Two Months Later
Melissa's View
The dreaded day is approaching so fast for me.
I have gotten weaker and weaker as every week has passed by and I don't know
if I can hold on much longer. The doctor's still are giving me till March
which is about 8 months away, but I don't know if I can hold on till tomorrow
even. I am packing to go to Florida to spend a few weeks with Nick and
the guys. Andrea's doctor agreed to let her come with me and I can't
wait. We have become good friends and shes gotten better to the point
where she was able to leave the hospital. I also found out that the room
I was in, was the room I would return to and Andrea later told me that it was
her death room. We have come to call it that since we both have come to
accept whats going on.
"Melissa! Andrea is here and hurry up we are going to be late
getting to the airport." I heard my step-mom say. I grabbed my
cd player case and the CD's I had out and ran out my bedroom door. I
checked one last time and made sure I had everything.
"Hey Hannah! Have you seen my new BSB CD? I can't seem to find
it." I asked my mom about the Black and Blue CD. I had been
looking for it for the past week and still can't find it.
"Hunny last time I saw it, you had it in your bag that you had at the
hospital. Did you check that? I know you don't always unpack
everything." She said and I gave her that
"STTTTTOOOOOOPPPPPPPPP" look.
"Never mind its in my cd case thingie." I said looking through
the cds I had in there. I had about 25 and then my cd player.
I was so excited about this trip and Andrea never lost the big griefy
grin on her face. I bet she was just happy to be out of the hospital too,
but we were going to have sooooo much fun and I knew she was ecstatic about all
this and so was I.
Few Hours Later
Andrea's View
"Melissa! Come on! I don't
want them waiting in the airport for an hour while you are taking all freaking
day." I said yelling back at Melissa cause she was taking her time
getting into the main part of the airport.
"Andrea a few more minutes won't kill you or them." She said
picking up the pace finally. She looked a little pale in the face, but I
thought that was just from the plane ride here or something. I didn't
want to say anything to make her mad and so we proceeded to walk out of the
tunnel and into the terminal area.
Josh's View
"Mom what time was the plane getting
in?" I said getting worried that it was about four hours since
Andrea and Melissa left.
"Josh calm down. They were going to call when they got to Nick's
house, and he lives about 90 minutes from Orlando or so. Just relax a
little bit." Dawn said. I went back up to my room and finished
my homework. I was worried about Melissa cause it has been only a week
and a half since shes been out of the hospital, but the doctor cleared her to
go on this trip and Andrea too, but you have that gut feeling everytime that
something might happen. Its just something I have come to live with these
past few years.
Meanwhile At The Airport
Melissa's View
"Andrea! Are you coming or are you
lagging behind?" I said turning around and finding her behind me
now. She was complaining about me earlier doing that so what is her
problem?
"I am coming I dropped my purse and so I had to grab it and got stuck
behind some people. Talk about some one who needs to chill out."
She said running to catch up with me.
"Andrea you know that Nick is one of the most impatient people on earth,
now come on." I said grabbing her arm and dragging her along with
me.
"Melissa I don't really know him so how the heck am I suppose to know if
hes impatient as you or not?" I stopped and turned around. She
didn't just go there. For an 12 year old she had alot of scarcasim in
her, I thought.
Nick's View
I have been standing here for the past 30
minutes waiting and I can't wait much longer. I am about to turn around
and leave from the airport. They were suppose to be in about 30 minutes
or so ago and just now saw people getting off the plane. But no sign of
them. The one big major thought that kept passing through my mind was
that something happened to one of them and they didn't get to come. Thats
the only thing that scares me and plus Melissa's dad and step-mom aren't that
good at informing us of her illness. We have to call and find out most
of the time. I just hope this time nothing happened.