Best Love Story
Love's Song

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Yuri stumbled back to her dormitory to find Emily waiting for her.
“ You let him go?” she whispered, her voice hoarse from crying. She rounded on Yuri.” Why did you let him go?” she raised a fist and punched Yuri across the face. Yuri didn’t move. She stood numbly still. Emily screamed and out of the dormitory, sobbing and screaming. Yuri fell onto her bed.

For the next three weeks Yuri coughed blood often, and it was harder to hide her lukemia. She often tired and skipped half her classes. Once she even almost fainted in class. Thomas phoned every week, cheerfully saying that he was doing well. Yuri cried every time he phoned, but hid it from him. She couldn’t bear to end his happiness.

Emily wandered into the hospital for her annual health exam. She had just seen Dr. Slath, her private physician, and was informed that she was still healthy as ever. She was just walking past the cancer hallway when she heard Yuri’s voice.
“ Dr. Brown, I have been coughing blood often. Does this mean anything?” Yuri was asking. Emily froze, and hid behind the door to listen.
“ Yuri, I’m sorry. Your lukemia is getting worse. I’m afraid you will not live for another two monthes.” Dr. Brown said. Emily gasped silently. So that was why Yuri was looking so pale lately, she thought. Tears of regret welled up in her eyes. How horrible, Yuri had lukemia, and she was dying! But she’s so young, only not even seventeen! Emily thought tearfully. Bearing all that pain and torture, she still let Thomas go. She still only thought for Thomas and not herself. She truly loved Thomas. I could never do what she did, Emily thought. I don’t deserve Thomas. And now she was dying, and Thomas is not even by her side.
“ I understand.” Yuri said.” Thank you, Dr. Brown.”
She was about to leave when Dr. Brown stopped her.
“ Is Mr. Vacur not here?” he asked.
“ He went to France.”
“ But why did you let him go when you needed him most?” the doctor asked.
“ It’s what he wanted.” Yuri answered.” I know I can’t be with him forever anymore. I don’t want him to know and freak. I want everything to stay normal. He’s happy right now, and I don’t want to ruin it. I want him to be forever happy, even after I die. To marry Emily and have children. A boy who is just as handsome as him, and a girl who is just as pretty Emily—“
Emily bolted out of the hallway, unable to bear it anymore. She slid down the wall and sobbed out loud. How could she have been so horrible to Yuri? She put her head on her knees and wept unshamedly. Her eyes caught on a pay phone in front of her. She sat up and picked it up, shoving some coins into it. Thomas had to come back, he has to come back and be with Yuri. They belonged together. She held the phone close to her ears and dialed Thomas’s number. It rang three times before he picked it up.

Thomas picked up the phone. “ Hello?”
“ Thomas, this is Emily.” Came the hoarse and somehow sad voice of Emily.
“ Hi, Emily.”
“ You have to come back to London as soon as possible.” She said.
Thomas was a little annoyed at Emily’s stubbornness.” Listen, Emily. I can’t just leave right now. Listen, I can’t come back, for the last time—“
“ It’s about Yuri.” Emily interrupted. She began to cry.” You have to come back to her right now. She—she—“
“ What’s wrong with Yuri? Emily, What’s wrong with her?” Thomas demanded, beganning to panick.
“ She’s ill with lukemia. The doctor says she can’t live more than two monthes!” Emily’s voice sobbed into the receiver. Thomas hung up. He felt his heart stop. Yuri was sick she was dying. How could he’ve left her? At the airport, her look was pleading him to stay with her and yet he still left, still let her down, disappoint her, like he did so many times before.
Thomas went into his black car and raced towards the airport to catch the earliest possible flight back to London.

Yuri walked down the hallway of the school. She was going to die soon and never would she be able to see Thomas ever again. He left, her had left her. She was afraid he would leave her just like Simon did, but she was going to leave him soon instead. She was going to make Thomas endure all the pain she had gone through. Yuri didn’t want to die she wanted to be with Thomas forever.
Suddenly immense pain shot through her body. Her veins, bones and muscles felt as if they were on fire. She felt her vision blind her again and this time her head spun. She knew she was going to die. Die right in the middle of the hallway. Die in front of all her schoolmates. Die without a last look at Thomas. Her legs finally gave away beneath her. Her books fell with a loud thud onto the marble floor and she fell with her books. Everyone in the hallway turned to look at her. The moment she hit the floor Yuri’s eyes closed and she lay still.

Thomas ran all the way out of the airport. He waved frantically for a cab and climbed in. They drove halfway when the cab broke down so Thomas ran the rest of the way.
His hair flew out behind him and he felt sweat of panic trickle down his forehead. Yuri was waiting for him in the hospital she was still alive and waiting for him. He had to see her. He could see her pale face wincing in pain and she was crying and gasping suffering immensely. Thomas quickened his pace.
Emily was waiting outside the hospital. Tears stained her white face and her expression was blank.
“ Emily, where’s Yuri?” he asked grabbing her shoulders. Emily didn’t reply for a minute just sobbed silently.
“ Thomas she’s in the emergencey room right now. Dr. Brown said she got worse. She fainted in the hallway. He reckons she could not live over three weeks.” Emily said numbly, before breaking down completely. Thomas stumbled back, stunned. He felt his ears pounding, and before he knew it he bolted toward the emergency room.
“ Yuri!” he shouted, frantically trying to burst in. Aaron Spiel and another doctor held him back. Thomas fought desperately, yelling Yuri’s name, but couldn’t free himself.
“ Thomas, calm down!” Mr. Spiel ordered, gripping his son’s shoulders and shook it hard.
“ How can I calm down?” Thomas yelled.” Yuri’s laying in the emergency room, dying! How can you expect me to calm down?”
“ You’re not helping Yuri being this way! Calm down!”
Thomas looked at his father wearily.
“ Father, I just want Yuri back! I just want her back—“ Aaron Spiel clasped a hand on Thomas’s back.

“ Yuri Kowan, you are the meanest person in the entire universe,” Thomas replied, his voice quiet and soothing.” We said we would be together, we promised each other we would never part. How could you be so cruel to me. How could you do this to me.” He hit her playfully and gently though there was nothing to play about. He felt the prickly feeling at his eyes, but still didn’t let it fall.
“ How could you make me worry about you like this. In France, I think about you every day, and now you hurt me like this. Yuri Kowan, you’re inhuman and horrible. How could you make me go through all the pain you went through for Simon.” Thomas paused to swallow the prickly feeling. The ward was silent, and Yuri still remained motionless. Thomas was unable to say anything bad anymore. He put his head face-down by Yuri’s cold hand.” Yuri, I love you. And for our love, please please wake up!” he wanted to cry, but somehow he just couldn’t, maybe he just couldn’t, or perhaps he just thought it wasn’t the right time.” I’ve changed everything for you already, please wake up for me.”
Moments ticked by, then a soft murmur arose from the girl.
“ Thomas…Thomas…” Yuri was calling his name softly, her voice in a hoarse whisper. Thomas raised his head in disbelief. Yuri was slowly stirring. She closed her hand gently around Thomas’s.” Take me to the beach, Thomas.” Her voice was hardly above a whisper, and her lips were colorless.
“ Alright.” THomas said soothingly. He very gently picked up the fragile girl.

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