Prologue

The ink spread across the pages of the composition book. Were they just thoughts or a complete story of an individual’s life? Were the lines links to broken ideas strung along into a melody of a song? Words that represented the poetry of something that was uncertain to this individual. Not one person would see the picture clearer than the childhood friend that shared struggles similar to his but on a different apparatus. Will an open book unravel another story within its pages?

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Chapter One: Cancer

As the cells grow and divide, you never know whether you are in the clear to live life as a normal person or worry about having full blown cancer and going through physical therapy for the remaining years of your life. It was a reoccurring disease in the family but only women seemed to get it. Breast, lung, endometrial, bladder and other forms of cancer were evident in Aries Marie Santiago’s family within her mother’s side of the family. She had to watch her mother struggle through Leukemia and the later breast cancer. She lost her mother at the age of ten.

Aries started middle school in recession with her leukemia that she dealt with only once during her entire elementary school. The doctor had recently told her and her father that she had signs of endometrial cancer. She was recovering just fine from her leukemia but the on-set of the endometrial cancer which affected her uterus could cause problems later on with child birth among other things.

After that appointment, her father tried to keep her spirits up but nothing seemed to work. Aries best friend Christopher Myers couldn’t cheer her up either. He was the same age as she was but the fact he was born after December first of the year before they were in the same grade and everything. He was a talented young man with a voice that Aries could imagine him being a big name in the music industry when they got older. She wanted him to live long enough to see him make it big time. He was the shade of dark chocolate with brown eyes, and was one of the few people who normally could make her smile or laugh because they had so many jokes that they only understood.

Friendships grow and expand throughout the years similar to the way cancer grows and matures over the years. Chris and Aries had a bond that hopefully wouldn’t die out and would continue throughout their lives if Aries could overcome cancer. Their lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were good seeing they were both living in middle class.

Aries’ background consisted of Jamaican French and Spanish. She always held her head high having high standards for herself and hoping her best friend would keep his head high and eyes towards the future and not just at the here and now.

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Chapter Two: Mister Singer

Pittsburgh, PA was his home for his thirteen years of life. This dark chocolate male, was already standing at five foot five inches tall, with almond shaped brown eyes, and his voice was sweet when he sang. He dealt with his closest friend’s dilemma real hard hoping they could spend all their school years together. His family was very close with Aries’ family. Sometimes they had dinners at one another’s homes. He valued their friendship. She was his motivation to continue with his singing. She was at church every time he sang with the youth choir or every event he sang at.

Chris was Aries’ strength to make her fight with cancer worthwhile. Every time she went through remission he was there by her side holding her hand. He had to be the strong one to help push her through this hard time in her life. He was sitting with her now in silence trying to come up with the right words to say to help her situation. Motivation was something they both gave each other every time the other. They could hear her father on the phone with someone in the house it was real muffled because the door to the backyard was shut. He must have got in contact with relatives or something.

“How are we going to make it through this one?” Aries said. She was really holding back her tears. She had one other person that motivated her to make it through her cancer back down in Miami a real distant cousin of hers and his name was Corey. He took it hard when he found out that his cousin had cancer and the doctor’s didn’t know how long she would live.

“Have you talked with your cousin in Miami yet or at least called him?” Chris said. He felt that their bond was strong but the one she had with Corey would become stronger.

“My dad is probably talking to his mom right now hopefully. I want to go and see them over winter vacation.” Aries knew the holidays were a time she usually spent with Chris but she wanted to see her cousin but it was a hard decision to make. She didn’t want to leave her best friend behind. Chris was the one who was there by her side every time she went into the hospital or needed someone to talk to.

“It’s best to spend time with your family during the holidays. We have spring break and summer vacation to hangout together. There are other Christmas’s and New Year’s for us to hangout on.” Chris was real positive about the situation it was very rare that Aries went down to Miami to visit family. She had other relatives in Florida as well.

They talked for a while longer then Chris headed home for the day. Aries walked inside to find her father still on the phone smiling. Chris walked home having a feeling that he would get home to a happy home where there wasn’t any arguing or fighting. His parents never fought but lately dealing with his siblings was getting harder for him to do. He hoped that his sister and older brother weren’t at each other’s throats again or in the other’s face.

He got home and to his surprise the house was quiet. He walked to his sister’s room where he found her lying on her bed with headphones on. He figured his brother wasn’t home yet or wasn’t planning on coming home. He walked passed his parent’s room and no one was there. He assumed his parent’s must have taken his brother somewhere. He walked to his room and plopped down on his bed.

He pulled out his composition book and jotted down some lines to an unfinished song he had been writing for a while. He opened another notebook and then his math book to start on his homework.

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Chapter Three: Family Smart

Let’s take a trip down to Miami, Florida and to put a distinct location who knows. Corey stays in Miami, Florida but where he stays could be in the north or south side of Dade County. He is the most family oriented guy you would ever meet. He was currently staying with his father. He was about five foot six, fade and his captivating smile. He was also very welcoming as well.

He found out his third cousin Aries had cancer three summers ago when her family was down in Florida visiting family. His first reaction was Aries was going to fully recover from Leukemia and just go to chemotherapy for a while. He had just found out that Aries had contracted another cancer. He had to talk to her or see her to talk with her about the situation. He didn’t really understand it though. He knew that her mother’s side of the family dealt with cancer with every woman. There wasn’t any form of cancer on her father’s side from his knowledge. Corey wanted to keep her spirits up so she could fight this cancer again. Though her body endured so much fight leukemia which was now in remission, she had already lost her hair but had grown some of what she lost back but it was real thin unlike the hair she lost which was thick. She was also a Gemini like him. They were real close too.

“Corey, what’s wrong?” Spectacular asked. Spec was five foot three; light skinned, and very inquisitive. He just stared at Corey waiting on an answer.

“You know my cousin Aries who lives in Pittsburgh.” Corey paused as Spec just nodded his head. Corey was afraid to tell him about the fact she contracted another form of cancer during her treatment for leukemia. “She’s going to be visiting during Christmas.” Corey watched as Spec walked away. He knew Spec would question him some more later on to find out the truth. Corey stared off into space until someone walked into the room.

“What’s wrong with you?” Diamond asked. He knew Diamond wouldn’t leave him alone until he got a complete answer or response out of him. Spec was around the corner listening to the conversation. “How about we take this outside?” They walked out to the very large backyard and closed the sliding door.

“Well I just found out that Aries has contracted another form of cancer. Her dad is real upset about it already. They go back later this week to tell the doctor their decision on what type of treatment she is going to go through to treat the new cancer she got through her treatment of Leukemia.” Corey had been strong but he was about to break down because he knew how his mom reacted when Aries’ mother died three years ago. “They are coming to visit for the holidays this year too. I just got off the phone with her dad a little while ago.” Corey let a sigh of relief out as he leaned against the sliding glass door.

“Damn when are you going to tell dad?” Corey had left out that part that Joe knew they were coming. Joe had already spoken to Aries’ father about staying with them at the house. Aries could cook and clean but Joe wouldn’t make her out do herself this time. Aries was a member of the family. They walked back inside.

“Corey the phone is for you.” Marcus said. Corey took the phone from him because he figured it was his cousin calling to talk to him. It was Aries and they talked for a good hour and a half about what they were going to do while she was out in Miami visiting. He hung up the phone and went to his room. He pulled out one of his many notebooks and started jotting down lines to a rhyme he wanted to dedicate to his cousin. He wanted to write something to her that he would give to her as a gift on Christmas. Material things didn’t mean that much to Aries. Aries liked homemade gifts, poems, and other little things like that for gifts. It was that thought that went into what the person gave to her than how much they spent on her gift. Corey knew that about her and always sent her something he wrote or something he made in class to her as a birthday gift.

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