need to leave please."

I then hugged Daniel and he said To my dad that he hopes my mom gets better. As he left, my dad gave me a bad stare. (He Doesn't Like Boys) I then walked back into our moms room and held Dawn in my arms. She wrapped her arms around me crying, so I ran my fingers through her hair to help calm her down. As she cried louder my dad told her to shut up because he was mad...about everything. I then gave him a confused/mad stare and he then told me to stop looking at him like that. He was so angry! As a doctor walked in, I now covered Dawns ears so she wouldn't hear what the doctor said

Doctor- "your wife is doing ok, but we're doing more surgery because something went wrong with her head. And with her head being so bad, she'll probably only have four more months to live."

My dad started to cry but got mad. I looked at Dawn, and hugged her so we wouldn't see me crying. As I let go, Dawn saw my watery eyes so she whipped my tear. I was so happy that she didn't hear what the doctor said.

January 13,2015

It was walking down the street ready for school again. My backpack felt so heavy because all the homework I had to do while I was with my mom. As I met Christopher and Daniel, they both hugged me and said "welcome back." I gave both of them a faded smile and we walked to school. It was now 7:00 a.m. and I said hi to the front desk lady as she said welcome back. Everyone then said that to me, as if I was popular. All my periods went well, and on my online report card I had all A's so I was proud of myself. It was now my gym class and is have to see those girls again 😒. After I got dressed, I turned around and jumped as that Bekka girl was behind me. She then said

Bekka/popular girl- "so your popular now."
Me- "me? what???"
Bekka- "everyone loves you. So you have to hang out with us."
Me- "ok? I don't mint have to though."
Bekka- "but we want you to!" (She screamed so all the girls heard. And then she smiled)
Me- "ok then?"
Bekka- "ok sit with us at lunch tomorrow and we'll have so much fun."
Me- "oh. um. ok"

My locket necklace then fell. Bekka grabbed it and looked at it saying

Bekka- "what is this?"
Me- "my..my mom." (I said sighing)
Bekka- "what's wrong, you look terrible"
Me- "she, she has cancer."

Bekka gasped and then walked away. And didn't even care, and all she said after she started walking was "meet me at table 13 in the lunchroom tomorrow." I rolled my eyes and said to myself "at least she doesn't have my number to annoy me."