Where are you?
And I'm so sorry.
I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness
Comes creeping on so haunting every time.
_Blink182_
Seven months before
- Anna PoV -
I jump at the sound of screeching breaks. Someone just made a crazy move in front of my house.
I drop the pen and I rush outside to check what happened.
A car is stopped in the middle of the street. Few meters above a middle aged woman is lying on the asphalt.
"MOM!"
I run to check on her. She doesn't move but there's no sign that the car injured her.
"She was lying in the middle of the street! I nearly ran over her!"
A young boy in tears drops off the car. He must have obtained the license not long ago.
"DID YOU HIT HER?!", I cry.
"No she was already like that!"
I try to reanimate my mother as I hear the boy calling for an ambulance.
"MOM! MOM ANSWER ME!"
I cannot feel her breath.
I cannot feel her pulse.
I know how to practice CPR, but I keep trying and trying to revive her without success.
I cannot believe this.
One moment I hope to bring my husband back to life like an idiot, and a minute later my mother is dying in the middle of the street?!
What sort of perverse fate is this?!
"Ma'am, please stop. Let us handle the situation..."
I turn to face the paramedic addressing me.
How much time have I been here trying to wake up my mother?
The ambulance managed to arrive and all.
But if in all this time I didn't manage to bring her back...
"NO! SHE IS NOT DEAD! SHE CANNOT BE DEAD! MOM!"
I struggle as the paramedic pulls me away.
"MOOOM!"
This is a nightmare.
This is not happening.
I cannot lose her too...