The Morgue

Sameeksha shut the door in Severino’s and Michelangelo’s faces and lowered her face to cry. She could not believe that the girl who saved her, was dead. And now she had to inform all the other girls. How was she going to do that? Her hands and her mouth were not working properly. How was she going to tell them or even type about Renata on her phone.

She decided that telling the girls over the phone about Renata was not the right way to tell them about her. This was a piece of face-to-face news. She curled her quivering lips into a small ‘O’ and exhaled a few times. She took out her phone and typed in, “I need you all to come to the hospital ASAP. There is something I have to tell you. Don’t call as I won’t pick up the phone, just come and I will tell you everything.” And she hit ‘send’.

The cryptic message was enough to give anyone a heart attack. The girls saw the message and immediately left their jobs to come to the hospital.

“Dr. Malhotra, we will need this room,” said a nurse.