Chapter six

A D minus.

A core course that could stop me from graduating and I got D.

"Cathy I want to talk to you." Mr. Meeks said to me after most of the class had left.

"If it's to tell me you're disappointed in me don't bother."

"I'll excuse your tone because you are one of best students and I'm worried about you. You have been seeming distracted lately. I would have broken the rules to let you rewrite but I won't here long. I'm going for treatment abroad."

"What treatment."

"I have breast cancer. It's rare but happens to men too."

"Wow that's..."

"Unfortunate, I know. They are bringing in a sub and you can't keep going on like this. I wish you luck."

"Yo Cathy wait up."

I hear Beast trying to catch up with me as I walked out the school building.

I feel guilty that we haven't been talking much because I've been avoiding he and Emerald.

There was no way Beast wouldn't catch up with me unless I broke into a fill run. Who am I kidding? Even then he'd still catch up with me.

"What is it?"

The word