Chapter 31
Lottie's POV
Graduation day...
"Please welcome Ms. Lottie Mellark!" Mrs. Lighthill announces.
Applause rings through the auditorium as I walk up the stairs towards the stage.
I shake her hand and accept my diploma.
"A speech." Mrs. Lighthill says, walking away.
The applause dies down as I stare at the crowd, knowing this is the last time I'll ever see all of them again.
I smile and clear my throat.
"At first when I knew I had to write this speech, I couldn't write that I was excited for my whole life ahead of me. But I don't have my whole life ahead of me. I'm..." I take a deep breath.
"I'm dying."
Gasps run through the crowd.
"I have a rare case of Tuberculosis, where I cough up blood. I have medicine but that makes me lose my battle faster with it.
That's also why I lost my baby."
I stop, tears threatening to spill.
"I'm going to die in at least three days, but at least I know that I will have down everything I have ever wanted."
I stop, coughing racking my whole body.
"Lottie!" Finn cries out.
I fall to the ground, blood running out of my mouth, gasping hard.
I vomit all over the stage, and it's blood red.
I close my eyes because I knew that today would be my last day.
That's why I placed that notebook on Nick's bed.
