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Chapter 9- Breathe again.

Author: Vee Clemens
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I barely remembered how I got to the hospital from the apartment.

One minute I was laughing about a horrible date with Priya, the next I was running for my car, my chest so tight it hurt.

Priye had offered to drive,as she felt I was not really in an emotionally stable state to drive. I didn't argue, because I didn't have the strength or will power to. I just needed to be with my family at that moment.

Mom had updated us that they were on their way to the hospital. I panicked when she didn't pick up after I tried calling back, immediately I received the text she had sent earlier on.

“It’s your father…” kept flashing and replaying in my head, each replay worse than the last.

By the time I hit the highway, every worst-case scenario had paraded through my imagination.

Every siren jilted me up. I visualized flatlines, tubes, the kind of sterile beeping that ends private worlds. Priye did her best trying to distract me, she did give it her best even though I was unmoved. I on
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