I am so happy I am out of School for two weeks!
Note that this : indicates that what is between them is a dream
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Marion could recall a time when she was in first grade and had said something to Anne May one of her class mates.
That was what she was thinking about when she drifted off to sleep.
A seven year old Marion sat on the living room couch waiting for her mother to yell at her. She jumped when Lindy yelled at her.
Lindy glared at her daughter. "Marion Grace! You should be ashamed of yourself! You not only hit that little girl but you heart her feelings too. When your father gets back he is going to were you out! What do you have to say for yourself?"
"I am sorry for hitting Anne May." Marion said
"And?" Lindy glared her daughter
"That's all I am sorry for mom."
"No that is not it. You said mean things to her too and that hurt her feelings."
"But you stayed words can't hurt people."
Lindy smuggled a laugh then explained how words hurt people and what she kind of things she should say and what kind of things she should never say.
One of those things had been not to yell at people if they didn't deserve it.
Marion woke with a start. Now she felt guilty about saying those things to Lisa. She rolled over landing hard on the floor. She looked at her watch it was one a.m. but she was still going to go apologize. Maybe her watch was wrong she flipped open her cell phone. 10 missed messages, from Lou. She checked her voicemail; 10 messages all from Lou.
"Mom, Lisa collapsed in the barn grandpa is at the hospital and Peter and I are on our way. Grandpa needs you." Lou's voce pleaded
The 10th message was left on ten minutes before. "Mom. Grandpa needs you! I know you don't like Lisa but you need to get over here. Grandpa really needs you." Lou pleaded
Marion grabbed her car keys.
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Jack paced up and down the hallway Lou sat in a chair half asleep. Marion raced in to the room. "Mom." Lou jumped up surprised
"I fell asleep with my phone on silent." Marion said sitting down. "How is she?"
Lou looked at her mom. "She was awake and seemed fine but the doctors wanted to run more tests on her to find out what happened. I was going to get some coffees."
"Yea goes I'll stay here." Marion looked at her daughter who was genuinely upset.
"Ok thanks. I will be back." Lou said standing up and walking down the hall way.
As soon as Lou left a doctor walked in to the room. "Mr. Bartlett I have sevrel questions for you."
Jack stoped pacing. "Is she ok?"
"Yes she is fine I just have some questions for you and some papers for you to sine." The doctor ushered Jack in to a small room
Marion stood up and walked down the hall stopping at Lisa's room. She slipped in. Lisa saw her that moment. "Hay."
"I want to apologize. I was out of line. I should have never said those things about you. And I am so sorry. Will you please forgive me?"
Lisa looked at Marion. "I forgive you."
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Jack sat next to Lisa waiting for the doctor to come in and tell them what had happened. Lisa looked at Jack. "She apologized."
"Who?"
"Jack you are so much like Amy and Marion stubborn and way better with horses than people."
The doctor chose that moment too walk in. "We ran a CT scan and an MRI and they both showed the same thing. I am sorry to say it is not good. You are in stage two of Brain Cancer."
Lisa gasped and covered her mouth. Jack starred at the doctor. "What can we do to treat it?"
"There are several treatment options. Since the tumor is still fairly small there is an 85% chance we can remove the entire thing or at least shrink it in surgery. Chemotherapy is not effective and since we could find no symptoms of the cancer being metastatic it is very un-necessary. Radiation is an option but is not as effective, and will not eliminate the tumor completely. Now I am going to give you all some time to think about this but you need to make a decision we need to start treating this tumor today." The doctor left the room.
Lisa berried her face in Jacks chest crying. Her mother had died of a brain tumor, her sister of lung cancer. And now she headed down the same road. "I want to do the surgery."
Jack wrapped his arms around Lisa and buried his face in her hair. "Everything's going to be OK."
Lisa pulled back so she could look him in the eye. "Call Lou and Marion in and I suppose will tell them. I don't know how but I don't have a choice."
"Hay I'll be write here." Jack kissed Lisa's forehead.
Lisa was near tears again. "How am I going to tell Ben? He lost his mom and his dad and now…"
"Hay don't think like that."
"Jack he spent every summer with me he spent almost all his Christmases with me and he stood by me during my marriage with Dan. Dan managed to scare all of my friends and the little family I had. And now I have to call him up and tell him I have cancer!"
"I already called him as well as Ty and Amy; they are already on a flight." Jack said
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Marion looked her father Lisa had gone in to surgery two hours ago and Jack had yet to stop pacing. Amy and Ty had fallen asleep, probably due to jet lag. Marion looked at the bracelet in her hand. Lisa had given it to her to keep while she was in surgery. Marion could tell the charm bracelet meant a lot to Lisa and it felt good to be forgiven and trusted with something that meant so much to someone. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
I will update soon as I am off school for 2 weeks and have not a thing to do (School wise) so all I need are reviews and I will update every other day! That would be a lot of chapters!
