Chapter 27
By Cortney
Later That Night
Nick's View
"Mellers come on, your moping around is
making me want to go rent a sad movie and cry even more," I said
coming into the Family room and sitting down on the couch.
"Nick, nice try, but I can't get Andrea out of my head," She
said looking over at me.
"Come on what can I do to make you feel better?" I asked taking
her hands in mine.
"Bring her back," She said in a serious tone looking straight
into my eyes.
"Mel if I could I would, but she's not suffering any longer. And she
would want you to be happy,' I said standing up and groaning in
defeat. She was so stubburn and once her mind was on something, it takes
forever to get it off it.
"Melissa come on, we are going out for dinner," Josh said
barging into the house.
"How can you be so happy on a day like this?" She asked
standing up and going over to the window.
"Melissa you know Andrea would want you to be happy," Hannah
said coming over and standing beside her.
"Mom its not that simple. You haven't been near death and then come
back, then you lose a friend to something that shoukd have been cured before
Aids," Melissa snapped running upstairs into her room. I
groaned again and gave up. I looked up at the top of the stairs and
listen to see if I could hear anything. Not a sound.
Upstairs
Melissa's View
I keep asking God why he took Andrea instead of me.
I had lived my life long enough to know what life would be like for me in the
future. But no I had to be the one he spared and took a kid that hadn't
even got to see the end of her first teenage year. At that moment I
didn't care what I would do to myself. If I slitted my wrists, to me
right now it would be for a good cause. Of course Nick and my siblings
took everything like that out of my room. What about if I jumped through
the window? Nah, they would hear the glass shatter. There was no
way out of facing that God spared me and took another life. But I can
look at what they found and cured what I had, as a good thing. All the
people who died before me of Aids, helped out in finding this cure. I can
always remember the good times Andrea and I spent before she passed on, and
they say one's passing is one way that doctor's can find a cure for what they
died of. So never anotehr family has to go through the terrible lost of a
child, son, daughter, husband, wife, niece, nephew or whatever the case
maybe. There will be a cure for every known diease out there someday, and
that someday has come for me and what I have. I was the successful story,
and that I know will help others who are dying from this terrible diease.
Andrea's View
I watched as my good friend suffered through I
dying. It was hard to see my parents say goodbye for the last time.
I never realized that it was coming, just the next thing I knew was seeing a
bright light and then I was floating on top of a big white puffy cloud. I
was now Mel's and my family's guardian angel. My mom and dad have been
holding up better than I had ever expected, but I will always miss everyone on
earth. All the fun things I did before I got sick and the things I did
while I was sick. It was good and bad memories. Things I know I
will think about everyday until all my family and friends are here with
me. God has some sort of plan and mine wasn't to live past 13 and I don't
blame him because my family would've suffered. I am no longer in pain and
that I hope Melissa, Nick, the guys, Mel's family, and my family will see in
the years to come.
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