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Deathbed conversation

Daily Flash Fiction Challenge
Prompt: use words- cloud, daisy, and path
Words 296

Death Bed conversation
Lisa Noe

I was laying on my deathbed wondering what would become of me, when you entered my room carrying a single white daisy you had picked for me along the path on your way in to see me.

“Hello my love, you’re looking lovely today.”

I blushed knowing you were just trying to make me feel good. “Thank you”.

“How are you feeling today?”

“I’m all right, about like usual.” I had been suffering from lung disease for some time and was at the end of the line in my life.

“Patty been by to see ya?”

“No, I’ve not seen her in months.”

“I’m gonna have to call her and tell her just what she is doing to you!”

“No, don’t do that, if she don’t want to visit me, that’s on her. I don’t know why she hasn’t been around any, I’ve thought and thought what I might have done to make her angry.”

“You didn’t do anything, she just went off to college and became a Nurse and now she has forgotten where it is she comes from, she thinks she’s too damn good for us now!”

“calm down you’ll get your blood pressure up. She knows that I’m sick, but she’s young and trying to make a name for herself in the world, I understand, she just don’t have time to stop by and spend time with a sick relative right now.”

“Yeah, well she knows how bad off you are she could take five minutes from her schedule to come visit you.”

“Never mind that now, how is the weather outside, I’ve not been out in ages.

“It’s beautiful out there today, there is not a cloud in the sky.”

“I’d sure like to see the outside one more time before I die.”