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Chloe watched through the window as her eight year old son got picked up from the school bus with his friend Max. She smiled to herself. Chloe collected her purse and drove to the doctors surgery, she sat down in the waiting room and waited for her name to be called.
"Ms Faneli" the receptionist called out "please go to room 8"
Chloe sat down and the doctor pulled out a clipboard with the test results. He stroked his chin and his stubble make a scratchy noise. Chloe sat still, but could feel her chest getting tighter every second.
"Ms Faneli, I'm really sorry to inform you" Chloes eyes widened "But from these results show you have stage four breast cancer" tears start to flood "This means the cancerous cells have spread to other parts on your body, but luckily it hasn't reached any of your vital organs yet. Don't worry there are things we can do, we can operate, go through radio therapy and chemotherapy- later tests will confirm if you need a bone marrow transplant. I would also advise a double mastectomy to bring the chance of cancer developing again to 5%" Chloe nodded, but the tears continued to flow "I can predict your success rate of around 60%, but we'll have to start treatment right away. Don't worry I'll be there for you all the way" Chloe put her head in her hands and wept. "Ms Faneli. It's going to be okay" The Dr said with a serious face "you'll be taken very good care of" He stood forward and reassuringly placed his hand on her shoulder.
Chloe calmed herself down and put on a brave smile.
This couldn't be happening
This couldn't be happening
THIS COULDN'T BE HAPPENING
She took her appointment card and shuffled out of the doctors surgery and drove home without the radio on.
Chloe parked outside the house and knocked on the door.
A woman about 50 years old answers the door, she has dimples when she smiles and as soon as she lays eyes on Chloe the dimples disappeared.
"No. No. Go away we don't want you here, we've made that very clear" The woman started to close the door
"Mum I have cancer." Chloe shouted. The woman looked at her daughter and shook her head whilst internally tutting.
"That's the suffering you have to deal with for being a sinner" Her words were filled with spite, but Chloe could see sadness in her eyes.
"mother, don't you care about me, what about your grandchild?"
"I don't care for that bastard child and I don't care for you" The woman shut the door in Chloe's face.
"YES YOU FUCKING DO" Chloe yelled banging on the door. She could feel tears running down her face, but she was too angry to cry properly. "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I COULD DIE" Chloe made fists with her hand and banged on the door, neighbours were peering over their walls to see what was happening. Chloe paused, knowing it was useless "you're all cunts" She said then left swiftly.
6 years later
*Fangs POV*
"Hey Nick, why haven't you rung me" Lissa says running up to me, clutching onto her canvas bag like she always does. She gave me her number last week, but I speak to her at school, well kind of- I don't really speak much.
"I don't have a mobile" I say "It fell in the toilet" That's an okay excuse, isn't it? But I could of rang her on the home phone, truthfully I don't really want to talk to her that much, I barely know her.
"...okay" Lissa said and looked down at her page, I looked at it too, she'd started sketching the word 'shades' on the A3 size page for a mind map. She looked up at me and caught my eye, so I looked away quickly. "Hey Nick..." She starts, I look to her "You have nice eyes" she smiles.
"Thanks. So do you" I reply. Her eyes are kinda nice, they're like a really sharp green and really big. She lets out a really big smile then looks back to her page.
"Are you still doing movement for your art project" she asks. I nod. She talks quite a lot, but she's nice, so she doesn't bother me all too much. "What are you going to do for it?" She asks
" I was thinking of looking at the way animals move" I replied.
"woah that sounds awesome" she smiled a really bright smile. I gave a small smile back. Then go back to work on my mind map. I can feel her still looking at me, but I don't mind.
I leave art class at the bell and hear Lissa running behind me.
"Where are you going now Nick?" she smiles, she's always like this, asking where I'm going then following me around.
"Um history" I reply.
"I'm going in a similar direction I'll walk with you" she replies smiling. We chat a little on the way, and by chat I mean she talks and I nod and say the odd word here and there.
"Oh I'm here" she says, she stops walking, so I stop too. "Um Nick I was wondering if you want to meet up this weekend" she gave me an awkward smile.
"I don't know I might be busy" I say scratching the back of my head.
"oh" She says sadly. I cringe a little.
"Um. But I probably won't be" I say. I mean she's okay, it won't hurt making one more friend. I see her face light up.
"Okay cool, um can you ring me on your home phone or something?" her smile beams.
"yeah. Sure" I reply. She's kind of cute, but no not in that way. Like in almost pathetic way, not that I can talk or anything I have a few bruises under my shirt from gotten beaten up by some sad losers standing in a park. It might be fun spending a day with her, I've got nothing better to do I'd probably just be hanging around with Max and Iggy, or being forced to unpack even though I've tried my best to avoid it.
"cool, I'll see you later" She walks away with a skip in her step. And I go to history and sit next to Max.
"Yo dude" I say, she turns to me.
"Why do you have that weird smirk on your face?" she asks
"Hi Fang, nice to see you too. Wow you're looking handsome today" I reply sarcastically, clearing the smirk off my face.
Max sighs "yeah whatever" She crosses her arms and leans back on her chair, great now I've upset her- she doesn't appreciate my sarcasm. "Your black eye is going now" she commented, I shrugged. Her eyes narrowed at me "What's up with you?" she asks "you're being really weird. And why does that red haired girl follow you everywhere? Why do you let her oogle at you all the time?"
"Jealous?" I ask, with spite in my tongue. Why does she even care? Her face flushes and she looks away.
Max doesn't speak to me for the rest of the day. We took our bikes in today or I'd have to sit through an awkward car journey with her.
At lunch I find Iggy sitting at a table with a weird array of foods.
"what's that on your plate?" I ask.
"well..." He starts "I couldn't be bothered to ask what food there was, then explaining I was blind and blah blah blah, so I pointed randomly and the lunch lady put it on my plate. What do I have anyway?" He asked me
"um well, you have apple pie with meatballs on top, then for pudding you have a slice of pizza covered in gravy and grapes" I said. Iggy started laughing, I chuckled along with him. "where's Max?" I ask
"she said she was going to sit over there. She's mad at you" he chuckles again "what did you do"
"said she was jealous of Lissa" I mumbled
"oh the red hair girl who's been 'clinging' to you" He says putting quotation marks over the word 'clinging'. How does Iggy know she has red hair, he doesn't even know what red is "What's the deal with her anyway" Iggy asks
"I don't know, she's in my art class. She's just...Nice"
"Is she hot?"
"um" I think for a bit "yeah" Iggy chuckles and has a mouthful of apple pie and meatballs. "what are you laughing at?" I ask
"nothing" Iggy says smiling to himself "nothing at all"
I look over to Max she's sitting with two girls, a blonde one and a brunette one. They chat to each other then turn to Max she either nods or shakes her head then they both laugh and Max smiles slightly. She's not overly good at talking to new people. Her blonde hair is quite curly and rests on her shoulders, she peers her big round eyes at the other two girls and smiles at little bit. She then looks round to me and glares. I quickly turn around and face Iggy. He's already eaten all his food, and I haven't even started my sandwich. I put it back into my bag.
"Hey Igs, want to go walk around?" I ask. He nods.
As soon as I stand up a blast of red hair runs up to me.
"Oh hi Nick" she says
"hi Lissa" I say
"ah so is this Lissa?" Iggy says "Nick talks about you all the time"
"shut up" I whisper and elbow him in the side. Then look back to Lissa. "This is Ig- Jeff. Um we have to go" I say pulling Iggy away.
"What the hell was that?" I ask. "I do not talk about her all the time"
"I know" He smirked to himself
"sometimes I really hate you. You know"
"nah you don't"
Lunch consisted of Iggy telling me about a prank he pulled on his brother Gareth the other day. He put blue dye in his shampoo. Those two are pretty cool together, they just play pranks and invent little weird things. Like once they used a old car wheel, belts, and rope to make a lift system. And once Iggy got hold of an old lawnmower battery and engine, messed around with them a bit then attached them to his roller blades- that will always be remembered as the day Iggy broke his ankle.
After school I went to the bike racks, Max's bike had already gone. Iggy can go fine on his bike even without being able to see, but his mum makes him get the bus. I get on my bike and cycle home, I open the door. And see Ian, my mums boyfriend, hovering the hallway. Shit. My eye hasn't healed up yet, so I run into the kitchen. And there's Ian's daughter sitting on the table drawing, I've been teaching her how to draw recently and she's getting really good.
"Hiya Nudge" I say, my mum sitting on a chair reading her college book tuts at me.
"Her name is Monique, Nick"
"No I like Nudge" Nudge says smiling "It's cute" Her hair is tied back into two bunches at the back of her head. She is the sweetest person you'll ever meet. She runs up and hugs me, burying her head into my chest.
"what did you do to your eye?" She asks concerned with a frown on her face, taking a step back.
"Oh I fell off my skateboard, and my face broke my fall" I say
"oh dear! it doesn't look too bad though" She says reassuringly. She smiles "Do you want to see my new room?" She asks. My mum and Ian have been dating for about a couple of years and they bought a house together so we can all live together, so in a way Nudge is kind of my step-sister.
She leads me into her room, my mum decorated it all before me moved it. Her room was a light, royal purple with glittery stars on the ceiling and walls, she had a couple of bean bags in the corner around a small plastic table and a bed on stilts with a desk underneath. She had a big oak wardrobe and a dressing up box by it's side. She had a little easel with a big A3 piece of card up.
"That's where I'll do all my drawing" she said pointing to the easel. "Then I can paint really good like you and paint on everything I own. Not that I'm trying to copy you or anything, it would just be really cool" I smiled, she can annoy me a bit, but I just go along with it.
"I've got to go do homework" I mutter.
"oh. Oh yeah me too" Nudge nods her head and folds her arms. I walk up to my room.
I get to my room and open my art book, Lissas' number is still in it. I have a phone connected to the house network in my room, I pushed it under my bed. I get it up and dial in Lissa's number.
"Hello" I hear Lissa's voice
"Hi" I say
"Oh hi Nick. How are you?" she asks.
"good"
"how's art?"
"good"
"haha. Cool. I'm looking at a lot of shadow art by Kumi Yamashita, it's really good I'm thinking of making a small scale replica of one of her pieces. There's this one where she puts pins in and she winds string around them to make a face and to create shaded areas she puts more pins in the put more string across"
"Wow, that sounds really cool" I say sincerely
"I don't think I could do that one, it sounds really hard"
"Well what if you don't make the model and instead draw it, like just draw dots where the pins should be and lines where the string should be"
"Yeah, thanks Nick. That would work. So are we still on for this weekend?"
"oh yeah, do you want to meet up in town, at the bus station, Saturday?" I ask. It will actually be quite cool to see her, she's nice and likes art. She's quite chilled.
"yeah, yes. That would be cool. Um sorry I have loads of homework, um I'll see you tomorrow around school then. BYE!" and with that she hung up.
I had no idea what to draw for my art project. I thought about drawing the movement of animals, but I don't know how I could turn that into an observational drawing or a artist copy. I get started on my history homework, we have to do a lot of independent research to make an essay plan and I don't even know what do to. Max would usually help me, but she's angry at me so it's probably best to leave her alone.
*Max POV*
I can't believe Fang. What a dick, saying I'm jealous of Lissa. She clings to him all the time, always running up to him with her flimsy little canvas bag. She probably spends hours on her hair everyday and is really self-absorbed, thinking she's a little red-haired wonder. Not that I'm being spiteful because I'm jealous- there's just something not right with her.
My mobile phone flashes. I look at the screen. 1 new message from Fang. I roll my eyes. I take a deep breath then read the message.
Come meet me at the park
No, I'm not going to go. Why does he get to be a dick then expect me to just rush along to see him. I get another text
It's important
No. No. I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. I'm not going.
I find myself walking downstairs and putting on my shoes I walk out the door. Looks like I am going. I hate him so much. I'm going to punch him in the face when I see him and give him another black eye.
I walk into the park. I can't see Fang anywhere. I walk around a bit looking around for him.
"Fang" I yell. No response. I sit down on a bench without a back to it and ring him on my mobile. It rings out. I ring again and it rings out again. Something isn't right. I ring Fangs home phone. His almost step-sister answers
"Hello?"
"Yes Hello, is Fang home. It's Max"
"He's right here" she says "Fang it's Max" I hear her say to him
"Yello- listen I'm really sorry-"
"Why aren't you here?" I ask
"um sorry"
"You texted me to meet you in the park"
"What!? No I didn't" He pauses "Max get out of there, run home" He sounds panicked
"Why? What's going on?"
"I got my phone nicked, I don't have it. Get out of there"
"What?"
"The. I got beaten up by the people who took my phone, just leave" He sounds worried. I feel my eyes widen, and start running. I get close to the exit. "are you leaving?"
"Yes" I huff.
I hear some footsteps other than mine.
"Well, is this little Maxie?" I turn around to see a tall figure.
"I think it is" I turn around and there's another figure blocking the exit of the park. My eyes dart around in all directions, I can't jump over the fence- too high. I could probably take on one of them in a fight, kick them then run, but the other would get me.
"MAX" I hear from the phone still pressed to my ear.
"um, I think they're here" I say.
I run to the side and they follow me another one appears right in front of me. I dart back to where I just came from, dodging them as they jump at me. I run, then look back, then feel a pair of arms grab me. They're tough and cross around my chest. NO NO NO.
"LET ME GO" I Yell kicking my legs in the air the other three laugh and close in on me. The tallest one grabs the phone and gives it to another of them his lips crack a smile and presses the phone to the side of his face.
"Hello there again" I kick the guy in the shins causing him to take a step back and he grips onto me tighter.
"stay still you bitch" he whispers with menace in my ear. I yell out
"Help" I shout. Then the guy puts his hand over my mouth. The guy on the phone laughs
"so as you can probably hear, we've got your girl" He pauses and smiles at me "what are you going to do about it?" I let out muffled screams and kick the guys shins repeatedly. He stays strong. I bite his hand and yell some more. The guy who was on the phone smiles at me, showing his pointing teeth.
"Hello sweetie" He says menacingly "So what are we going to do with you?"
EEP! So I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm going on holiday on Saturday for a week, so I'll write plently more, it's just I can't upload them unless i manage to find some free wifi somewhere. Don't forget to revieww, bye 3
-Jess x