A/N: I'm back again, posting another chapter as promised. I'm sorry it's short. I posted this extra early because I have to catch up on my math homework. ^_^;; … I hope you enjoy!
The next day Kari decided that she was ready to inform the students at school about her illness. Everyone in school stared in silent disbelief, as if waiting for the punch line of some horrible joke that none of them could have believe have been told. The whole concept was a unfamiliar to everyone. Some people started to cry, some stared at her with sadness in their eyes as if it was the last time they could ever seen her. It was eccentric though. The quiet, intelligent girl who no one noticed, was now the talk of the school.
I'd never had anyone close to me die before. Except for Matt. And I was totally devastated. It took me forever to cope. That's when the problems with me began. I didn't want to go back to that rebel phase, not when Kari was the one who helped me and changed me into a better person.
I finally had the chance to ask Kari the questions that were in my head. There wasn't anything much the doctors could do. It was a rare form of the disease, there was no available treatment. She told me how when the school year started she felt fine. It wasn't until the last few weeks that she'd started to feel it's effects. "That's how it progresses." she said. "And then, when your body can't keep fighting you don't."
When she said that to me she didn't seem as depressed as I thought that she would be. She was completely the same, nothing changed about her, she was the same from when I became friends with her during the school year.
that I've known her. It was just now that I began to discover what a great person she truly was. I've known her ever since elementary school. I used to throw snowballs at her when she didn't suspect it, I use to steal her cookies, I've even laughed at the blunt jokes the other kids would say about her. I regretted all those awful things I've done to her years back. Instead of being hateful to her I could have got to known her better, became friends with her. But that was back then, when I was nothing more than an immature child. Kari helped me realize another thing about myself. I was growing up.
I was for the first time in my life, completely and utterly lost in my own emotions.
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