Last Summer's Black Heart~

Last Summer's Black Heart~ Ch.18

Well If It Isn't Another Dramatic Twist? Ah It Seems All My Stories Revolve Around Drama And Love And, Shall I Go On?

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Chapter Eighteen; Love the way it hurts

I was beginning to hate these treatments, even though they could potentially save Maggie, being that we now only had two weeks to prom, it was starting to hurt to watch her go through them.

The long hall's exit sign seemed only two steps to me, but to Maggie, the girl I loved, with all the treatment going on now, it must seem like miles to her.

I hated how the walk was nothing to me; how I could walk there so easily in a few seconds but for Maggie it was like murder, strain on her body because of all these treatments. I hated how her cancer tired her out so much to the point that Maggie just wanted to drop dead on the floor. I hated how I kept on having these impulses to rush out and help Maggie walk to that exit sign, but she wanted to do it independently, all by herself and without my help. She was only allowing me to walk beside her, but not help her.

But I just couldn't get used to seeing Maggie's bright smiling face set with determination, and her being in a hospital gown. The Maggie I still saw had bright red hair, sparkling green eyes and jeans, she laughed and smiled at everything and anything you said and she wasn't sick, she was overly healthily, she enjoyed ice cream and pranking people. She was Maggie. But I guess even in her hospital gown and original hair color she still was Maggie, because she still laughed, her eyes still sparkled and she still smiled, she was just sick, but determined to get better.

And no matter what, even if Maggie didn't get better and her cancer only got worse, Maggie was still the girl I loved. I watched Maggie suddenly change courses though, and somehow she went from wobbly and slow to fast and running, and since I was stunned by this she got ahead of me by quite a ways.

"John don't let her run! It isn't good for her!" Dr. Westenlor called to me from across the hall; I held up my hand to let him know and ran after her, when I finally got to where I last saw her, the door to the ladies room was swinging. Great was she just trying to avoid all of the guys in her life or something like that? I sighed and relaxed beside the ladies room door, that is until I heard puking sounds.

"Crap!" I muttered, not caring if girls screamed at me or threw wet paper towels at me as I entered, like they always do when boys enter their washrooms. I opened the ladies room and ran to where the toilets where, surely enough the girls were screaming at me as I entered, but I didn't care. I stopped when I neared the puking sounds, but just as I got there they finished and the toilet was being flushed. The toilet door and Maggie exited wiping her mouth; she froze when she saw me.

"John what the heck are you doing in the girls washroom?!" Maggie asked me as if I had gotten confused at which bathroom I had entered.

"Well I heard you puking so I came in to make sure you're okay..." I said. Maggie laughed and dumped her tissue in the trash before she moved to the sinks.

"I'm fine, I swear. I've just been puking a lot more and having weird cravings for pickles. I know totally weird. I guess I should tell the doctors, maybe I have some other kind of disease." Maggie said in a voice that sounded to perky. I glared at her.

"Don't you even think about joking about that! But seriously Maggie you should get checked out." I said, Maggie sighed and dried off her hands.

"I know, I am, later today so chill Johnny." I wanted to but my mind was still mad at her joking about having another disease, but my heart said to forgive her because that's just how Maggie was. "Well now let's get out of here before you give these ladies a heart attack. Sorry about him girls!" Maggie yelled as she dragged me to the exit of the washroom. I nodded in agreement and then was suddenly outside in the hallway again with Maggie beside me.