Early September 2009
"Mallorie, you really need to visit an actual doctor. It seems like you do have heart cancer. You can't just rely on me. I'm serious," Hatori kept his voice as low as a whisper.
Just one week before I head to high school, my doctor, Hatori Sohma, spins this dirty lie that I have heart cancer. There's no way. I was born with a healthy heart, and I will die with a healthy heart. I really sound stubborn.
"Mal, look at me," Hatori gazed at me.
I shook him off. There's no way.
"If you won't listen to me, then surely you will listen to Kyo."
I shot him a look.
"No. Don't."
"Then visit a hospital with me tomorrow."
"Alright. Just don't tell anyone, especially Jordan. It'll be our little secret, okay?"
The last thing I want is Kyo, Yuki, Haru, Jordan and everyone else knowing. As I always tell myself and others, just keep smiling, there's nothing you can't overcome. I really don't know if I can keep smiling after this situation.
"Tomorrow, I'll meet you after school. Don't think about ditching, if you do, one person will find out."
"Hatori, don't tell anyone. I'll do everything you tell me to do. Just don't let anyone know," tears were begging to be let out.
"Okay."
For the first time, Hatori hugged me. I couldn't do anything but to hug him back and cry. I closed my eyes and prayed that everything would be okay. It's not true.
"Morning Mallorina," Kyo smirked. The orange headed boy standing outside my bedroom door held his hands behind him like he had a surprise.
"It's not my birthday, douche," I yawned and stretched.
"We know, but we have something special for you," Yuki pushed his way past Kyo.
"You're really creepy," Jordan's bedroom door opened.
"What are you guys doing? It's suppose to be…" Haru came out of his bedroom.
"Shh!" Kyo turned his head around.
"What's this 'surprise'?" I made air-quotes with my fingers when I said the word surprise.
"We know something," Shigure came from the staircase.
Oh crap, no. Hatori told Shigure and the others. Shit. But they should be pissed at me, right? Or maybe sad. But not happy!
"Close your eyes," Yuki said.
"No," I laughed. "You're going to tickle me, aren't you?"
"No," Yuki laughed and covered my eyes with his hands.
I heard threatening whispers and commands. Finally, Yuki uncovered my eyes. I had to blink three times to re-adjust my poor eyes. Right in front of me, Jordan held a black iPhone, Kyo had a pink Paul Frank iPhone case and Haru had a brown teddy bear iPhone bag.
I was so shocked; I had tears flowing out of my eyes.
"Thank you," I heard myself whispered.
Yuki wiped my tears away and hugged me. It took me a few seconds to realize something was wrong.
"Yuki?" I pinched myself to see if I was dreaming.
"Yeah," he replied.
"Why haven't you…" my voice trailed.
"Poof," Kyo joked.
"I was just going to ask that," Haru smacked himself of the head.
"Then Rin was right," Yuki let go of me.
"We've been freed," Haru jumped.
"Yay," Jordan handed me my new phone and jumped with Haru.
"Come'on," Shigure whined, "Go get changed and to school!"
"You'll need to take care of Jordan until he gets to school," I warned Shigure.
"Will do," and then he headed back down the stairs.
"You be good, okay," I patted his head.
As the little party ended slowly, I headed back into my room to change. But my mind was so sidetracked. My new phone was already charged and turned on so I decided to check it out. Fact, it was really cool. So as quickly as I could, I pulled on Almost Famous ripped skinny jeans, black strapless halter top that I made myself, grey shrug short-sleeve sweater, black plaid high top shoes and threw my long chestnut coloured hair back in a half-up-half-down sort of style. I grabbed my Roxy backpack and new phone and out the door.
"Hey Mallorie!" Akane Kishida called at me. I turned around before I could open the door to Sunny Shore Café.
"Yo," I waved. She ran up to me and waved back.
"How was your summer, hoe?" she opened the door and let me in.
"Tsk, tsk," I smiled at her, "it was good. I went to the beach with Kyo and Yuki and a whole bunch of other people. We had fun. How about you?"
"That's it. You just headed to the beach all summer long," Akane pointed at the beach behind us.
Sunny Shore Café was where Sweetie, Akane, Najika, Alison, Zoey and I always met up at in the mornings. We'd have a drink, talk and then head to school. Najika's the actual owner of the café, which just sits off the side of the beach, which my window has a good view of.
"Hey girly," Sweetie waved at us. Ali, and Zo were already there waiting for us.
"Oh man, it's you girls again," Fujita-san joked and went back to sleeping. Even though he's suppose to help out Najika, all he does is sleep around and does nothing… like seriously.
"Ha Ha Ha, very funny boss," Najika laughed, coming from the kitchen bringing out a tray of our favourite morning drinks.
"Morning girl," Akane shook her beautifully long arms.
Akane and Sweetie are top-notch models in Kaibara. They have long arms, long legs, and a short torso. They have beautifully crafted faces and are amazing in front of cameras. I'm seriously not kidding!
"Hey," Najika waved.
I sat down next to Sweetie and Najika sat on the other side of me. Alison, Zoey and Akane always sat on the other side. The six of us were bestest friends. Not kidding.
Sweetie was the fashion master of our group. She always started on the neatest trends in Kaibara. A lot of young girls look up to her! Sweetie wore pink ballet flats, short plaid shorts, pale pink tank top, and a big chunky necklace. Her long pink hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Akane had on a short plaid mini-skirt, black 'sexy' flip flop, and navy coloured tank top and a grey vest. Akane's long, curled, black hair was just in its usual bouncy way. Alison on the other hand, just had normal skinny jeans, converse, and a t-shirt. Her beautiful blond hair was pulled back. Zoey was Zoey. She had on jeans, runners, and a soccer shirt. Typical Zoey move.
"So gals, how we going to rock high school?" Alison lifted her drink up.
"To us," Sweetie followed.
"We'll be having the best year ever!" Akane beamed.
"You're too sunny," Najika joked. "Better business for me!"
We laughed.
"Kaibara High School Girl's soccer team is going to kick butt," Zoey smiled.
"And survive it all without hate," I smiled.
The clanking of cups woke Fujita-san, again.
"Piper down," he yelled.
We laughed.
We all chatted about summer and all that. When Sweetie mentioned her uncle died of lung cancer, I wanted so much to yell out I have heart cancer. But I couldn't. They'd be scared.
Finally, lunch time rolled around. I was waiting all day. I had science, French, and English and I couldn't wait to lunch. I finally got to see kids I didn't see all year.
"Hey Mallorie," I heard a familiar voice come from behind me. I turned around to see… Daichi Kitazawa.
"Hey," I waved.
Man, every time I see him, I'm lost for words. He's always good looking.
"What's up?" I smiled.
"I couldn't look up the feeling, I've missed you too much," he replied.
My heart skipped a beat. Is he telling me he loves me?
"Nah, I didn't miss you at all," he patted my head and headed into the cafeteria.
"Jerk," I mumbled.
I stalked my way to my locker, having my head hung low.
"Mal!" Najika elbowed me hard in the ribs.
"Bitch," I mumbled.
"What you call me?" Najika smiled.
"Oh nothing," I plastic smiled back.
Najika talked her way to my locker. It was a good thing Akane and I shared homeroom. We got to share lockers.
I noticed her lunch bag was already gone, so I decided to just drop off my bag, grab my cute long wallet, keys, phone and lunch bag and headed outside on the rocks to eat with my friends.
By the time me and Najika got there, Zoey, Alison, Akane, and Sweetie were already there.
"Late!" They yelled at us.
"Sorry," Najika apologized. "Our little girl Mal had her hopes turned up by special somebody, then was brought back to earth. Poor thing."
"You know me too well," I laughed out a sneer.
"Sorry."
"No needs to be sorry about," Alison laughed, "So what did Daichi say?"
"How did you know it was him," I gasped as I sat on a rock with Sweetie.
"Your face," Zoey looked up from her… whatever the junk she was eating.
"What is that?" Najika asked. The girl has a 'thing' for food.
"Supposedly peanut butter and jellybean sandwich, stupid stepmom," she faked a gag.
"Ew…" I laughed.
"Now about Daichi and Mallorie," Zoey smiled.
"Now about Chad and Alison," I smiled at Alison.
"Now about Sweetie and Yuki," Alison smiled.
"Now about Najika and Seiya," Sweetie smiled.
"Now about Akane and Kyo," Najika smiled.
"Now about Zoey and Ichigo," Akane winked.
We laughed.
"I know, Ichigo's plain hard to get, he's always with Rukia and they seem like they have a 'thing'," She sighed.
So as lunch whipped passed us we headed back to the school and to our next class.
Right on time as usual, Hatori was waiting outside in the parking lot. Before I could let anyone stop me, I hopped into his car and went off.
"You ready for this?" he said reassuringly.
"Yes… I mean no," I laughed.
"It's okay. Just a few tests," he patted my shoulder.
"It'll be okay," I told myself out loud.
"It sure would. The doctor we're going to see is a close friend of mine who does a lot of cancer research. He told me to tell you he can tell you about how long you have left to live. Do you want to know?"
"Yeah," I nodded.
I forgot when I started to doze off in his car. When Hatori woke me up, he told me the tests were done. I looked up to see another doctor who had a sad look.
"I'm Dr. Chu, Hatori told me you want to know just about anything, right?" He held out his pale hand and I shook it nodding.
"Alright, as Hatori told you, you have heart cancer, he was right. As the results show, you have about, less than a month."
A month. No, less than a month. No. No. No. No! Not happening. Thank god they didn't have anything in my reach that I could possibly break.
"We can't help you," Dr. Chu shook his head.
This is worse than being told my parents and sister was killed by a monster.
"I'm sorry," Hatori sat next to me on the long couch and rubbed my shoulders.
