An Act of Kindness

It was almost December, approaching the Christmas holidays, and everything was going good for the most part. It was one of those days when everyone was happy and smiling. When the bell rang for class, I quickly grabbed all of my books and ran to class. I had Ms. Camryn for first hour, and she's not the nicest when it comes to being late for her class. I got there right in time and sat down in my desk, listening to all of the stories from the weekend. I barley got any sleep last night since I stayed up watching tv all night. But since my little sister, Carly was just diagnosed with cancer, I always feel the need to stay up with her, and spend more time with her. The doctors said its only stage 1, so I'm hoping she has a very quick recovery. But besides the fact of that, everything has been going good for my family. As Ms. Camryn called roll, I began to quickly do my homework before she could pick it up. By the time first period was over, I had already had enough of school for the day. As I walked down the hall way I saw a kid sitting in the corner drawing in this book. I pass him up almost everyday, and he's always alone. I just wonder why he is never with anybody else. I've always had friends even if I wasn't very close I always had someone I could talk to. Then it kind of hit me all at once, if I didn't have any friends that would be awful. To not have anyone at all there to talk to. Then I saw Luke walking towards me. Robert yells across the hallway, "Hey James!" Hey man, what's up? He stopped at his locker to get his books, " I have a huge biology test next, have you taken it yet?" I replied, "No, but I heard its supposed to be really hard. Robert replies, "Dang, I better start studying then." "Yeah good luck with that!" I replied. I slept through my next two classes, and finally made it to lunch. At lunch, I got called to the office to pick up some papers, and I saw that kid again not even eating lunch. So when I passed him I waved and said hey. He looked like he had been crying, so I didn't want to bother him. I got back to my table and studied for my biology test that was after lunch, I barley understand any of this because I haven't been paying attention in class at all this past week. Finally, the bell rang and it was time to take the test. I knew most of it, but basically guessed the whole last page. I don't know anything about the animal and plant cells, who even cares anyway. Finally school let out, and I began to walk home. Normally I walk home with Robert, but he had to stay after school to take a test today. By the time I got home I had to leave for baseball practice. After practice I went home, ate dinner, watched a movie with Carly, and went right to sleep. The very next morning I woke up early for some odd reason, and I couldn't go back to sleep. So I got out of bed, and walked downstairs to make some breakfast. Then I saw my mom at the end of the stairs waiting for me, and she surprised me with breakfast! I thanked her, and began to eat. I don't think I've had that good of a breakfast in forever. As I was walking out the door my mom yelled, "have a good day!" Today was Tuesday, and I've never been so eager for the weekend to get here. My walk to school was quite peaceful today, it was a perfect day to be outside. When I got to school, it seemed as if this was the fastest day ever before I knew it, it was time for lunch. I saw Robert in the lunch line, and that kid whose always sitting alone was right behind me, so I decided to introduced myself, "hey, my names James, I always see you around. What's your name?" He kind of stuttered a bit, and then mumbled, my names Danny. "You're a freshmen right?" Danny responded, "yeah." Oh cool, maybe we could hangout one day over the holidays. He smiled and said, "yeah that would be fun." Then I continued through the line, and got my lunch. I'm so happy I'm about to get new classes, I don't think I could take another week of Biology. The next two days went by so slow, but I eventually got thought them. Finally it was Christmas break, and every one was ecstatic to get out of school. I can't wait till I can finally sleep in almost every single day. Over the Christmas holidays, everything was so relaxed, and chill. On Christmas morning Carly gave me a framed picture of us two as babies before she lost all of her hair, and I gave her a golden necklace that my mom helped me pick out for her. I loved the huge smile she had on her face when she saw it. Over all I thought this years Christmas was one of the best yet. I put the picture of us right beside my bed, so I can always see it. The last day of the holidays, my whole family got up early and went to the park, if there was a day with perfect weather that was today. There was a perfect amount of heat, with a slight breeze. Everyone in my family was happy as can be. We all sat down and had a family picnic under the shade of the big oak tree. When it was time to go home, Carly said with the biggest smile on her face that was the most fun she has had in a very long time. I have to get in bed early tonight because I'm not used to getting up early for school. But before I knew it the morning had arrived. By the time I got to school and checked my new schedule, and Robert and I compared our schedules and unfortunately we had no classes together again. It was time for first period, and I got to English as quick as I could, because I've never had Mrs. Gibbons before. As soon as I sat down, I noticed that Danny was sitting in the back of the class. I waved to him, and told him to come sit by me. He grabbed all of his books and moved next to me. Towards the end of class I got called to the office again. When I arrived at the office, I saw my mom standing there, and I remember thinking to myself, if I had any appointments, but not that I could think of at the moment. She was there to check me out, she told me Carly was in the hospital, and that she was having severe pains. I frantically grabbed all of my books and got into my moms car. I couldn't believe it was getting worse. When me and my mom arrived at the hospital I was sitting in the waiting room waiting, and waiting. After about three hours they finally let us go back and see her. She had many wires hooked up breathing for her, and she was asleep. My mom looked at me and told me she thinks she will be alright. Those words comforted me at the moment, and made me less nervous. The doctor told us she had to stay over night, and he doesn't know what is going to happen. So we went home and I prayed that whole night laying in my bed. The next day at school, I had told Robert what happened, and he said that he was praying for her, and he wanted to come with me to visit her. The whole day all I could think about was Carly, and if she was going to be okay. In English class, everyday we had a journal topic, and today's was if you could change anything what would it be? The first thing that came to my mind was Carly's cancer. I would immediately change her from having cancer. I hated to see my little sister going through all of this pain. She did nothing wrong, why her? It just didn't click in my mind. The next morning I didn't go to school, my mom said we had to go to the hospital. When we got there, my mom and dad were called to the back and I had to wait in the waiting room again. I hated waiting, I am probably one of the most impatient people. When my mom and dad came out of the room and they were both sobbing in tears. My whole body sunk into the ground. This couldn't be true. I walked toward them and saw Carly lying in the bed, not connected anymore. Everything inside me turned to black, my head was not even existent. They both hugged me very tight and told me they loved me. The doctor came towards us and told us that Carly had wrote us letters individually. In my letter she wrote that I was the best big brother and inspiration in the entire universe. This brought tears to my eyes. I'm never going to be able to watch another movie with her, or experience that day at the park every again. When I got home, it was hard passing her room, with all of her clothes everywhere, and her toothpaste all in my sink that she never washes out. But knowing Carly, she is the type of person who wouldn't want me to be sad over this, I told myself I had to overcome this sadness, and be happy that we got to know each other. I didn't go to school for the next week or so, I just kind of sat around my house. But eventually I wanted to get out and breathe some fresh air, yeah it was going to be hard facing other people, but I'm going to have to do it some day. The next Monday I went back to school, and everyone at school hugged me and gave me cards and a bunch of stuff for my family. Especially all of my friends. This made me feel so close to all of my friends and thankful that I have them. On my way to English, I had found a notebook in the hall way. I opened it to see whose it was it had Danny on the top of it. On the first page it said, Today was a bad day, I didn't eat lunch today. I haven't eaten anything all day. I don't even want to be here anymore. Then the second page said, Today was a good day, James told me hi in the hallway, and he even talked to me in the lunch line! He said we could maybe hangout one day over the holidays, I sure hope we do! Third page, today was a bad day, James isn't even at school, and this one kid shoved me into the lockers. I don't want to be here at all anymore. But I couldn't do that to James. He would be so disappointed in me. He was my first real friend. When I read this my heart stopped beating, this really touched my heart to know that I saved a kids life, by just simply doing a random act of kindness. Even just saying hi to somebody or smiling at them can make their day, and knowing Carly is in a better place now touches my heart and makes me more happy that she is no longer struggling against her battle.