LUTHER
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I threw his room door open, everyone was surrounding him. Please don't tell me I'm late.
Mrs Anna saw me and her face sank.
I went to the bed, he looked barely alive.
"What happened?", I asked the doctor
"His heart is failing him, we don't know what happened, he was a lot better this morning, something must have triggered it but he's going", she said.
I took a deep breath in and tried to calm myself down.
"Everyone leave", I instructed., they all did.
I sat beside him and held his hands.
"Old man, you can't possibly do this right now, c'mon", I was trying so hard to put myself together.
He's all I've ever had after I lost my mother, whatever I am today is because of him and him alone.
"Where's... where's Ivy?", he asked.
"She's... she's outside", I said.
"Bring
