Chapter twenty-five

Hailey's POV

My parents' insisted that we go to a restaurant to eat- like a family time out.

I dressed in a yellow flurry dress, a pair of yellow heels and I put on a suitable make ,completing it with a yellow purse.

We all took my father's car to the restaurant.

It was a very extravagant restaurant with tables and chairs.Waiters and waitresses rolled on skates to take the other of customers as quickly as possible.

We sat around a table my father booked and we looked in our menu book to decide the food we wanted.

A waiter came to take our order.

We sat there for not to too long until the waiter brought our required food.

He placed my mom and dads food infront of them and before he placed my soup on the table he tripped on his skates, sending the bowl of soup flying in the air and finally landing on my landing on my shoulder and slipping down to my lap.

I gritted my teeth in anger and the warm green liquid had reuinee my dress.

The music had stopped and most of the people around starred at me with their hands on thier lips.

The waiter stood up on the skates and had an apologetic look on his face.

I knew what he was about to say "I'm sorry "

I've these words a lot of times but they did nothing to me.

You kill someone's love one and you tell the person I'm sorry.Is sorry gonna bring the person back to life.

Sorry doesn't work on me.

Me.

Hailey Asgot.

And I don't forgive so easily.

I pushed the chair away,letting it fall on the floor, sending a piercing noise in the air but didn't matter to me.

I stood up and the crashing sound of the plate filled my ears.

I raised my hands to my head length ready to slap him when my mother held my hand.

"If you don't know how to use skates then don't wear them" I yelled at him

"I'm sorry ma'am.Is there anything I can do"

I knew he'd say that.

With a wave of my father's finger, he was gone and everyone went back to their  former thing.

"Let's go to the washroom and let me help you get this message out of your dress"  My mother took my hand.

"No mom.I'm fine" I told her and walked to the washroom.

I felt so humiliated. I stood infront of the large mirror of the washroom and pulled my tissues to dry my dress.

A girl about my age walked in.

She stopped in her tracks when she saw my dress.

She walked to the vanity and looked at me in it.

"What happened to your dress" She askee smoothly

"None of your-" She talked befire  I could finish my sentence

"I know what you're about to say.Don't worry I'm just gonna do what I came here for and go.

You know I just wanted to help you 'coz you're looking like an Ogre right now" She whined as she stared at polished nails.

I am in a bad mood right now because of what happened and this girl pissing me off is gonna let me pour all my  anger at her.....

but before I could do that two women walked in so I had to contain whatever I was feeling in there.

Then another joined as and then  another.

The girl went into a stall and came back to the sink to wash her hands and then dried them.

She pulled a lipstick from her purse and applied some on her lips before smoothing them together.

She shot me a dirty look and left.

After they had all left, I was the only one in the washroom and I had wasted a lot of tissues already trying to get the green out of my dress but I could see it was all effortless for the stain was stuck.

I sneaked out of the washroom and slipped outside without anyone noticing me.

I stood in the parking lot and leaned on mydad's car.

I hugged myself to brave the cold and stared into the sky.The stars where twinkling but there was no moon.

"Hailey?" I turned at the direction where I thought I heard the familiar voice and I saw André walking to me.

I plastered a smile on my face and hugged him.

He pulled me back and stared at my dress.

"What happened to your dress" He boomed, tilting his head downward to stare at lower part of my dress

The smile on my face disappeared" A stupid careless waiter "

"What are you doing here anyway?"

"I...I .. I  was here to meet my mom here" he stuttered

"Okay" I stretched the okay as I stared back into his eyes

"Okay I'll be going back inside.My mom must be waiting for me"  He snarled and weaved his way through the tightly knitted cars.

Why did he leave me standing here. He didn't even ask me how I was or  give me his jacket eventhough he saw I was cold

Before I can chase after him my mother appeared in the parking lot.

"Oh Hailey where were you.We've been waiting for you" Her voice snapped with concern as I my were fixed on André's diminishing figure.

"You're cold aren't you? " She asked with concern as she hugged me.

I nodded.

"Let's get back inside before your dad gets worried"

As we were entering the restaurant I saw André with a girl.I couldn't see her face properly because the lights around had casted a shadow  on her figure.

André's face was moving closer to hers as though he wants to...

No! It's his mom- I thought

I couldn't see what happened next because we entered

Xoey's POV

My head was nursed on the little space left on the bed because my mom's body had taken up all the space.

Dianna was standing beside, tears streaming down her face as she stared at my mom's unconscious body.

She was still holding the large cheque, the tiara on her head was tiltted and she was still in the heels and her gown.

"Dianna I should let you go home now" I remarked as I stood up from the chair.

She nodded.

"No.I'm not leaving mom" She said stubbornly;he voice rough.

"But Dianna you have to.It's nearly six" I said, checking the lock screen of my mom's phone to verify

" look it's quater past six" I said, showing her the phone screen but she didn't look away from mom.

"What if mom dies.How will we leave?" He voice beamed with concern,saddness and stubbornness

"Nothing as such will happen" I assured her moving to stand beside her.

"What if she does"

" No Dianna.Nothing as such will happen and keep positive vibes.If mom were awake she'd tell you the same"

The doctor came inside and observed my mother's drip.He turned his gaze to us.

" Which  one of you is the older?" He asked , looking at us from his glasses.

" I am" I said, moving over to to him.

"Okay.We need to run some tests on her to see what is really wrong with  her" he told me and looks at my mother again

I could hear the sharp noises of breath coming from my mother.

He walked to my mother and pressed her wrists.

"Her pulse is low" He said "I'll call the nurse to bring some oxygen"

"What does that mean?" Dianna asked as her voice shook with  fear but the doctor didn't answer and he fled out of the room.

" What does that mean sis?" She asked me.

I didn't want to tell her what it meant but I did anyway.

"It means that because she's mot breathing well, the heart  cannot work well and  pump enough blood to all parts of the body and when that happens -" I stopped talking

" she dies right?" Dianna asked me but the look on my face told her the answer.

"She dies" She concluded

That was just part one of the trouble.

We need money to pay mom's bills.

Plus we don't know what is wrong her exactly and if there's something wrong with her then it'll be another burden upon as.

No me.

It'll be a burden on me.

I dialed Aunt Carrie's number and pressed the call button.

She picked up the call

"Hello Aunt"

"Hello Xoey.Where are you now?" S he asked concerned

"Aunt we're fine.That's the reason why I called you.We're at the hospital"

"What happened.Tell me"

" Aunt it's about mom.She collasped and she was bleeding.The doctors don't know what is wrong with her so they'll run tests on her"

"We are you now.I'm coming there"

"I'll text you the location"

"Bye Xoey.I'll meet you there"

" Bye"

I cut the call and the doctor and a nurse came rushing in with a large gas tank.

They placed a tube with two long openings in her nose and turned on the oxygen.

The nursed peeled the cover off a syringe and inserted it into mom's  arm.

After she had extracted some blood from her body, she transferred it into a tiny plastic bottle with a paper wrapped around it.

She wrote mom's name on it and scribbled something on her pad. She dabbed a cotton filled with methylated spirit on the point.

She put the tiny bottle and syringe on a metal tray and went out with it.

The doctor turned to us.

"Miss Cassman the tests are going to be carried out.I'll bring you the results as soon as possible.Payments should be made to cashier at the laboratory. She'll tell you the amount you have to pay Thank you"

He left the room and Dianna came beside me.

I looked into mom's purse.

The money is too little.

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