"The Cancer Kid"

Clint stared at the small purple bruises that lined his left arm, judging by the fact that there were now about twenty: from each time he had pinched himself he wasn’t going to wake up any time soon.

He slid his hands behind his head and let out a long exaggerated sigh before glancing at the alarm clock that lay between one set of bunk beds and the other. 2:08 am; Clint frowned he would never get any sleep at this rate.Not that he really wanted to sleep; all he wanted was to re-play the nights events in his head over and over.

SHE LOVED HIM! Summer Jean Dunmore loved him. It was something Clint would never quite understand. He was plain, one of 8 boys nothing special at all. The only thing that set him apart; was something that could kill him at any moment, and who wanted to be known as “the cancer kid.”

 

But that was what he was, and he knew it. Clint wasn't the youngest, he wasn’t the oldest, and he wasn’t his sister. Clint was however, the only one of all the Matthews children to be diagnosed with leukemia. He was the cancer kid; that was all that set him apart.

 

On the outside he looked just like every other Matthews kid. Scraggily black hair that emo kids would die for. Average height, and a slightly pudgy frame that had turned into muscle once he hit puberty. He was nothing special, at least not in his eyes anyway.

 

Summer was different; she stood out in every way possible. Her natural hair so blonde it was almost white was flawlessly accented with teal and green and purple highlights. Her goofy grin not changing since childhood still proudly displaying her overly large front teeth that had grown in shortly after they met.

 

Summer made sure to dress in a way that attracted the eye of every person she met. She was charismatic, bubbly and an only child of a rich family. In his eyes Summer was perfect, everything he ever wanted to be. Apart from the girl thing, he would rather not be a girl.

 

But Clint just didn’t have the courage to be like summer. Being off, just didn’t come naturally to him. He didn’t have a quirky sense of humor, or naturally goofy but still somehow gorgeous looks like Summer. So he settled for being in her presence, for being her friend, and now for being her boyfriend.

 

Clint grinned again before pinching his arm for the 21^st time that night. “nope” he thought “it’s not a dream” before checking the clock, 5:50. Clint let out a loud yawn before cuddling under his blanket and slowly sliding into dreams of his life he would have with Summer.

Author's Note

INSPIRATION STRUCK!!!
tomorrow you meet Clint's family...or at least i do...and then you do if i think they're good enough to meet you.
TEAR IT APART....not grammatically unless your gonna tel me whats wrong. i swear if you write..."you have some grammar issues" I WILL DELETE THE COMMENT. i mean...if thats all it says and stuff...it annoys me.
okay well lots of love.
please review :)
just so i know people are reading!!!
<3 ana

Reviews

[The Old Ashes]

Where once we had only scraped the surface, we're getting deeper into the dynamic between Summer and Clint. It's not that he's jealous of her, no, jealousy is a harsher emotion. It's that he's envious. He envies her ability to live and laugh, her rich upbringing... and it's an envy born completely from the fact he simply adores her in the way that only a guy in love would.
I really like what I'm beginning to grasp here. Where at first it seemed playful and immaure, puppy love if you will, I'm starting to feel that it is a deeper connection between these two than I originally thought was in store. I really like how you're introducing me more and more to these concepts, and about this chapter, I especially liked the *pinching the arm* thing.
Cute!!
I felt angered by the *cancer kid* end of things in this chapter, and this tells me something else. You invoked anger out of me over Clint's character, and that means your developing him well enough that I'm beginning to care about him. :) great!
I love ya :)
100/100
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[Daydreamer54]

AW, i'm so ahppy for him and can't waitt o meet the family! ^^

[tynamite]

Tear it apart. Okay then. If you manage to take this uncomfortable and uncertain mood, and carry it along to the later chapters, this could turn out to be an epic book. The narration sets the tone, and the next chapter could make a slight departure of the previous chapters of innocence.

This book really is creative.

[melissa]

I hate that people call him the cancer kid that part was sad I love the book so much I hope you will get it published because I would love to have a copy of this book

[PrincessZeldaWannabe]

I agree - I hate it when people just keep saying about my grammar issues and list all the things that are wrong.
Anyways, it was a nice chapter that got into Clint's thoughts again.

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[Jake Donald Stephens]

Now I can see you're really getting into it. Great character building here, helping us identify with Clint on a new level. I was right there with him.
I know that feeling too, of finding love at last, and you capture it well in this chapter.
Onward we go!

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[Knoxxeh]

at first i thought that summer broke up with clint i was like nooooooooooo but then i read on and figured out she didnt and i was like yesssssssssss