Ways to Live Forever Page #3

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I've got lots of things to do.

Dad, don't.

I'm fine here.

Daniel, don't start all that again.

Not in front of the kids.

Dad thinks I'm getting better

because they're not giving me

chemotherapy anymore.

Mum, what's the matter?

He thinks I could get cured

if I behaved like a normal kid.

Doctors can get things wrong.

Look at Sam. Just look at...

Sam!

Set down.

I hate nose bleed.

I hate them.

I hate everybody fussing.

Ella being a helpful Brownie,

passing tissues to Mum.

Mum telling me what to do like

I don't know already.

And Dad not moving,

just standing there looking at me

with that odd look on his face...

as if I was an alien...

Sam!

Sam!

Sam!

Annie Dracula!

You can leave it at Dracula.

Annie isn't really a vampire.

We call her that because

she deals in blood.

What have you been up to then?

What was I meant to say?

I've started writing a book

and record a video.

I launched a rocket.

Dad thinks I'm well again.

I kicked a football again.

Nothing.

That's it done.

For now, pirate, you've got

to take things easy.

This is a catheter.

They use it to take blood

from me and they inject

stuff in through it.

Right now they're giving me platelets.

It's a pain,

because it's always there

so I never forget I'm ill.

This is my IV stand.

Actually, I'm not tied to it,

it just looks like that.

The platelets are hooked up to it,

they come down this tube

to the catheter and they give them

to me when I've had a hemorrhage...

that's all you can say

about the subject really.

Things that I want to do before I die.

It's wonderful.

It's freezing.

Alright. So let's make a list of things

we'd like to do.

A list of wishes.

Then we'll put them in this bottle

and throw it into the sea.

So. I'll go first.

One, go to the Grand Canyon.

Two, clean out the attic.

Three learn how to make meringues,

and four, train the dog.

Train the dog?

What kind of a wish is that?

You don't know our dog.

Your turn, Felix.

Be rich and famous, nuke all doctors,

see Arabian in concert.

You've already seen Arabian in concert.

Your brother took you.

See Arabian in concert again.

Sam.

Be a famous scientist,

find things out and write about them.

Watch all the 18 rated horror films

I'm not allowed to watch.

Go up down escalators.

Ride in an airship.

Be a teenager and drink,

smoke and have girlfriends...

Ella...

See a ghost, go up in a spaceship

and see the stars, break a world record...

Are you going to do all these things?

I don't know, probably not.

We could have a shot at them,

couldn't we?

They're not things to do really.

They're more like...wishes,

not real things.

So? Mrs. Willis is going

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