To The Late Nights .

Chapter 3

I went straight to the registration counter.

"is there a Annastasia Weldon here? she's my mom. " my cheeks were getting hot, like I could cry again.

"yes dear, she's currently in operation room 2 now. and I believe that you have a brother?"

"yes, Emmanuel."  I started crying again, "where is he?"

"he's in ward 211 ,he just has a few injuries. he will be fine. just go down the hall on your right."

He is fine. My brother is fine. Will mama be fine? Please be fine.

The walk down the hall felt so long. 203,205,207,209. 211. I opened the sliding door, I didn't know how to feel. Emmanuel was accompanied by a nurse, then he saw me. No words can explain how relieved I was to see my little brother again. I hugged him so tightly.

"我永远不会让任何事发生在你身上，姐姐不会离开你,姐姐爱你" I whispered underneath my breath.  I pat his head kissing his forehead. (I won't ever let anything happen to you again, I won't leave you, I love you.)

"What happened Emmanuel?"

"We went out to get dinner, a drunk driver sped down the road. I was at the back. Everything happened so suddenly. I- I- I'm sorry." he started to tear up.

"shhh shhhh it's okay sweetie.it's okay. everything will be fine."  it must be so hard for him. Such a young boy, the thought of it makes me hug him tighter.

He soon fell asleep, an angel he was when he fell asleep. I went out to the hall , searching for the operation room. I sat at the waiting lounge. IN was shining bright on the red sign. Tired and exhausted I heard a familiar voice.

"Amelia?" Scarlet.

I turned and got up towards her. I rushed into her arms. 

"I don't know what to do Scar, I was asleep. They just went out for dinner. I didn't know that it happened. No one called my phone. Emmanuel is just a young boy, my poor little boy." I started to tear up again. sniffling "He's in ward 211. Mama is still in the operation room. This wouldn't have happened if I was up. We could've had a normal dinner at home. Fuck, Scarlet. What do i do. Do i call my dad?  I don't know what to do."

"Hey hey now. Relax. I'll be with you alright? Don't blame yourself, no one wanted this to happen. Okay?"

I shook my head, still blaming myself. I was in her arms, the only one in this town that knows me better than the rest. "Want me to get you a sandwich from the cafeteria?"

I nodded, wiping away my tears with the sleeve of my sweater. I sat back down again. The bright red sign still on. Scarlet rubbed my cheeks ,her eyes saying "It'll be alright."  I waited. Messages was spilling in my DMs. "sorry about what happened" "stay strong xx" "how are you holding up?" tired to care, I didn't know how to feel.  Why was I the only one who didn't know anything? Nevermind. The only thing I'm worried about is Mama and Emmanuel at the moment. 

" Do I call my dad? "  I haven't seen him since he and Mama got divorced. I only know that he got married and had their firstborn a few months ago. It feels wrong to call him about this,at this hour of the day, but I have decisions to make.

I dialed in his number on my phone screen. 

"hello? Amelia?" he was asleep, I could tell.

"hey dad. um, i'm sorry to call you in the middle of the night like this."

"it's okay. what's going on?"

"mama and Emmanuel got into an accident. could you come down to the hospital? please? it's fine if-"

"i'll be there as soon as possible sweetheart." he sounded rushing.

"thanks, dad." I sniffled.

Scarlet finally came back with a sandwich. "sorry, the cafeteria didn't have anything that you'd like, so I went to FamilyMart. "

I grabbed the sandwich and mouthed thank you to her. 

"I'll go check on your brother." she said, waving off.

It was quiet for another hour, then the red sign turned off. A doctor walked out of the entrance. 

"Are you Annastasia's daughter?"  I nodded.

"Hi, I'm Doctor Hendricks. Your mother will be fine, although, there may be some side effects on her memory. The crash impacted on her skull, it caused a major blood damage in the brain. She's currently in a coma, but we'll see how she progresses."

"Your mother will be fine." that's all I needed to know. Mama will be fine.

"Thank you so much doctor, this means. so much" I looked at the floor. Thank you lord for sparing her life. Mama will be fine.

 I saw them pushing mama's bed out the OR, I followed them back to our ward. They shifted her carefully to the bed in the ward. My heart felt so heavy to see her like this, her head wrapped up, bruises around her eyes. Mama was still unconscious, I sat by her the whole night, holding her hand. Scarlet went back to the house to get me and Emmanuel some clothes. The room was quiet, only beeping sounds coming from the monitor on the other side of mama's bed. I couldn't sleep, probably because I drank too much coffee. I checked my phone again, it was 2:36 am. That wasn't the reason why my heart skipped a beat.

" message from @eddyfranco 'hey,you alright?' " he texted me? hah, great ,first text I get from him was because of sympathy. But still, I found myself smiling.

I opened the notification. "yeah, im fine." deleting it, instead, I sent an Instagram heart,              sighing to myself. Now he's going to think that I'm a big bitch. 

Scarlet came back with our clothes, she even brought Emmanuel's teddy and a blanket for me. What did I do to deserve her? We went outside to have a few conversations, I had a few cigarettes to release my stress, she'd always stop me but this time she didn't. When we went back inside, she fell asleep on other chair beside of Emmanuel's bed, I felt sorry that she had to do so much for us especially at this hour. 

It was already 4 am when I found myself dozing off on the side of mama's bed.

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Here we learn that a friend in need is a friend indeed. Have a friend like Scarlet? Tell them that you love them !<3

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