The time ticks by and no new information about my mom comes out, I am sitting on the chair of the hospital lobby, jingling my legs, waiting for the doctor to say something, anything. Hiram sits beside me, he reaches to place his hand on my knee, but stops abruptly. He hesitates for a second and then says,
“It will be fine, relax”
I want to yell, how do you know, huh? I lost my father and I may lose my mom. But given the way I behaved with him in the kitchen, I nod and opt for silence.
I turn my head away and wipe of a tear. Suddenly my phone rings, I walk out of hospital to pick it up. I accept the call,
“Hello”
“Hello Luna, there is an emergency in the station, come over”
“Thames, I cannot come over. I…”, he didn’t even let me finish before I hear sergeant yelling at me.
“Luna come
