The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter XXVIII: Talking With Autumn.

Summer:

Date: June 28, 2020.

The next day came I visited the hospital so I could talk to Autumn for the first in almost an entire month since she was first admitted into the hospital on the eleventh. And I would catch her up to speed with what was going on since she was admitted into the hospital.
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I grabbed my masks as I always did whenever I was at the hospital or anywhere else in public due to the virus that was spreading. I entered the hospital and went to the front desk where a nurse came to me and said: "Hello, how may I help you?"

Summer: "I'm here to see Autumn Smith-Williams."

Nurse: "Name please?"

Summer: "Summer Smith."

Nurse: "Are you here to visit?"

Summer: "Yes, ma'am."

Nurse: "All right, sign this form please."

She handed me a visitor form to fill out. After I filled it out, I handed it back to her and she replied: "Thank you. Her room number is 626 and on the second floor to the right side."

Summer: "All right. Thank you."

I went up th stairs that led to the second floor and looked to the right and found room 626. Autumn's room number. I walked towards the room and looked inside to see Cedric, Violet, and Lavender n the room-- Violet, Lavender, and Cedric were hugging her and she wrapped her arms around the girls to try and join in on the hug and I could hear them cry with joy and relief, knowing that she was okay and was going on the way to recovering from her surgery and she joined in as well with shedding tears of relief. I deicided to wait until they were done.

After some time, the three had left the room but noticed me quickly and Cedric said: "Oh, hey, Summer, I didn't know you were here."

Violet: "Me neither."

Lavender: "Or me."

Summer: "I've been out here. I also came here to talk with her but I was just waiting for y'all to get done with greeting and talking with Autumn. I know how much y'all missed her and worried about her."

Lavender: "That's true."

Violet:  "Well, we're done with our visit so you can go ahead and talk with her, Aunt Summer. I'm sure you have a lot to tell her."

Summer: "Oh, I sure do, Lavender. I sure do."

Cedric: "Go right ahead, Summer."

Summer: "Thank you."

I carefully entered the room to see Autumn laying down in the hospital bed. I knocked on the open door and waited for Autumn to respond. She turned her head to see me standing at the door and she weakly said: "Hey, Summer, come in."

I cautiousless walked into the room and asked: "H-hey, Autumn, how're feeling?"

Autumn: "Slightly weak but I'm okay. What's happened when I was in the hospital aside from what happened during the surgery?"

Summer: "You remember Zachary, our family rival, right?"

Autumn: "Yeah, I remember him. What about him?"

Summer: "He's the same one who landed you in the hospital and gave you the needle type of anesthesia before your surgery. Apparently he was opposing as a doctor just so he could make more money even if it costed the lives of sick and dying people and I have also been told that the husband of one of the nurses beat the living daylights of him right outside of the building because he touched her."

Autumn: "I don't know anything about that but I can assure that if I wasn't in this hospital bed right now and I caught Zachary in the act of touching another woman when he wasn't supposed to, I would've arrested him on the spot."

Summer: "I know you would have."

Autumn: "But I must ask you: What happened the night I was admitted into the hospital and what happened while I was in here?"

Summer: "Well, on the night you were brought here and Zachary told us that the stint he placed during one of your appointments the wrong way, Phillip went on to beat him to death. Well, not to death, but you get what I'm saying."

Autumn: "I know."

Summer: "And after we went home that same night, the fact that you were in the hospital led me staight back to drinking my sorrow and stress away like I had nothing else better to do with my life and during that time while I was in the forest, I experienced what my power has to offer as well as the rest in the group and it's only a matter of time until we actually receive them. But although I was busy in the forest, I still worried about you every single day that when I learned that the anesthsia wore off mid-surgery, I went straight back to drinking once again and I was stressed about everything that I snapped and I still worried about you and my worries only went away when I learned that you were going to be okay. This just goes to show that I have a lot of problems when it comes to worrying myself to death over my family. You're my older sister and I was so scared to lose you and so was Cedric, Violet, Lavender, and the rest of us.

Autumn: "Hey, it's okay, Summer. I can assure that I'm okay now and I'll be out of the hospital soon."

Summer: "I still find it foolish that I was worrying about you."

Autumn: "Summer, Let me tell something. I'm not saying that you shouldn't worry about your own family, but the best piece of advice that I can give you is to keep moving forward and not to worry too much about what's going on with one of us. Focus on what you're currently doing and try not to flood your mind with al of the negaive things that's going on in your life."

Summer: "I promise I will, Autumn."

Autumn: "What else has been going on since I was admitted here?"

Summer: "Well, Zachary was apparently plotting with his son to take our family's cancer charity and when declined the offer, Waren, who was still following the plan, tried to get me killed with a cocktail with a chemical that would intoxicate me faster than usual but I convinced him to help me out and to not follow him father's plan. He is definetly trying to take this charity by force, but that's not going to happen."

Autumn: "Not in a million years."

Summer: "Damn right!"

We talked and talked for hours on end and I shared so much with her that I hadn't had the chance to tell her until the end of the day. And I left that hospital, happy knowing that my sister was going to be okay after all and would still continue her fight like the true warrior she is.