Close to Heaven

Thoughts

Mi Sun's parents and I were quiet. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't believe that such a miracle had happened. 

"Mi Sun's tumor is already almost gone, reduced to one-fourth of its original size." Mi Sun's mother broke down into tears. Tears of joy. Her intermittent cries of "thank you," were heart wrenching and soulful. 

I still stood there. I had no idea what to do or say. The terminally ill girl that I had been taking care of for the past few months, no longer was terminally ill. Suddenly a thought flashed through my mind. 

The day she tried to leave her bed without help. The day I tripped when trying to help her back to bed. The day that our faces came so close I could see the line where her dark brown irises separated from her pupils. 

I never denied what I felt that day, I just never acknowledged it. Because I knew what it had been. I knew I had felt something that I shouldn't have felt with a terminally ill girl. I had felt love. 

The fluttering feeling in my stomach that occurred every time she looked at me too long or when got too close was unbearable, only because I knew what it meant. It meant that I was starting to like a terminally ill person, which could never happen. But Mi Sun was no longer terminally ill. She was getting better. 

I allowed myself to ponder the thought of actually liking her. She would probably never like me back, but I wasn't going to deny the feelings I had experienced during my time with her. Now that she wasn't terminally ill any longer, I could possibly have feelings for her without expecting her death. 

I stared at Mi Sun, laying on the hospital bed asleep, as thoughts of the future raced through my head.

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Sorry, this isn't a very long chapter, I'm writing the story in google docs and I copy and paste each chapter onto Wattpad. I already have the book written a few chapters in advance so I have to stop each chapter at a reasonable place to have the next chapter start at a good place. Have a good day!