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The next day

I see a nurse walk in to give me my breakfast. As she puts it down I read her name tag Nancy.
"Hi...um what is today's date". I say. I need to know how long I've been here. A month. A year. How old am I?
Nancy looks up.
"It's December. The 23." She looks up. At me.
"How long have I been here?"I ask. I need to know.
"I don't know. I've only started a few days ago. I'm sorry. Would you like some water or anything?"she asks as she leans agents the door way
"Oh. Ok um no thanks. I'm good" I try not to sound too disappointed. I eat my horrible fried chicken and soggy fries and I look at my night stand. I see the scrap book. I take it and open the first page. I see a baby in a blanket as my parents hold me looking scared there going to break me with the slightest wrong move. I inwardly laugh. So I must be the oldest. They wouldn't look so worried if I wasn't. I turn the page. It's my first birthday. I'm smashing my head into the cake like a weirdo. On the next page I see me painting. I'm five. I see me painting again when I was 8. And again when I'm 12. I'm pretty good. I stumble upon a picture of me with 4 other friends. Who are they.

"Hey grace. What's up?"  I look up and see Char standing in the door way.

"I was just looking through an old scrapbook of myself."  I put it on the night stand next to my trey.

"Cool. Learn any thing?"She sits on my bed. I decide not to tell her about the friends.
"No. Not much. Tell me about you."

"Well my name is Charlotte Vance and I'm 20. I want to be an actor and I love the color blue." 

"Hmm. How did you get here?"I ask.
"I um have cancer. I'm going through kemo and I'm getting a little better but...it's scary. You know?" She says with a stressed look on her face.
"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know. I shouldn't have asked."I feel guilty as I look at her as she has a depressed look on her face.
"No no. It's ok. I wanted to tell someone." She looks up at me.
"Oh. Ok. My god I'm hungry. And that food sucks. Do they have anything else?that isn't so sucky?"
She laughs
"Yea. There's smoothies down the hall. Let me ask a nurse first." 

Nancy,the nurse who was in here earlier comes and unhooks the IV Machine so that I can walk. We head down the hall and get I get a strawberry banana smoothie and char gets a blueberry one.
"So do you have any siblings?"I ask after a sip
"Yea. A brother. He's younger tho. 16." She says before a sip.
"BRAIN FREEZE!!!" I whisper -shout holding my head.
"Ugh me too" we both start laughing.
In the middle of the hall. Like a couple of weirdos.