Forgotten Chapter 4
This is kind of a long chapter but please keep reading, and frenchgirl, I do my story and you post yours? Please:)
On the way to Peggy's office Miranda thought about how she could tell her friend what she had just told Declan. If she had told him, it wouldn't be fair not to tell Peggy. She sighed. It would be hard to tell her. It had been so long ago since she was ill, so she didn't tell anybody about it. Only her parents and her brothers knew about it now.
She knocked on the door to Peggy's office.
"Come in." She heard her friends voice.
"Hi Peggy" Miranda stepped in. "I just wanted to talk to you..."
There was an uncomfortable silence between the two women.
"Miranda, I think I know what you want to talk about... Declan was here about an hour ago, and he was so worried. He told me... he told me that you have leukemia. Is it true, Miranda?"
"It's true." Miranda said, staring at the floor, suddenly finding her shoes very interesting.
"How long have you known that it's back?" Peggy took a step towards Miranda.
"About a week."
Miranda looked up and her ice blue eyes met Peggys warm brown. Tears started to form in Miranda's eyes and she closed them, not wanting to show Peggy that she felt like crying inside. She felt Peggy's arms around her and realised that she was hugging her.
"If you want to talk, I'm here for you Miranda." She said.
"Actually" Miranda spoke up, releasing her friend. "They want me to come in tomorrow, stay for a couple of days so that they can take some new tests. They said that I should bring my family, but..."
"You haven't told them yet, have you?"
"No"
"I'll come, and I'm sure Declan will too."
The next morning, Peggy was following Miranda to her apartment to pick up some things. Peggy stepped in to the apartment after Miranda. It was a small but nice place. She looked at the walls. Most of them were covered in photos. Mostly they contained pictures of rivers, mountains or waterfalls, but right next to her, Peggy found one with people in it.
In the picture, four teenage boys sat around a table, all of them smiling. In the lap of one of them, a little girl sat. The girl was wearing jeans, an oversized purple t-shirt and a baseball cap that was big and covered most of her head. She was smiling too. An IV- needle was in her arm, going allt he way up to a bag of fluid. She was very skinny.
Peggy smiled, thinking the girl looked like one of the cancer patients from the pediatric clinic. Then a horrible thought hit her. This must be Miranda and her brothers, she thought.
"Is this you Miranda?" Peggy asked, raising her voice a little to her friend who's in the bedroom, picking up some clothes. Miranda walks up to Peggy, glancing at the picture.
Yeah that's me" Miranda says, and thinks that this might be a good time to call her brothers.
TBC?
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