"When I was Seven years old my dad past away. He was killed in an accident... His death left me with grief for many years.. After his death I didn't want to make friends. I just wanted to be alone. A few years later I met Lun and we become good friends. I had always limitations on myself while I was at school and I always found it hard to have a connection with someone. Alas things started to improve I got accepted into university. " I stopped my mouth was dry.
Lun passed me a water bottle. Everyone was still listening.
"Good things never last forever. I started to develop a bad cough. This cough did not go away. It persisted for a month . The doctors assumed I had bronchitis but it was worse. I started vomiting. And then blood came out. I never smoked or did any drugs. I went to hospital one day because the pain was so bad. I was sent to isolation, they thought I had BP or something really contagious. After three whole days of not knowing what I had the doctors came in. They told me I had Cancer. I was only 18 years old." I said as I stopped for a second the room was dead silent.
"My only thought was not to die from this. I didn't want to die yet.Chemotherapy soon followed . Long needles where placed into my veins. As each day went on my veins grew weak. . This went on for three months. I lost my hair and my happiness during this period. I was weak and angry at the world. Angry at my health. Angry with myself for getting sick. I somehow mustered the strength to finish the chemotherapy. Any longer than 3 months would of killed me. One of the hardest things however came later. In the transition period from chemotherapy cancer patient to adult. I was lost for a long time until I met all you guys recently . I am now 21 and have been in remission for the last three years." I said as some people started to cry.
I said what I had to say flawlessly. I had come to terms with it at last. I had blocked it out for so long I had forgotten what happened to me.
"Hurrah for Jay!" Lun said as everyone clapped and applauded.
It felt great to finally get all that off my chest.
"Jay that was a great speech, I never knew that about you" Tubb said as Gaz nodded.
"That was a great thing you overcame Jay. You know this is an amazing room" Gaz said.
Truth be told this was probably the best room ever built. I could feel the energy of my friends. Of everyone. I lied down and then got back up. Everyone was now gone. Everyone but Goldfish. It was as if I just blinked and they left.
"Jay I know a bit about chemotherapy as well" Goldfish said.
This was new, not many people had deep conversations with Goldfish like this. Goldfish was a very mysterious person. I knew hardly nothing about him. I didn't even know his real name.
"How so?" I said as curiosity filed me. This felt like some secret quest in a visual novel, that you had to achieve certain attributes to unlock this branching path way.
"Jay you probably know that I am a middle man... why do I do it has most likely crossed your mind a few times?"
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The Lifeguard
Ficțiune generalăLevi "Jay" Hart knows his a main character in a book called the lifeguard, or maybe his just going mad. Drawn into the politics at Australia's largest aquatic centre 'Water park' Levi finds that his slowly loosing his mind as management constantly p...
