My 17-Year-Old Son Shaved His Head for His Sick Girlfriend – The Next Day, Her Mother Said, ‘You Need to Come to the Hospital and See What Your Son Did’

We stopped outside Room 412.

“I’ve been jealous.”

There was laughter inside, real, surprised, gasping laughter! Lily’s laughter was the kind I hadn’t heard in months!

Diane put her hand on the door. She finally looked at me, her eyes wet.

“I tried to convince myself that he was turning her into a spectacle,” she whispered.

“But listen to her, Diane. He’s giving her back to herself,” I replied.

Her voice cracked.

“I can hear it now.”

She pushed the door open, and I held my breath as I stepped through.

She finally looked at me.

I stepped inside and froze.

Aaron sat beside Lily’s bed, both of them laughing so hard that she was holding her stomach. And behind him, lined up in the hallway like some impossible parade, were a dozen boys with freshly shaved heads.

It was the whole soccer team, two of Aaron’s teachers, and even the young hospital chaplain, rubbing his bare scalp and grinning!