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Chapter 8: Something unexpected

"God, I feel sick." "Aiden Chris! You just puke all over the street." A couple of people look walk pass me and said, "Dude, that's disgusting." I look at the and say sorry, and then Lexa laughs.

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"What flavor do you like?" I ask her while we're about to buy some ice cream "Mint chocolate chip" "One mint chocolate chip, and one vanilla ice cream, please." I said to the guy at the counter. "It'll be 6 dollars and 25 cents." I give him the money and take my change. We sit to the nearest table and sit there. I start to speak, "you know, this ice cream shop reminds me of the first time we met, when you accidentally lost Kaitlin. That is also reminds me what a great sister you are" I said sarcastically. "Okay, don't go sarcastic and all to Me." she rolled her eyes, then fix her beanie. "I love your beanie." I say. "You don't like the black one that I wore yesterday?" "Nah, I like this one. The blue one." "Kaitlin gave this to me for my birthday present. She said she likes blue color. Because one day, we went to the beach and she said everything looks blue. It's so beautiful. The beach and the sky." Speaking of Kaitlin, I wonder where she is. "By the way, where is Kaitlin?" "Oh, I told you before. She's at my aunt's house. The one from the church community?" "Oh. Yea, I forgot. She's not worry about you leaving?" "After you called me, I woke her up and told her I'm going to go on a trip with a friend for a couple of days. At first, she doesn't want me to leave but I gave her this little candy necklace and I said, "I will comeback before you finish all of the candy". She loves candy so much, but she only eats 2 or 3 candy a day. So it will take us some time. And I also told her not to say anything to Aunt B. Kaitlin is a smart girl." "That's some trick, Lex. If I were Kaitlin, I will finish the candies in one day and ask for more." I laugh. "I'll miss her you know." She said, smile sadly. "Lexa, it's okay. You will meet her again in 3 days, right? Don't worry." "Yea," she smiles. But her eyes show no emotion. And then second later she said softly, "That's exactly what I worried about. The days." I don't think that she meant to say that out loud, but I hear her clearly. She worried about the days? Why? It's just three days. I answered her, "What?" I ask, pretending that I don't quite get what she was saying. "No, no. Nothing" she smiles. She continues to speak, "Hmm. I smell popcorn! Do you want to buy some?" She goes from having a sad face to her eyes suddenly glimmers. "ye-yea, sure" I smirk.

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I took the golden yellow popcorn and insert it to my mouth. "I wonder if what if Sam come with us." Lexa said while eating her popcorn. "Nope." I said quickly, then continue, "He will tell my parents about it right away." "Too bad." Lexa says. "Why?" I ask. "Well. We could use a humorous clown along the way through our fairytale, right? You know, to kill the boredom." She said. "Hey! I'm funny and humorous too." "Sure." Lexa rolled her eyes. "What? You don't believe me?" "No, Hey. I didn't say that, did I?" "Okay then" I said cockily. "What?" she said half laughing. "You want some joke, I'll give you one." "Okay, bring it in, big guy" "Knock, knock" I said. "WHAT?! You're going to start with the knock knock joke?! Oh my god. Hahahaha" she laughs. "What? DO YOU WANT THE JOKE or not?!" I said pretending to be mad. She keeps her self from laughing and try to listen to my joke, "Okay. Good. Guess who am I talking about; "We have 5 legs, four eyes, and 2 functional lungs' who are we?" She seem quiet confused about it, "What kind of thing is that?! Are you making this up?" she started to laugh. "No, no! I swear the characters exist." "Dang it! Who?" "Do you really want to know???" "Aiden," She rolled her eyes, "YES TELL ME" She ask curiously. "They are... Hazel grace, Augustus Waters, and Isaac." "OH. MY.GOD. I should have know that!" she laughs. "See? I AM a humorous person after all!" I laugh. " I'M A HUMOROUS PEOPLE!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. A lot of people are looking at me. Since this place is really crowded. "Aiden, stop!" Lexa laughs. "Oh, oh! You want me to stop? GUYS! THIS GIRL RIGHT HERE, WITH THE HAT- BEANIE, WANT ME TO STOP CAUSE I AM A REALLY HUMOROUS PERSON! SHOULD I STOP? No? OKAY!" I said loudly, "Young man, you should stop." A lady with her late 50's told me to stop. And now I feel really bad. "Oh, of course ma'am. I am really sorry." The lady walks away and I turn around to face Lexa. I can see her face, trying to keep it from laughing. And then she burst out of laughing. "Hey! Don't laugh at me!" I say and threw some of the popcorn to her face. "Hey! Stop it!" she said and throw her popcorn to me too. We keep throwing each other popcorn until it almost runs out.

"AAH you are wasting our popcorn!" I said to her. "We both did" she laughs loudly. When she laughs, there is popcorn stuck on her hair. "Wait, there is some popcorn stuck on your hair" I said and try to take the popcorn from her hair. When I take the popcorn, some of her hair fall off. What? What is this? I look at her face, who is still laughing, "Lexa," "Yea," she looks at me and smile, "What?" I show her, her hair that is in my hand, "Your hair- it's-" She quickly grabbed the hair out of my hand and touch her head. She opens her beanie a little and tries to pulled out some of her hair softly. Her hair keeps falling and her eyes start to let out some tears. "Lex, what happ-" I try to touch her but she quickly run away from me. I tried to chase her and keep running. After running for just almost 30 seconds, she seems to be tired and so weak, but she keep running, "LEXA! JUST STOP!" I shouted, and after that, she finally stop at a small turn and fall down. "Lexa are you okay? Why did you run from me?" I ask. I look at her face and her red puffy eye. "I can't-" she start to cry. "Shh... Lex, just tell me." I look at her face and realize that her red lips starting to fade. " Lex, you look so- pale." There are pieces of her hair fall out around us, where she recently fall. At this moment, I know that she is sick. I know something is wrong. "Lexa, do you have c-" she stand up, and take her beanie off. I look at her head and there are so many bald spots on her head, and some of her hair falling from the beanie. "YES. AIDEN CHRIS! I have A CANCER!" She said shouting at me and cry. " I'M DYING! I'M DYING AIDEN. And I don't know what to do!" She said, sobbing. i still can't believe that she has a cancer. Why didn't she tell me before? "Why didn't you tell me before?" "Because you were different back then. I know if I told you I have a cancer from the first time we met, you wouldn't want to hangout with me. No one wants to be friends with a dying girl." Her eyes showing sadness deeply. "Lex, I won't do that. You should've told me from the beginning that we met. I can- I can take you to the hospital and-" "No," she said. "What?" "No, I won't go to the hospital. There is nothing we can do about this. I have seen a lot of deaths in my life. And going to the hospital will just make it worst. It just delays our death and extends our suffering. I don't want to be that person who try to fight their live suffering in hotel bed with people surrounding her waiting for it to end. I want to live the rest of my life happily. Without pressure, without cliché, without anything got in my way. And you, Aiden Chris, you help me to find that happiness. You help me to add more pages to my fairy tale and you help me to also finish all those happy fairy tales. And that night, when we were in the Zoo, you were right. In this life, there is no happy ending." "But, it depends on the way we look at things right? You said we can make our own fairy tale and happy ending. Happy endings doesn't mean that the characters will live forever grow up and have kids right?" I said. She looks at me and smile, "exactly", I walk to her direction and wipe her tears, "Then lets make one. The story hasn't ended yet"