Fury Rising (41 page)

              So I’m off. I’m leaving this city with its memories and its charms. With its cracked playgrounds and never-ending seagull stained sidewalks. Off to seek my fortune in the big bad world. Because that’s how my cookie crumbles.

              Because if I stay, she will never be free of me. And I can’t do that to the girl I love.

              Twenty-one days and counting.

              And one day I will beat this disease. I will kill off the blackness that eats me up from the inside and I will find myself back in the light. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

              And one day no more Baggers will walk the earth.

              Don’t cry for me, Vancouver.

              I am Nothing.

              I live.

The End