Mum's Cancer, My Story

Everything written here is completely based on truth, but to keep identities of my family and friends safe I have changed the names. I have also added things which I thought to myself.
Please do not copy this.

Time. What is it? It's the annoying ticking you hear from a clock on your bedroom wall. It's the long minutes sitting in a hall doing an exam. It's the boring hours you spend in school wishing it could just end. It's also the painful hours of seeing someone you love slip away from you.
This is my story about my mums cancer.

23rd December, 2010

An ordinary day for some, but for me it changed my life. I was fifteen at the time. I only had been for four months. Just started my final year of secondary school, which meant a lot of serious thinking. Exams for starters, loads of revision and practice tests before the final GCSE exams. Then there's college. What did I want to do? Where did I want to go? Where could I be in the future after the course? Then there was the more relaxed side of things. Christmas, New Year, Family Birthdays, Easter, Record of Achievement and Prom. But before I could think properly about all of this, something happened.
My mum had been diagnosed with Cancer. A Brain tumour to be exact. This struck me and my family terribly. My younger sister 12 at the time and my older brother 17. Both of them out when I got the knock on the door. You see my mum was at work when she had a stroke. My sister was out and so was my brother. At the point it happened I was home alone. Before the knock on the door I was stressing out and worrying. My sister or my mum hadn't returned from being out.