Tattooed Dots (The Halo Series) by Kimberly Knight

Author:Kimberly Knight [Knight, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Brooke

Jared came home after he got off work the night before, and I was too emotionally drained to fight with him. After Doctor Sam told me about the X-ray, she made me take a series of other images to determine how big the mass was and where it was located in my chest.

I didn’t go back to work after my appointment, and frankly, I didn’t care. Being told that you have a tumor is one of the worst things you could possibly hear from a doctor. Of course, there were other things, but none of us knew if my tumor was cancerous or not.

After Doctor Sam and Nicole told me about what the XX-ray had shown, I cried in Doctor Sam’s office until Nicole got off work at five. She followed me home and then dragged me to Yogurtland for dinner. Yogurtland wasn’t a healthy choice since I piled on the candy—and since it was basically ice cream, but Nicole was a firm believer that after a doctor’s appointment, you should get ice cream or in our case, frozen yogurt.

I got more chocolate and candy than actual frozen yogurt. I didn’t want to be in public with my tear-stained face, so we got our dinner to go and headed back to my apartment. As we sat in my apartment, drinking vodka and eating our yogurt, I told her to give Easton my number. I should have never left him the last morning of the cruise. I should have never stopped the kiss that I desperately wanted.

Fucking Jared. He was a lying bastard and an asshole for forgetting us at the airport. On the cruise, my heart was telling me to give in to the temptation of Easton, but my head was telling me no. I should have known to always listen to my heart.

After an hour of being home, and getting a little tipsy from the vodka and lack of food, Jared came home, and Nicole left me after she gave him an earful of how much of a loser he was. During her rant, I left and went into my bedroom, locking the door behind me. I didn’t want to talk to him.

All I wanted to do was take a hot shower and go to bed. I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, staring at myself and thinking of everything I could have done differently in my life. I didn’t know what caused tumors, but there was a reason I had one.

I slowly peeled off my clothes, turning so I could see my shoulder blade as I stood in front of the mirror naked and imagined the tumor that was growing inside me. The radiologist said that the mass was the size of a little bouncy ball that kids play with.

Ironically growing up, Bailee and I would buy the miniature bouncy balls when I went grocery shopping for us. She would beg me for a quarter, and she would always get a ball so that we could bounce them off walls, tables, floors—anything—and count how many times it would bounce.

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