o

d through t

dmother's bed. Dr. Méndez was speaking to anoth

bue

Elena's side a

I finished t

other did n

se wak

z turned t

or Mon

t hap

tion in her condition. W

asn't I

ng to manage t

uld have

dy an

stood what the readings meant, but she

thing," s

we're

keep

her grandmother and

lease open

seconds, noth

na's eyel

leaned

it. Loo

. They were tired, but when she recognize

a," she

began

e. I'm ri

ift her hand, and

ing," Aria said. "Just

other touch

n while Elena combed her hair before school. She remembered warm bread, her grandmother

ered her pa

cident and the long wa

neve

he would lose the onl

lease don't

's lip

leaned

r your hear

hook he

me that when

mother tri

hispered so

t let

voice

t?" Aria asked. "Abu

s tightened wea

ake

uld not

s slowly

away from the bed. She refused to release Elena'

gainst the wa

d held the hands of people who begged her to do som

meone to give her

turned toward her, she un

sorry,

tared

No

verything

No

came out a

straightened the blanket aroun

sed me," sh

was no

he stood beside the

the table beside Elena's belongings. She wa

eached

on the outside, and beneath it wer

, when sh

the paper in

approac

the dean wants to

d toward th

n, speaking on his phone. He glanced at her, n

not appr

k whether she

oward the room where he

ched him

ng that a hospital was a place

he people running this one