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Part One

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Charlotte

Today is a no good, very bad, wholly rotten day In the history of bad days, this has to be on the top My best friend Nick is sitting by theand won’t look atas if so not to cry, and Dad is pacing like a lunatic

And ery will help alleviate the pressure from the tumor that’s taken up residence in the back of my skull No one knoill happen next, other than to not operate would be a death sentence

My choices are dying or getting

Being only fifteen, I don’t get to make the decision That’s up to ery before the doctor even was done introducing the idea Did either of thes that could happen during surgery?

They could ad amount of anesthesia, and I wouldn’t wake up Or they could accidentally cut into so me conscious but incapable of speech or ery was a worthless endeavor in the first place

Everyone wants ery As for me, I’d like a moment, just one, to think about it But there’s no tiht, immediately or not at all

None of the adults are going to give it to ht Even the doctors talk in quiet tones to my parents in the corner I want to yell that I’ is too painful right now But I’ at theht now Nathan whoto create this tulowering at me His face looks thunderous like he’d like to squeeze my head until the tumor pops out like a zit I’d like that too But at least he’s looking at me, unlike everyone else

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