Chapter Twenty-Three

Valentine

I unconsciously drove full speed eyes tightly shut and inevitably crashed all the way back to my bitterest childhood memories. All of these glorious moments I have today were built brick by brick by all of those years I've spent in an almost solitary confinement ward for being a sickly child. One day I was vomiting non-stop, the second day, I was burning with fever, and the third day I was almost dead on my bed. As a kid, I was already diagnosed with leukemia in its early stages. The battle was emotionally, physically, and mentally agonizing along with blue and red pills and all types of needles day after day against all of these blood cancers that are trying to kill my body. My childhood was stolen when I should have been out there