Mikey turned away from the doctor and came towards her , with tears filling his eyes and spilling out in frequent falls. "Helena" his voice went out.
He grabbed onto her and fell back into the chair she was sitting in previously. "I can't do this babe, I can't ." he was almost sobbing into her jacket. "Mikey please don't say that, you're scaring me" he turned to her, his lips were dry and cracked. "babe I don't know wether to be angry or terrified right now, I don't know if I want to scream, or if I want to cry" she started tearing up "Mikey please, what did he say?" she quivered.
"He- he said..." he started to cry again "He's got cancer babe, they said the bump was there for a while and we haven't noticed it and-" he stomped his foot hard on the hospital floor " "there is a surgery to remove it but we can't fucking pay for it, and even after that he will have to do chemo therapy and I don't want him to go through that."
Helena tried to comprehend what was going on "no, no- no!" she crashed and waled, Mikey grabbed, and held her down, still crying "Helena please-" she kicked and shouted, finally shoving her head into Mikey's chest, and there she broke. "Helena, it's gonna be okay-" "No! It's not going to be okay Mikey! My baby- my baby boy... he's dying. I should've noticed sooner! Goddammit!" she cried until tears could no longer fall from her eyes. "I hate everything Mikey! It never ever works out! "
"Listen babe, we need to be strong, do you hear me? We need to be strong for our babies, we need to be strong for Oli, I need to be strong for you and you need to be strong for me. This kid doesn't even understand what's going on, god knows I don't want him to but, we need to do this for him" she wiped her tears "even if we don't have the money?" he sighed "yes, even if we don't have the money" "but," she looked up "I'm scared, Mikey what if he doesn't make it-" "no babe don't say that! You don't know.... As long as we've got him, and as long as he smiles at us, we're all gonna be okay," he tucked her hair behind her ear "no amount of money in the world could fix a broken hearted child, and, I just don't want him to cry for the rest of his life Hel- I want him to smile. I want him to come home from school one day and say ' look mom, look what I made' and you'll look at him...." a single tear made it down his face "We're gonna be okay" she smiled through glassy wet eyes "we're gonna be...okay"
