The Joie Chronicles Chapter 2 (Republish)

Frankly, I learned about her being sick from Anna at that fateful conference after Joie left. I never told Joie that I know. Eventually, she let us know.

I was shocked the first time I learned that she has cancer. I never knew someone, much less a friend, who has leukemia. I never took pity or felt sorry for her. I was much more worried for her, and for me because I might lose somebody that I care about.

You will never figure out that she has leukemia from the posts in her thread at the WITCH board. She constantly changes her display name to fun things. She'll post "nyaha!" if she finds your post funny. She also posts in pink, earning her "agent" name Geek in the Pink. Most of all, she looks at being sick in a positive way.

Our midnight chatting about anything under the sun never showed that she feels sick at the moment. Though she tells me, she would do so by replying with laughing smileys and her usual "nyaha!". You'll never really know she's sick when you chat with her. It just shows when you ask her if she'd seen the latest movie releases.

As her condition is delicate her grand-pére, who lives with her in France, does not allow her to go out. She'll know the stories just by listening to her friends who've watched the latest releases. I once asked her if she's going to watch The Da Vinci Code. She said she wants to and she was imagining how the opening scene will be. I also remembered telling her that I was saddened and crying at the end of X-Men The Last Stand. she told me not to cry though she didn't know what exactly the ending of X-Men The Last Stand was. I once told her that I can send her pirated copies; we just laughed at the idea. Next thing I know, she posted that it really was a very sad ending. Her friend told her about it. I promised her when she comes back I'll tell her the whole story.

I learned recently from Anna, who's in contact with Joie's fiancé, that she's doing all right. I also learned that in April, her doctors stopped her chemotherapy. She was not responding to it anymore.