Unit V

Everly's journey to the hospital was shorter than usual as she prayed that everything was all good with her friend. Everly and Ava had been friends since high school. When they both went to college they lost touch and contact.

One day Ava moves in next door and met her high school friend. They rekindled the friendship and their family join in too. Everly had Kieran while she was in her first year of college which was what made the age gap in their children pronounced.

They entered the emergency room with urgency. They saw Ava sitting in one of the chairs. Arabella rushed to her mom book still in hand. Both girls had disposed of their ice cream after hearing the distressing news from their mom.

"Mom," Arabella said holding her hands.

Ava's head was bowed and tears rolled down her cheeks. She did not know the best way to tell the girls that she was now a widow and that they were now fatherless.

A young man who looked like he was just in his twenties staggered towards them and went down on his knees. Both girls and Everly watched the man as he knelt. Ava was kind-hearted but it was the first time that Everly saw her not taking pity on the young man.

Under normal circumstances, Ava would not allow the young man to kneel as she would make him stand up and comfort him warmly.

"It's my mistake," the young man said silently.

Ava looked up at the man. If it was possible for a fire to breathe out her eyelids then she would have sent fire to consume him immediately. Why was he drunk driving in the daytime? Why did he not call a driver to drive him? Why did he have to kill her husband of all people? All those questions swirled in her mind.

"I am sorry," the man said again. Tears went down his face.

"You should be," Ava said her voice shaky.

"Why were you driving drunk at noon? You've taken away my husband bring him back" she added crying. She knelt beside him and held his collar.

"Why why why?" she asked continuously as the years fell uncontrollably down her face. She hated the situation she was in.

The gravity of the situation settled in the mind of Everly's mind. She could not believe what she was currently hearing. It was very unbelievable.

"Ava, what do you mean?" Everly asked crouching down to her friends level.

"This monster ran down my husband as he was trying to cross the street," Ava said pointing to the man in front of her. Her sentence was not coordinated but Everly, Seraphina, and Arabella could get the message very clearly.

"Impossible" Seraphina screamed.

Arabella felt tears going down her face. It was hot and she looked down at the man in front of her.

"What did my dada do so wrong?" Arabella asked in a gentle voice looking at the man.

"I am so sorry," the man said again and again.

Arabella ran out of the emergency from toward the hospital road. She sat there tears in her eyes and with a tight chest.

Her father was gone and she never got to say goodbye