“I’ll find the cure for you. And my sisters. Just hang in there okay? Promise me you’ll still be alive when I get back?”
“Anna, please, don’t go,” her mother pleaded. “Henry, please, don’t let her go. I can’t lose her. I can’t.”
The look on her mother’s face almost changed Anna’s mind. She’d never seen her mother so distraught, so vulnerable.
“I’m so sorry, my dear. It’s her decision. She will be okay. I know it in my heart,” her father said, squeezing her mother’s hand. Anna kissed her father before leaving the room with her mom.
Anna wanted to say something as they walked back to their house but nothing would come out. Her mother was struggling to fight the tears, placing her arm protectively around Anna, kissing her forehead every now and then.
“Ma, can I ask you something?”
“Sure
