"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius

Day 7

It's been a week since I've gotten to the hospital, when I got here they said they didn't know what kind of a cancer I had but they thought that it started in my lungs. Yes I said started, that means that that it's spreading, and fast.

They tried to make it sound like I was going to live forever and forever like I was invincible, but I'm not stupid I know that's there's no happy ending for me.

The doctor told me that they needed me to stay at a hospital because they need to keep a close eye on me, but it's really because of chemotherapy. So I have to stay at the hospital in Seoul, Korea. I was relieved that it was some what close to where my family lived, which was Busan.

The doctors didn't say how long I was suppose to stay in the hospital, all they said was "until the cancer stops spreading" and I know that will never happen. So basically I'll never leave. So with this life changing news I've decided that I've got to live the way I want with the time I've got left.

But still, I'm in shock. I had a life, I had great friends, straight A's, I was going to go to college, I was going to be a vet, meet a nice guy, get married, have children, grow old together, meet my grandchildren. And it's all ruined! It's all gone! everything! My future has never been so blurred in all my life! I feel like I'm underwater and the chlorine from the pool has damaged my vision and slowly day by day it's vanishing.

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I yawn.
Smack smack.
Rumble rumble.

"I need something to eat!" I think.

I sit up on my smallish hospital bed and crank my head over to see the clock, it reads Twelve: forty one. It's past the time they hand out snacks or food in general. I rip the heavy warm hospital blankets off my smallish, slender body and hop over to my pink bag and rifle though it.

"Bingo!" I yell, quickly covering my mouth.
"Shhh!" I told myself.

I tip toe over to the metal door and slid it open slowly and gently, I look both ways before put my left foot out on the cold tile floor. I tip toe around the hospital, avoiding all the nurse's working, and finally find a vending machine.
"I've got five bucks." I told myself "how about a bag of hot cheetos and a coca cola!"

I insert my only money, as I start regretting it, and grab my food and drink and continue on my way to my room, if I knew the way.

I'm lost.

I get hungry so I open my Cheetos and start speed walking to see if I would recognize anything around me. I continue for what feels like hours, too afraid to ask a nurse since I was out without permission. I was getting nowhere and I turned around the corner and drifted back around corner after seeing a nurse walk this away. I went to look behind when all the sudden, a collision with someone.

I wanted to cry, not because I was in pain from falling, but because half of my hot cheetos were on the floor!

"I'm sorry!" Yells a apologetic and unfamiliar voice.

"No it's all my fault!" I say looking at the stranger after get some consciousness back.

I grab my bag of hot cheetos
"I only ate three and now half of them are on the floor!" I yell in my head.

I look over at the unfamiliar boy as he picks up hot cheeto corpses. I slid my body so it would face him, sit normally, and put the bag in front of him.

"Want hot cheetos?" I offer politely.

"O-oh," He stuttered "I-I'll buy you another bag, since this is my fault."

"No need to worry!" I say getting off the floor and helping him pick up the rest of the cheeto corpses.

"So are you new here?" He asks as he throws the last of the cheeto corpses in the garbage can (R.I.P)

"Well, yeah!" I say crunching some hot cheetos "you know if you don't act now you're not going to to get any hot cheetos."

"Okay," he says walking over to me "may I have some?"

I give him the rest that was in the bag and throw away the crumpled bag. I look over at him, he had blonde hair, pale flawless skin, and he was bit short but still taller than me.

"I'm April." I say putting my hand out.

"Ah, I'm Jim-Jun-.......Zayn" He's says not sounding sure as he shakes my hand.

"Are you sure you don't sound sure, that's a pretty American name you don't look American." I say suspiciously with a chuckle.

"Well you don't look American and your name is April!" He laughs "I'm sure! My name is Zayn!"

"Come on!" I say "out with it, no one who is going to be a acquaintance or friend of mine gets to lie to me."

"Alright," He says "My name's Ji-Jimin."

"That wasn't so bad!" I chuckle "Plus Jimin is way cuter than Zayn!"

He turns around but not quick enough as I see his face turn red.

"What are you doing out here anyway?" He asks turning back around

"I'm lost." I chuckle nervously.

"Well I'll help you!" He says as he smiles "Do you know what was around your room or the number?"

"Well, I remember a little sitting area for the patients to sit and part of the number was something eighty four." I explain.

"I know where that is!" He says cheerfully "follow me!"

I follow him down the hall and we take some turns. After a while things start to look more familiar.

"Here you are!" He says stopping and turning around to look at me.

"Thank you!" I say happily "where's your room?"

"Right there." He says pointing to the door on the left side of my room.

"We're neighbors!" I say a little too cheerfully. "I-I-I mean oh, we're neighbors.....Cool."

Jimin laughs.

"Well goodnight neighbor." He says waving "See you later."

"Goodnight!" I yell in a whisper.

I run into my room and close the door putting my coke cola on my stand along with the fifteen cents I had in my robe pocket. I jump on my bed and cover myself up in the warm blankets that seem to have more warmth than before and think "I may not have a happy ending, but that doesn't mean I won't have a knight in shiny armor."

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