Better Days

"How are you feeling today?"

"Not great, but still fighting." I smiled the fake smile I had perfected so easily, over time.

My hands were clammy but I tried my best not to my mind to them.

Dr. Primson watched my fiddling hands.

"How is Chemotherapy?" She asked and I felt everything shift.

"You don't tell anyone these things, right?" I said, meaning the things we discussed.

"Of course not, this is all confidential, Nina." Dr.Primson cleared the confusion.

I took a deep breath and shared with her the pain, behind the smile.

••••

Nina has struggled with leukemia since she was twelve. She didn't have many friends, she hid away from the world, until she found Mercies Children Hospital.

Her struggle is long and hard, blocking people out is her specialty.

But one boy won't let that stop him and will push his way through her walls, until he can warm her heart, and make her forget.

A boy, his stepbrother, and somehow a mute girl.

But it would be a while before they involved themselves in her time bomb.

It would be a while before they even knew.
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A spinoff of Better Together.

*you don't have to read Better Together to understand*