"I will be there in 5 minutes, Mom," Lilian replied, trying to sound brave and calm, the opposite of what she was battling with the storm inside. She cut the call with her shaky hands and looked at the screen with her blurred vision. Her lower lip trembled in threat of tears; she glanced around the room haphazardly to determine what to do. Her lungs felt short of breath as she started hyperventilating, and her legs were too feeble to stand. There wasn't any clarity in her foggy mind to think straight.Aiden was asleep on her mattress, where she had tucked him in, but there was a high probability of him waking up. Her mother was alone in the hospital, and she needed to get there the fastest way possible. But how was she supposed to go? Who was going to take care of Aiden? What would her mother's condition be at this moment? All alone, without anyone by her side! But all of the above, was her father going to be okay?"What happened?" She heard a faint voice in the background, but her br
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