Dying Star

Evangeline Simms has shortened her name to Evie. She's also dying. In her eyes, the former is much more important than the latter. She has been in and out of the hospital her entire life, and was recently diagnosed with a rare, alien "disease" she calls Winnie the Virus. It kills you slowly, until you're about twenty years old. Then nothing. Light's out. All those kids in school, they bullied a dying girl. The guy who raised his middle finger at her when she held up traffic when she was on the phone with her mother, he flipped off a dying girl. The man down the hall who stole her grandmothers diamond necklace, he robbed a dying girl. IF they knew that, they'd probably feel bad. That makes Evie smile. Only recently has this disease been detectable, but now that it is, there's no question. In six months, Evangeline Simms will be dead. People will cry and then it will be over. She'll be forgotten. Everyone gets all worked up over death. but Evie, she doesn't care. At the moment, she's just confused. She has a non-negotiable six month leave from work to do whatever the fudge she wants, and all she wants to do is work. Then, a mysterious man shows up at her door, telling her he's a doctor. He offers her an adventure, and she takes it. She doesn't have any intention of telling this mysterious man with a time traveling phone box that the adventure won't even last a year, but he already knows. He felt sorry, he wanted her to enjoy her last months, not spend them sulking alone. What neither of them expected was to fall in love.