Vea
I felt frozen. Everything went blurry when my mother collapsed. I was panicking, I wanted to go to the hospital with them. But my father closed the doors on me. It was like he was shutting me out and blaming me for what happened to my mom. I wasn’t able to move until someone shook me.
“Vea, are you alright?” A guy with a familiar voice asked.
I was zoning out at that time, I didn’t know what to answer.
“I’m– I don’t– Who are you?” I finally snapped out of it.
“I’m Rafi, Rafi Carreon. Are you okay?” He asked again. He was worried.
“I’m fine. Let go of me, please.” He gently removed his hands away from my shoulders.
I didn’t realize that I was already crying. Everyone around me was panicking and making all sorts of phone calls. It was chaos.
“Do you want me to take you to th
