Lena Fisher loves two things: summer and music.
Summer has finally arrived and with it also comes the happiest time of the year for her.
Every summer, the Fisher's go to their summer home where they happily hang out with their mother's best friend...
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April 16
Lena has always been a happy girl, good grades, lots of friends, in love with music and the beach. Her favorite person in the world? Her mother. She will always be the one who stays by her side no matter what happens, whatever she does. That's what mothers are for, right?
Then, there are her brothers.
Conrad, his twin brother, is 17 years old. Many people say that they are extremely similar, but she jus didn't see it. Surely it is the simple mania that all the brothers have of saying that they are nothing alike, but Lena could not be more wrong. Because she and Conrad have much more in common than their physical features.
Jeremiah, on the other hand, is 16. He loves to have a good time and make others laugh, that's what his sister likes most about him, but obviously she would never admit it in front of him. Although they are only a year apart, Lena tends to always want to protect her little brother at all costs, the most important thing will always be his happiness.
Lena wishes her family would end there, but unfortunately she has a man who calls himself "father" and happens to be part of the family too. But she prefers not to talk about him yet.
Right now, Lena is studying for a very important exam that she has tomorrow. She looks at her phone and realizes that she had been studying for three hours without a break.
"Shit." she abruptly leaves her phone on the desk, letting her favorite song of the moment Cardigan by Taylor Swift playing alone at her room.
She quickly goes downstairs and realizes on how much hungry she is, so she decides to go to the kitchen to eat something. On the way, she passes the living room and sees her mother sleeping on the sofa. She doesn't give it much importance and continues on her way to the kitchen. Walking into it, she sees Conrad leaning on the counter looking at a cell phone.
"Hey, dumbass." she says and laughs as she goes to a cupboard to open it. Having grabbed her favorite cereal box, she turns to the counter, noticing her brother.
"What are you doing? Are you talking to some girl?" she teases him. "Uhh... Is it Nicole?" she says with a little mischief in her voice.
There was no response from her, which is quite strange coming from the boy. Lena looks down at his cell phone and realizes that it's not Conrad's phone.
"What are you doing with mom's phone?" she asks intrigued.
Conrad finally snaps out of his trance and turns off the phone without looking at his sister's face.
"Nothing." he simply says. Lena frowns. Now she is even more intrigued.
She approaches him laughing. "Come on, tell me what's going on. Since when do we keep secrets?"
Before Conrad could realize it, she grabs the phone out of his hands and unlocks it. The boy tries to get the cell phone back but fails, later he realizes that it was no longer worth it, she was going to find out sooner or later.
When Lena opens the phone, she finds an E-mail from their mom's doctor, the one she saw when she had cancer. Her eyebrows furrows and her smile fades as she finishes reading the message.
Hi, Susannah.
I'm sorry to hear that you don't want to follow with more treatments. It's true that it would be a hard time and the chances are very low, but you can always change your mind, we are accepting applications for patient enrollment in our upcoming cancer treatment trial...
Lena leaves the phone on the table with her hands shaking.
"What is this?"
There is no response from him.
"Conrad, what is this?!" Tears threaten to spill out of her eyes and she begins to feel dizzy.
"This cannot be happening" she thinks.
"Keep your voice down, mom is sleeping."
"So what?! I do not care! When was she even going to tell us? H-How are we going to tell Jer? This..." She says trying not to raise his tone. Conrad stalks over to his sister and grabs her by the shoulders, trying to calm her down.
"No." He quickly shakes his head. "We can't tell Jere or anyone else." Lena just looks at him blankly. "Mom wants to spend her last summer as if it were a normal one. We... we can't tell anyone."
"But..." A tear falls from her eye.
"Lena." he says now a little louder. "Promise me you won't tell anyone."
Lena swallows hard.
"Promise me, please."
She looks at him with tears in her eyes, she couldn't believe what was happening. It is difficult for her to find the words but in the end she says it.
"I promise."
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Hi!! I love making sad prologues.
I know that I said that I wasn't gonna write this yet, but I kinda felt inspired¿. But yeah, the rest of the story i'm like 99% sure that I'll write it once I rewatch the show.
