Everyone in the room cheers as she pulls her portble oxygen concentrtor onto the stage, her sister, Abby, helping her _____________________ and _____ the spotlight
maneuver up the steps and onto
Her dad starts to __________ his guirtar and i hum along before my brain even consciously registers what they’re singing. Everyone in the audience is swaing along too, heads moving left and right, feet _________
drum away at; tapping with the beat
her adrenaline gives her face a ____ of color; her cheek a bright, ________ pink
twinge; exhilarated
Not even an hour later, my first post-all-nighter nap was interrupted by a blaring, alarm down the hall, and then my second attempt was -______ later by my mom and Dr. Hamid bursting into my room for an evening visit
foiled
Clearly, it wasn’t pefected enough, because I was out of there and back home in about two weeks ______
flat
I trun my head to look at her and Dr. Hamid and nod like a ——- even though I haven’t heard a single word this entire time
bobblehead
I’ve got B cepacia which makes this conversation _____________
null and void
in two weeks i’ll be eighteen. A legal adult. You won’t hold the _____ any more
reins
her heels ________ down the hallway
clicking off
she pulls a business card out of her wallet. She flicks the business card onto the counter before _______ a hundred on top of it like this is some fancy restaurant and i’m a table that needs to be ______________
tossing; fawned over
I throw open my closet door to grab a hoodie, pulling it on and peering out at the nursing station to see if the ________________
coast is clear
no sign of Bard or my mom anymore, but Julie’s one the phone behind the desk, in between me and the exit door that will take me straight to hte only ___________ that will lead to the roof
stairwell
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