Loves Brittle Heart....

Part one

Monday 5th September 3046:

1.2.3. They are just numbers...and just like in life things have hidden meanings. They can be counting towards a surprise or it could mean days until you see someone you love. However, numbers can also be bad... it could be counting down to the last seconds you live. 3.2.1.

Sometimes life can't be guaranteed, it can't be promised that it's going to be perfect that it's going to be exactly like you pictured when you were a little kid. When you were totally oblivious to what paths the world would create for you and how it will take you completely off course. Some paths can exceed beyond what you ever expected in life and some...well they can take you somewhere that you didn't even believed existed, somewhere you never want to exist.

When I was born, I didn't choose to have a heart disease. I guess you never get to choose those decisions in life anyway, but this was something different. The doctors didn't quite know what type it was, when I was born my mother said she could physically see my heart pounding in my chest like it was a wild animal trapped in a cage. Multiple tests and operations were taken until they spotted something rather unusual. My heart... it's translucent.

I'm pretty much known as the girl with the translucent heart... original I know, but the doctors have still never seen anyone with my case before in history, so they have made their own diagnosis. My life has been a non stop visit to hospitals and blood tests as well as numerous questions about my health, but the thing is that I am no different than any other person, I function the same as anyone else.

I just have to take it easy, it's fragile like glass they say it could smash at any moment if I'm not careful. Being fifteen and an easy target, life at school is pretty rough. Some people find it funny to push me round because they think that they're going to witness some magic trick where my heart bursts into a million shards. Of course that is not taken lightly to my friends and family, my best friend Eddie is always extra careful around me even when we were four years old. Eddie has always been there for me and I guess it's only really just been me and him.

Then there's Ely. He doesn't exactly talk to me but there's something he doesn't know. When I joined Fairdale High school, at the age of 12, I saw Ely for the first time and I felt a punch to my heart... it was small but it was something. Doctors panicked when I said so, but the test said something else. They found a flesh like patch growing inside it... it was a piece of a human heart, but who's was it? Was it even mine? Specialist surgeons were able to take a DNA sample from my heart, a procedure lasting over 5 1/2 hours. It was a part of Ely's. Yes it was impossible but it happened, the doctors and surgeons kept this confidential between them and my family. Me and Ely were bonded...  

My name is Olive. And I have a translucent heart.