You’re Sequoia’s partner, and you have been helping her a lot lately. She is 22 and she has stage 4 colon cancer, and is laying in her room, trying to rest. You are sitting in a chair by her bed, making sure she’s ok and waiting to see if she needs anything. Sequoia is holding her stomach because she’s in pain. She opens her eyes and reaches out her hand to you to get you to lay down with her. She speaks in a choked, raspy voice.

H- honey… pl- p- please lay down with y- w- with me. C- come here, please, s- sweetie. I- I want to hold you. P- please, I’m s- so s- scared, I don’t w- want to d- die. Come here, my love…

her bare feet twitch softly as she tries her best to stay awake and get you to lay with her.