Hotaru was a 17-year-old volleyball player, she was popular, and she was even nominated for prom queen. She had parents who loved her and a little sister who looked up to her. Hotaru was your average girl. She didn't know that when summer came her whole life would drastically change. It had all started when she started to notice various bruises throughout the uncommon places (around her ankles etc.) She then had told her parents how in the locker room when she was changing into her volleyball outfit that she suddenly got sick. But then right after she felt fine. Being concerned parents they took her into the urgent care facility. The doctor took her blood and ran a few tests. After about an hour they were told to go to a hospital and ask someone to take Hotaru's White Blood Cell count. After one of the nurses took her white blood cell count they took it to the lab to be analyzed. When a doctor appeared before them with the most terrifying news. "Your daughter has been diagnosed with AML leukemia." Her parents were shocked. After several moments Hotaru broke out into tears. " I'll never go to the volleyball tournament, and I won't get to be there to know if I'm chosen for Prom Queen." Then after she had clamed down a bit she asked the doctor, "What is the treatment?" The doctor after several seconds came out and said "Chemotherapy." At that moment Hotaru broke out into tears again. "You should be admitted tonight" one of the nurses said. "That way in a week or so we can start the treatment." When she was brought up to the 8th floor they all stopped at room 834. She paused before going in she sighed and thought to her this is where I'll be staying for the next 6 months. She then stepped in the room and looked around. There were pink walls a bed a window and many machines. She could tell they did there best to accommodate the patients. As they started the treatment she became weak. She had lost nearly all her hair along with a lot of weight. She weighed 92 pounds. Then finally came the happiest moment of her life. The time had come where she was allowed to come home for good after the doctors all told her that. She left the hospital feeling excited that she would HOPEFULLY never have to go back there for another 6 months. When the first day of school came around. What she would have to face would be worse then the treatment. When she had entered the school with nothing on her head except for a bandana she was stared at. Gawked at made fun of. People would call her names like "outcast" and "freak." They pulled cruel tricks on her like tripping her in the halls and pulling her chair out from under her. Some of them even spray- painted her locker with names such as "freak" and "outcast." She had finally decided to switch schools. At her new school she was treated normally. She was popular again. Even though she didn't have much hair as it grew back she had the most beautiful Strawberry-Blonde hair. She was even nominated for prom queen again. After about a year she had decided to pay a little visit to her old school. She walked in and immediately treated normal. Guys would come up to her. Girls would try to be her friends. At lunch Hotaru announced to everyone by saying. "I'm the one everyone of you made fun of and pulled tricks on, you didn't notice. You were to busy making fun of me instead of trying to get to know me." Eventually she graduated school and then college. To go on to be a nurse on the 8th floor of the children's hospital and to speak publicly all around the world.