Chapter 1 News

I sat in the hospital room and waited for Dr. Cullen to come back.

"Mum. I complained. "Can we go yet? I m pretty sure I m fine, I just had a mole it's nothing, I swear!"

"Hayley!" my mum Elaine exclaimed. "Can you quit whinging, please?"

I pulled a face, I guess the tests were over by now; we were just waiting for the results to come back. While I waited, I watched my mum, she fiddled with her bag, I felt as if I could read her mind, she was worried.

"It ll be ok mum, I promise." I smiled at her; her answering smile was slow and hard, like she thought it wouldn t be. Just then the door opened and Dr. Carlisle Cullen walked through it.

Elaine instantly sat up and smiled, showing all her teeth, I again could read her mind, and what she was seeing in her head wasn t something I wanted to see, yes, Dr. Cullen looked like a god, but did she really have to always undress him with her eyes?

"Dr. Cullen!" Elaine exclaimed. "Do you have Hayley's test results?" I rolled my blue eyes, why would he come back with out them? I tossed my sleek, straight black hair over my shoulder and waited.

"Yes Ms. Allen, but I m afraid its not good news." His face fell further and so did mine.
Uh-oh, I should have guessed that one by the look and his thoughts on his face when he walked in the door.

"Oh." Elaine mumbled, "What's wrong with her?" her smile slid from her face.
"I'm afraid Hayley has cancer, its too far spread to treat, we caught it too late. I m awfully sorry."

That's when my world froze, cancer? Too late? But I was only 18! How did this happen to me? Both pairs of eyes were on me but I was far away in my own world. This wasn t what anyone would want, but I hadn t lived a life yet, I had no boyfriend, no other family except my mum, Elaine who I lived with and my dad, Anthony who lived in Australia, and I had wanted kids some day too.

Some snippets of their conversation broke through my haze.

"She has about 6 months to live Ms. Allen, again, I m sorry, but we caught the cancer far too late, there s nothing I can do." I could hear the remorse in his thoughts, and part of a lie.

"Oh, oh!" Elaine cried, she jumped up and grabbed me, hugging me close to her. "It'll be alright baby, I promise you," she sobbed into my shoulder. But it wouldn t, it wouldn t be all right ever again and I could see that in Dr. Cullen's golden eyes.