Steel Rose, Black Thorns

10

In a strange country and a strange room, how could she sleep when she was worried about her parents? She held her mobile phone in her hand and called her mother's mobile phone over and over again, but it was always turned off.

Her mother told her to call her after she arrived safely. Logically, she should have been waiting for the call. How could she turn off the phone?

She tried her best to calm down her panicked mood due to missing her mother, and kept comforting herself not to cause trouble for her mother.

After an unknown period of time, Sabrina Song next door suddenly screamed, waking her up from her daze.

She looked at the door hesitantly, not knowing whether to go out and take a look. However, the door was opened from the outside. Sabrina Song stood at the door with her hair loose, her face pale and swollen. She didn't know why she was still a little frightened. She yelled at her angrily, "Why haven't you gone to bed yet?"

"I can't sleep." It was the first time she saw Sabrina Song like this, and her attitude was still a little restrained.

"Did you get through to your mother's phone?" Sabrina Song stared at the phone in her hand.

"No, no..."

Sabrina Song glanced at her and turned away.

"Aunt, will my mother be okay?..." She hurriedly chased after him, but unfortunately the only response she got was a "bang" of the door closing.

Sabrina Song's face was so gloomy that water could drip out. This kind of palpitation had appeared before. It was when Sophia Song had a miscarriage 20 years ago. As a twin, she felt the same pain as Sophia Song.

But the feeling that time was far less severe than this time. The suffocating pain just now made her almost think that she was going to die while she was still asleep. Was it a nightmare caused by her overwork, or did something happen to Sophia Song?

Something must have happened to Sophia Song! This was her intuition. She trembled and called her friend in Singapore. The other party's few words made her close her eyes again in pain.

"Let's go to the airport." She walked stiffly to Hannah Zhao and threw this sentence, and she went directly to the study to organize the documents.

"Aunt, what happened?" Hannah Zhao had a bad premonition.

"You go pack your luggage," Sabrina Song said without raising her head, her voice cold and hard without more emotion, "You don't have to pack, just come with me later, be prepared, your mother had a car accident and is now in the hospital."

"How could it be!" The bad news hit her like a bolt from the blue, and she collapsed to the ground in disbelief.

How could her mother, who was kissing her tenderly just now, have a car accident?

"You can choose to continue to cry here, or you can choose to stand up and go to the airport with me immediately. I'll give you one minute to think about it." Sabrina Song's mood was extremely bad. She didn't have the patience to coax her. Seeing her sister's only daughter was so weak at such a critical moment, she was extremely disappointed.

Hannah Zhao didn't know how she got to the airport, nor how she took a plane for more than ten hours to return to City C again. She felt that every minute was as long as a century, and she felt that every minute was so unreal that she didn't want to face it. She really wanted to leave this cruel world.

Then, she saw her mother in the hospital. She hesitated and refused to go forward. How could this be her mother? How could her mother lie there straight with a white sheet covering her?

Sabrina Song lifted a corner of the white sheet, then turned her head away reluctantly and sobbed softly.

This was the first time she saw the tough Sabrina Song cry. She was surprised. How could a strong woman like her aunt cry? Didn't she despise crying women the most? Even she didn't cry, why should she cry?

"Why are you crying!" She was always cowardly and never dared to speak loudly. She shouted at Sabrina Song with all her strength, "Shut up! Don't cry! My mother is not dead!"

Sabrina Song looked up at her in surprise, and met her bloodshot eyes without tears. This weak girl who she always looked down on did not cry this time.

With a pang in her heart, she walked over and hugged her in her arms, "Your mother has passed away, you must accept this reality."

"You are talking nonsense!" Hannah Zhao still stood straight, her fair little face no longer had the past timidity, and her cold and stubborn look was completely different from the past, "You are not allowed to curse her!"

Sabrina Song glanced at her, suppressed the tears that were about to fall, and said in a cold voice, "What should you do with your mother's funeral? You decide for yourself. If you continue like this, I don't have time to stay here with you."

As soon as she said it, she regretted it. Even she couldn't accept her sister's sudden death, let alone Hannah Zhao who had always relied on her mother.

"I know you love her very much, but you have to learn to be strong, and don't forget her expectations of you..." Sabrina Song wanted to say something to comfort her, but she never comforted others, and the comfort she said at this moment was also pale and powerless.

Hannah Zhao remained silent, and Sabrina Song also fell into silence. Unlike Hannah Zhao's innocence, she had encountered too many separations and deaths over the years, from her parents to her husband, and then to her sister. They left her one by one and would never look back.

She thought she would collapse, but after the initial grief, life went on as usual. She suddenly realized that the earth would still turn without anyone, and life could continue to live well without anyone.