Love And Ashes

but watching my sister suffer and die just li

spital tomorrow morning"

Selena and you need to go to work

ortant to me than my job, I woul

om someone who could understand that human lives are more important than standin

ext d

p for work, I have decided to take my siste

I wanted but I had no choice, I needed to keep w

today wasn't any better either, I could

pain "don't worry Anabelle you're going to be

er red lips had gone so dry and broken, it l

e called out i

forcing a smile on my sad face "I would take you

ng down to her ears "thank you" s

able to smile, it was

ven more weaker and I

g off to work early in the morning and returning late at night. All along she ha

p in sweaters and a trouser "I would get a

hospital at once, I wasn't ready to

tal and she was rushed

, I haven't been to the

ringing, it was Mr. Charles and I

aching me, I looked up at

s on his face "how..how...is m

t take you so long to bring her to the hosp

I didn't notice that my younger sister was sick because I

to give "your sister needs surgery or she mi

octor say that, I began to

lady" he said placing

with her?" I aske

eukemia, cancer of the b

about people who suffered and died from cancer but nev

toms my mother was having was equivalent to cancer but I refused to beli

o far but I couldn't control my emotions, I was frustrated

the fees for the medical school, he had no option other than to drop that dream and

doctor asked peering at my face

m okay" I kept my eyes steady o

hout the bone marrow and blood, she needs an urgent stem cell transplant or a bone marr

er's life, then do it pleas

commence once your payme

ought this is the state hospi

but not surgery, meet the cashier for details

the cashier to ask how much the surgery would cost, I r

ver placing my hands on my kn

is hands deep into his lab coat "is

ister, I promise to bring my monthly salary until I'm able to finish the paym

nts here, the sooner you pay the better for your sis

led out again r

g tired of r

d and tur

w he was getting tired of my dis

friendly but he was alot more older than

ee her?" I ask

ting to a ward few ste

s I watche

ng for the room my

k over her nose, she was asleep with d

is all my fault" I quickly sa

hing happen to you, I p

, I forced it out of my small

might end up telling me that I'm fi

im that I was in the hospital sounded like a foolish excuse to him, accor

t the cashier. She gave me the bill, I didn't look at it because I was in a hur

irty minutes lat

of my colleagues but I didn

locker and dropped

Mr.Charles standing behind

sir..."I greet

you like Selena, isn'

d I needed to take her to the hospita

k, I employed you here to come early to w

n fear movin

u or your cursed family, what's more important to me is that

in tears "Mr. Charles ple

nd get to work!" He ordered

ing my the tears that

ders from the customers who didn't make it easier

eep in thoughts, I have finally looked at the bill th