Hey! Dia here! Sad to say, but this story is almost at its end. It's going to have a few more chapters because I can't really think of any other ideas for this story. It's my first story and I wasn't planning to have that many chapters anyway, but look on the bright side! I'm going to have a new story when this one is finished, so go to my profile and vote on the poll. Please enjoy the eighth chapter of A New Life!
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A New Life
Chapter 8
Claire's POV
Cristina has been here for a while. The doctor and Elli managed to help her; I'm so grateful to them! If Cristina was gone I don't know what I would do. Cristina never had it this bad before; why was it like that this time? I thought this place was going to help, but she's gotten worse!
"Claire? You can see Cristina now." Elli said.
"Oh thank you!"
I immediately got out of my seat and practically ran to the room Cristina was in. When I got in there, she was in the bed with a breathing mask on her face.
"Cristina? Are you okay?"
"Y-yeah, I'm fine."
"You shouldn't talk; you need your rest."
"O-okay."
Cristina seemed to be okay; she was just tired. I wonder if she will ever heal.
"Claire? Can I come in?"
"Sure Elli."
Elli came in the room and gave me an apologetic look.
"Cristina's going to have to stay here for a while, but the good news is that we took an X-ray of her lungs and the bruise on it is healing."
I was very relieved. At least Cristina's lung is healing; it'll be over soon.
"Do you know how long it will be until her lung fully heals?" I asked Elli.
"Doctor said it should be healed in about Spring of next year. If I may ask, when did Cristina get that bruise on her lung?"
"It happened two years ago, when she was five." I said.
"So if it was two years ago, then it must have had the necessary time to heal."
"I guess so."
I know I needed to go back to the farm, but I just had to stay with Cristina.
"Elli, can I stay the night so I can stay with Cristina?"
"Sure, I'll tell doctor."
So, I stayed at the doctor's office overnight. The next day I still stayed there until got well enough to go home. Doug and Ann brought us food and other came to visit Cristina and I. After a while, Doctor said that Cristina could go. When we got home, the farm was already taken care of.
"My friends must've done all the farm work for me while I was at the doctor's office." I said.
"Let me check the mail Claire." Cristina said.
"Okay."
Cristina went to the mailbox and got something out. She came to me with two letters and a small box.
"Here you go Claire."
"What's this?"
The first letter said:
Dear Claire and Cristina,
We hope you guys are doing alright and we give you our best wishes. Cristina, we hope you're doing okay.
Sincerely,
The residents of Mineral Town
That was nice of them, but what's this other stuff? The next letter said:
Dear Claire and Cristina,
I forgot to give you girls something. I hope you are doing alright. Remember, you need to stick together. A present came with this gift open it after you read.
Love,
Someone Dear to You
Who was this person? Who could 'Someone Dear to You' be? It couldn't be Victoria; she wouldn't be mysterious about it. I looked at the box and started to open it. Inside, there were two lockets with pictures of our family in it. I gave one to Cristina. What kind of stranger would give you a locket with a picture of your family in it?
The chicken festival was coming up so I entered my oldest chicken. The next day, Cristina and I headed to the square. Our chicken was up against one of Rick's chickens. Everyone cheered me on, but I still lost. I guess Rick's was just more experienced than mine. Rick came over to me.
"Good match Claire." He extended his hand out.
"Yeah, good match." We both shook hands.
We watched other chickens try to scare each other and the day ended with Rick winning all of his matches. Everyone said goodbye to each other and headed for home.
Days and weeks passed. We got letters every now and then from the mysterious person. When the cow festival came we couldn't enter because our cow was still young. Barley's cow won the festival though. The fireworks festival was my favorite of all. We all sat on the beach and watched fireworks together as friends. At the end of Summer, Kai came to our house and said he had to leave. It was sad to say goodbye, but we'll see each other again. Now it was Fall and we were just leaving the church after the music festival.
"I didn't know you could play that instrument so well Claire!" Cristina said. She couldn't pronounce the word 'ocarina'.
"I had to play it all the time at school."
"Karen was a great singer!" Cristina said.
"Yeah. Mary, Ann, and Elli were good with their instruments too." I said.
Cristina and I always wore the lockets we got from that person. Only because the pictures inside reminded us of Mom and Dad.
"I wonder why that person keeps writing us letters. We don't even know them." Cristina said with a confused look on her face.
"I don't know about that. We might know this person; I just don't know who it could be." I said.
We got to back to the farm and went inside. Cristina got in her bed and went to sleep.
'What's been happening lately? We're getting these strange letters from an anonymous person and they gave us lockets with picture of our family. Who could this person be?'
And with that thought I went to sleep.
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It's short I know, but I really didn't have much ideas for this chapter. There's only a few chapters of this story left. Who is this mysterious person? The answer will either be in the ninth or tenth chapter. So please review! Reviews are gratefully accepted! Bye Bye!