Leon
Leon sat in the waiting room biting his nails, Emily still remained in her comatose state, it was hard to believe that the girl laying so broken in that bed was the same Emily who he'd been hanging out with just two weeks ago.
"Why don't you go home, Leon?" Amy said, "Emily would understand."
"If it was in that hospital bed, Emily would stay by my side until she knew I was alright." It wasn't like him to let his emotions get the better of him, but at that moment, they did.
"Come on, now. You need to rest." Sheldon patted his son's shoulder, "Besides, Ashley's already in the car." He left the hospital with a tut.
Leon couldn't sleep, what he couldn't fathom is that he didn't see the signs, Emily never said anything about feeling so….angry, sure, he knew she had problems with Bernadette, but he never thought it would escalate to this.
It was about 3am when he finally succumbed to sleep, finally.
Ameira
"What? No way? Is she ok?" Ameira gasped into the phone, "Ashlii, Swear you'll call me if anything happens." After assurance from Ashlii that she would ring her the second anything happens, Ameira fell back on her bed in a state of shock? Emily?
"What possessed the girl?" Of course she just had to be in India when all this was happening, she couldn't even be there for her best friend, but it made her wonder if she really Knew Emily at all, sure, even best friends have secrets, but even so…..
"Ameira!" She heard her grandmother's strong Indian accent call, "Get your brother, dinner is ready!"
She skulked over to Muhammad's designated room, shit, I'm going to have to tell Muhammad….. She was never good at breaking bad news,
She knocked timidly, "Mo, you up?" no answer, just like that she went from being a little kitten to a tiger, and knocked more loudly, "Muhammad!"
"Jesus woman, I was sleeping." Muhammad, still in a sleepy daze opened the door.
"Dinner is ready." Ameira slapped him round the head, but then remembered the awful truth…. "I have to tell you something, It's about Emily."
Muhammad wore a melancholic look, "I know, Leon told me last night."
Emily
Howard and Bernadette never left Emily's side once, Bernadette squeezed her daughter's hand as if it were her lifeline, through the heavy eyes and the run down appearance of both parents, all they wanted was for her eyes to flutter open.
"It should be me lying in that bed, not her." Bernie admitted,
Howard was aghast, "Bernie, don't say that."
Bernadette scowled, "Why not? I'm a terrible person Howard, I'm a terrible mother, I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree…"
"You're nothing like your mom, You're kind, and caring, and you're so passionate about what you do, that's the woman I fell in love with."
Bernie was about to vehemently object, but Emily began to stir, she responded so well to her treatment that the nurses took her out of her coma and allowed her to sleep naturally, but now it seemed she was ready to return to the world of the living,
Her eyelids fluttered open, "Howard, get a nurse!" Bernadette beamed, "It's ok, Emily, mommy's here."
"….Mom…" Emily slurred amidst her incoherent noises, Bernie smiled at her semi-conscious daughter, stroking her hair and soothing her into rest.