I looked at the doctor's eyes and knew that there was no mistake about it. They were filled with warm tears of genuine compassion. Or maybe because he'd failed. He was the miracle doctor. Never lost a patient. Boy was he something, especially since he was a cancer specialist.

"Miss. Tsukino...I-I'm sorry. I've done everything I know to do...but you're not responding to treatment...anymore..."

FLASHBACK TO 9 MONTHS EARLIER

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"It's as we feared Mrs. Tsukino." I heard the nurse's muffled voices on the other side of the door.

"What?! What's wrong with my little girl?!" My mother anxiously cried.

"She has leukemia."

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END FLASHBACK

"Call me Serena, Dr. Patterson."

"Yes." he answered obligingly.

"How long do I have?" I asked, trying to look brave.

"About a year..." he breathed

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The fateful doctors' visit had been two days now. It hadn't sunk in that this time next year, I'd be gone.

My family and I had decided when we found out, not to tell anyone. It was for the best, I didn't want to be worried about. I requested that it remain a secret until as late as possible.

My family agreed to my wishes.

I walked downstairs for a snack. As I was raiding the cabinet, I saw a calendar on the wall. Saturday...

Tomorrow would be Sunday, and we had gotten a new preacher at our church about 5 months ago that we'd never heard. We'd recently stopped attending church for whatever reason. We just stopped.

"Hey Mom! Can we go to church tomorrow, you know, to hear this guy?" I asked as I walked into the family room.

She looked at me, "Sure. If you want to."

"Thanks!"

The way I figured it, if I was about to die, I wasn't spending all of eternity in the wrong place if you know what I mean.

The next morning I woke at 8:00 am. Unusually. I normally fight whoever wakes me up even at noon. That's how I feel about mornings. My body obviously knew time left was short and wanted to make the best of it. Maybe.

After I'd hopped out of the shower I realized that our new preacher had a son. Two actually. Don't know why I never thought of this before. Knowing my luck though, I was building them up only to find out later that they were hideous creatures that couldn't possibly be from Earth.

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As I was walking into the church I saw the young people seated in the front row. That was odd. They never used to sit together. This may be fun after all!

I walked up to the row of kids. Some I knew...two guys, I didn't.

And boy did they look GOOD! I must have been staring because the cuter one started staring at me. "Are you sitting with us?"

"If it's not a problem." I stated.

He hopped up to greet me. "No! Not at all." He stuck his hand out in front of him, "Hi! I'm Darien. Darien Shields."

I shook his hand. "Serena Tsukino here! Pleased to meet you."

He then gestured for me to sit down, so I slid into the row beside Angelina Harrell. She was in my class at school and we were pretty close friends. "Hey!"

"Hey Serena! Glad to see you're here."

By this time I'd noticed that I was sitting next to the complete hottie. Turns out he was seventeen, and seeing as how I'm fourteen, I knew it'd never work. Way out of my league. Oh well! I can flirt with him anyhow.

After the service was over he looked at me and smiled, "You know...you look just like the angel in the stained glass window."

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