Second Chance

Chapter 17

"MADDIE, for the last time, WAKE UP!" I rubbed my eyes and sat up in bed, groaning. It was eight AM, and I was tired. I flopped back into bed. I was in my pajamas. I don't remember falling asleep in them. The picture was gone, as well.

"Are you up now?" Someone came into my room and jumped on the bed.

"What are you- AHHHHH!"

I screamed and scrambled out of bed.

"MACKENZIE?!" She was in my room. Sitting on my bed. This was impossible, I was literally going insane.

I needed to go back to the hospital, I was hallucinating.

"What?" She said. She shot me a look, like I was insane.

"You're not here, this is a dream." I said as I started pacing back and forth.

"Mads..." She spoke softly. "Are you okay?"

"NO!" I screamed at her. "You aren't really here! I'm going crazy!"

"Maddie, what are you talking about?" Her face crumpled and she started to cry softly.

My mom came into the room then, and yelled at me for making Kenzie cry.

"This is a dream, right?" I asked.

"No," my mom snapped. "Now get ready. We have to be at the studio in an hour." I gave her a blank stare.

"You have a competition today?"

"Oh, yeah, okay..."

Mackenzie turned around and left the room, but not before shooting me a questioning look. I shook it off. This was no real.

I collapsed on the bed in complete confusion. Nothing made sense.

I pinched myself. Nothing, I didn't wake up or anything strange like that. I was still here.

Thinking of another way to test it, I checked the drawer. The picture was laying in the back of it like it had been before I took it out last night.

Maybe someone put it back.

As a final way, to confirm my belief that maybe this was real, and everything else was a dream, I looked above the bed. The picture was still hanging there, in all its glory. It had clearly never been destroyed.

The cancer, the promises, Mackenzie dying, all of it wasn't real. That was a dream, not this.

I took off running into Kenzie's room and saw her getting dressed.

"Kenzie," I yelled.

"Yeah?"

"Are you alright? You're not sick, or anything?" I said desperately.

"No..."

"So, you've never had cancer or been in the hospital or made me... Never mind."

"No, none of that has happened. What are you-"

I tackled her and held her tighter than ever before.

"I love you so much, Kenz. So, so much."

"I love you too," she mumbled, clearly confused.

"You're the best little sister ever, okay? And you can hang out with my friends and, and take my clothes whenever you want. I just love you so much."

"Okay...?" She said, then pulled away.

"Are you okay?" She asked, raising her eyebrows at me.

"I'm okay, I'm better than okay. This is the best day of my life."

And it was, because I knew that I had the best little sister, and now, nothing could ever change that.

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