Inside the Outside.

Entering into the foggy mist, opening the door down to a new moment in time, he proceeded slowly.  “It really is the end of the world, isn't it?” “That's what I thought when I first saw it too.” 

“It's almost as if the water mirrors the sky.” “I know, it's beautiful isn't it?” “Incredibly.”

He looked into her eyes, slowly pulled her close, and spoke to her with a smooth, toned voice; “I love you.” 

A tear fell down the side of her face, alluding to a smile, and a tighter hug. They walked a little further, holding hands, pushing the fog away with their hands as if they could see clearer. “What if this was the last time we saw each other?” “Why do you always have to talk like that?” “I'm serious, I want to know what you would say if it was the last time you ever got to look into my eyes.”
“I would say that you are a beautiful, and wonderful girl, and life would not be worth living, if you were not here to spend it with me.”

“Good. I wouldn't want you spending it with someone else any way.”

With a playful smile she continued walking, but he didn't move. 

“Why aren't you coming?”
“I can't help but wonder if there is a reason why you keep bringing those questions up. It's really bothering me.” “Don't worry about it, I am just fishing for compliments.”

“That's what you always say.”

“That's what I always mean.”

Moving along the side of the beach, she occasionally looked at him and smiled, she knew what he was going to say.

He looked at her and said...

“You know, Sarah, I...”

A warm, reassuring hand fell on his shoulder, and a firm smile broke his conscious.

“Tim, wake up.”

“I wasn't asleep, I was just resting my eyes...”

“Uh huh. You have been here all night, you really need to get some sleep.”

“I'll be alright, I am not leaving her side.”

“If you insist.”

Leaving to go get coffee, Sarah's mother started to imagine what her daughters life would have been like if this had never happened to her. The things she could have done, the person she could have been. She began talking to herself, just trying to figure out what she could do. 

“What have I done to deserve this? What has she done?”

“Stop it Rebbecca. There is still hope, cancer doesn't take everyone.”

She sat down in the waiting room, picturing the colors in the multi pattern floor in a rainbow, wrapping themselves around the shady future. It was all she could do to distract herself from the subject at hand. Too many sleepless nights in a hospital, the cold air, and the gloomy feeling of death and sickness plagued her mind with unimaginable dreams and thoughts. 

“If I don't find some release, I am going to go insane. I need something to do, someone to talk to...”

Later in the room assigned to Sarah Marks, Tim kept dozing off.

“I need to stay awake. She needs me.” Brushing the hair from her face, he whispered into her ear “I'll never leave you. Life would not be worth living if you weren't here with me...”