YOU'RE STAYING WITH US!

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH

Angel POV

'What's going to happen to her? Will she be all right? Who's gonna look after Kathy and me if she dies? No Angel! Don't think like that! She's not going to die!'

Just then the doctor came out behind a door at the other side of the corridor and looked straight toward me. I saw him start to walk to me but I stood up and darted toward him. Even though I was walking fast down a short corridor it was taking me forever to get there. When I finally got to him my heart started to race so fast. The sadden look on his face gave me no hope for my mom. But I had to hear it. All I thought was 'this is it! The moment of truth.

"Hey! Um, what's happened? Is she OK?" I questioned him.

"Angel, I think we should sit down fo…" Doctor Sullivan tried to tell me. I knew what was coming. Tears were threatening to fall from my eyes.

"No! You tell me now! What's happened?" I yelled still holding in the tears.

"Angel?" I hear Kathy say.

I turn around and I see her looking up at me with her tearful brown eyes, just like mine. My heart breaks for her I just look at her. I see Joyce my mom's best friend and her daughter Buffy who's the same age, school and grade as me. They look at me and they know, by just one look, they know that my mom had just died. But Kathy doesn't know yet. She is only 7 years old and her mother had just died fighting breast cancer. I knew that it was up me to tell her.

" Angel what's wrong? Is mommy ok?" she asked me in her sweet little voice.

"No sweetie. She's not Ok!" I told her.

"What do you mean?" she asked me.

"Sweetie come here?" I asked her and I held out my hand for her to take and she grabbed it and I led her to the family waiting room and sat her down and I kneeled in front of her,

"Angel you're scaring me. What's up?" she said in a shuddered voice.

I took her tiny hands in my larger ones, and I start to tell her what had happened to her mommy in a way a child would understand.

"Mommy is joining Daddy with the angels up in heaven?" she asked me crying. Now I'm crying because she's crying.

"Yes, she is. Now you have to angels watching over you." I say to her.

"Three!"

"Three?"

"Yes! Mommy, Daddy and you! You'll be taking care of me and your name is Angel." She told me. I started laugh but also cry at the same time, but I stopped immediately because I thought it was an inappropriate time to be laughing.

" I guess you're right." I smiled at her and she smiled back to me.

"We'll be ok won't we? I mean there has to be someone to look after us?" she questioned me looking and hoping for an answer, but I honestly had none, so I just said what anyone would say to a child in this situation.

"Yes, everything will be ok and taken care of." But boy was I wrong. The road ahead was gonna be a bumpy ride. Well for me anyways.