A Walk In These Bones

Chapter 5

  Steven and I went up to our tree that we buried our dreams when we first started dating. We dug it up and read them to each other, and we laughed because Steven secretly wrote down that he wanted to marry me, and look where it got us. We were having such a great time, and then it started to rain. We were driving down the street and I saw a bunch of missing child posters, and it was the girl that used to be mean to me in school, and now she's gone. I kept thinking to myself, what would have happened if I did die that day. Would anyone at school even notice I was gone? Steven grabbed my hand as we were still driving to go home and he kissed it. We rested the whole rest of the day, and just watched movies all day.

  The next day Steven and I went to the park and I took Snickers. "Hailey, remember when I first met you I looked at you for advice?" "Yes" I looked at him and wondered where he was trying to get to. "Well I was finally starting to talk to my mom again shortly after that and..." He paused for maybe thirty seconds. "She beat me with a belt that night." I covered my mouth with my hands, and couldn't believe the words he had just told me. I woke up with morning sickness and I had an ultrasound appointment. Steven drove me and we waited in that waiting room for over an hour until "Hailey Johnson." Steven wheeled me into the room and helped me onto the chair. "Alright, let's see what we have here." See moved the really cold tool around my stomach and then, there she was. "She's doing just fine." But then I wasn't. I felt so weird and the room started spinning like a kid on a fast merry-go-round. Steven took me upstairs and they had him wait outside. I woke up to Steven sleeping with his head on my lap. "Hi." He woke up and his face was as red as a beet from crying. "You're okay Hailey."

  I made him go to the cafeteria to get me some cookies so I could talk to the doctor alone. "So what was it?" The doctor grabbed me hand and said. "Because you're pregnant and you stopped using the medication a tumor grew in your brain." I shut down and started crying, but I stopped crying before Steven could see me. He was gone for a long time. "Where were you?" Steven smiled. "I was looking at the babies." I laughed and grabbed his hand. Even though I was getting sicker. We made the most out of our day. I stayed in the hospital all day due to a headache because of the tumor. Steven laid his head on my lap and fell asleep. Finally I fell asleep too, but I had a dream. That the doctors found a way to cure me and I could live forever with Steven, and have as many babies as we want. The doctor came in the next morning. "Hello Hailey. How is everything this morning?" I sighed and aid everything was fine.