I started dialing. With every button, my heart beat raised.
It was ringing.
"Hello?" a nervous voice answered to me.
"Elyse?" My voice broke.
"It's me, it's Elllen."
Chapter 4
"Ellen?" She was confused.
"Yeah."
"Ellen what is going on?"
"I'm here with Alex." I said. "Well, not actually with him. I'm at the…"
"Hospital?" she said before I finished my sentence.
"How did you know?"
"We saw the news. Ellen, what are you doing there? How is he? Tell me my son is ok."
"He was rushed to… to the…" I couldn't believe myself. The last thing this lady needs now is to hear me crying.
Silvia took the phone from my hand as I sobbed into Jasmin's shoulder.
"Misses Keaton, we have your son here. I am the secretary of the Saint Luke's Roosevelt hospital here in New York. Your son was at the robbery in Wall Street today and I called to inform you."
"How is he?" Elyse cried from the other line.
"He's in a middle of an operation right now and I think the best thing to do right now is to get the first flight you can to New York so you could be here."
"I want to talk to a doctor." She said.
"I understand but I or any other doctor can't tell you more through the phone. Now can you try and get here?"
"I want to know what's going on now!" She said.
"Listen, I know you are in a very difficult situation here, but try to calm down. They are taking care of your son right now and I'm sure he's going to be fine." She tried to help her calm down through the phone. It wasn't very easy.
"Let me talk to Ellen." She said. Silvia looked at me.
"Here, she wants you." She handed me the phone.
"Hello?" I said with a shaky voice.
"Ellen?"
"Elyse I'm sorry I cried like this. I didn't know what to say."
"It's ok. just promise me you'll be with him until I get there?"
"Of course. I'm not leaving this place."
"Thank you so much."
"Elyse?" I said before she hung up.
"He's going to be fine. He's a fighter."
"Hold on, I'll see you there." She hung up.
I took a big breath and looked up, trying to keep the tears from coming back.
"How do you know him?" Jasmin asked me as we set at the waiting room.
"It's been seven years since I last saw him, you know?" I looked at her.
"We dated in college. We couldn't stand each other at first. We had the biggest fight the first time we met. He came to hit on my new roommate along with five more guys at the same day and I couldn't stand it anymore."
"How did you end up together?"
"We are complete opposites. He hated art. He mocked it. I thought he's just like the rest of them. Just another insecure superficial guy."
"Well?"
"He was the love of my life."
"He was?"
"And now he came into my life again only to leave it forever." I cried again.
I'm telling you- too much crying for one day.
"Shh… there, there…" Jasmin patted me. "You don't know that yet. Maybe it was meant to be. Maybe he was meant to come back to your life once more and you said it yourself. He's a fighter."
"One thing for sure he is stubborn. Doesn't know how to lose."
"You see?! Now, you need to get some rest."
"No, I'm not leaving here until Elyse is coming."
"Ellen, it can take a day or two."
"I don't care."
Suddenly a beeping sound went through the speakers of the hospital and i saw three doctors rush into the operation room.
"Oh no." Jasmin and I looked at each other.
To be continued…
