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?"

of the Tao family. She

how could that

accept the truth! If I really wanted to

You may seem gentle and kind, but I know that deep down you are just selfish and vicious! This is why you sent Tina to

she would get back from him was hatred. However, Emily's

I think that your ability to distort

is it really true what your brother said?"

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

you really hate Tina, but what you did to her is too much! Yet Tina has been deprived of her beautiful face. Wasn't

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,

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

asked life for all

they just refused to accept the truth. Even if all the odds were against Tina, they still would find a way to

in Debby and Andrew faces, just

face was distorted with what seemed to be disgust. Suddenly

was way beyond Emily's expectations.

become like this?

was completely frozen. 'Mom, why?' she thought sadly. Debby's grip tightened, and Emily was hard to breathe. Her face started coloring and went red, then purple and was slowly blackening.

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, was putting her life to an end

things could have gone in

the scene aside, sneering silently. As soon as he could, he went into the emergency room to visit Tina.

passed before the Taos realized that Emily was struggling to breathe, so they moved up to

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