in
his arms
Chapter
4
I felt myself freezing up
again, but I swallowed it. Or, choked on it, rather. I
wouldn’t let myself do that again.
“Me?” I murmured.
“Yeah. I wanted to apologize.” He was still
smiling.
“Apologize for what?” I asked, slightly
surprised.
“For whatever I did that made you so afraid of
me.”
I shrugged my entire body and rolled my eyes. “No, look, I
wasn’t afraid of you. I’m just…” I
trailed off, not knowing what else to say.
“What?”
“I don’t talk to guys.”
“Why not?”
“Because that always happens,” I admitted,
smiling.
He grinned back at me. “Really? So like, you’ve never
had a boyfriend before?”
I shook my head, slightly embarrassed.
“Why not?”
“Because I’m socially awkward. I guess I’m just
not girlfriend material.”
He snorted. “It’s funny how the pretty girls are
always the most insecure.”
My head snapped back, startled. Did he just call me pretty?
Before I could ask, he changed the subject. “What are you
in for?”
“Uh…” I stammered, still dwelling on his last
comment. “Leukemia.”
His brow furrowed. “Really?” he breathed,
astounded.
I bobbed my head. “Yeah.”
He pursed his lips. “I mean, I’m so sorry.”
I shrugged. “It’s not a big deal. I mean, if I die,
there aren’t many people that are gunna be
affected.”
His eyes grew hard. “Don’t say that.”
“I’m serious,” I persisted. “Just my
nurses, my sister and her fiancée. I don’t have any
other friends.”
“Grandparents? Aunts? Uncles?”
“My mom’s an only child and my grandparents are all
dead.”
“You have to have friends at school.”
“Not a single one.” He bowed his head. I decided to
change the subject. “What about you?”
He smiled grimly, knocking his head. “Brain
tumor.”
I gasped slightly. “They treat you with chemo for
that?”
He nodded his head. “Yeah. The success rates are really low
for it, though. I’m probably gunna need surgery. The thing
is, the surgery’s really risky.”
“When’d you come here?”
“Transferred yesterday. I had chemo treatments at another
hospital in Boston. But we had to move because rent got too
expensive, and we ended up here.”
“Who’s ‘we?’” I asked, trying to
flirt and keep the conversation going. I’d never done this
before, so I hoped I was doing it right.
“Me and my mom,” he told me, and I found something
else we had in common. “Speaking of my mother, I promised
I’d call her. So, maybe I’ll catch you later.
Kaitlyn, right?” He flashed a grin at me.
I nodded. “Yeah, later.” I couldn’t hold my
smile back.
“Alright, bye,” he said, skipping down the
hallway.
I pranced back to my room, feeling so much better about myself. I
pulled out my list, and with my black ballpoint pen, I dragged a
line across a bullet.
4. Face a
fear, and maybe overcome
it.
My
night consisted of flirting with cute boys. 2, actually.
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