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?"

at her family and at the members of the Tao family. She was calm and without fear. "She wanted to kill me,"

if this is the truth, how can we believe you?" Mark hardened his grip on Emily, "You said that 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 accept the truth! If I really wanted to hurt her, I wouldn't

may seem gentle and kind, but I know that deep down you are just selfish and vicious! This is why you sent Tina to the hospital. You just want to keep your theatrics going on!" said

anything she would get back from him was hatred. However, Emily's poor heart had suffered too many things by now, so no one and nothing would hurt her again.

"Mr. Tao, I think that your ability to distort the

true what your brother said?" said Bess, her voice shaking, "Did

Why don't you just trust me?" shouted Emily. Even her real mother didn't believe her.

I know that you really hate Tina, but what you did to her is too much! Yet Tina has

didn't care of Emily at all. Even

somewhere else, far from all this mess. It was really ridiculous. All she asked was to be

beginning. Tina had asked life for all

Even if all the odds were against Tina, they still would find a way to mark Emily as the guilty one and blame her for it and

in Debby and Andrew faces,

distorted with what seemed to be disgust. Suddenly she jumped forward and clenched her hands on Emily's neck, "Emily!

was way beyond

did everything become

grip tightened, and Emily was hard to breathe. Her face started coloring and went red, then purple and was slowly

sense of loss at that moment. For the very first time in her life, Emily felt completely alone. Her mother, the woman who had raised her since she first breathed,

imagined that things could have gone in this way.

as he could, he went into the

the Taos realized that Emily was

more like a stranger to them,