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.

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

"They're in my bag."

fished the pills out of

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

further; in fact, there were signs it might even be shrinking. Otherwise,

been doing relatively well

must have been last night—she'd gotten so upset, and the stress had

taking you to the

and

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

visit Grandpa

felt wretched. His bone marrow wasn't a match for hers-if it had been, they could have started the surgery

meds help a little.

Jessica's phone buzzed.

It was Carlisle calling.

news to share, and he also wanted to check in since she hadn't shown up at the movie premiere last night. He'd tried to get in touch,

you hand me my

they always used sign language

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