The Sun Rose for the Final Time

Story and Illustration By Jennifer Fei (5D) Layout by Natalie So

e scene outside the window was pitch black, but slowly, as the sun brightened our world, it began to have a radiant shine. It stroked the trees, leaving new spring leaves in its wake, as rays of sunshine wandered through delicate blades of grass, and wove itself into the so ness of the wind. As they passed quiet brooks, the sunlight seemed to blend with the water, giving it a golden aura. e voice of a nightingale echoes across the land, and the new day has begun.

e sun blooms on the horizon, its golden petals stretching outwards into the blue sky. It is the brilliant ower of the sky that warms our days. It is an invitation to a new day, that sunrise was so ordinary extraordinary. e sun rose like a ower opening, gi ing its petals onto the world. Sunrise was a breathtaking display of radiant colors. Bright streaks of red, pink, and orange slowly overcame the dark blue and purple of the twilight sky. e yellow shining sun started rising from the ground.

It lled the sky with mighty colors of red and splashed the clouds with endless rays of pink. Golden light dribbled over the land like syrup on oatmeal. e leaves shimmered like a brand new mirror and the morning dew sparkled on the cobwebs and grass.

*Cough Cough* A girl named Casey Lee coughed and coughed while going down the stairs. Casey was an only child with no siblings but has both cancer and asthma. It was her favorite day, December 23rd, that was her birthday. is year Casey’s turning 16, she was getting reading before her friends come. It was her birthday and a party with her friends. She wore a sky-dye shirt and skinny jeans with high heeled boots, then she was ready. Ding!!!!!!!!!!!! e doorbell rang. Casey ran over to open the door. All she saw was a present, she bent her knees and touched it slowly. Suddenly she felt somebody jumping across her, Casey was sure someone was there. As Casey slowly turned around she saw... her friends, Hayley, Kyra, Katie, Charlotte, Lily, and her best friend Annabella! Not long a er the party started Casey’s asthma came. It was hard for her to breathe, her face became pale white, and she tried to breathe as hard as she could. Her mom called the ambulance in a rush. It was quiet, her friends stop singing, dancing and chatting, instead, they gathered next to Casey, wanting to make her calm down.

But no one realized (except for Casey) that it wasn’t her asthma that came it was her... cancer! Casey got scared and tried to talk. “M-my... cancer.... C-came...” Casey mumbled the words out of her mouth slowly. Everyone was shocked! ey could not believe what they just heard!

e ambulance nally came, but... it was too late. It didn’t help Casey at all. Casey had died 7 seconds before the ambulance had made it to their house. Every day brings Casey further from the low of her last cancer relapse, but every day also brings her closer to the next cancer recurrence. Every second was important for someone’s life, even ours.

Tears rolled down her mom’s chin, as she sat on the oor next to her daughter. e had a nice funeral for Casey and decorated it together. Now that Casey is gone her mother was alone, lonely, that was the day that the sun rose for the last and nal time for Casey Lee.

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