Grey_Everlasting by Allison White

Author:Allison White [White, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Two weeks have passed, and I can’t get the words out of my head. Your father’s been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. They repeat on a sickening loop, over and over and over again until I literally couldn’t do anything else but relive that horrible night. I was numb, unresponsive as I held his hand as the doctor and Mother explained about…it. Cancer. The big C word that scares and ruins every single person it affects and the people surrounding them.

He had been reaching out to me, to explain, for me to be by his side while he was told his life expectancy. Which was a few years…all up until last night. He was dealing with a will when he fell to the ground. Turns out he knew about his illness but refused to tell Mother and me. Keeping it to himself for years, hoping it’d just fade away. At first, he thought it wasn’t anything big. But then it grew and grew, and…now he has less than a year.

I don’t remember ever crying so much. To the point I ran out of tears but continued to scream and cry silently. Choking on my dry throat and beating up myself. I wanted to throw myself down a hundred flights of stairs because I shut him out, turned him into this extreme villainous character that wanted to break me, when, in reality, he had expected the early end of his life and wanted to live out the rest of it with the woman he loved…Jenna.

Instead of telling us and helping him treat this vile sickness, he spent years hiding from the truth and loving her.

I feel so hurt and betrayed, but this isn’t about me. It’s about him and the fact that he doesn’t have long until it’s his…time. It hurts my brain and upsets me to think about another funeral. Another person I love so dearly leaving this earth, leaving me.

I can’t do it. I won’t be able to cope. Hell, I’m not able to cope right now, and he isn’t even gone yet…

Yet.

God, I think I’m going to throw up again.

“Gross. You smell like you’ve been showering in the sewer, then fucking in a dumpster, followed by spraying a skunk’s asshole on you,” Jaimie says in a high-pitched voice as she clutches her nose with the tips of her painted fingers. She looks me up and down like she’s debating whether or not to let me leave the bathroom.

“Why, thank you. You are the sweetest person I know,” I sass, brushing past her. I stride into the living room, sniffing my shirt. Gross. I do stink, but it’s not my fault I can’t keep anything down.

She falls onto the couch beside me.

“So how are you doing?” she asks me, eyeing me carefully.

I take a few deep breaths. “I’m doing good…I guess.” I play with my lip, then push hair behind my ears before fiddling with Grey’s charm.

“Right. Yeah. You totally don’t look like a junkie looking for her next fix.

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