[ WP ] Humans have the opportunity to never feel sadness or pain again , but in order to do so must offer up a sacrifice : one person to become immortal and experience only misery for the rest of eternity .

His hand thumped down onto the table, crawling around like a spider before finding the snooze button. He threw his blanket to the side and rolled out of bed. The cold water and minty toothpaste brought him out of his foggy daze. As he put the shampoo into his hair he thought back to when he would shampoo Kelsey's long brown hair. Tears ran down his face, mixing with the dripping water and running shampoo. 
 
 The warm sun glimmered against his face as he walked outside, but was quickly cut off by a cool breeze. 
 
 `` Good mornin' Alex!'' beamed the bus driver with a smile. 
 
 `` Morning!'' Alex said, faking a smiling back. 
 
 He briefly worried the driver would notice that he was faking, but just like every other morning he seemed to have been able to pull it off. He sat down behind a couple near the back. The women was laying asleep in the mans arms, as the man played with her hair. Alex's mind wandered back to the thought of Kelsey, and the memory of her laying in his arms on the couch watching tv. The sadness ate him up inside and it took everything he had not let a tear fall out. 
 
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 He arrived at the hospital as the clock sung it's noon song. He walked up to the clerk nodding his head and pushing his lips up with a half hearted smile, and signed the guest sheet. 
 `` She is n't doing well'' said the nurse with a gleeful look on her face. 
 `` How long do you think she has?'' asked Alex. 
 `` Only time can tell, but it seems as though time may be telling us very soon. Your mom will be in heaven with the angels very soon'' said the nurse cheerfully. 
 
'God damnit' he thought,'my wife is laying there dying and this nurse is talking to me like she's Mary fucking Poppins.' 
 
 He walked up to the bedside and lightly stroked his fingers across her frail and wrinkled skin. Her grey hair shining like silver illuminated by a beam of sunlight. 
 `` Kelsey sweetie, I'm here.'' 
 
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 He had her buried in his family graveyard, next to his great granddaughter and grandson. He sat in front of her grave crying, wishing for it all to come to an end. How many times would he have to go through this. Was n't the first 10 times punishment enough for losing that stupid lottery.
