Hello! It's me here and since my series has yet to be completed, I decided to upload some of my old stories for the pure fun of it! Don't be judgemental but this particular piece was very badly trashed by my teacher so please comment and tell me what precisely is wrong with it!:) Thank You!
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There might come a day, when I will be able to think back of all the happy days which I had spent with Adeline without breaking down in my own misery.
There might come a day when I can think of her vibrant face in my mind and feel grateful for the time God had given me to spend with her, instead of blaming and lashing out at him for only granting me those few years.
It’s easy to say that everything will get better one day, but hard to actually believe it.
As for now, I am at the point where everything around me looks bleak and unforgiving, a world where I can barely live through the day.
My mother died in childbirth and my father, being unable to deal with the grief, abandoned me in an orphanage where I would supposedly be taken cared of.
Or at least, this is the explanation I made up for the sake of my sanity.
The sad truth is that I was just left on the doorstep of the orphanage, a helpless infant, no more than a day old, without any explanation what so ever. Life was miserable for the first few years of my life.
The first few chapters of my childhood were spent friendless and depressed.
Until the day when Adeline, a girl of the same age as I was, entered the orphanage and took the vacant bed next to my own. Almost immediately, we became inseparable and spent all our time together. Unlike me, she looked on the bright side of life and brought only joy and happiness into the lives of everyone around here.
She was the person who patiently brought me out of my shell and taught me how to be grateful for every little thing ---- birds singing cheerfully, the magical sight of the sun rising from its slumber every morning and the beautiful stars looking down on us every night. With her around, I looked forward to the arrival of a new day instead of dreading its arrival. Days passed quickly and full of joy, naively, I thought that this paradise would last.
We were goofing around in the field one day when Adeline started coughing vigorously, her expression pained.
At first, I took it for a joke she was trying to play on me and I acting along, pretending to concerned. Bringing her to the main office at the orphanage, I forced myself not to smile as I imagined her getting scolded by the discipline mistress. Things, of course, did not go as planned. After being checked by the nurse, an ambulance was called and she was admitted into the hospital. I spent the next two days alone, sitting in the dormitory, trying to make sense of the bizarre turn of events.
Confused by why Adeline was missing from my life and terrified that I would never see her again, those two days were days I never hoped to never ever repeat again. After my constant begging to the head mistress, I was finally permitted to visit Adeline in the hospital. But then, the shock I received there has since scarred me permanently.
When I reached the corridor of Adeline’s ward, I could no longer contain my excitement and I rushed into the ward, only to see Adeline’s familiar face grinning uncontrollably at me.
Upon seeing me, she exclaimed, “I can’t believe that you’re here!” I smiled back at her before taking in the many tubes hooked up to her body.
She looked so much frailer than when I had last seen her a mere two days ago. Then, she had seemed so healthy but now, everything about her screamed ‘breakable!’ Before I could look away, Adeline caught me staring and said uneasily, “Millie? Do you want to know what has happened to me?” I nodded, my eyes trained on her face.
She took a deep breath before saying, “I’m not going to lie to you. Everybody has to die one day. My time will just come sooner than I had expected,” My mind struggled to comprehend the words she has just thrown at me.
Then, I finally understood her words. She was dying. Before I could stop myself, tears rolled down my cheeks. I barely noticed her when she said, “I have kidney failure…”
Adeline’s condition worsened very quickly regardless of whatever treatment she was on. However, she still kept her positive attitude and she always had a smile ready whenever I visited her. She was still the same person I had met and became friends with on the inside but, on the outside, she looked completely different from the girl she used to be.
Sometimes, I spent hours at a time trying to figure what Adeline had done to deserve such a sad fate. How could the heavens be willing to end a life that had only just started?
How could a disease turn a girl that had once been perfectly healthy into a complete wreck?
Up to date, I still have not gotten answers to any of my questions except for one---she left, because she was my angel and once she made me believe in hope again, her aim was accomplished and it was time for her to leave my side.
When her end came, it came at a ridiculous pace I could not wrap my head around.
I was not even given the chance to say my final good-byes. I had left the ward that night and promised her that I would visit her in the morning.
But, I was too late. She breathed her last at the stroke of midnight in her sleep.
She felt no pain and obviously taken off guard when she was still in dreamland. Although I never got to see her body, she was smiling in death.
That much I knew.
For days, I heard the faint sound of footsteps in the orphanage, but, whenever I turned around, there was always nobody.
The sweet sound of her singing replayed in my head over and over again, each note sending a sharp shock to me.
I still hear the noises but, now, having gotten used to them, I learn to find comfort in them, instead of the stinging pain.
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