Mind over Matter Chapter 1.

Peter had a headache. He had been having them for almost a week now. It wasn’t so bad when he was alone, but for some reason, every time he was around other people it grew. After the first few days he had dropped going to classes. Sitting at a lecture for 2 hours surrounded by 100 other students was more than his head could take.
He sat in the corner of the library now. He had to get his studying done and this was one of the only places at Uni where there were so few people that he could concentrate.

Except for a couple sitting a few tables away from him, he was alone in the library. Somehow Peter was aware that his headache would be less, if there weren’t there. He wanted them to leave. The more he thought about it, there more his head hurt, and the more he just wanted them to leave.

Suddenly, without a word to each other, the couple got up and left. It seemed a bit weird to Peter, but was just happy they were gone. His headache lessened considerably and he could finally get some work done.

After he was done with his assignment Peter decided to get a doctor’s appointment to get his head looked at. It could not be normal to have a headache so long. He had taken some painkillers, but it had not helped at all.

After calling the office, the secretary said that the doctor could see him later that day. Peter went home to his apartment to make himself some food and kill the few hours before the appointment.

When he got to the doctor he was told to take a seat, and the doctor would be right with him. Sitting in the office, his head starting to hurt a lot again. There were not that many people in the room. Only an old couple waiting before him and the secretary behind the desk, but the old couple was sitting so close to him that his headache was terrible.

The secretary was kind of cute, a little older than him, not more than 30, maybe less. She was wearing a white formal shirt, which was shaped to show her slim waste and her amble breasts. Her legs were covered with tight jeans. She had long blond hair which went down past her shoulders.

He would have liked to talk to her, but he couldn’t think strait, let alone have a conversation, with this headache. If only the old couple would leave. Again his head started to hurt more the more he thought about the old couple leaving, and again after a few seconds the old couple got up and left, without saying a word to each other.
This got Peter curious. It had to be a coincidence. He had said a word or anything, right?

He didn’t have much more time to think about it, before the doctor came out looking for the old couple. When the secretary said they had left, he asked Peter to come in instead.

After explaining the symptoms to the doctor, the doctor examines peter. He did all the usual test, but couldn’t find anything wrong. Peter did have a little bit high blood pressure, but this could be from the headache more than the other way around.

The doctor told Peter that this meant that something more serious might be wrong. Peter didn’t like the tone of his voice. “It is quite possible that you have a brain tumor, which is pressing against your skull and causing your headaches.” he said. Peters eyes got big and he felt sick all of a sudden. “Don’t be alarmed yet, we don’t know anything yet, and even if it is true, there is many options.”

Peter took a big breath and tried to calm down. He looked at the doctor. “What happens now?”
“I will book and emergency time for you at the hospital tomorrow to have your head scanned. In the meantime, go home and get some rest.”

Peter thanked the doctor for the help and left. As he walked home to his apartment, he wandered about calling his parents and telling them about the situation, but he didn’t want to worry them if it turned out to be nothing. On top of that he really wasn’t in the mood to listen to his mother’s constant worrying. It would not cheer him up the slightest.
The next day Peter went to the straight to the hospital. After they emitted him and found him a bed, a battery of tests was made. Quite a few times his head was scanned in various different machines.

Peter spends almost a week in the hospital. When he realized that it really was serious, he had called his parents who had come down to be with him. The doctors had confirmed that Peter indeed had a tumor, but it didn’t look like or behaved as cancer or anything else they knew about.