There Is No Cure

Chapter 1-Away

When I was a little girl I thought I that I would have the rest of my life do all of the adult things that I was so looking forward too. I was looking forward to the little things like being able to shave my legs, getting Facebook and being allowed to get a job. Right now all of these things don't seem all that important anymore.

I only just started to think how much my life had changed over the last year when my mum walks in. She gives me a very worried look. My heart sinks she hasn't looked like this since I had to go through my last set of chemo.

"I am afraid I have some bad news." She said trying to hold back her tears.

Her eyes looked like a dams that are about to overflow. I pulled my blankets over my face, so my eyes were just poking out. Like that was going to protect me from what my mother was about to say.

"The doctors think that you might be better off in a different hospital, one with more equipment to make you better... I am so sorry honey" She said this in such a hushed voice as if she is afraid that I might blow up.

I just lay on my bed and close my eyes because I know I am not going to get better. In fact I am getting worse. No matter how much equipment this new hospital has they cannot make me better because there is no cure. My mums sees how upset and unresponsive I am. I think that my silence is about to tear my mum apart. So I deicide to finally speak up. 

"And where is this new hospital?" I ask stuttering after every word.

My mum looks up from her book, surprised that I actually spoke.

"In Melbourne, they want to fly you there tomorrow afternoon."

A single tear runs down my face. I have been away from everyone that I love my family my friends. It feels like I haven't seen them in ages, but it really has been forever. I think about the few new friends I have made in the hospital and how I will probably never see them again.

I drift off to sleep even though I haven't eaten dinner and
it's four o'clock.

"Wake up darling." Said my dad softly.

He moves his hand ever so gently across my forehead. I open my eyes, he gives me a look of great concern . This is probably due to the fact the my skin is pale and my eyes are blood shot to the extent that I can barely see out of them. I stare him in the eyes for a good minute. For that minute nothing else mattered then that i was with him. He looked at his watch and then looked at me.

"You have to gather your things, darling" he whispered under his breath.

"Daddy are you coming with me?" I asked with the best puppy eyes I could come up with.

My heart fills up with hope and the only words I to come out of his mouth are yes.  He looks at how sick I am and I know what he is about to tell me will break him.

"No, we can't afford the new treatment if I lose my job. Sorry baby"

My dad is what keeps me going through all of this. I can't imagine not seeing my dads smile in the morning, when i wake up. My dad is my hero. Tears spill down my face like a waterfall. I feel like a broken doll that can't be fixed. My dad cuddles me up like a newborn baby. I feel safe in his arms. I can't imagine how my life will be without my dad.

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-FinlayH