Emma's condition had deteriorated since morning, and Quinn decided to stay at the hospital to accompany her grandmother even though the old woman told her to go home.
"You've been in the hospital for two days. Look at you, and you look pale. You don't look healthy, Quinn. You should go home."
"No, Grandma, I don't want to go home. I want to be here until my mom wakes up from her coma," Quinn insisted.
The two of them sat in front of the ICU room where Emma was being treated, Quinn's eyes staring at the whitewashed walls of the hospital. Somehow she felt guilty for not giving her foster mother money sooner so that her mother's new boyfriend would not beat and hurt her like that.
"I should have given her the money, Gran. Maybe if I had given her the money sooner, she wouldn't be like thi
