Caves by Brittani Miller
Humans love to believe that it’s going to get better. Her lungs had been the first thing to go. She couldn’t venture up a flight of stairs without a five-minute break to catch her breath. Still, she’d said she was fine. When her coughing fits overtook her sentences and her best friend begged her to go to the doctor, she insisted it was just a bad cold. Next was her stomach. There wasn’t a food she could keep down, so she stopped eating. Everyone said she needed to keep her st