Six Months to Live

Chapter One

Cheryl Blossom is a Southside Serpent and is dating Toni Topaz. She lives with her mom, Penelope, but they aren't very close.

'Hi, I'm Dr Charles, take a seat,' a man with thinning, grey hair said to Cheryl and her mother as they entered the doctor's office.

'Do you have the test results?' Cheryl blurted out, unable to contain her anxiety.

She had started to have blurred vision and severe headaches, and over the past month she had been in and out of hospitals having numerous tests done, all of which had come back inconclusive.

'Yes I do, I'm so sorry Cheryl, it's not good news,' Dr Charles said, looking at the ground, scared to reveal the truth to the young girl. 'It's a brain tumour, we can try to shrink it with chemotherapy but even then it's too big to be removed. My guess is that you have around six months to live,' he told the redhead, his voice laced with sympathy.

Cheryl felt as though the whole world was crashing down, her heart began racing, how could she have a brain tumour? She was only 17!

Penelope reached for Cheryl's hand, trying to comfort her in some way.

The girl was sobbing, six months wasn't a long time. She'd never have kids, she'd never get married, she'd never even graduate high school.

Her life would be over before she knew it.

'When will the chemo start?' Penelope asked without emotion. She was a very unemotional person.

'Next week,' the Doctor replied, 'the sooner we start it, the more we can shrink it.'

'What if I don't want to shrink it?' Cheryl asked, an underlying strength in her otherwise weak voice. 'What if I'd rather spend my last six months in this world with my friends, doing the things that I love, rather than spending it cooped up in a hospital?'

'That is your and your mother's decision to make, you are entitled to decline treatment, but it would be against medical advise,' he warned.

'We'll have to have a long talk about that, won't we Cheryl?' Penelope said, shooting a warning glance at her daughter.

Cheryl knew that her mom would want her to get treatment, but who would want to spend the end of their life in hospital? She just wanted to be a normal teenager again, like she was before any of this had happened.

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Cheryl put her motorbike into park outside her girlfriend's trailer and hopped off it.

'Come in,' she heard a cheery voice say after knocking on the door.

She opened it and saw Toni sat in the living room. She headed towards her.

'Toni,' the redhead whimpered, collapsing on the couch in the front room of the trailer, unable to hold back the flood of tears.

'Hey baby, what's wrong,' the other girl said, pulling her girlfriend into a tight hug, trying to console her.

'I-I- have six m-months,' she stuttered through tears.

'Six months until what sweetie?' Toni questioned.

'To live,' she replied, looking up into the other girl's eyes.

'What? What do you mean? How do you only have six months to live?' Toni exclaimed, confused.

'I h-have a b-brain tumour,' Cheryl told her, sobbing into her chest.

Toni held Cheryl in her arms for what seemed like an eternity, until eventually both of their tears subsided and they could think straight.

'My mom wants me to have chemo to try and shrink it, but it wouldn't cure it and I'd prefer to spend my last six months having fun, rather than being in and out of hospitals,' Cheryl told the other girl, still curled up in her arms.

'I see what you mean, I'm sure we could persuade your mom to just let you live normally,' Toni said, trying to hold back her tears, she'd only just stopped crying.

'Yes, thank you TT,' Cheryl whispered, tired from the emotionally exhausting day.

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'Mom? Where are you?' The redhead called as her and her best friend entered her house.

'I'm in the kitchen darling,' Penelope replied.

Once the girls reached the kitchen, they began, 'Mom, I really don't want to have to go through chemo, I'd rather just live as normally as possible for the last few months that I have,' she explained to her mother, trying not to get choked up.

'I agree, Mrs Blossom, I think that it would be cruel to put your daughter through a gruelling treatment process, knowing that it wouldn't help massively,' Toni added.

'Well I'll have to think about it girls, this is a big decision and is not to be taken lightly,' Penelope told the girls, not wanting to make a split second decision.

'Yes mother,' Cheryl grunted, heading to her room, closely followed by Toni.

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Author's Notes:

First chapter is complete!!
What would you do if you were in Cheryl's position? Would you get treatment to make your life as long as possible or live it while you can?
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