"Is that it?" I ask Alex as I throw one more thing into a cardboard box. He nods slightly and my dad peeks around the corner.
"Just a moment, dad." He leaves and I stare at Alex.
"Can you come with me?" I ask, desperate. He sighs and leads me out the door. Tears are forming in my eyes, I find my dad in the hallway and we start to walk to the car when my phone dings.
I love you too.
Tears now take over me and I lean my head on the window frame.
"I love you, I want you. I love you, I want you." I repeat to myself until a sad sleep takes over me.
* * *
I wake up on my bed. It's 2:30, half an hour until Danielle gets home. I want to see my mom, so I go downstairs.
"Lexi!" She says and tries to get up to hug me but I beat her.
"Mom, you're starting to show!" I say, looking down at the little lump on her stomach.
"I know, isn't it exciting?" She responds.
"Enough about me, how was your time at the hospital?" I don't want to talk about it, I'm scared to talk about it. I take a deep breath and I finally say,
"Mom, I want to write a book,"
"A new hobby? What would it be about?"
"My experience, I'll call it "Breathing" Without another word, I run upstairs and open up my computer and then, I start to write.
Chapter One
I'm in class, my eyes going blurry as I struggle to breathe. I'm wildly coughing but I need to stop because it feels like no more air can come into my lungs. People are quickly crowding around me while I'm trying to cry but I can't because I can't open my eyes anymore and everything goes limp in my body.
YOU ARE READING
Breathing
Teen FictionFifteen year old Lexi is going to have her sweet sixteen very soon, but when she passes out in class and goes to the hospital, at first they can't find anything wrong. A week later, she passes out at her sweet sixteen and is diagnosed with something...
