Chapter 10: Anti-cancer

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"You don't look happy..." I put my face in my hands not knowing how to react to this. I want to tell her what it said but I don't.

"I have to go." She grabs my hand trying to stop me from leaving but I pull away and just hand her the envelope. In confusion she lets me go and while I'm speeding off, she reads it and places her hand over her mouth forcibly holding back tears. I leave the hospital and head to work nerve wrecked from the results.

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He just left. He just read the results and left. I look back at the results reading them aloud. "Mr. Venom after doing a test and comparing the DNA supplied by both you and the child of question, we are glad to inform you that you are the father." If the results told him he was the father why did he leave? Was he unhappy that he really was, but he seems so into it before? I must've read him wrong; he already is raising one child why would he want to have to raise two more even if they are his own.

I walk over to the glass showing the inside of Travis' room and watch as he is left to lay in that bed unconscious and unfeeling. I wish I could've noticed all this sooner and done something. Instead, I was ignorant of your issues and Marshall someone who only appeared to you gives days ago and he was already able to figure it out. I have no right to call myself a mother. I fall back into the seat and place my head in my hands sniffling forcing back tears.

It wasn't long after till the nurse overseeing Travis walked over to me. "Uh-hm?" She says earning my attention.

I wipe my face of the few tears that have escaped my eyes and stand up while putting on a forced smile. "Sorry, how can I help you?" She shows an uncomfortable smile but continues with what she needed to tell me.

"Ms. Osborne you may want to sit back down for this..." No, why is she saying that?

"Please, pleased-don't tell m-me something w-worst has happened..." My words become shaky and worry-filled.

"When you told us, this was due to depression we ran a cat scan on him in case there was a mental reason for this and we found out that your son Travis, unfortunately, has a brain tumor. Though not official some brain tumor symptoms can cause depression and mental instability. And I'm sorry to tell you that is what happened..."

I fall back into my seat covering my mouth, my face becoming drenched with tears holding back as much of my sons as possible. "Th-this c-c-can't be h-happening." I managed to get out. She stays there presumably to tell me some more bad news. "W-what a-are th-th-the o-options?" She hesitates before sighing and answering.

"Be....because he is in comatose and such a young age, we are unsure of a way to do surgery on him to try and remove it without it causing some kind of issue to him i.e. him waking up mid-surgery. We could attempt to sedate him but being already in comatose and with no prior cases to compare this too we don't know if it will even take on him. So, we are likely looking at the possibility that we will need to wait for him to wake up before operating and we don't know how bad the tumor may spread before he wakes....if he does at all." She mumbles the last part and I force myself to thank her before walking to the bathroom and unloading all the pain and sorrows of her words as well as the situation I've been confronted with.

Why, why him?

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I should've explained myself before leaving. Who knows what she may have thought because of that. Despite what she may think I needed to leave I couldn't bear it another second my son, MY SON, is in comatose because I wasn't there for him! I don't check the phone the entire drive to work due to being so stuck in my thoughts. When I get there, I unlock it to see a heart stomping message from Bell.

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