Disease Between Us

Chapter 20

"starr turned to the voice and she found madeline behind her."

Starr (with fear and her heart was about to stop): madeline!.

Madeline: hello, starr.

Starr (with fear): no, you don't understand... It's not what are you thinking about.

Madeline (while she's walking towards them): then what's the correct?.

Colin: we were enjoy.

Madeline (angrily): by kissing each other.

Starr: no!, we didn't...

"she interrupted her."

Madeline: you want to say that you've never kissed each other?!.

"they looked at each other."

Madeline (angrily): i've told you a thousands times that if you touched each other, you may die or absolutely you become more sick.

Starr (angrily and screaming): but i'm done. I'm done of being alone and can't love or touch or kiss.

Madeline (angrily): if that was good for you, they wouldn't have died.

Colin: wait!, what do you mean by "they wouldn't have died"?.

"she kept silent for a moment."

Madeline: they were like you, have the cystic fibrosis. The disease didn't prevent them from loving each other. One day, they got more sick and their cure rate started declining, day by day, the cure rate decline more than before, until they... Died... At my night shift.

"colin and starr shocked from what did madeline said. They didn't say at least a letter."

Madeline: when i saw that there is a spark of love between you both, i promised myself to kill it, until the past don't repeat, again.

Starr (her tears on her cheeks): i can't believe you.

Madeline: but this the truth. Let's go.

"madeline took them to their rooms and when they entered, she went. That's what did starr think, but after starr entered her room, madeline returned to colin's room."

Madeline (standing in front of colin who was sitting on the bed and instructing him, seriously): don't get close from her. Get away from her, colin or you will force me to do something i don't want to do it.

Colin (with a broken voice): okay!.

Madeline: forget what happened between you and her.

Colin: we're just friends.

Madeline: i saw her last broadcast. This is for your own good and for her own good, too.

"she left him, crying on his bed. At the morning, starr was standing in front of his room, knocking, but no answer."

Starr (while she's knocking): colin, it's me, starr. Let me in.