The Life of Lilac Hill

Chapter six: School? Yeah.

I wash my hands off in the sink. Somehow I have cuts and my hands are bleeding.

I stumble out the door and down the stairs and I'm just about to call out to my mom before I hit the floor.

-2 days later-

I wake up laying in a hospital bed. Again.

Wonderful.

The monitors are beeping and a doctor is talking to my parents, none of them have noticed I'm awake.

"I'm sorry Mr. Hill," the doctor says, " lilac cannot be aloud to leave the house, much less back to school. Her brain keeps distressing, which causes the seizers. We can't fix them...I'm sorry." With that, the doctor leaves.

My dad pinches the bridge of his nose. Where's mom.... Chris barges in right then. He looks different...that's when I realize he's crying too. I close my eyes, blocking the image before me.

Why did this happen...I don't want to be cried over...I don't want to be in critical condition....I don't want to die...

I feel someone grab both of my hands, Chris. His hands are running a fever compared to mine. I hear the door open and close and assume that my parents left.

"Please..." Chris whispers, his voice breaking, "please don't leave me...I love you.." I feel wet drops land on and around my arms, tears. Chris lets go of my hands and I shudder from the loss of heat. I hear the door open, and I know he's gone....

In the aloneness of my hospital room, I cry. I cry for all those kids in the cancer wing that never went home. I cry for all of the families that out lived their children. I cry for Chris, and Adrianne, I cry for my family. And finally...I cry for me...

So finally, when I prove to the nurses that I'm okay, they tell me what happened. According to my dad, I fell if the last step of the stairs and had a seizer, after they called the ambulance I was put into a medically induced coma to slow down the swelling in my brain. It worked. It actually worked more than they thought it would. It temporally stopped the swelling, which the doctor says, is why I was conscious even though I wasn't supposed to be.

The nurse said it was a miracle that I was even alive....

After I was told all of this wonderful information, I decided that I'd be going back to school weather the doctor approved or not.

And so, the day after they released me, I went to school.