Paraplegic Wife

Ch 1 ✑ Bad News.

Chapter 1

Bad News.

"Mr. Cabello?"

The doctor's voice was drenched in sadness. Alejandro's worries were coming true.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Cabello, but you have brain Cancer. You had a baseball-size tumor on your brain, and there's no way to treat it. We didn't find it early enough, and the tumor has grown and spread throughout your body. I'm sorry, but . . . there's nothing we can do."

How could this be happening? Why was it happening to him?

"H-how long do I have?" His mouth was dry; he could barely even speak or stand.

"I'd estimate about Three months."

Three. Three months. That's all the time he had left.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Cabello."

Flashback

~ 3 Years ago

"T-there's no way! This isn't happening to me. It can't happen to me. That doctor has no idea what he's talking about. I'm fine."

He was in denial. He was lying to himself. He just couldn't bring himself to believe the doctor's words. He couldn't have cancer. He felt fine . . . That was a lie, too.

He hadn't felt well in months but he thought it was from his wife death and dealing with his Paraplegic daughter. It all started with a headache that just wouldn't go away but he still thought it was from the nights that he spent with Camila in the hospital. He tried everything to ease the pain, but nothing worked. He had trouble seeing, even with his glasses on, and recently, he'd been vomiting at random points in time. When it was just the headaches, he thought nothing of it and worked through the pain. The blurred-eye vision caused him to worry, but he refused to go to the doctor because he wanted to be their for his Daughter. It was when he started regurgitating his meals he forced himself to go to the doctor.

"There's no way I have cancer. I'll be fine, just you wait."

There was a pressure in his stomach that would just not go away. It bubbled inside him, and the more he thought about it, the harder the pressure pushed on his stomach. He didn't know what the pressure was. But he had the urge to throw things against the wall. He had the urge to yell and scream until his throat was numb. He had the urge to destroy and break everything around him.

This pressure inside of him was anger. Alejandro had never really dealt with extreme anger. Sure he had been pissed when his Wife died during an accident and caused their daughter to be Paraplegic and sometimes at his Daughter for being a brat and trying to chase every therapist , Housekeeper and Doctor away and mad at everyone else who never been their for him, but the anger was never as extreme as this.

He didn't know how to handle it. He had been trying to hold it in, but now it was too much. He had to vent or break something, quick. So he picked up a glass, and threw it against the wall, watching it shatter into a million pieces.

" D-addy?" Camila stutter , The look of fear in her eyes was noticeable.

At that moment he knew he needed to care for his daughter , He couldn't afford having Cancer.

End of Flashback

"Please, I'll do anything to live for a little while longer."

It was pointless bargaining with something that has already been decided, but Alejandro couldn't help but do it. What will Happen to Camila? She will have to cob with losing not one Parent but two ? What will she do?

"Please, let me live."

He tried to tell the doctor and plead to find a solution but with his pleads weren't met.

Alejandro cried on a daily basis now. He was so sad and weak and didn't want to drag Camila into all of this , he knew she couldn't handle it as she had too much on her plate already being an 18 year old paraplegic female lesbian and dealing with therapy and hospital appointment every week and losing her mother at the age of only 15 years old.

He was just so sad. He was so weak. He now only had Three months to live, Three months to say his goodbyes , Three months to tell his daughter that she is the only one that means the world to him, Three months to find someone who will love Camila and take care of her and go with her to hospital appointments.He thought about it but he didn't know who , He had a list of names of people he could count on but only one stood up as he kept searching for days.

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Michael Jauregui stared at his childhood best friend that he didn't see for so long sitting rigidly on the chair in front of him, waiting for his reaction as he absorbed the heavy words that had dropped from his lips just moments ago. he couldn't help but be afraid of having to consider the meaning of it. He had a duty to be strong and provide the support that would undoubtedly be needed from him.

Mike couldn't help but tear up a little after hearing the News.

"You can't tell anyone." his voice finally breathed, quickly bringing Michael out of his daze.

"What?" he asked, shocked. he had prepared himself for a lot of possible reactions but this one had failed to cross his mind.

"Please Mike, I need you to keep this secret for me , I don't want anyone to find out" his best friends pleaded him, and a pleading Alejandro was almost impossible to deny.

"Did you went nuts ? Don't you want to get help? Support? Your friends would most certainly want to be informed of something like this! Are you intending to keep them in the dark?" He questioned incredulously. Alejandro bowed his head so he couldn't read his facial expressions, but when he looked him in the eye once more with a desperate glint he sighed and conceded defeat, appallingly easily.

"Very well. Camila - "

"Specifically Camila." Came the unexpected clarification.

"Seriously? But - "

"Please Mike, just trust me that I need this to be kept confidential!" Mike mouth abruptly clacked shut.

"Alright. I won't tell anyone Alejandro." Alejandro shot him a relieved, grateful smile, even if it did seem like a mere shadow of what it usually was.

" What is it ?" Mike said as he sow his friend chocking with the next statement he was going to say from the look in the man eyes.

" I want your daughter to marry Camila " Alejandro Stated with a smile drawn in his face.

"I am beginning to Doubt your Sanity at this moment my friend" Mike said joking around.

"I am serious !! "

" I want you daughter Lauren for Camila " He stated in serious tone.