My eyes were comprehensively set on Erin who laid like a dead human on the hospital bed. She had a ventilator connected to her nostrils, while the cardiogram was reading her heartbeat. As well, she was on drip, and had been taking it for a couple of hours. Though these things were helping her to survive, to me, it felt like nothing was changing. She had undergone the surgical operation, yet she hadn't woken up.  Was she going to survive? Mom was feeling good already, and would probably get discharged in a few hours, same as my driver. But here was Erin, being so close to death.  I wiped off the tears on my cheek, sniffled. I didn't know what to do. To worsen all this, Seth hadn't returned yet. He had promised to be with me all through this, but for some reason, he vanished, and hadn't even bothered to call or text me. How upsetting was that?  I took a deep breath, and stood up. Turning

I was so, so anxious. While the doctors had been trying to restore Erin's health, due to the loud wail from Louella, they had had no choice but to ask us to leave the room. And, that made me even more scared. Had she died, but they hadn't wanted us to know about it? I tightened my fist, closed my eyes.  No.  Not her.  She didn't deserve to die.  The door of the ICU opened, and the doctors and nurses started ambling out of the room. Immediately, not giving them a chance to take a breath, Louella hurried over to them, attacking them with questions.  The doctor sighed. "Please, please, do calm down," the middle-aged man prompted. "The good news is, we've been able to restore her heart beat back to its normal form. Well, she is still in a coma state, but I can assure you that she'll recover in a few days or a few hours." 

Louella••••••••• I took a glance at my wrist watch, then sighed hard. I really didn't know what to do anymore. He wasn't taking my calls, replying to my texts. It had been almost a day since he had gone, which was a bit bothersome.  At first, I had thought he had probably gone over to Tanya's place, to maybe comfort her in this hard time. But no, that wasn't it. I had called her, and she had said that she hadn't seen him since yesterday.  I brushed my fingers into my hair, kept my elbow on the table, exhaled hard. I wished he could know how worried I was. If he didn't call, text, or come back home by tonight, I would have no choice but to report this to the police. I only hoped that he hadn't harmed himself. He really seemed so hurt yesterday.  "Ms. Warren." I raised my neck to see who had called me.

I rolled uncomfortably on my bed. The bed was huge, spacious enough to accommodate seven people, yet, I felt so, so choked, even though I was the only one on the bed. A sharp pain played in my upper abdomen, and I felt the need to vomit.  My back hurt like a rock had been thrown against it, my head hurt so much, my stomach hurt, as well as my throat. Also, a rare pain raced in my chest. I knew something wasn't right.  In the last one week, I had been feeling this pain. I hadn't been able to work due to it. Good for me, Rita was pretty hard working, so she was able to handle everything at the office. Mom wasn't around, Erin still hadn't gotten her memory back. The only person who could help me was Seth, but he wasn't even in town.  It felt like something jolted into my throat, and sent a wrong impulse to travel all through my body. What could I do now? Who could help me out?  Hard

Seth wasn't saying anything to me. He was only staring dumbly like his brain had gotten numb. Wait, this couldn't be true, could it? Seth and I had made a vow. We had promised to stay with each other till eternity. And yes, I trusted him completely. He wouldn't do something this horrible.  I turned to Sonya, glared hard. "Hey, what do you want? Aren't you willing to give up on him? Can't you see how happy we are together? Just forget about him. Get rid of your fantasy!" "I'm not lying. I'm really carrying his child," she said the same thing again.  I sniggered. This woman was making me furious. "Please, stop this. Don't make me hurt you. Have you gone mad?!" "I said I'm not lying!" She retorted. She glared as well, some tears in her eyes. "You think you—" "Shut up!" I couldn't contain my wrath, so I hit her across her face. I hit her hard.