To Love A Sickler

Chapter one

I sat calmly on the hostpital bed, feet dangling from the ground as my nurse sucked my blood out of my arm through the rather large needle. My stress worn mother sat patiently in the chair across from my, her hands were entwined with my fathers who smiled reassuringly at me. I rolled my eyes and let out a sigh as my nurse bandaged my arm.

I swallowed down the pain pills my nurse left on the counter and hopped down from the bed and followed my parents to the car

I groaned and ran my fingers threw my tangled curls as I sat at the dinner table with my always happy family. I watched my parents quietly as they laughed and joked around, my mothers large green hazel eyes lit up in admiration as she talked to my father. My father cracked lame jokes and laughed running his hands through his dark brown hair medium lengthen hair. I glanced over at my older brother who was to busy scarfing down the beef enchiladas and spanish rice my mother made, to busy to even notice his surroundings. I played my fork across my untouched food, my appitite was drained but i forced my self to eat knowing its for the better .

"Hey mum can I be excused from the table?" I asked my mom who was to busy flirting and giggling with my dad

"Mom" i repeated a little louder

She glanced at my food and gave me a worried smile "Chris honey can you try to eat just a little bit more" she pleaded

"Mom I cant eat anymore" I whined "I'll throw up if I do" I pouted

She sighed knowing I was exaggerating "fine, just finish your glass of water then you can go"

I smiled evily and gulped down the water before pushing my self from the table and skipped up stairs to my room. Since my body tends to want to fail me, my parents feel the need to spoil me. I get almost everything I want, and I am not complaining. I walk into the private bathroom connected to my room which is almsot twice the size as my brothers bathroom. I slip my clothes off and turn the warm tub water on. Dropping in the pink grapefruit bath bomb, and the Epsom salt Dr. Horton said would help with my aches, i switched the jets on and slipped my body in.

I woke up to the sound of my phone vibrating off the hook. I laughed at my self as I realized I fell asleep in the tub. Grabbing my phone and saw I had 3 missed calls from my bestfriend Lenmox, I rolled my eyes and wrapped a towel on my body, glancing at the time which read "9:45pm"

I tied a towel on my head and hurried out of the bathroom knowing my parents usually come and check on my around 11:00 and I really didn't want to deal with it today. I threw on a large tshirt and hooked up my oxygen tank which I do every night just incase my lungs felt a little lazy tonight. Luckly I only have to wear it in the night, when I was younger I always had to carry it around.

"Goodnight chris" I faintly heard my mom say as I drifted to sleep.

The early morning sunlight streamed through my curtains, I sat up and stretched, tearing off the blankets from my body. I stood up and faced my full body mirror, my long curly light brown hair reached my mid back, my green hazel eyes surrounded by the yellowish color, and my usually pink full lips were a bit pale, which is part of the sickle cell package. I sighed and pulled my hair out from the ponytail, letting the brown curls cascade down my back. I sluggishly walked into the bathroom and stood on the scale to take the weekly weight and frowned, it read "107lb" when just last Friday it red "113lb" I rolled my eyes at the madness and brushed my teeth, after the failure attempt of making my face look nice or presentable I pulled on a small grey crew neck sweater which stopped loosely above my belly button, and dark blue jeans and slid my feet into one of my favorite dark green socks with brown foxes on it and pulled on my white vans before skipping down the stairs where my mom sat on the couch with coffee reading her tablet.

"Good morning mom" I greeted her with a soft kiss on her cheek

"Make sure to get your breakfast from Fiona" she called to me, referring to the house keeper.

"I'll grab breakfast on the way" I lied "you have work today?" I asked as I grabbed a bottle of Gatorade from the fridge

"Yea Ms. Jones scheduled an appointment, have fun love" she said and kissed my cheek softly. My mother worked as a Physical trainer and usually just worked on her own schedule

"alright bye mom" I said as I ran out the door and hopped into my slick black convertible Tauro v8 spider and sped out the long driveway

"Noooo, Chriss!" My bestfriend Lennox exclaimed as she hugged me in the hallway "those jeans are too cute to wear with that outfit"

I rolled my eyes at her and sarcastically said "not everyone has great fashion sense like you"

"Thanks" she squealed totally missing my sarcasm "your lucky I brought an extra dress" she said as she dragged me into the bathroom

I groaned as I looked at the dress she held in her hand "lex why do you have to be so extra" I groaned

"Just do it" she giggled and pushed me into the stall

I pulled on the form fitting black mid thigh dress. When I walked I stared at the mirror, the dress had two slits on the side and was actually kind of pretty

"You look hot Chris!!" Lex giggled in excitement as I pulled on a cardigan and we left for class

The rest of the day flew by fast, school was a blur, I arrived home to my other best friend Trevor laying shirtless on the game room couch playing video games with my older brother.

I shook my head and laughed at the sight "hey trev" I called out

"Oh hey Chris" they both said with out looking at me

I walked over and pressed the green xbox button "I said hi" I whined

"Come on Chris!" My brother groaned and threw the controller on the ground causing me to laugh

"How was school" Trevor said and wrapped me in his muscular arms

"Great why weren't you there" I asked and looked up to look at his face

"Today was definitely senior skip day" he said with a sly smirk

"Really?" I said cocking my head to the side innocently as I thought "I thought that was last week"

"Chris your body is burning up" he said and held the back of his hand to my neck ignoring my observation

I sighed and pulled away from his grasp "I'm fine, was hot outside" I lied and turned to walk up to my room

"What's wrong Chris?" He asked as he followed closely behind me as I slowly went up the steps

"Just tired Trev" I said calmly as I closed the door of my room behind me, leaving him out worried and clueless.