Lock-In

Nine

^^ LOCKER ROOM ABOVE ^^

"Z-Zac? Erica? Kyle?" I question. I thought Kyle was out?

"Why are you crying," he asked. Why? He tried to pull me into a hug, but I thrashed out. My arms were waving everywhere in attempt to keep him away from me. I didn't need him. He basically killed... her.

I stood up too quickly, making me dizzy, but I didn't care. I raced out of the room ignoring the cries for me to stop. I race down the hall and into a random room; but at this point, I didn't care.

All I could think about was him. Her. Them. Me. Death. Life. And love.

FLASHBACK

There was no end to my feelings. The wave of happiness that coursed through me was enough to make me run through the blinding halls of the large building.

Mommy says this is where people come to feel better, which made me happy because I knew she would get better. When Mommy said we were coming to visit her, I was ecstatic. 

"Juniper, slow down," Mommy called as I raced to her room. I checked the number before barging in.

"You stole my face!" I cried in our usual greeting.

"You stole my cool," my sister replies with a small laugh. 

"So what's up?" I ask sitting on the edge of her bed carefully so I don't hurt her. Mommy says her bones are really weak and I can hurt her easily.

"Nothing much. Zac keeps visiting me. He's so sweet," she says while blushing. Zac was a family friend who cared for Jaida a lot. It was cute.

"Aww," I replied. Sure I liked Zac too, but he made Jaida happy, so I pushed those thoughts away.

SIX YEARS LATER

We were celebrating our birthday in the hospital. Jaida and I were turning thirteen. Our big teen years. She wasn't showing signs of development. If anything, her condition was weakening.

I excused myself and left to the bathroom. I didn't know I entered the men's restroom until I saw a boy, about my age, crying. He was cute, no doubt about it. His brown hair was messy from running his hands through it too much and his clothes were dirty and stained with a red substance. 

"A-are you o-okay?" I stuttered. Maybe he was going to tell me off, or maybe push me out of the bathroom. His reaction shocked me.

"C-c-can you he-help her?" He replied looking up at me. I stared into his perfect brown eyes and noticed something shiny in his hand.

Carefully I sat next to him. He gave me a confused look, still holding onto the shiny object like his life depended on it.

"What's that?" I bit my lip as I pointing to the object. He tried to hide it, but I caught his wrist. 

The boy hissed in pain and I quickly retracted my hand and saw blood on it. Panic set in as I, more carefully and slowly, took the shiny object from him and discovered a small blade. I flipped his hands to show his wrists with were cut into.

"W-why?" I breathed and grabbed a nearby first aid kit. I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up, so I knew a couple things. Plus my older brother, Justin, got into a lot of fights.

"She's dying. I-I can't..." his voice cracked as he let tears fall. I cleaned the cuts and bandaged them, then look him in the eyes, but he didn't look back. So I grabbed his face and forced him, gently, to look at me.

"Then be with her. Whoever she is, she will want you to be with her when she goes and meets God," I tell him. He nods his head.

"Thank you...uhm?" he hinted for me to tell him my name.

"Juniper. Juniper Miller,"  I tell him.

"Mine's Alec," his kissed my forehead and left the bathroom but before he left he looked back at me, "Thanks,"

After the run-in with Alec, I left back to my sister who was screaming at Zac.

"You kissed Trish! You knew I hated her and you kissed her!" Jaida's heart monitor was sky rocketing. She abruptly slapped him.

She fell back, breathless. That day we sat there in pain trying to help Jaida by calling doctors. But it was no use. She died, right in my arms...

I was never the same after experiencing that. Stupid bone tumor.

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Ooooooh. Things just got complicated. Sorry if this doesn't feel very realist, the way Jaida died. Bone tumors do exist. Google it if you wish. Wait, I'll do it for you.

"Cancer cells that spread from other parts of the body can form 2 main types of bone tumors: The tumor may eat away areas of bone, creating holes called osteolyticlesions. This can make bones fragile and weak, so that they break or fracture easily. These areas may be painful."

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=34...1

"Content - Health Encyclopedia - University of Rochester Medical Center." Content - Health Encyclopedia - University of Rochester Medical Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2017.

Thanks for reaching. 

NioJam