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Author's POV

Ayla kept falling from the stairs while her scratched face was a mess because of the blood coming out of her head. Mr and Mrs White ran toward her to catch her, but everything was pointless. She ended up falling to the floor losing her consciousness but still, she somehow managed to extend her hand toward them and said, "I don't know how I lived my life till now but still I'm glad to hear. Thanks for everything, mom and dad."

She still was showing her sorrow as if she was complaining even if she was dying.

"Jace, get the car", Mr White shouted while he ran to get the car keys. Aaron was still standing there as if his legs were stuck on the floor. The entire place was a mess. Bloods kept flowing on the floor while Mr White's shirt was drenched in blood crying for his adorable daughter.

"Dad, quickly bring her", Jace shouted from outside, but when he tried to carry her, his legs gave up.

"I can't but I have to", he kept mumbling when Aaron somehow managed himself and carried her in his arm gently.

"You sure you want to do it?" he asked while he approved with a nod.

They laid her in the back seat while Jace hurried to the hospital. Everyone kept panicking. Jace's finger going numb still. He didn't give up.

"I can do it. Yeah, I can do it", he kept giving himself the strength he never had.

In 15 minutes they reached the nearby hospital they entered carrying her inside.

"Doctor", Mrs White shouted.

"What happened?" a nurse came to ask, seeing blood all over them.

"Please start her treatment right now. She is not talking anymore. She fell down the stairs the blood too did not stop. Please start with her treatment", Mr White kept saying.

"Yeah, we will do it", they said and carried her into the operation theatre.

They kept waiting outside in the hope of good news. But no one was calm. Each of them has different panic attacks. Jace was sitting in a corner while biting his fingernails again and again without knowing what is going to happen to her while Mrs White's tears didn't stop for a minute as if some scary feelings kept telling her, "It's all your fault then why bother crying." Making her feel guilty.

Mr White slowly walked toward Aaron and said, "What happened?"

Aaron was silent as he had a naturally stony face. He has no emotions in his eyes nor does he even wish to know about all this.

"I am asking you something", he asked again.

"I don't have any idea what are you even trying to know", he replied with those emotionless eyes that kept piercing into his soul.

Mr White clenched his fist and held his collar with anger.

"Don't act, you bastard, and tell me what happened to her. Why the hell does she always end up coming to the house with all those bruises on her face and the desire of dying in her eyes? Why tell me", he asked, and kept pulling him closer to him by the collar.

But Aaron let him loosen his grip over the collar and said, "I don't think she too wanted you to know about what is happening with her from my mouth when I don't even have any idea what she is thinking of me."

His voice was so cold as if chilled as ice, but some sorrowful feelings were grabbing his throat, making him speak less.

"Still, just let me know what she is going to through. I have all the rights to know what made her go so crazy." He kept saying, holding him.

"She was arrogant but soon her anger calmed when I talked with her. She always smiles brightly, looks at me and calls me dad every time I come home, but now everything looks so dark.

She no longer smiles. She no longer let me come to her. She no longer smiles looking at me whenever she calls me dad, no she doesn't even call me dad. It's all blank that she became so silent."

"It's been freaking weeks since I last saw her, but today when she came out I felt hurt seeing her swollen face. Her face was so red as if I'm seeing someone else, not my Ayla but someone else. She had bleeding lips. Her cheek has scratches which have dry blood as if someone hit her brutally. Will, you still say it will be better if she will tell me all this by herself when now I do not know when the fuck she is going to wake up?" his voice went loud.

"Sir, please calm down. It's a hospital and if you keep yelling here the other patients will disturb you too as well as your daughter who is getting treated in OP." the nurse said and left.

It was all calm when Aaron said, "I can't say anything to you, but all I can say is your elder son played an excellent character in this."

"What did you say?" Jace asked.

"Yeah, I don't know what you know about her having friends or how much you know about her, but all I could say is if it weren't for you maybe today she wouldn't have slept in a hospital bed." Before he could say anything else, Jace became violent and went near him.

"Say that again you bastard", he asked, pushing him backwards.

"Yeah, all I said is right. You are part of it and if you don't believe then go to your girlfriend whom you know as her friend. Or let me ask you a question too", he said in a lower tone.

"What is it?" Jace responds.

"In the last seven days how many times have Freya asked you about the absence of Ayla or how many times have you told her how she locked herself in her room as if she was in self-confinement by herself?" he asked, making him shut his mouth.

"The only difference between you and me is you can show your anger and emotions, but I can't but that doesn't mean I will be held back." Aaron kept saying repeatedly while he clench his fist.

"Why are you telling me all this as you know her better? If you know her or you are her friend, she won't have ended up like this the way she is now, isn't she? So it's all clear you too didn't do anything, so shut the freaking mouth of yours and get the fucking ass out of here." Jace again pushed him, but he held back.

"Jace, enough of your arrogance and if you are going to keep doing this, then go back home. I don't want any more annoyance here", Mrs White said.

"But mom..." he said, but she cut off.

"I heard both of your conversations so Jace you could have at least told me what is going on but you didn't so what are you blaming someone we barely know? You knew how the child's brain works. How inferior she feels when she feels alone, so please don't utter a single word anymore", she said while her tears kept coming out of her eyes.

Soon the doctor came outside, making them more anxious.

"Doctor, what happened to her?" Mr White asked as soon as he saw him, but his gloomy expression made him scared.

"Please tell him what happened to her? I'm getting scared", he asked.

"I know what you feel Mr White, but we are not gods but humans too", he replied in riddles.

"What do you mean? What it is related to gods?" he asked.

"The operation went well, but Miss. White chose not to wake up so we could just declare she went into a coma. We checked her as much as we could but her eyes were dead as if she didn't even want to be alive", his reply made them look dead.

"I don't know what happened with her, but how her cheeks have bruises made me feel as if she has been abused by you guys."

"I'm sorry, but I have to inform the child care to investigate all of you as well as her schoolmates and teachers too", he said and left.

Mr White kept holding his head.

"Abuse? I can't believe it. She has been living this crazy life for a long time. I'm going to lose my mind if this is going to keep going on." Jace said.

"I agree with this. No matter what happened to her, I want to know. I want a thorough investigation of all this, even if I have to hire a private investigator." Mr White said and walked toward the room where Ayla was shifted from OP.

"I will meet my little princess even if she doesn't hear me. Even if she will not listen to me, I will still let her hear my voice until she wakes up and held me like she used to", he said and went inside. His tears were going uncontrollably as if she was the dearest among all.