The Road to Happiness: 5
#5 of road to happiness
After breakfast I helped clean the dishes and what not. Khile was whistling the whole time and was pretty good at it too. Once the dishes were clean and everything was put away I sat down while Khile went to his room to do his morning routine. I just sat down watching TV for the first time in four years of living on my own, it felt good eating a decent meal instead of dry Ramen for every meal.
Ten minutes later Khile came back with a something a teenager would wear, he had on black aeropostle shirt that looked tight on him, but he managed to make it look good ,with a nice pair of jeans with the fading look and with the wrinkle look on top of the jeans. I just looked at him and he knew why I was looking at him.
"I might be a police officer but I still like to look nice. I'm not that old now".
"How old are you 40? 50?" I said jokingly, he just gave me a angry look. Hopefully he knew I was kidding.
"I'm actually 23 thank-you very much" Khile said as he began tying his shoes and then he got up.
"Where are you going?"
"You mean where are we going? And we're going to get you some nice clean clothes and then I scheduled you an appointment today with my doctor. He is really an expert in what you have, I want to make sure that if you do have it I can help you. So come on and lets go, Jackie is going to be sleeping all day with medicine I gave her, I lock all my doors and windows and she has my number if something goes wrong. My house has an alarm so this place is as safe as it can be."
I got up and got ready and then we went out.
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When we went out we went to the mall and Khile was showing me multiple places to look for clothing and he even was buying some clothing for jackie. We even looked for shoes for me to wear, the reason he told me was "If your living in my house you're going to look good." I hope he was joking, which I'm pretty sure he was. I think.
It was hard to find a shoe in my size, we went to some that didn't even have my size ,twelves, but we finally did in the mall at Shoe Carnival but even they didnt have a lot of styles but Khile found a pair that would look good on me. They were high top Nikes, black with the check mark being red but they were expensive. I looked at the price tag and all I said was
"Holy sh-cow...$120.00."
Khile looked me and smiled when I switched my words and then spoke
"No worries, I have paid for shoes that were $300.00 so to me this is cheap. Come on I'm starting to get hungry, Subway sound good?"
"Yeah sounds good to me."
Once the shoes were paid for and we were done with clothes shopping we found a seat and set our stuff down and went to Subway and waited for one of the employees to set our sandwiches. a Kangaroo came up to us and did the usual routine
"Welcome to Subway what can I get you."
"I'll take the black ham foot long on whole grain bread with pepper jack cheese lettuce tomato mustard and extra mayo." One by one the Kangaroo did what he asked for and then sliced it in half and came to me
"And what can I get you?"
"Umm....."
I had never been to this place so I didnt know and there were so many choices. I didnt know which one was good but I heard Khile speak
"He'll have the same."
"Sorry I took so long I didnt know which one was good I never ate here."
"Thats ok, thats why I picked this place. I thought you had never been here so what you're getting is going to be good. I love it like this."
He made the sandwich and Khile paid for them we sat back down and Khile dug into the sandwich and just looked at me and swallowed.
"Arent you going to eat? You ok?"
"I'm kind of alittle scared"
"Why you scared?" taking another bite of his sandwich,
"I'm scared to find out if I do have it, and what if.. if I dont make it." I said looking down between my legs, staring at the ground.
"I know its scary to find out but I know your going to be ok. If this helps you I will spend all of my money on you, you're going to be ok. If you still dont want to eat that I'll save it for my lunch at work tomorrow and we can go straight to the appointment."
I looked up at him and he was wrapping up his sandwich and already grabbing the bags.
"Ok"
I grabbed some of the bags also and we headed out to his car and we went to the appointment.
We made it to the doctors appointment and we were waiting for the results of my blood test. I sat there on the medical bed while Khile sat on a chair next to me. I was nervous as hell, I was sweaty and my hands were shaking but then I felt a warm paw sqeezing them gently, telling me that it was going to be ok.
Finally the doc came, a german shepard wearing a doctors coat and with the results in his right paw, scratching his head with the other.
"Well Mister Jonathan I'm sorry to say this but your cancer levels came positive around the colon area...I'm so sorry."
I knew it, I did. I didnt want to believe it but I did... I have colon cancer. I just started building up my tears when my nose began running and the doc handed me a tissue. I blew all of my insides out. I heard Khile speak.
"Thank-you for taking your free time Dr.Steiner"
"Anytime Khile, all I can help you with is a place that can help you."
"Please and thank you."
I looked up at Khile near me but I was ready to let it all out and it looked like Khile was tearing up too. His eyes were red and watery. He came up to me and hugged me so tightly yet I was able to breathe. He whispered to me
"Let it out"
I did as he told me to and I cried more than I had ever done in my whole life. Khile just held me tightly and began rocking me like I was his little brother. I started feeling drops on my head I looked up and I saw Khile with eyes closed and crying. I tightened my hug to thank him and hopefully he understood it, I think he did as he did the same.
On the way back home it was silent but the music was on and was playing "How to Love" by lil Wayne. Khile had the radio turned down and spoke
"Dont worry about this hon.. I know it was horrible finding out about this but it won't happen. Like I said at the mall I will spend every penny on you, there are thousands that have survived this and you will be one of them ok?"
"Ok but how can you afford it?"
"I'll put you on my insurances it'll cover everything."
"But you have to get my father authority to do that though he wont let you and I dont want to go back to live there."
He grabbed my hand with his thumb rubbing the top of my hand,
"I promise you...you wont I wont let him do that. Next we are going on a trip, to Missouri."