Character Description

Nipping & Tugging:

I sit expecting the worse, I try to ignore the fact that my best friend who completes my life entirely, is in surgery, with doctors nipping and tugging at the growing cancer inside of him. My emotion is leaking and I can’t control it. What would I do without Adam? He is both a parent to support me and a friend to laugh with. I have no parents, no girlfriend or wife. Without him, I would not know how to continue my already complicated life. I just pray to God that if he gets through this nothing bad will ever happen to him again. Adam doesn’t deserve any of it; I wish that I was in his position.

I look back to the day I met him, it was a rainy day, the morning air was cool and foggy. Adam looked like a dragon breathing out the fumes of the chilly air. I had just started the place of torture, where I was expected to conform to the rules of a stereotypical high school. I saw him by the big willow tree reading a book. I looked around the dreadful place, everyone was joining their old friends and chatting away. The chattering noise of other people's teeth as they told their friends about their exciting break overwhelmed me. I tried to block it out, I heard a deep voice behind me. He had said that he liked my shirt and he had to introduce himself to the person who had excellent taste in music, looking closer I saw that he was wearing the same Mighty Boosh shirt as I was. I smiled and I knew, in that moment, he was going to be a great friend. 

I lost the image of his soft brown eyes as the memory faded. The colours blur, the blue rushed into the green as I escape the pleasant past and I return to reality. My heart sinks as the doctor approaches me.