Arianna woke up to the soft laughter of a child outside of her bedroom. Her head was pounding as she looked to her clock wondering what the time was. 3:30pm it read. Shocked Arianna tried to pounce out of bed and to her dismay she did not succeed. She had forgotten about how weak she had been feeling these past few weeks. Her cry in frustration had alerted her brother on the other side of the door. He rushed in to comfort his sister, who was now thrashing around on the bed trying to get out of the strangling sheets. 'Calm down. Please relax. You might make yourself worse, Arianna!' That had worked, the girl stopped her thrashing immediately and looked to her brother. 'What did you say?' Arianna whispered. Tony, knowing he had said too much, started backing away whilst mumbling to his sister quickly. 'Nothing Arianna, I just wanted you too clam down. Nothing else...' 'You said that if I carry on I will make myself worse. What do you mean by that? Tony. TONY!' Arianna had to shout for Tony because he had ran out of the room. Now alone she had noticed how much energy that the thrashing and the shouting had taken out of her.
It was five minutes later and Arianna was still alone for Tony had not come back. She was just about to drift off into a deep sleep when some one gently tugged at her shoulder. The girl lay there not wanting to open her eyes just in case it was her brother coming to apologise. She did not want to see him right now. But it wasn't his voice that drifted to her ears. It was her father's. 'Arianna, please wake up I have something very important to tell you.' Knowing that if her father said that something was important it meant that it was IMPORTANT and needed addressing right away. Rolling over and sitting up, Arianna looked deeply into her father's eye and found a lot of sadness there. Usually his eyes were filled with happiness, so seeing them without it deeply worried her. 'Father what is wrong? You look ever so upset and worried.' Arianna's father jut looked away from her and sighed. 'I have some thing deeply disturbing to tell you dear. Well you know that you passed out a couple of days ago...' That's how I ended up here in bed, thought Arianna. 'I called for the doctor straight away...' Arianna's father pause here to take a glance into his innocent daughters eyes. This only brought tears to his own. 'He checked to see if you were okay and... Um said... You are terminally ill.' At this point he broke out in to sobs, making it difficult for Arianna to process what he had said. She was fine, healthy, she couldn't be ill. 'Father, what do you mean?' 'You are dying, Arianna. Dying. There is nothing that we can do.' The bluntness of her fathers words had cut through her. She wasn't fine, she wasn't healthy, she was dying.
Darkness had formed outside. It had been a couple of hours since Arianna's father had said of his daughter's short life. No one had seen the girl since. Tony had fallen asleep outside of her bedroom. He had been waiting for her to come out or for her to let him in. For the girl in question she had been trying to come to terms with her destiny. She had been crying for hours. Wondering when she would die. But as her mother had told her when she was young, What will come, will come, don't let it worry you. Just embrace it when it comes.