Sickly Sweet Teaser

"What?" Syria Ginger asked.

She couldn't quite hear over her heart thrumming in her ears. Didn't hear the soft gasp that came from her mother or the curses that fled from her daddy's mouth. Her lungs ached painfully, her head swimming. She sucked in a breath through her teeth, when she realized she wasn't breathing, lungs stinging when the gulp of air was too much.
Her childhood doctor looked at her parents with soft brown eyes. It was nine in the morning and she was suppose to be in first period sitting quietly, scrolling through her iPad, on wattpad, trying to convince herself to post a story, but couldn't quite bring herself to do it.

That's what she should have been doing, not being told she was dying.