Help me!

Chapter 17: The Undiscovered Diary

'Hey Dad!'I shouted up the stairs throwing my keys down

'I'm here, no need to shout!' Dad said coming from the living room

I took my wrap off and folded it up in my hands as I walked into the living. I saw dad sat down on the sofa, with a cream square box in front of him which he was going through, it was labelled '2005'.

'What's that?' I asked pointing at the old box

'Its your mums old box of things from 2005!' Dad said, taking out a diary

'No! I didn't know that! I totally didn't see the label thats facing me!' I said sarcastically, sitting down 'What's that?' I asked, pointing at the diary

'A diary of some sort' he said opening it

'Can I see it?' I asked, holding my hand out

'Yeah.....urmm yeah, here' he said closing the diary and handing it to me

I thank him, and open the diary again on a random page.

I read the first sentence on the first page i saw out loud; 'Gwen just told me thats she has cancer, and its highly possible that i have it to, mum only has a few weeks to live, how will i cope?'

Dad looked up after I had finished read the small sentence 'When did she write that?' Dad asked

'April 5th 2005, why?' I read, searching for the date at the top of the page 'There are water marks, she was probably crying'

'Thats the day that would of made a month me and your mother met, let me see that?' He said taking it from me

'What?' I stood up, lending over his shoulder

Dad flipped a couple of pages 'April 27th 2001, the day me and your mum had our first fall out..' Dad said, point to the page

'Why did you guy fall out?' I asked

'I went around her house and she mum was crying, i asked her what was wrong and she wouldn't tell me.' dad quickly explained

'So?' I said walking over to sit next to him

'I don't know what happened after but it was a stupid fall out, i must say' dad chuckled

'Go back a few pages, did you find out in the end what it was?' I said

'Well, yeah but i kind of had to force it out of her, i feel really bad for what i did' Dad said flipping backwards slowly

I quickly skim read as dad flipped back 'STOP!' I said 'Look!' I pointed

'I took the test for cancer like mum did, i'm scared if i have it, what if its passed on to my children? I have to go back to the clinic tomorrow to get the results, so scared...' Dad read out

'Oh my god!' I gasped 'How old was mum, dad?; I said turning to dad

'Your mum was born in 1976 and this was written in 2001, your mum was 19!' Dad calculated

'What? She was so young dad, she had me when she was 21,' I said

What did she put the next day?' I asked, turning the page

'I got the results...' I read 'It just stops there! And look there are more tear marks! The ink smugged' I pointed

Dad noticed a slit on the bottom of the page, he opened it and there was a followed piece of paper, dad opened it up, he sat there for a moment

'Its the test results!' Dad finally said

'Well she had cancer, we knew that!' I said

'Yeah i know!' Dad said closing the diary and putting it back in the box

'Well, I'm going to go upstairs to my room, Whats for tea?' I said walking towards the stairs

'Pizza, I cant be asked to cook right now!' dad said getting up and walking in to the kitchen

'Yay! Okay! I will be down stairs if you need me!' I said, running up the stairs in to my room

I jumped on to my bed and got my diary out of my draw and got a pen from my table, i unlocked my diary with the keys that dangled on my neck and started to write.

Dear Diary

Today was mum's funeral, it wasnt like i expected at all. After the funeral Stefan wanted to talk to me and show me something, it was his mum's grave, can you believe that Stefan's mum and Uncle Tom were buried on the same day? And almost oppiste each other?

Stefan told me how his mum passed away, after he told me, i felt so sorry for him, you wouldn't expect a guy like him would have such a story! Anyway, I went in to hug him and he hugged me too!!! I was mute screaming! When we were backing away, we almost kissed!!!! Oh my god!

One day i was pissed off with him and not talking to him and then i was hugging him and almost kissing him the next! God I really like him! <3 <3 <3 

<3 STEFAN! <3

I coloured in the hearts and closed my diary, i put it back in my draw and put the pen back on the side and got my phone and iMessaged Bels about  what had happened today.