I leave when the last leaf of Summer has fallen. Never before or after. This is how my life went, drifting in and out of cancer treatments all over the country in an attempt to save my fading life. Looking out another hospital window, listening to children's laughter echoing across the street below. A comfortable breeze flushes through the window, as nostalgia floods my thoughts of when I was younger. Before the tumor had grown and attached itself. It made me itch to think of the mass always accumulating cells in my body, rapidly mutating and multiplying in numbers. Catching a glimpse of my self in the mirror, I am slightly appalled. Pale white skin, with not a strand of hair on my bald head.
"Mr. Williams?" Nurse Taliya asked whilst knocking on the door.
"Come in" I reply.
She was a rather...large lady. She smelled as well, but she always had the greatest stories to distract me whenever I felt a spell of nausea. The treatment center I was staying in was rather small, with only a few other patients so she always had time.
"I told you to call me Stone".
"Oh dear, I am so sorry Mr. Will- I mean Stone".
"It's quite alright" I assure. Nurse Taliya was very gentle despite her large width, unlike everyone's least favorite nurse, Nurse Doris. Some of us patients refer to her as Mrs. Boris the Whoris. She was incredibly strict on the rules, and often had a sour look on her face. It was rumored though, that outside of the center she was a party animal. Whether I believed it, well it would be something I'd have to see with my own eyes.
"Mr. Stone, today you have a visitor".
"A visitor?" I respond. I had just come to this center and everyone here was a stranger. I didn't have any family either. Just then, a tall man wearing circular glasses, and a black trench coat busted into the room. His hair was also curly and unkept matching his scraggly stubble.
"Sorry to interrupt but I have important matters to discuss with Mr. Williams" the strange man said exasperatedly. Nurse Taliya gives me a concerned look before she removes herself from the room.
