I Faked Having Cancer To Show Off With My Friends
Hi! I’m Debbie and I’m 13. I want to tell you how, recently, I was missing my friends so badly, that I made up a story about myself which was supposed to make them pay attention to me again. But I should have had a plan B.
First of all, until recently I had a gang, so to speak, which consisted of me and my best friends – Sophie and Leo. We’ve been friends since kindergarten and I thought we’d be together for our whole lives. But at the beginning of this year, the two of them suddenly realized that they love each other more than friends usually love each other and decided to try out dating. And guess what? They're happy together, while I found myself feeling like a third wheel.
Of course, I knew that they wanted to have some time alone, you know, just for the two of them. I just kept wondering constantly why they wanted to be together ALL of the time, I mean, without me. And one day I realized that I felt really lonely and I definitely didn’t want to feel that way. It happened when I, as usual, was waiting for Sophie and Leo to drop by my place to have a pizza-and-movie night. I got everything prepared and was sitting in anticipation when I received a text from Sophie where she said that she and Leo were very sorry, but they had forgotten to tell me that they were having their first Big Anniversary – one month together, and so, they were not coming.This really pissed me off. Not only was it unfair to abandon me just like that, I thought, but sending a text instead of at least calling on the phone was pretty outrageous. Of course, I sulked around the room in indignation, but, anyway, there was nothing to do but to sit down, watch a movie, and eat pizza in splendid isolation. To be honest, I think this was the first time in my life that I had to spend a Friday night without my friends and I had a strange feeling inside me.
From time to time, my younger brother Jonathan would stick his nose into my room commenting on the whole situation. To sum things up, his main thought was that I was such a loser that even my friends had fallen in love with each other, and now I didn't even have anyone to watch a movie with. And when he noticed that I ate the whole pepperoni pizza all alone, he swore that my destiny from that moment on would be to turn into a fat, lonely spinster, since nobody actually loved me.
Of course, I yelled at him to make him leave me alone, but I couldn’t stop thinking about his words. What if Sophie and Leo were truly going to forget about me for the rest of my life and that the beginning of their love actually meant the end of our friendship? I looked at the screen where the movie was still going on. One of the main characters has just found out that his soulmate was going to die from cancer and he was making a big fuss over her.
And right away it hit me! What if I also had only a few months left to live? Would my friends still ignore me? I couldn't stop thinking about this over and over again, and by the morning I had already come up with a perfect plan that was going to make Sophie and Leo want to hang out with me again. Even though they weren't hanging out with me, I knew that they were good friends and still cared about me. We had decided to meet at the mall. When I saw them, Leo, as always, was looking at Sophie as if she was the most beautiful creature on the planet. They didn’t even notice me right away when I walked up, which allowed me to make sure that my plan was definitely not in vain. And then I told them that we had something really serious to discuss. I told them that I had been suffering from liver cancer for a while and that I wanted to tell them everything a long time ago, but they began dating and I didn’t want to ruin that magic for them. Oh, you should’ve been there to see their faces! Leo looked really devastated and Sophie was about to cry. And I was triumphing deep inside, although I desperately tried to keep my drama-face. For a second I imagined that I was literally suffering from a severe disease and was about to die soon, and that made me feel so sorry for myself, that even my own eyes watered up from tears. I mean, I think I should consider a career in the cinema or something!
Then they started asking different questions about my health condition, about the treatment I was going through, and the medical prognosis. You can be sure I had seriously prepared for my little lie, having read a bunch of stuff on different internet forums. I even managed to learn the names of some medicines and possible side effects of taking them, so I sounded, you know, pretty much credible.文本并非一一对应，且不完整，仅供参考阅读
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