A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

After a while, the door of the emergency room burst open and the doctor walked out.

Emily stopped the doctor and asked immediately, "Doctor, how is she doing?"

"The patient was injected with a particular kind of drug. Her body was too weak to work off all the toxins and she had an overdose. Anyone exposed to this drug would witness a severe addiction, so she should receive an abstinence treatment later on..." answered the doctor.

"What? That liquid contained a drug?"

Emily was shocked. Her eyes were staring at nothing and her mind was wandering away from that place. She had a cold thrill on her back as she recalled all the things that happened.

Tina had tried to injected Emily with that highly addictive drug. It was unbelievable. What if Emily hadn't stopped her? What if it was Emily now lying on the hospital bed completely drugged without even knowing how dangerous the drug was? That was awful!

At that moment, the Tao family, Debby and Andrew rushed into the hospital. Their reaction was the same as Emily's as they talked with the doctor, "What? Drug?" Bess was overwhelmed by that news. She was up to faint away, but then she grabbed the doctor by the arm and asked, "Doctor, can you be a little more specific? How is my daughter now? What are you doing to her?"

The doctor just repeated himself, "The patient was under treatment now and then she would have to go in rehab."

"How did it happen? My Tina would never touch any drug!" With this said, Bess burst in tears and let herself fell down on the floor.

"This..." The doctor pointed at Emily and said, "This lady brought the patient to the hospital. You can ask her what happened exactly."

Everyone turned to Emily, anxious to have some answers.

Emily gathered her thoughts and told them the whole story. When she finished, a moment of silence followed.

Debby was the first one taking the word, "Emily, are you seriously saying that Tina was going to drug you, but she injected that crap in her arm by mistake?"

that's it," answered Emily. Emily stared back at her family and at the members of the Tao family. She was calm and without fear. "She wanted to kill me,"

Tina put that syringe in her arm by mistake, but how could that be? It seems to me that the truth is you hated her and wanted to get even with Tina, so you stuck

Mark," Emily was ready for this, "Mark you have to accept the truth! If I really wanted to hurt her, I

and kind, but I know that deep down you are just selfish and vicious! This is

would get back from

him, "Mr. Tao, I think that your ability to distort the facts is way

your brother said?" said Bess,

Even her real mother didn't believe her. Emily was angry with all of

trust Emily and she looked at her disapprovingly, "Emily, I know that you really hate Tina, but what you did to her is too much! Yet Tina has been deprived of her beautiful face. Wasn't it enough? No,

cried out those words directly on Emily's face. She obviously didn't care of Emily at all. Even if she was her real daughter, she would have never taken the place of Tina, never!

else, far from all this mess. It was really ridiculous. All she asked was to be left alone and live her life peacefully, but they wanted to

for all of this. She literally reaped what she sowed. Why was it so

if all the odds were against Tina, they still would find

in Debby and Andrew faces, just as she had

at Emily, but something was wrong. Her eyes were red. Her hands a bit shaking and her face was distorted with what seemed to be disgust.

was way beyond Emily's expectations.

everything become like this?

why?' she thought sadly. Debby's grip tightened, and Emily was hard to breathe. Her

moment. For the very first time in her life, Emily felt completely alone. Her mother, the woman who had raised her since she first

have imagined that things could have gone

watching the scene aside, sneering silently. As soon as he could, he went into

realized that Emily was struggling to

Emily was their daughter. Although she was more like a stranger to them, they could not