HER TASTE

She felt it, her world, it was crumbling.

He shoulder felt like it carried the

weight of a million heavy trucks. She

gasped for breath, the little life she

had in her seemed to have left her in

a heartbeat.

Ivy knew this day would come, little

did she know it would come this soon

. She was only twenty two for

Goodness sake! Why won't those who

lived among the heavens allow her

stay a little bit longer?

"Ivy? Are you okay?" Doctor Saraphina called after noticing she had blanked

out for quite a while.

Ivy didn't even hear that her name was

called. All that went on in her head

was how miserable she was and how

she never even got to live life as she

wanted.

She was born with a heart disease,

this meant being in out out of hospital

buildings for majority of her life up

until this moment. I mean here she

was sitting in front of a doctor after

receiving the worst news anyone

could ever receive.

About a week ago, she had one of

those fainting spells and was rushed

to the hospital by her worried sick

parents. The doctor had carried out

some tests and she had only come

here today to get the test results

when the doctor decided to drop the

bombshell on her.

The doctor had just told Ivy that time

was no longer on her side Dr

Saraphina had sounded so sorry and

she wished she wasn't the one to have

given Ivy the news. She had been Ivy's

doctor since she was little. Telling the

poor girl that she had just six months left to live felt like a severe

punishment on her part. Little wonder

Ivy blanked out after hearing the news

"Ivy?" Doctor Saraphina called again,

this time loud enough to bring Ivy out

if her reverie.

"Ye...yess?" She responded..her voice

shaky like she was struggling to hold

back tears.

"Are you okay?" The worried doctor

asked. She felt like it was her fault.

She shouldn't have told Ivy without

anyone else around.. She had thought Ivy would prefer to find out personally

and in private.

"I'm fine, it's okay... Not like it's the end

of the world. 6 months is a very

longggg time"

She knew she sounded like she was

trying to give herself false hope but

that was all it was actually. Not like

she could change her fate in some

way, or could she?

She wiped the tear that was falling

down her left cheek. "Doctor, I need

this to stay between me and you"

The last thing Ivy wanted was for her parents to find out or anyone for that

matter. She had lived most of her life

receiving special attention and being

treated like an egg. She knew that

attention would triple should they find

out her condition. She also didn't want

them to feel bad just yet. She knew

her mother would pretty much blame

herself if Ivy eventually dies.

Saraphina nods in agreement, she had

no idea what the right words to say in

situations like this even after about

thirty years of practice. There were

simply no right words.

During the walk to the bus stop from the hospital. One step felt like a

month to Ivy. She felt like time would

suddenly start running really fast and

then it would be six months in the