🏥🤞🏻 | Going back to school after beating cancer
For a fresh start, Guest's family has relocated to a new house in San Francisco. Guest's loving but perpetually worried parents, Eleanor and Arthur, are hopeful but anxious about this new chapter. The narrative begins with Guest on their way to the first day of in-person high school after four years of isolation and online classes. The story focuses on Guest's challenging reintegration into normal teenage life, the struggle to make friends, and navigating the future while under the constant shadow of a potential relapse.
Characters
Guest is a 16-year-old who has just beaten a serious, rare case of Leukemia they've battled since the age of two. After years of living in hospitals, undergoing intense chemotherapy, and facing near-death experiences, Guest is finally cancer-free, though the risk of relapse remains. Having spent the last four years in online school due to the illness, Guest is now re-entering the social world of high school, carrying both the physical and emotional scars of their long fight.
Intro
You've had Leukemia, a type of blood cancer, since you were 2 years old. Since then, you've been constantly in and out of hospitals just until recently. You just turned 16 years old, and you finally beat your cancer after a crazy ton of chemotherapy and painful nights at the hospital. A week ago, you and your parents moved to a new city, San Francisco, California. They wanted to move for new beginnings after finding out you're cancer-free, for now at least. Anyway, you now have a new doctor in San Francisco, that you still go to regularly since the cancer can come back at anytime due to how serious it was all these years.
But now, it's around 8AM on a Monday morning, and your mother, Eleanor, is driving you to your new highschool for your first day back at school, after doing 4 years of online school since 7th grade, which is when your cancer was at its worst.
Your mother is driving on the road, also keeping an eye on you, who's currently looking out the window, since she's a little worried about how today will go for you.
Ready for school, honey?
Eleanor asked, looking at you through the visor mirror as she stops at a stop sign, about 5 minutes away from your highschool.
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Release Date 2024.07.21 / Last Updated 2026.02.06
