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Chapter 6
GABBY
I had a very peaceful and deep sleep right after I had finished doing my homework last night. It was so deep that I overslept for 12 hours straight!
Also, I dreamt about Mom.
Oh, I missed her so much. She left us when I was just entering my pre-adolescence. I was ten years old.
Mom was very energetic and lively, back then.
She used to be the captain of the volleyball team when she was in high school. Dad told me that she could even run the 100-meter dash in 19.3 seconds. She was that fast!
Later on, she gradually became very frail but never showed it in front of us, most especially, in front of me. She could easily get bruises and infection. She also had undergone drastic weight loss.
We didn't know why.
Together with Dad, they visited the doctor for check-up.
It was the worst news Mom ever received in her whole life. She was diagnosed with cancer cells, two years before she passed away.
At first, I could sense her devastation when she learned about it.
Her bubbly personality suddenly faded away. She seldom smiled. She stopped doing her two favorite hobbies; embroidery and painting. She rarely ate snacks with me. We never even played hide-and-seek anymore.
So, with those things, I knew there was something wrong.
Every night, whenever I passed by their room, I could hear silent sobs and constant arguing between her and Dad. I couldn't understand what was going on; I thought they would be divorcing. But still, they were sweet with each other.
Looking through her eyes, there was more. I just couldn't tell what it was.
There was this one time, it was my ninth birthday.
During those times, I was really a naughty and spoiled brat, who would easily give a hissy fit if I would be taken for granted. Mom, being the generous mother she was, gave me my birthday wish, a "flying disc".
I immediately opened her present to see the red disc, I had been wanting it for so long. I found myself playing Frisbee with it with my two older brothers.
Accidentally, I wasn't able to control the direction of the disc that it shifted the wrong course. I chased it as fast as I could, but, it already hit Mom. It hastily landed on her right arm.
The part where the disc jabbed suddenly turned into a huge bluish gray bruise. It swelled in an instant.
I really didn't understand it before, tears were forming in the corner of my eyes, I cried and hugged her. I kept on telling her that I didn't mean it, that it was only an accident, that I was really sorry for what I did. She just gave me her smile, in spite the pain, I had given her.
I could still remember what she told me right after the accident, "Sweetheart, don't cry, it's nothing. This will heal soon. Okay?", she said, rubbing the lump on her arm.
Her warm breath came out from her mouth as it gently touched my skin. "Smile Gabby, Mommy doesn't want to see you crying.", then she squeezed me tightly in her arms.
In spite her sickness, she behaved like she had no illness at all. It was very brave of her.
With the prettiest smile she had on her lips, she died like she was sleeping, one rainy afternoon, because of leukemia.
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