Food.

I woke up as I felt sunshine seeping in my eyelids.

"Ahh," I mumbled stretching and sitting straight on the chair again. I could feel an aching pain in my whole back.

"It's alright, atleast I'm with mom here." I reassured myself and looked at mom's calm stature who was breathing in a slow rhythm.

I slowly stood up and made my way towards the hospital bathroom to wash my face and then to buy some food to eat.

I walked out of the cubicle and washed my face with water. I was washing my face when I saw my reflection in the mirror. I no longer had dark circles under them but those did not help my appearance. My hair were greasy, my white shirt had stains on it at some places.

"Ugh, I gotta go to dorm I guess. I terribly need to change." I said mumbling eyeing my disastrous look.

I shook my head and headed towards the dorm.

I was standing my dorm after 15 minutes of walk there. I still had not told principal that I would not be joining the group, but I don't think it's important either.

I sighed and opened my suitcase to find something to wear, I hurriedly picked out a yellow crop top with a jacket to wear over it, so I would not be cold when I walk back, it was already starting to get cold in the evenings nowadays here.

I heard my phone ringing, so I ran to it thinking it might be Jason.

"How did it go?" I asked cheerfully without even glancing at the caller's I'd.

"What? If you are asking about my boxing match it was amazing. I won it. But I don't think you knew about it?" Damon's quizzical voice asked me.

"Oh that's you," I mentally smacked myself for my stupidity.

"You were waiting for someone?" He asked probably smirking now. "No." I answered immediately.

"Oh so you were," he declared. I placed my clothes on the bed and sat on it.

"What did you want to know?" I asked him trying to change the subject.

"Oh yeah!" He said. " You did not come yesterday, you alright? "

"Oh yes," I said remembering. "I was with my mom yesterday." I told him.

"You know competitions are starting here in few days and you have to train these guys." He told me.

"Shi**," I cursed. I completely forgot that I had also started training, but I tried to cover up myself. "I know, I just had something to be taken care I will be there today. I will just have to tell mom." I said and hung up on him without listening his reply.

I ran to my small bathroom and started to take my bath.

When I was finally dressed up I decided to buy some food for mom and myself. I walked to the hospital and started to look around for a cafe or a food stall.

I saw an old lady standing on the road with her mini van, aka her mobile cafe, so I decided to take some sandwiches from her.

"I will take two grilled cheese sandwiches and large fries to go with them." I ordered when it was finally my turn.

"Ofcourse, your total would be 7.5$," Old lady told me with a small smile.

I nodded and handed her my money and stood aside to wait for her to prepare it for me.

After 6 minutes she was finally done so I thanked her and took my order from her.

I was walking, when I saw a juice corner,

"I should take some juice for her as well, she loves it." I thought and walked into the store.

I bought her strawberry juice and again went on my way with a content smile on my face.

I walked in the hospital. I saw few kids sitting on chairs together, I assessed them for few moments and then decided to ask them what are they doing here.

"Hey," I said kneeling down to a girl's level who was busy looking at small watch.

She looked up at me, "Who are you?" With a confused expression she asked.

"I'm Alicia," I said offering her my hand.

The girl nodded at me and again looked down.

"Why are you guys here alone?" I asked her in a kind tune nodding to the small boys sitting right beside her.

"We are waiting for my father, " she told me.

"You are?" I said. She again nodded , "He was beaten by some bad guys so he had to come here." She said with a sad voice.

"Where is your mom?" I tried changing the topic. "I-," she started and stopped.

I looked at her for an answer but she did not for a few moments. "I don't know where is she." She finally answered.

My heart skipped a beat or two.

"Oh," I said not able to say anything. "Your dad would be coming soon I guess," I was saying when I saw her brothers running to someone behind me.

"Dad," They yelled and threw himself on a badly beaten man. He seemed to be in his mid thirties, but the marks on his face made him look awfully old, or is that all life's doing? I thought.

I stood up leaving them to their dad and started to move towards mom's room. I opened the room door to find an empty bed greeting me. I felt myself freeze there.

"She might be gone for some tests," I reasoned. I turned around with sandwiches and juice still in my hands and started to look for some staff member so that I might ask them.

I kept on looking for someone but strangely no nurse seemed to be around me then. I walked to the main reception desk.

I was about to ask her about mom when I heard one of the receptionist speaking fastly into the reciever,

"Get ready ER 4, Dr.Watson is on his way."

I stood there confused. "Didn't he attend mom?" I mumbled frowning. I saw the nurse placing it back on its place so I moved to her and asked, "Excuse me?"

She turned her attention to me.

"I'm looking for Ms.Walters in room no. 325, can you tell me where is she right now?" I said trying to keep my calm.

"You are?" She asked after a second.

"I'm her daughter, I just left her there in the morning." I told her now getting impatient.

She nodded her head and looked at her computer screen as if she were confirming something and looked at me again.

"She was taken to ER 4 just now."

I did not wait to listen anymore and ran to the ER like some crazy madwoman.

"God not now," I kept on mumbling and started to climb up the staircase, not able to wait for the lift.