All Chapters of After the Happy Three: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

LENA “Her condition is very critical,” he said, and the words felt like a physical blows to my stomach. “Her organs are failing. The years of alcohol abuse and chronic stress have finally caught up with her. The sheer stress on her cardiovascular system have finally caught up. We’ll keep her under observation for the next twenty-four hours, but I have to be blunt.” “She has a very slim chance of making it through this time, Lena. If you have things to say, say them now. The doctor's words settled over the room like a heavy blanket. For a moment, I thought I'd heard him wrong. Twenty-four hours? No. No, he couldn't mean that. I stared at the file in his hands instead of looking at his face. The words on the pages blurred until they became meaningless black lines. If I looked into his eyes and saw pity, I knew I would break. There had to be another treatment. Another surgery. Another specialist. Something. Just something. "Doctor..." My voice barely came out. "Are you sa

LENA I felt a splash of water on my face. I flinched, gasping as I staggered to my feet. I stared at him for a moment. Even through the darkness of the night, I could see that he belonged to a world very different from mine. I was still staring at him when his voice cut through my thoughts. "Wait, seriously?" He let out a mocking laugh, his eyes narrowing as they landed on the badge pinned to my chest. "A nurse? You've got to be kidding me.” "People trust you with their lives, yet you're sitting in the middle of the road waiting to become roadkill? If you can’t take care of yourself, how do you expect to take care of a patient?" I stared at him without uttering a single word. I couldn't find the strength to answer him. "Now get the hell out of my way," he barked, the pity in his voice replaced by pure arrogance. He didn't offer a hand. He didn't ask if I was okay. He simply climbed back into his sleek black car and sped off, the tires splashing a fresh wave of dirty puddle wat