Todos os capítulos de One Call Changed Everything: Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 15

After that day, I started visiting the hospital twice a day instead of once. More specifically, I would visit for 10 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the afternoon. Leo's condition continued to worsen. He threw up more often, the pain became harder to manage, and he barely slept for most nights. Yet, he never once let me see how much he was suffering. Whenever I came by, he would force a smile and ask if I had eaten, if I was getting enough sleep, and whether I was falling behind in my classes in Sustrax. "You should go back," he said one afternoon. I was peeling an apple for him. My hand stilled at that. "You have classes, don't you?" he continued. "You've already missed so many of them. If you stay any longer, you'll never catch up to your peers." He looked at me with a strange sense of peace in his eyes. "Quincy, I thought I was going to die without ever seeing you again." His voice softened. "But I've seen you now, and that's… That's enough." I set the app

The next day, I went to the hospital as promised. Leo's door was closed. I had just reached for the handle when raised voices stopped me in my tracks. "I'm begging you, Mom. Please stop." Leo sounded weak, but there was a stubborn edge to his voice. "Why should I?" a middle-aged woman snapped from inside. "You're dying. Yet, she still has the nerve to come here! What does she want? To watch you suffer? "If it weren't for her, would our family ever have turned its back on you? Would you have ended up living in that basement? Would you be lying here now?" "Mom!" "Am I wrong? Everything was fine before she came along. Because of her, you—" "Enough!" Leo's voice rose before dissolving into a violent coughing fit. I pushed the door open. An expensively dressed woman stood beside his bed, glaring down at him. The moment she saw me, her expression grew grimmer than before. "You actually dared to show your face here?" She marched toward me. "After everything you did to my