Bedmates Soulmates

She tasted L.

Jennie's

She smelled peppermint and calyptus

Joshua's shampoo.

"Mummy's waking up soo

Justyn's vol

up soon. Henry, don't cry!

lly, Kirs opened her eyes.

Sheshers

The kids had red-rimmed eyes.

Austyn's mere bloodshot

None of them blinked

None of them dared to draw broth.

Finally, winched for the bedside call button

Jennie and Joshua each held her hand and subbed

A doctor came into examiner.

she had no physical injuries.

The doctor shoe tiny torch in her eyes,

She didn't move, didn't bánk

Austyn called her name.

She did not respond, did not appear to have heard him.

Jennie and Joshua bath called out to her.

She did not reply

she stared into space, her body motionless

"What's wrong" Austyn asked the doctor, trying to suppress his anxiety and tear.

"akbetic rataonia," the doctor sal, drawing ban wide

Jaalima caught unippets at the doctor's wards.

complete lack of sprintances speech and movement. Fallent is fully aware. Misual tracking is preserved. Put heren lorazepam... The Reat Murderer

'When will she wake up?" Austyn hissed.

"A precise prognosis is difficult at this point in time. It depends, in large measure, on the patient herself. She'll wake up when she...wants to Joshua stared at Kira's blank face.

She looked like one of Madame Tussauds' wax statues.

"Mummy, do you not want to wake up?"

Austyn dismissed the doctor, working hard to contain his fury.

He came back to the bed and held Kira's hand.

He was filled with self-reproach and regret.

If only he'd put his foot down and kept her at home.Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

If only he'd been more stern with her.

If only he'd gone with her to that apartment....

Ryan knocked on the open door.

None of them inside the ward heard him.

He walked in.

'Let me take the kids out for dinner,' he said quietly. "They have not eaten anything for hours."

Austyn ran a hand over his haggard face.

'Okay!

He called Isabel when the kids were having dinner at the hospital cafeteria.

She rushed over.

"What happened?' she tiptoed into the room and whispered.

The kids were asleep on another bed next to Kira's.

Austyn turned around. 'I need you to take the kids home and stay with them tonight'