Yates advised, "Try them one by one if you must, but it'll take forever. That's not a real solution. The best thing to do is reach out to every hospital you can see if there's a match somewhere."

"I'll go talk to Jessy about it," Vince replied.

He knocked on Jessica's door, but there was no answer, even after a long pause.

With no other choice, he opened the door and stepped inside.

Jessica was still lying in bed.

Vince hurried to her side, calling, "Jessy, Jessy..."

She didn't respond at all.

"Jessy, wake up. Come on, Jessy."

Finally, Jessica's eyes fluttered open, and the first thing she felt was a wave of

pain in her abdomen that made it hard to breathe.

"Vince... it hurts..."

Her voice was little more than a whisper, her brows knit tightly in pain.

pillow to prop behind her back. "Where's your medication?

"They're in my bag."

a glass of water, fished the pills out of her purse,

about her illness online—apparently, it could be excruciating when it

hadn't spread any further; in fact, there were signs it might even be shrinking. Otherwise,

well the past

night—she'd gotten so upset, and the stress

taking you

Mom and

was worried about their parents finding out. She hated the idea of them getting hurt

to visit Grandpa at the hospital. Jessy,

bone marrow wasn't a match for hers-if it had been, they could

time. The meds help a little. Let me

Jessica's phone buzzed.

It was Carlisle calling.

shown up at the movie premiere last night. He'd

you hand me my

so they always used sign

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