Orphanage

26

Breaunna.

I paced back and forth in my room, I sighed deeply and went in my bathroom. I can't do this show, not in my condition. My health just isn't right. The girls were downstairs, getting theirselves together by Dylan and Mandy. I haven't been to the hospital yet and I can't go now because it's to late, I can't rap again, to risky. I looked in my bathroom closet, I saw some morphine pills. Advil, antibiotics, and mucinex. I don't think none of them can help me. I coughed again while holding my chest.

"Bre!" Zo shouted.

I jumped up. "Huh?" I yelled.

"Come on! You have to get ready!"

I sighed. "Coming!" I croaked.

I grabbed my water bottle and took a sip, I went downstairs and sat in Mandy's chair. She took my hair out the ponytail and began brushing through it. I moaned in delight, I really needed my hair done.

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Zonnique.

I looked in the mirror, my hair and makeup was stunning. All I had to do was put on my clothes, I went upstairs into my room and closed the door. I took a bird bath and put on the outfit our wardrobe stylist gave us. Which consisted of shredded acid washed jeans, vintage black and white striped crop tee, and some black fold over combat boots. I looked like a baddie, seriously. I put on a gold necklace that said my name, gold Hermes bracelet, and more black MAC lipstick. My curls were flowing and bouncing, Dylan gave us long eyelashes, they made my eyes pop. I took a million selfies, I uploaded one on i********: and twitter then went back downstairs.

Ring-Ring!

I took my phone out my pocket and read the caller ID, it was Rayan.

"Hello."

"So you stood me up huh?"

"Rayan I had a busy day."

"Can we have dinner then?"

"Can't, were gonna be on Late Nights With Kelley tonight."

"Excuses. That's all I hear from you."

"We can have breakfast tomorrow."

"You know I have class!"

"Well then we will figure this out tomorrow then."

I hung up and saw Bee on the couch, it seemed like she was on FaceTime.

"I'm sorry, I really am. I've been busy lately, you know that."

I went in the kitchen and saw Dylan doing Bre's makeup. She coughed loudly, I quickly patted her back and gave her another water bottle since she finished her other one.

"Bre are you okay? This isn't normal for you, your never sick." I whined.

She nodded. "I'm fine, my voice is just a little sketchy. My throat is sore."

"Do you think you'll be okay at the show tonight?" I asked.

She sighed. "I don't know Zo, hopefully."

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Bahja.

"I saw you the other day." Chad spoke. "At Roscoes."

I smiled lightly. "Really? Why didn't you say anything?"

He shrugged. "It looked like you were busy, talking to some guy." He said sounding agitated.

I laughed lightly. "Are you jealous?"

He scoffed. "Of course not."

"Who were you with?" I asked.

"Rayan."

I nodded. "I didn't see you guys, you should have spoke."

"Yeah well, you should have called me anyway."

I sighed. "Chad I said I was sorry."

He ignored me.

"Are you gonna watch us on television tonight?" I grinned.

"Whatever Bahja, I gotta go."

He hung up the FaceTime call, I groaned and sat up from the couch. He's really upset, I went to my messages, Sage still hasn't texted me back from when I said goodmorning. It's weird because he always text me first or call, even FaceTime. Something must be going on, he was acting weird at Roscoes to. I heard Bre cough, I got up and went in the kitchen. She was looking in a mirror Mandy gave her, admiring her hair and makeup. She drank a sip of her water.

"Thanks guys." She kissed their cheeks and went upstairs to get dressed, what's gotten into her.

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Zonnique. ( show )

Kelley was sitting in a chair across from us, and we all sat on a couch side by side. Kelley was an older Caucasian woman, with a skinny figure and bouncy blonde curls. She had on a tight light blue dress with white flats and white accessories. She was such a sweetheart, I really admired her when I was younger.

"So girls, your growing up to be so beautiful and bold." She complimented us.

"Thank you." We all blushed.

She nodded. "No problem, now we have a couple questions from our audience. Would you care to answer them?"

We agreed, she began picking people from the audience. One girl stood up, she had on dirty jeans and a plaid shirt. Her long dirty brown hair was in two braids.

"Hello OMG Girlz! I'm Linda, your #1 fan!" She smiled.

We all laughed. "That's really sweet Linda." Bahja said.

"Thank you." She replied. "Anyway, I have a question. Now I'm having a sleepover this Friday with my friends from school and I need advice. What games should we do? Were all 12, no kiddy games."

"Well I think you should do prank calls, it's the oldest game in the book but it's fun." Bre smiled.

"True, also I think you should do makeovers. I know it sounds like something 10 year olds would do but not if you take selfies when your done." Bahja laughed.

Linda laughed to. "That's great advice, do you have any Star?"

"Well, when I had sleepovers I always woke up in the middle of the night and play ding dong ditch." I explained.

She gasped. "Have you ever got caught?"

I shook my head no. "Not once, it's because I was a pro."

The audience laughed and Linda thanked us and sat down. Kelley picked on someone else from the audience, it was another girl. She was in a floral dress, her hair down and she had braces. It looked like her race was black and Indian.

"Hi I'm Leona Thompson, I'm 16 and I have a question for Zonnique." She smiled.

I laughed lowly, "Everyone calls me Star."

"I know."

I rolled my eyes. "What's your question?"

"Well I saw your i********: video, about you being accepted to college. I wanted to know what did you have to do? As far as how to get in?" She asked.

I sighed. "Well it takes patience. I waited a couple weeks to get a email back, a friend of mine waited months. You'll have to be on a waiting list, they'll ask you numerous if questions. Just be yourself on the application, they'll even ask personal questions but just go with the flow."

"Thank you." She sat down.

Kelley called a few more girls, then surprisingly a boy. He was a light skin guy, he was muscular, and his style was tight.

"Wassup I'm Zoey. This question is for the beautiful Star." He winked and smiled.

I blushed. "What's your question Zoey?"

"I did some online search." He sighed. "Your past relationship with that guy Rayan is over , right ?"

I waited a minute then replied with a head nod yes.

"Good! I will like to take you out one day, 2 hours with me and you'll love me." He smiled.

I scoffed. "Are you conceited Zoey?"

He raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me?"

I stood up. "Are you cocky?"

He shook his head no. "No I'm not, just saying -"

"Next question." I said quickly. I sat back down and smiled at Kelley. "Pick another person love."

"Actually we was hoping you preform." Kelley said.

I looked at the girls, they nodded and we al stood up. "Okay, we'll preform." We agreed.

The security guards gave us microphones, the stage cleared and the lights dimmed. The instrumental to Baddie filled the air, we began nodding our heads to the beat.

Bre sighed deeply. "It's about that time. Purple, pink, and blue. OMG , salute. -" She stopped rapping and began coughing.

Bee tried playing it out by singing her verse. " Hit the scene and we turn up (turn up) yeah them boys choosing cause they love us

you know I be putting on a show (let's go let's go) when I break it down (they don't want no more)."

The rest of the song went great, until Bre's verse came up again.

"Pretty hustle we reppin, work hard no stressing. Whole clique full of baddies my whole team-" She stop rapping and began holding her chest. She coughed more and more.

Me and Bee escorted her off the stage.

"What's going on with you Bre?" Bee asked.

"Are you okay!" I yelled.

"I'm fine!" She hollered. She looked at us, "I just need some sleep." She whispered.

She walked to her dressing room and closed the door, I sighed and looked at Bee.

"I guess we have to leave early." I whined.

She nodded. "Yeah." She looked around, "Let's go."

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Breaunna.

I woke up super early and did my hygiene. I put on a colorful sundress and black sandals. My curled hair was pinned up and I had on my sunglasses, I decided to go to urgent care. I don't want Bee or Zo to know I'm going, only because I don't want them to worry about me. I sighed and pulled up in the hospital parking lot, I took my key off of the ignition and left my car. I went up to the double doors.

"Let me get that for you lad."

I turned around and gasped. "Hey Zayn! What are you doing here?"

"Ey, just enjoying the lovely view." He smiled. "And the lovely ladies." He winked.

I blushed and walked inside urgent care.

"Why are you at urgent care Bre?" He asked.

"I've been having really bad chest pains." I explained. "Also my cough is bad."

He thought for a moment. "You still smoke?"

I shrugged. "Occasionally, not all the time."

"Better hope that's not the reason, anyway I gotta go love. Me moms is upstairs, I need to go check on her." He said.

I waved. "Bye Zayn, nice seeing you again." I smiled.

"Same to you Bre!" He yelled.

I walked to the front desk. "Fill out this sheet." The lady said.

I grabbed the sheet, clipboard, and pen. I sat in a chair and began filling out the sheet.

Name : Breaunna Womack

DOB : March 23, 1995

Reason Why Your Here ? Chest pains & bad cough.

Under Any Medicine ? No

After I was done, I went upstairs to a room. I sat there on the bed until a doctor came in.

"Hello I'm Dr.Hawkins." He smiled. He was a tall Caucasian man, he looked young and excited.

"Hi I'm Breaunna." I said lowly.

He nodded. "What seems to be the problem today Miss. Breaunna?"

I pointed to my chest. "Around my right boob, it really gets pains. Also I have a really bad cough."

"When did this start to happen?" He asked.

"Yesterday afternoon, it never happened before." I sighed.

He looked at his paperwork. "Are you sexually active?"

I shook my head no.

"Do you do drugs?"

I thought for a moment. "Well I smoke cigarettes occasionally, but not a lot."

He grabbed a cup. "Pee in here for me,then when you get back I have to needle you."

I sighed and hopped off the bed, I left out and went in the bathroom. I began peeing, my pee was orange. I gasped and hurried to wash my hands and leave. I quickly gave the cup to Dr.Hawkins as he stuck a needle in my skin. I winced and whined for a second, then the pain went away.

He observed my pee confused. "I'll be right back." He sighed. He left out and I swans my feet in the air.

I sure hope nothing is wrong with me, even though I know something is I just hope it's not deadly or anything . I pulled out my phone and went on twitter. I began reading peoples tweets, people were mentioning me left to right about the show lastnight. I ignored all the hatred and favorited all the love, then Dr. Hawkins came in with a disappointed look.

"Something wrong doctor?" I asked scared.

He nodded. "Miss. Breaunna you have small cell lung cancer. Cigarettes are bad for you, you know that? It's unhealthy. I scheduled classes for you to take such radiotherapy and chemotherapy that can help you through this. Your not going to be able to rap again anytime soon though."

All the other words he said came in one ear and out the other, I have lung cancer? How can this be? It's not like I smoke daily or anything.

"I'm sorry Miss.Breaunna." He sighed.

I nodded slowly. "It's not your fault, it's mine."

"Now you do know that lung cancer is fatal right? So you might now wanna miss these classes." He gave me a paper. "Go to this class 3 times a week, okay?"

I nodded and grabbed the paper. "Will make my cancer go away?"

"Well it won't technically go away, you'll just know how to do things and control the cancer." He explained. "You should go to these classes today as well."

"Okay, thank you Dr.Hawkins." I hopped up from the bed.

"And remember Miss. Breaunna, if you have any more questions, concerns, or comments just stop by." He said.

I smiled lightly. "Okay."

I walked out the room and out the urgent care doors, I went to my car and started the ignition. Sorry by Ciara filled the air, I silently cried while my head was on the steering wheel. Cancer. Small cell lung cancer.I grabbed all of my cigarette packs and ashtray and threw it out the window. I angrily hit the passenger seat and threw my head back, crying.

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Rayan.

I got up slowly, waking up from Chad's phone alarm.

"Chad turn that s**t off." I whined.

He didn't budge, I walked over to his bed and hit him with a pillow. He quickly got up and grabbed his phone, turning off the alarm.

"What time is it?" I asked walked into the bathroom.

He yawned. "5:30."

I grabbed my toothbrush and began brushing my teeth. After that I washed my face and jumped in the shower. I washed up with my Old Spice body wash, after I was done I dried off and put on my grey Nike sweats, white tee, and my white Grape 5's. I brushed my hair thoroughly then put them in two braids.

I left the room, leaving Chad behind and walking towards the elevator They had restaurants on the bottom floor that we could go to : such as McDonalds, Starbucks, Wendy's, Burger King, White Castle, IHOP, Denny's, Subway and more. I walked inside McDonalds and went to the counter.

"Welcome to McDonalds." The gay white man spoke happily. "May I take your order?"

I nodded. "Yeah let me get a fruit and maple oatmeal with a orange juice."

He rung up the total. "That'll be $5.00 even sexy boy." He winked.

I grabbed a five dollar bill and sat it on the counter. "I don't do that gay shit." I said seriously.

He put the money in the cash register and went to the back. I sat in a booth and pulled my phone out my pocket. I looked at my missed calls and text messages, 1 missed call from my mom and 1 unread message from an unknown number.

323-555-8483 - Hey Rayan :)

Me - Who's this?

323-555-8483 - Willow ... From photography pro class?

I rolled my eyes and ignored the text message, I decided to call Zonnique. I know it's early, but it's a 50/50 chance she'll answer.

"Hello?"

"Goodmorning Star."

"Rayan it's 6 AM"

"I know, it's early isn't it?"

"Your so damn annoying."

"I love you to Star. What's on your schedule today?"

"I don't know, I'll have to look on my calendar but I'm not getting up to see."

"Well damn, I'll call you when I get out of class. Then we can meet up."

"Okay."

"Bye."

"Bye Rayan."

I hung up, "Order 3? Fruit and maple oatmeal with a orange juice?!" A older lady called out.

I raised my hand, "That's me."

I went to go get it and sat back down, I began eating and watching vine videos until it was time for me to go to class.

NO EDIT But Bre has lung cancer are y'all hurt ? Or nah ?