Small Town Love

Maybe

My mom came to get me from school right after lunch, which was odd because she never picks me up early unless I had a scheduled a scheduled appointment. "Hi, mom" I said as I climbed into our truck, I noticed her eyes were red like she'd been crying. "Hi, bug. How was your day?" She asked fighting back tears. "I'm fine my neck hurts like hades, but what else is new." Their was a long pause if silence "what's wrong ,mom?" I'd never seen her cry, ever. "The doctor called me, he needs to talk to you. That's where we're going right now. We're afraid it's a lot more serious than we first thought." For once in my life I had nothing to say. I feel like a dumb teen thrown into a conversation about advanced mechanics of the universe, speechless. With in five minutes we were at the clinic. My parked the truck and the doctor met us at the front door. He led us to his private office. "Please, take a seat." He said as he held the door open for me and my mom. We sat down and he sat at the chair behind the desk. He pulled out a file with my name on it, my real name not Cj. " We got your blood work back Miss Clary....." I had to  interrupt  , I hated that name. "Please call me Cj. I don't like when people call me Clary, and I'm sorry I interrupted." I said "No, it's ok and my apologies, Miss Cj. As I was saying we got your blood work and, well their is no easy way to say this, but you have Thyroid Cancer." In an instant my mind was going a million miles a minute. "Whoa calm down!" I told my self. That must of worked because I was completely calm and my mom sees to be too. "What are my treatment options?" I asked. I could tell he and my mom were shocked at how calm I was. "Well first we'll need to run a few more test but basically we need to remove the part of your thyroid that has the cancer as well as any  lymph nodes that the cancer may have spread to. Then after those are surgically removed you'll get started on chemo." He explained. "Ok" I said. He asked me to step out of the room so he could privately discuss a few things with my mom so I walked out to the hallway. As soon as I shut the I was unlocking my phone to call Ryan. He answered immediately. "Hey, where are you? Everyone in shop is asking about you." He said through the phone. "Well I'm at the doctors office." I replied. "Oh. I didn't know you had another appointment." He sounded confused. "I didn't," I was trying to fight back tears "they got my blood work back." "Really, did they find out..., what's wrong you sound like you're about to cry." His voice went from happy to completely concerned. "I have Thyroid Cancer." I said through sobs. All I heard was the phone dropping. After a second someone picked it up. "Cj is that you?" It was Melissa. "Yea" I said trying to calm my crying. "What did you just tell Ryan, he looks like he's about to break down and either yell or cry I can't tell." She said half jokingly. "Will you put me on speaker so everyone can here?" I asked. This would be easier to tell them all at once. "Ok you're on speaker" Melissa said. "Ok, guys. I have Thyroid Camcer." I could hear everyone gasping. "Are you ok?" It took me a minute to realize it was Jak. "Maybe" that was thing only thing I could think to say.