BradyA1213

David’s Disease Last year David went to Africa for a school trip to learn about African culture. He was staying with the Santin family who had a daughter and a son. As soon as David saw the Santin’s daughter, Jane, he thought he was in love. David was known by his classmates as a player, but also a conceited jerk. Fortunately for David, he was 20,000 miles away from where he live and Jane didn’t know about his reputation. For the week he was there, he and Jane would sneak out every night to be with each other. By the end of the week the two grew very fond of each other but David had to go back to his home in Virgnia. As David’s plane took off he realized that he would have nothing to remember Jane by. David returned to Virginia three days later and could not stop thinking about Jane. Although he got on with his life and went back to school. David was now beginning his junior year in high school and knew that it would be the best school year of his life. Even though no one really liked him very much, in his mind he thought he had more friends than anyone. David decided that year he would start running cross country because all his “friends” were. Two weeks into cross country season David was running in the woods during practice. He was way behind everyone because everyone else on the team had been running cross country for at least two years. After he had run for about two miles his legs began to feel very weak and he felt really dizzy. The next thing David knew he woke up in a hospital bed. David was confused and tried to jump out of the bed but he was too weak to even move. He was in an all-white room hooked up to a bunch of wires and machines. The room was closed off by a door with a small room behind it that was closed off by another door. Behind the two doors he could see his mom crying with his dad holding her in his arms. David’s vision was blury but he could barely make out the words that were in red letters on the door that said “Sterile: Do not Enter.” David was daignosed with a flesh eating disease that he got from Jane.

The next week David was back in school and was looking awful. In two weeks away from Prom and he had not asked anyone yet but he was going to today. David had blisters on his face and all over his body. He was determined to get a date to prom and asked about 100 girls until one girl named Ashley said yes. Ashley was one of the prettiest girls in the school and also one of the nicest. He hung out with Ashley every night that week and he grew very fond of her. It was not Saturday, the night of home coming and David had not seen Ashely in two days and could not reach her on her cell phone. He was so excited to see her and could hardly wait. It was finally 6 oclock and he started to drive over to Ashley's house. When he got there it was dark outisde and there was one light on in the house. When he knocked on the door David's Mom answered the door, her face covered with tears. She told David that Ashley died last night. And David knew she died of his disease.