Adeline
I get from my bed and Vicky opens the door. She looks at Aden on my bed and me by the door back and forth. "Umm does Aden have a shirt on?" I look at Aden. "Nope." I say with no problem. She gives me a big smile. I take her hand and we go down stairs. We start serving cereal. My house, with the smell of alcohol, dirty. I look around and see bottles on the floor and some stuff damaged. Oh well.
Vicky put all the bowls on the table and then sits with her hands and legs crossed, looking at me. "What?" I ask. "I know what you did." She says with a straight face. I stay silent. "Um. What are you talking about? You must be drunk still." I know exactly what she is talking about. She shakes her head. "No, i am perfectly fine. And you know what Im talking about.You cant fool me." I swallow. I take a seat in from of her and cross my hands like her. "So.. Long story short, we sort of had..sex..And he asked me to be his girlfriend." Vicky stays silent with her jaw open. "WHAT!" Oh no. "I knew you guys would come along. I mean it was obvious you guys liked each other for a looong time. I wondered when you guys would admit it." She says smiling. Then gets up from her seating position and jumps up and down. "IM SO HAPPY!" She screams. Suddenly, we hear footsteps on the stairs. We stop jumping and stand serious. "Good Morning beautiful faces." Aden says to both of us. "Dont you think that makes me jealous." I tell him while brushing my hand on his neck. He looks at Vicky with big eyes. And she stands there with a smile. He sees that she approves and looks at me. "Oh Im sorry baby girl." He kisses my lips and tries to tongue kiss me. I just go with it. I feel awkward kissing him in front of Vicky but I cant stop. He pulls away. He gives me a smile and walks to the table.
After eating we all go to dress. I pick out some black leggings with a white shirt and black and white Jordans. Aden gets out a random outfit from a book bag. And Vicky puts some dark jean with my white converse and her white flower print crop top.
I take my phone and some money and head out.
We get in the car and start driving to the brickyard mall.
As we are sitting on the bench waiting for Vicky to order at Auntie Annes I feel Aden slowly move his palm to my knee.Chills run down my spine. I look at him and smile "Dont get horny." He takes his hand back fast and puts it on his knee. He blushes.
Vicky comes with three pretzels and sits on the bench with me and Aden. We sit and talk about Life. I suddenly start thinking about my mom. "Guys, is it okay if we go see my mom later?" Aden nods and Vicky says "Of course." With a mouth full of pretzel.
About 2 hours later we leave the mall to go see my mom.
We start driving to the hospital and I start getting nervous.My hands shake. I squeeze my thigh trying to stop the trembling.
This time a different doctor comes to us. He walks in a slow pace to us and I want to scream 'Hurry up!' He finally reaches us and shakes me,Aden and Vicky's hands. "Hello.Are you Adeline,ma'am?" I nod my head. "Yes, i am the daughter of your patient."
"I am aware of that." He says with a smile. "Your mom talks a lot about you. But,... On the serious note we need to talk about your moms health.She has been on a lot of medication. We were looking through her x-rays and all and we see that she might have an illness." I look at Vicky and Aden with my eyes starting to water.Vicky nods her head to continue. The doctor goes on "We think that she might have...Lung cancer." And the tears are let out.I hide my face.Thoughts run through my head.Thoughts of my mom my dad and me.Those siblings that I never had Vicky and Aden. Vicky leans in to give me a hug and so does Aden. Vicky,knowing I couldn't say a word at the moment, asks the doctor " Can we go see her?"
The doctor leads us to the room. I see my mom just like last time.Except worse. She has heavy dark gray bags under her eyes with her brunette hair losing its color, tied in a bun. More tubes attached to her than last time. Mamma. I say in my mind. As if she read my mind, my mom turns and opens her eyes. I walk slowly to her and try giving her a hug but struggle to untangle myself of the tubes. "My little girl." She says with her raspy voice. A tear of mine slides down to her chest. She takes my hand and squeezes it with all her might. "You, just take care of your self.Don't worry about me." She whispers to me. "You probably have school tomorrow,right? You should leave. Go get some rest."
"Mom..-"
"Adeline, go." She gives me a kiss on the forehead. I feel her chapped lips and I just squeeze my eyes shut imagining this as a nightmare.She lets my hand go and smiles. I smile back trying not to let the pain get to me. Aden grabs my waist and takes me out and goes back in. I wait outside in the lobby by myself.I play with my two thumbs.Pushing them away from each other.
About 10 minutes later Aden and Vicky come out.Aden has his arm wrapped around Vicky. I get up and Vicky wraps her arm around me.As we walk locked together I look around, my life flashing through my eyes again.I feel dizzy.I hold tighter to Aden and Vicky.
