Food Is Love!

Recipe 70: Miracle

Road Trip Day 26
Location: a hospital in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley

Alex's POV:

I've been keeping a watch over Flonne...it's been three hours since she lost consciousness. I'm so worried right now...especially about how her brother fares right now...he has a bad gunshot over his back...

"...hnng..." Then I hear her moaning...as her hand starts to move, and starts to wake up. "...ugh...huh? Where am I?"

"We're in the hospital, Flonne." I simply replied.

"HOSPITAL?!?! WHE-WHERE'S JAKE?!?! WHERE IS HE?!" Quickly, she sat up...and her emotion started to build up. "I WANT TO KNOW! HOW IS HE?!?!"

"He's on the other room, Flonne...but he's..."

But before I finished my side...Flonne starts to sob...

"...sniff...sniff..why...sniff...why does this happening to me? I just wanted...sniff...to bring my family back together again...sniff...but...sniff...why...sniff...why does somebody needs to suffer?!"

I stood up and approach Flonne...I hugged her very tightly...to console her sorrow...

"HUHUHU!!! PLEASE TELL ME...sniff..PLEASE TELL ME THAT HE WILL SURVIVE THIS...sniff...PLEASE...sniff...I DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN THE SAME FATE AS MY DAD. HUHUHU!!!"

"Don't cry, Flonne...be brave." I encourage her to calm her down. "I believe that he will survive this...just...just hold on..."

Flonne keeps on crying and crying on my shoulders for a minute or two...I felt how deep her sadness is...she wanted to bring her family back...but it seems that fate doesn't want them to do so...

"Alice. Alex." Then a familiar voice was heard on the room...it was Danica, holding a long piece of paper.

"Oh...hey, Danica." Accompanying Flonne, I approach her. "What's the update? Does his condition serious?"

"Yes, Alex. In fact, he's in critical condition." Danica explains. "The bullet that he endures rips off some organs of his body...but almost hitting his heart. If a surgery cannot be done within the next 24 hours, his chance of surviving will be decrease significantly."

Danica then let me glance through the piece of paper that she holds: it is a medical bill for the surgery...which cost P500,000.00!

"Hmm...there's no other choice but to...use all the money that we saved in the food truck." I make the only suggestion that we can to help Jake.

"But...it's not enough." Danica sadly refutes. "Do you know how much money do we have? It's just a half of the cost of the surgery! I don't know how will gonna get the rest of it."

As Danica explains everything, I looked back at Flonne...her tears continues to flow from her eyes...and is close to sobbing again...

"Flonne...just don't lose hope...when I say he will gonna survive this...he WILL survive this...I'm sure...very sure...that a miracle will gonna happen to us...just hold on, Flonne...please."

Then I wiped her tears to prove that I'm true to what I've said. Without saying a word, Flonne faintly smiled...as I bring her to where her brother is right now.

Alice Flonne's POV:

Lexi and Danica accompanied me towards the intensive care unit...where I saw my brother Jake...he is bandaged around his chest...his mouth is entubed in a ventilator...while is attended by so many doctors...visibly felt pity on what has happened to him. As my friends leave me for awhile...and as I watch the drama unfold on my brother's ward...I thought to myself, how in the world will miracles will happen? I mean...where in the middle of nowhere...so far away from home...we don't have enough money...andwe're just four of us...I don't even know where Azmina is right now...sigh...huh?