Two bodies, One person

"How could fate play tricks on us?"

                    The machine beeped again. I thought it was just a ringing in my head. Throughout the last few days, it kept beeping from time to time that the sound was already stored in my memory. When I was having a bath, when I was eating, when I was going to bed, my mind played tricks on me with a fake beeping. So it was already a part of my own life.

         But soon I realized that it was not my mind that was playing tricks this time, it was fate. Nurses and doctors ran to the room, slamming the door open. Her parents began panicking and her mother was crying really loud that I think the whole city may have heard her weeping. Her father was sitting on the bench with his head on his hands. Her brother was standing there trying to look calm, but I know that he too was worried sick from the inside.

               I went to the glass window to peep and watch the incidents happening inside. She was lying on the bed, unconscious and the doctor is doing something with a machine. I've seen in movies that the machine was used to bring back the heartbeat.
     Tears rolled down my cheeks. It was in that moment that I realized the seriousness of the situation. I couldn't keep still. It felt that my insides were burning with fire.

                 What was really happening to my best friend? Would she be able to overcome this illness? Would I be able to be with her like I used to? Thousands of answered questions kept whirling in my head.

           Anyhow as before, they were successful in saving her. Those last few days, she was having those attacks from time to time. And everytime, the surrounding became heated with hopes and expectations that they would be able to save her. But it was not just those sudden attacks that worried us. It was the whole situation. She was suffering from......I really couldn't let myself utter that word. That damn word - cancer.

          How could fate play tricks on us? I felt like I was the one suffering. She was not just anyone, she was my best friend.

                  We were friends since we were little kids. Our families knew each other and the best part was.....our mothers were best friends too. We went to the same kindergarten and then, to the same school. We spent 18 years of our life together. There was not a single secret in my life that I haven't told her. Each and every sad moment and happy moment.....she didn't just know them, she lived them with me. Most of our likes and dislikes were similar and there was no "I" between us. It has always been "we". We studied together and passed our exams with flying colors. Now all that was left for us was entering the university and achieving our goals. Luckily, we were selected to the same university and everything had been planned for us to leave for our higher studies.

             Till....till this bad luck dawned upon us. I knew that fate was playing with us, but this much? I didn't know it was this malevolent. I felt like all the faith I had for God vanished away into thin air.