Until the End

Chapter One

" Willow, can you come here for a moment?"I heard my dad call from somewhere downstairs.

          I groaned to myself and tried to maneuver my way around all the boxes I had yet to finish unpacking.

      As I made my way down the stairs I thought about how drastically my life had changed since a month ago when my dad decided to pack up and leave, sunny beautiful California for some small town in Wisconsin.

I saw my dad sitting at the bar in the kitchen, surrounded by papers. He looked up at me and smiled.

    " I need you to to fill out these medical papers for school" he said "sometimes I can't remember all the do's and dont's for you."

      I nodded and sat down. I loved my dad, I really did but he could be so forgetful. I grabbed the packet and a pen before glancing through the pages.

        Normally you only had to fill out basic medical history but the principal had insisted I needed to fill out all these extra sheets because of the leukemia I was diagnosed with at age fourteen.

         I tried telling him I had been in remission for three years but apparently it was "school policy"

         I reviewed all the notes I had made in the forms

"No heavy physical exercise, check"

"Allowed water bottle at all times, check"

"If teacher notices student looks drowsy or fatigued, call father immediately,check"

     After half an hour of filling out boring forms with words that still confused me, I was finished.

"Dad! I'm finished" I called

    He didn't reply so I walked down the hall to his room and saw nothing but boxes. After calling his name a few more times I decided to just go ask Ryan, my annoying super tall twin brother.

      I walked up the stairs and to his room which was right across the room from mine.

I walked in and plopped down on his bed, I knew he wouldn't care. When we were younger he would have screamed at me for even entering his room but when I got diagnosed with leukemia we became super close and stayed that way ever since.

      "what's up Will?" He asked, calling me by my nickname.

    "Where did dad go? I looked in his room and couldn't find him" I replied hastily.

     "He went to the store to get some groceries. He'll be back soon"

I nodded but I wasn't ready to go finishing unpacking quite yet so I decided to stay and talk to Ryan for a few minutes.

"Are you nervous about starting school next week?" I asked

" not really, I'm stoked about football tryouts." He said "what about you?"

" Just a little, I feel like people are going to pity me." I said

    " Well then just don't tell them about the cancer, I mean it's not like you still have it. You've been in remission for a while now." He said.