The appointment
N/A: Thank you Diehardoutsider for your comment. And Logic, this is a story, not everything has to be 'realistic'. I have an A in creative writing at my school, this is just for fun.
~~~~River's POV~~~~
I sat down at my desk doing my writing assignment when the intercom came out loud making my classmates look up.
"Mr. Young, can you send River Curtis down to the officer prepared to leave?" The lady said.
"Yes." He said then looked at me. I nodded and grabbed my things. "Mr. Young, can I talk to you for a minute." I asked him.
Once we were outside in the hallway I looked at him. "Mr. Young, the reason why I didn't take my cap off the other day is because my hair's falling out due to the fact that I have cancer." I told him.
He looked puzzled for a minute but nodded looking at me sympathetically and then sent me off.
When I got down there, dad was waiting outside the office door and he walked out with me.
Dad walked with me to the car and I smiled when I saw Pony and my cousin, Kyle, Ponyboy's son. Uncle Ponyboy was fighting for custody over Kyle with his ex-wife, Teresa. "Hey Kyle." I said smiling at him.
"So how are you doing?" He asked me. Kyle was seven. His older brother Troy went to school with me but he rarely came because his mom never made him.
"Okay. I hurt a little but I'll be fine." I said smiling and with that we went to the doctors. Uncle Pony had taken Kyle to go see his newborn baby sister, Cassie, and his step mom, Donna, Ponyboy's wife.
Dad and I waited for a while in the waiting room and even more in the doctor's room until Dr. Allan came in. "Hello River, dad." He said to me and dad.
"Hello." I said smiling at him.
"Well with the Chemo, your cancer's coming along quite nicely River, but you still need to have it for a while longer." He said to me after he finished his appointment with me. I nodded. "Do I have to shave my head?" I asked him.
"You can do that or wait for it all to come out." He said to me and shook dad's hand and left us.
"Daddy, can Uncle Darry shave it?" I asked him.
He nodded and resting his hand on my shoulder leading me out to go home.
The car ride home was quite except for the radio going on 106.1 Country. I loved country music. Then the song, Skin or Sara Beth by Rascal Flatts came on. I listened to it crying.
Those lyrics touched my heart so much. I broke down crying and dad pulled over hugging me. I could feel his tears in my hair. My hair which I was about to loose all do to this cancer. I hated the doctors. I hated the appointment. I texted Zach and Nathan the news of the appointment and that Cheyanne broke up with me because she thought I was lying. Only if she had been at that appointment. Later on that night I cried with Daddy holding my hand as Uncle Darry cut all my long hair off and then shaved it. Unlike most boys growing up who still greased their hair and left it square in the back like my dad and uncles did growing up, I had really long brown hair that grew down to my shoulders and curled back some but now it was all gone and my baseball hat was on my head instead. Oh yeah I hated that appointment. Now only to wait until school...