Fated To Kill My Mate

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beyond the next twelve months. I thought it was a really funny joke life was playing on me, how it waited for me to pass through the exhaustingly rigorous process of acquiring my Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering before deciding to tell me it was all for nothing. As the doctor tried to le

, Mary, the rest of the friend group swarmed me to hear what the diagnosis was. There was myself, Mary, Jennifer, Martin, and my boyfriend, Lucas. From Mary's sniffling and constant e

rting between Mary's tears and the

oing closer to my best

ut her tears could not allow her to. It was

as asked me gently. "W

quite self conscious being put on the hot seat like that, so I j

about my pancreas having some sort

oked confus

d, trying to make sense

asn't true. Of course he knew. He was a medical student, a very bright one mi

ged. "That was wh

eft his mouth involun

d seeming somewhat irritated about b

Lucas ignored her and

oked at everyone's expecta

at the doctor's words. "Well, h

" Mary blurted o

ether while Lucas remained as

Jennifer need

s of tears, so everyone looked to me instead. Why did

throat suddenly itchy a

Martin walked backwards to find a pl

ead. I hugged him back and decided to focus on how nice he still smelled despite being in a crowd full of drunk, horny people all n

needed to, but he was very insistent as he was convinced that I NEEDED him around, maybe to cheer me up or just sit in silence with me. He was so thoughtful and always went above and beyond for me. We had been dating for three years and he still pursued me as though we were still in the talking stage. Once the doctor told me about the cancer, he was the first pers

weet actually, so much that I could not bear his presence

all this, you know... ponder over my mortality." I said, a

id. "Make sure to call me if you need any

time on his phone and would rather put it to 'better use' like re

ed off my bed, snuggled into a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt and went on a walk. It was one of those afternoons whe

ed and I tried to just walk past him withou

atever I was up to just to have a conversation with him, so I turned to see who it was. He was notably taller than me, probably the tallest person I've seen in pe

talking to you like that." He said, taki

ieve my ears. "Are you

es

the street should stop and have a conversat

who were raised properly." He said, the

en't." I said an

hing, probably something very rude, but then som

father is on the

me seconds, his teeth grinding evident on his temples as he snatched the phone fr

e bird to his broad back before