Better Days
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Last published Sat, Jan 12, 2019
"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*
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'I love you,' Asher told me while the police man handcuffed him. The night glimmered in his green eyes. His dark hair was tousled, strands like conductors of the energy in his chest. "I fucking love you." In other circumstances, a few years ago, I would've easily retorted, but there was a humid substance being loaded in the unfiltered air that wrapped around my throat, and I couldn't speak. If I tried, I'd break into a full fledged scream, and possibly end up handcuffed as well. I took many steps back, retreating from the source of toxicity, suppressing a pseudo feeling of guilt but being grasped by its hands so easily I could simply lunge at my boyfriend and tell him everything would be all right, that he had done the right thing, and that I was so proud of him. But as much as I wished him to, he wasn't a child anymore, and I had ceased to be the girl he idealized. The man pushed Asher's head into the vehicle, and he repeated "I love you" over and over, like a fresh mantra. I didn't doubt his words. But there were just a few things that still made sense to me, and his voice was in the past. A relic that was rooted in a better context. Us. "I could just die with you." ---------♡--------- Starring: Gwen N.F. Asher Price Noah Gallo Scripted: August 2017. Started: September 2022. Finished: November 2022. Word count: 90K-100K. Sequel: BEING ASHER.
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