Arc Chronicles

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Chapter I

When the end came for me, I died how I lived: in the hospital. I've always been sick, even as a child. When I was born, I suffered from complications. I don't know the scientific word for it, but, my immune system was compromised in laymen's terms. Some kind of autoimmune system disease. I couldn't tell you what it was called if you asked me, the word was long and probably had a Latin root.

I spent most of my free time in the hospital. As a child, I was in and out of the hospital all the time. The only place I spent more time than the hospital was school and what a miracle that was. It was the only part of my life that felt somewhat normal and even then, I had missed so much school because of this cursed hospital.

More than once, my mother cried for me, blaming herself. She had given me this weak body and she apologized so much. Of course, it wasn't her fault. How could it be? My younger brother and sister didn't have this problem. It couldn't be my mother. I was just born u