The Forgotten

Chapter 2

I woke up bright and early, "only Tuesday" I thought. I yawned and got out of bed. I realized I didn't dream anything I could remember last night. It was a relief. So I got dressed and hurried off to school.

"Haha you have school today and I don't!!" Sarah mocked me. "We'll you have a doctor appointment and you hate the doctor so haha!" I said mockingly back to her. She rolled her eyes and I walked out the door.

After school I came home and walked through the door to find my mother sitting at the dining room table. It looked like she had been crying. "Hi mom!!" I said as I always would. She just looked at me with pain in her eyes. "What is it mom? What's wrong?" I asked getting worried. "I- I don't want to talk right now. I can explain later" she said. "Well where's Sarah?" I asked. My mother didn't answer. I didn't know what to say or do. I wondered what was happening. But I felt maybe I don't want to know what's happening. And where is Sarah?

I sat in my room for hours in silence, not knowing what was happening. My mother opened the door. "Carly.." She said. "Yes, mom?" I responded with a trembling voice. "We need to talk." She said. Those words always worried me. "Where's Sarah?" I asked calmly. "It's about Sarah." She said quietly. "Sarah's doctor appointment didn't go as planned..." She said tearing up. "What what is it?" I asked fearfully. "Sarah... Sarah has leukemia, baby" she said, now in tears. I thought for a moment, unable to fully comprehend that my little sister, my best friend, has cancer. I refused to believe it. "I- uh" I said with tears in my eyes. I could not force any words out. "Please, go for right now mom. I don't want to talk." I said. "I understand, Car." She said. As soon as my mom left the room I brust into tears. I couldn't control it. I began to panic, throwing items around my room and just dropping to my knees crying. I couldn't handle it, it was so unexpected. I came to the conclusion that this whole situation is just a horrific nightmare, and maybe if I try to sleep, tomorrow I'll wake up and have Sarah back, laughing and being her sassy, adorable little self. I prayed so hard, I've never really prayed before - well unless I was asking for something stupid like a boy to like me or a new pair of shoes. But this, this was serious prayer. I prayed non stop until I drifted to sleep.

The next morning I woke up, hoping the day before was just a nightmare. But knowing deep down that it wasn't. So I went downstairs and put a happy face on, mostly for my moms sake. She was trying to do the same for me. "Good morning sweetie, do you want some breakfast?" She asked. "No, thank you." I said. "Okay, are you alright dear?" She said with wide eyes that made me want to burst into tears right there, but I held them back. "Yes mom, I'm fine." I said, obviously lying. I'm not fine. "Do you want to stay home from school today? I'm sure missing one day won't do much harm" she said. "No, I should go. It might get my mind off things" I said. She just looked at me with understanding eyes. "I love you" she said. "I love you too, mom" I said. And I walked out the door to go to school.

When I got to school, I decided to keep my cool. I decided not to tell any one about the situation, not even Amy. I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to think about it. So basically in my mind it wasn't happening.

But it was.