Chapter 10

This is the last part of the marathon!! Thank you Queen of Reality for editing…blah, blah, blah, you all know the drill.

"Mommy?" Brooke asked after waking up from her sleep. She had only slept for 15 minutes!!

"Sweetie, do you want to go back to sleep?" I asked. She shook her head and yawned.

"Mommy, is Shane going to be my daddy?" Brooke asked. I was shocked, since I never once talked to her about her father, Shane, and had no idea where she heard about dads. Oh, right, she heard about dads from Ashley. Ashley had a dad who spent lots of time with her, and when I dropped Brooke off for a play-date at Ashley's house, her dad was always there. And Shane wasn't. I sighed depressingly.

"Sweetie, I don't really know, I can't tell the future. But do you want Shane to be your daddy?" I asked. I didn't really want her to answer. I never once thought of Shane and me getting married. Okay, so maybe I have…But that's another story.

"Yeah!!" She exclaimed. Okay, so what I want, doesn't always come true. Hey, she hasn't even spent time with him before! How does she know that Shane will be a good daddy? Weird.

I sighed again as I laid my head back and thought about what Brooke said. Would it be possible? Shane and I getting married? I never thought about how Brooke dealt with the fact that she doesn't have a dad. But now I know, and I also know that she really wants a daddy. Brooke stretched her arms and laid her head on my chest. I looked out the window and were clear blue skies, dotted with a flock of geese migrating southward for the winter. It was beautiful, and I just plain stared at this scene.

A bit later, I heard foot steps. I thought that running was prohibited in hospitals. Whatever... I was too tired to think.

"Mitchie, I have to tell you something!!" Tess said as she came jogging into my hospital room.

"What is it Tess?" I asked.

"Mitchie…I…I-I have HIV." She whispered.

"What?!"

"You know Human immunodeficiency virus? HIV is the disease that people talk about in those sex-ed classes. Well, it happened to me." Tess' voice cracked as she explained.

"You can't have HIV!! I mean…you…are you going to get me or Brooke sick???" I was completely and utterly shocked by what I was hearing.

"I can not believe you!! For just oncecan you think of someone else other then you, Brooke, or Shane?! You are being so shallow!! After all the times I was there to help you get through the day! I was with you through all the hard times and this is how you react when I share my troubles with you?!?!? I really thought you were my friend Mitchie! I guess I was wrong!" Then with one last cold glare, Tess turned around and stormed out of the room. That's when I broke. I started sobbing, and the tears couldn't and wouldn't stop streaming down my face.

"Mommy, what wrong?" Brooke asked with a bit of caution. I couldn't even answer her. What was wrong was…I lost a friend, my best friend for life, supposedly. I guess forever ended sooner then we all thought it was going to.

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Shane's POV:

Jason and Nate fell asleep on the two armchairs beside my bed a few minutes ago and I currently had nothing to do except think. Boring much? What's Mitchie doing right now? I looked up hoping to maybe see Mitchie standing there, which is probably the most stupid thing I've done in my life, but instead of the beautiful brunette, I saw a blond run past my room. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that was Tess. Tess Tyler, Mitchie's best friend.

"Tess!!" I yelled. What was I kidding? She just ran past my room. I wonder why…Maybe Mitchie and she got into a fight or something. So many questions and still so little answers. Why can't the doctors just stick me in a wheel chair and wheel me to the beautiful brunette?! Ugh! Hmm... I'm going to make up a story… about Mitchie and me. Mitchie will be…Rose, and I'll be…Jack. Jack and Rose go on to the Titanic. The Titanic sinks, but hey, at least Rose knows Jack loves her! Okay, not very original, but I never majored in story writing. Or imagination to be exact. Another story!! Hmm…I'll be Romeo and Mitchie will be Juliet. Perfect! Now, Romeo and Juliet meet at this awesome club. Romeo goes up to Juliet and says,

"Hey pretty lady, want to dance?" of course, Juliet says,

"Why, of course sir." And they dance till dawn! Then, Romeo gives Juliet a sweet, passionate kiss, before she has to leave…And go back to her evil step mother! Romeo drank too much, and he collapses on the ground. The end!! One more story, and then I think I'm going to crash. This is more entertaining then I thought it would be. So…I'm the handsome prince and Mitchie is the pretty mermaid.

"I wanna be where the people are…I wanna see, wanna see them dancing!" the Mermaid sings.

"What beautiful maiden owns that beautiful voice?" the handsome prince asks.

"It is I, you are seeking prince." She says and takes her tail out from the water.

"Aren't you going to dry out?! You're a mermaid!!" the prince exclaimed, surprised. The mermaid giggled.

"Of course not. Don't believe everything you read." And then I-the handsome prince smiles and kisses the mermaid. The end! Come to think of it, I'm a very talented story writer. Now, to get some sleep…

Hahaha, that was so fun to write!! I love those stories Shane wrote…Well, made up. That's what happens when I write marathons. I lose ideas, and then it leads to pathetic things. Was it all a surprise when you found out Tess' secret? I'm sure it was. It'll probably be a little while before I update this (maybe 2/3 weeks?) because I have run out of ideas, and I kind of need a break from this story. For all you Black & White readers, I might be focusing on that story a bit more, or start a one/two/three-shot!

Just another two girls,

JBLover718 and Queen of Reality