A short story by Nishii

Smile while you can because you'll never know what might happen tomorrow...


He slowly opened his eyes, he felt as he was beaten up by five guys or something.His whole body was aching. Actually he was in great pain. Machines with different colours were beeping around him.Suddenly someone came inside the room. After seen her it all came back to him. He was in the hospital. Now it has been 3 months.It was the nurse."Good morning son how are you feeling today"asked the nurse with a bright smile on her face.

That's all he sees these days... Fake smiles all around him trying to comfort him. He knew that it was not working and so did them.Another brand new day full of tremendous pain and unbearable suffering.Mostly he was suffering from heartache.Pain that never could be cured by medicine or by doctors.

He was just 21 years of age.His mother got transferred to the big city when he was 12. It was a brand new life for him. Brand new friends,an unknown environment.Lots of rich kids started becoming his friends and he liked it.He started smoking as it was the in thing among the young crowd. It was considered as cool.In order for him to blend with the society he had to be apart of them.
Then all started, cutting classes, not listening to his mother, doing what ever he wanted.By the age of 15 he was addicted to smoking. He wanted 5 packets of cigarettes per day.It was so hard to live without it.

Suddenly one day it all came to a stop..... He started vomiting blood. That's the time he realized that something really terrible has happened to him. He still could remember how his mother fainted after hearing that her only son had lung cancer.
He knew his mother was trying her best to hide her tears from him, but it wasn't working. He could hear her cry while he was a sleep. Now the only thing that he could do is to pray to ask god to give her strength to face the world after he's gone.

He saw her mother talking to the nurse near the door. She had a bunch of flowers in her hands. She looked really pretty today. He wanted the suffering to end now. He could not take it anymore.All his hair was gone because of the medicine.He felt sleepy, slowly he closed his eyes. Knowing that he would never open them again and see her mother.
There was a thick blue line in one machine with one continuous beeping sound.

It was all over.........................................................................