Nothing that I had been expecting could have prepared me for the night that I had ahead of myself. Of course, this was not something that I had been aware of when I found myself standing outside of Simone’s hospital room. Once we had left, there had been a few nurses who had taken it upon themselves to go and try and calm her down.
But if I were to make an assumption based off of what I was hearing, then I could only guess that it wasn’t going well. I felt like there was a block of ice pressed against my back, like there was something keeping me in place, keeping me from walking away. Monica was standing beside me, trying to console me, and Austin was on his phone, further down the hall.
I didn’t need to hear what he was saying to know that he was busy implementing everything that he h
