***Author's Notes: Sorry for too much substories :3 I gotta explain eaach character's side so you'd know how they ended up the way they are. Yep, fasten your seatbelts folks, we're havin' a Psychological Rollercoaster ride here. :)
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CHAPTER III
“How’s the walk with the dog?” Miranda plunked the bread on the table and raucously seated. Phire removed the bread’s covering and began munching in front of her cousin. “How much the ol’ lady gave ya?”
“Twenty Bucks for 3 hours of walk”
“Not bad…” Miranda is three years ahead of her. She’s twenty now. Yet, Phire sometimes think of her a decade older.
“Where’s Indigo?”
“Upstairs, still asleep.” Abruptly her phone’s ring tone shrilled inside the whole kitchen. Without a more a do, she reached it from her jean’s front pocket. “Well, excuse me” she said with a Christmas tune. Her cousin sauntered towards a corner and stuck the phone on her ear. After several minutes the lady’s face went sallow. Phire felt like something happened. Something happened.
“Miranda, who called?” Please god, not my father she prayed.
Hastily, she dropped her phone. Her eyes widened. “Phire--------- you gotta’ see Lauren”
Phire never knew that was the last time she will want to hear Lauren’s name.
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The awful smell of medicines and cadavers constantly occupied Phire’s noise. She had always hated the smell of hospital. The stench smell reminds her of misfortune and unending adversity. It’s the fragrance of death.
Elderly, children, men, women are lying down everywhere. The wards are already full. There is no space left for the new comers. This town lacks of everything, hospitals, centers, stores, schools and parks. People here are far-off modernization. This a part of America excluded from technology. She doesn’t even have the slightest idea why people still hang up to this place.
If not for the mining and farming here, there would be no source of food or any commodity. Moreover, the only advantage in this town is the superficial principle of equality. People go to the same places, poor and rich ones, there’s no exception. As long as you’re in this town, you go where everybody goes, same with the school. Rich men’s children and the farmer’s go to the same school. Nonetheless, discrimination is on the upper hand.
Although, this place is unpromising and deficient of plenty of things, Phire’s father had never wanted to leave this town, for one definite reason…her mother. He said this is where she left them and this is also where she’ll take them back. A bleak and poignant future full of paucity occupied her vision.
Phire saw Mrs. Reagan rumpled in one corner. No one would fail to notice such woman, 5’8 standing tall with an all American blonde hair. “P-phire” This time her confidence disintegrated. She knew something’s terribly wrong. And she had set herself to be prepared of anything, but Phire never thought preparing would be this hard. She knew to herself that she can fall apart, anytime. “She’s i-in t-there…” her words are tattered. And her face’s crumbling like pastries.
Normally, she would greet Phire with a luminous smile with a hint of disgust on her face. Strangely, today’s different. Lauren’s father followed naturally with a calm face. “A year ago we discovered our daughter had brain tumor” Brain tumor!? She screamed in her mind. "It was already a stage where it can't be cured"He glanced downward and paused for a minute. “Still, we tried to convince her to fight. We told her we should move s-somewhere...somewhere she can receive the cure and treatment she needed…but she refused…No matter how we convinced her she won’t leave this place. So after months of little medication we had stopped the therapy. Her body is already weak. It won’t accept the medication anymore. The doctor had already--------” unexpectedly, he burst into tears. She never thought Lauren’s father’s who’s hard as stone would fall apart. “Just go inside------ before it’s too late” He motioned Phire to the door behind.
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Forest of Light
Teen FictionPhire had spent her whole life in a small town you might never heard of. She lives in an old apartment you might never dream having. Still, she's contented. Despite of all the hardships she and her father had undergone, she's happy. As long she's wi...
