li

s hit me like

beats as beads of sweat g

wouldn't

y, and it was like an invi

0 chance, but I hadn't come

ob, my happiness, even my

my vision as I dashed across the hall

like a mad woman. The on

I comported myself, wiped my te

ly beside the window, feeding m

to mine was taken by a father and a da

from the corner of my eyes, I saw her holdi

, Daddy, I

ched her tighten her sm

ly, spiking my emotions and resurfac

y's girl unt

that I didn't know when I

was envied by my classmates. If it wasn't th

mother caught my father cheating. Bu

Despite being too young to understand, I knew something was

hair started to fall out in chunks. She would apply makeup to

ght. I heard my mother cry throughout the night from my room

mist

We were tossed on the street penniless. The cloth

of me and my sister, but after

n the bus stopped, indicating t

ile before dashing out of

ward where my mother was, carefully o

y heart shattered the

ike a bag

s that were once ful

s. Her chubby cheeks were flat and dry. Her

aming down my eyes

ed like

. My voice crac

o touch her and infor

" I whispered bef

n, and I looked down to see my

ile, there wa

ted softly. "But I'm sorry that

and I knew she wa

mu

I couldn't take care

t complaining, and it's not your

that when I beat this disease, I will take care of you and your sister. You don't have to do od

eat stage

ything ev

when the clearing of my t

watching me keenly with a d

" he said before disap

where is Rose?" I as

a more sanitized room since

before kissin

my chest as I made my wa

have what

e would I

ready sick of me a

s voice boomed, c

y face met with the floor a

't helping matt

health is deteriorating daily. One of her kidneys is bad, and the spare one is show

ch, and if you continue this way, you'll

ed in pain at h

earing th

ting his words with a sorrowf

o much for

g on them," he said before relaxing into

tration, I brok

ust want to disappear from all these..." I took a

strong for

start some treatment on them," I announce

e, I dropped the

but please..." I stammere

s can't go anywhere, but it will start

week," I pleaded. A frown appeared on h

is dangerous," he warned before sta

t into my sister's war

ote and dropped a "get well soon card," kissi

e doctor's words kep

2k before the

at once as an idea

ca

, and I couldn't help but be consu

y best friend for help or as