Together As One
Ch 8
Leah watched as Carley locked the cupboards that had ice cream, candy and anything with sugar in it.
She knew she was doing it for Izz, to help him with having Diabetes.
He didn't know about this yet.
Carley was bracing herself for his reaction when she told him.
"I'm giving you guys a key that will open the locks if you want snacks. Just don't let Izz use them, okay?" she told Leah and David as she gave them a key.
"What's going on?" Leah heard somebody ask.
It was Izz. He'd came home from hospital. The doctor had showed Carley how to help him use the Epi pen and the glucose checker that she had to prick his finger with to check his blood sugar levels.
"Morning. You sleep okay?" Leah asked him.
"Yes I did. I'm in a pancake mood today with maple syrup and whipped cream." He answered her.
Carley shot him a look.
"What did I do?" he asked as there was a bowl of cereal with fruit in it. "What's this?" he asked.
"Breakfast." Carley replied.
"Eww! Where's the pancakes?" he said making a face.
"You… can't eat pancakes or ice cream ever again." She told him walking out of the room.
"Wow she seemed upset. She doesn't want him to get worse. Maybe I should help him understand." Leah thought as Izz was staring at the bowl.
"Izz do you know why you can't have pancakes or anything you like? You have a little thing called Diabetes which affects your blood sugar.
When you have sugar, you pass out and go into a hypo and then we have to inject insulin into you to help you, okay?
Carley gave you that food because it helps to contain the Diabetes." Leah explained to him.
Izz looked scared.
"It's okay to be frightened about it but you're not alone. Somebody very close to you has it too." She reassured him.
"Who else has it?" Izz asked her curious.
"Carley does but hers isn't serious like yours. She takes awesome care of herself. She wants to make sure the Diabetes never comes back." Leah answered.
"What do you mean?" Izz said thinking.
"She made it go away by taking great care of herself." Leah said.
In Aria Krya had stolen a cure for Diabetes knowing Izz would come to them but they also had Carley locked in a cage.
Izz then saw a vision in his mind.
It was Krya.
"Hello Izz. I found something that might help with your condition or get rid of it. But it'll cost you.
Are you sure you want to pay the price?" she told him.
He then went to Aria. Krya saw him arrive.
"Carley! I'll get you out of there, okay?" he said to her but Krya stopped him.
"I know you have Diabetes. What I have could cure you, make it go away. What do you say?
All you have to do is give up being her partner and then you'll be cured!
"You could eat whatever you wanted to again." she replied.
Izz looked at her, then at Carley. This wasn't worth losing a friend over.
"Sprry Krya but it's not worth it. Besides with Carley's help, Diabetes might leave me without your cure." Izz told her as he freed Carley from the cage.
Krya then smashed the vial and flew off...
Carley hugged him.
"I'm proud of you. You could've been free of the Diabetes but you didn't. Why?" she told him.
"I wanted to but then I remembered Leah saying how you made it go away. Tou were brave destroying it. I'm not but I want to try." Izz told her.
"Good." she replied as they left.
Later that night Izz nuzzled Carley.
"Don't worry. I'm sure human scientists will create a cure. Then Diabetes won't stand a chance." she said as they fell asleep.
Leah smiled. She and Elisa had rescued two hugre vials of the cure because they'd gone to Aria and found vials of it...
She wondered if their friends would take it or not...