Chapter 26

Holding her head in his arms, he told her that nothing was going to happen to her as long as he was with her. The fear that had surrounded his heart was something he could not push away as he only felt that once when his mother was hospitalized one time at the hospital and she was fighting for her life.

Paying attention to the voice that he was heeding to outside, it was that of Marco his friend who had not seen him for some days and happened to pass by his house that morning so he decided to check on him. Entering into the house as his mother had left the door open, he was all excited calling out his friend's name with joy in his heart as he wondered who the owner of the car that was packed outside is but what he saw left him tongue-tied.