Zero

Annabelle

 

         Life doesn’t get any better staring at the same four walls every day for a year. That’s how long I’ve been here in this room. They told me I probably won’t make it past the summer. The summer is a stretch they said. I knew that I didn’t have long, and I had spent the entire 17th year of my life preparing myself for death. My mother was the one who wasn’t coping. It broke my heart every single time she came through that door and looked at me. She couldn’t break it to her heart to let me go. I didn’t want to her to see me in my last few weeks; I didn’t want to haunt her for the rest of her life with images of me as a skeleton, lifeless as anything. I didn’t want her there when my organs start to fail, or when I’m pumped with so many drugs that I’m numb to the core.

         My whole life I hadn’t known what it was like to love anyone but her. My whole life she’s been all that I’ve had. She’s hasn’t dated once since the day I was diagnosed, she has nobody but me. The least I could do was find her someone to love, before I had to leave. That was my mission for my last summer, I never expected how it would all turn out.

Reviews

[LOfCharlemagne]

Very emotional and depressing. This is so somber that it can almost be painful to read. Nightmares such as the ones you described here are very haunting, even to people who have not lost loved ones. I love how you have a charachter that is on the verge of dying, and you make her motivated to supporting and uplifting somebody else. I really appreciate that as a plot/storyline. Even though i have not read the other chapters(yet), i feel that this book could be incredibly emotionally engaging on many levels!