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My Defining Moment
The next 24 hours of my life are crucial. Sometime in those hours, I will learn if I’m dying or not. My heart and my mind are racing at speeds I can’t comprehend and I don’t know how to make it stop, I just want it to stop. I want-no, I need these results. Feeling this way freaking sucks. The waiting, the unknown, I can’t deal with it and taking my mind off it is my main goal right now. “Malia, stop stressing. You have the whole day to relax and hang out with me, the best person you know,” Leilani comforts. “Come on, let’s go back to the apartment and figure what we should do from there.” I remain quiet, silently thanking her as we walk toward the bus stop from the hospital. Within seven minutes, the bus picks us up. The colorful building and the sight of the ocean allow me Stepping into a familiar space and smelling the faint scent of floral perfume eases my stress a little. I immediately walk toward the cream colored carpet floor and lay down. Don’t panic. What can I do to get your mind off everything? I might die, what is one thing I should do …show more content…
To be completely honest, taking what I’m most stressed out about at the moment and putting a fun twist on it really helped me relax more. Both of us take ahold of the paper and tape it on the wall by the door so we will always be reminded of what we should do.
The sun is setting off into the ocean, causing a gradient of deep orange and golden yellow flow through the sky. Not a single cloud in sight. Leilani and I are at the movie theater, continuing our day of pure nothingness. Thor: Ragnarok was released a couple days ago and we have been dying to see it. Most of the seats are filled which is no surprise because I heard this movie is dominating the box office, as most Marvel movies do. After all the trailers, the lights dim completely, the only source of light is the opening Marvel sequence on the large

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