In My Desperate Time

Without asking for leave, I rush out of the office, stop a car on the road, and head for the hospital.

I am so nervous and tears keep falling down for my face.

How could that happen?

I thought my mom was just bluffing me, but who knows, she actually jumped off from the balcony!

They live on the third floor. It’s not fatal, but my mother is still in coma. The doctor says the situation is not optimistic.

I regret very much.

If I hadn't hung up, if I had brought the money back, this probably wouldn't have happened.

I rush to the ward and find my mother unconscious. My father sees me, he comes up and slaps me on the face.

“If you weren't so heartless, your mother wouldn't jump off!”

My father's eyes are red with tears. He seems to have cried.

I cover my cheek and ask my father worriedly, “How's mom?”

“The doctors say there is congestion in her head and it is pressing on her main nerves. They can’t do the operation. All we can do is resign herself to her fate. I'm also a doctor, and I know that means your mother may never wake up! We've worked so hard to raise you up, and now you won’t give us a cent!”

He is angry as well as being

explain and I know he won’t listen

now, we have no time to talk about who is right and who is wrong. I do have a responsibility

sorry father. I am

to the sickbed in tears. Even though she is in a

I could have the time back, I wouldn't refuse

too late now.

while, then I

is Frank

home, I tied him up with a rope. He couldn’t run away. You stay here and watch your mother. I'll go and see him.”

go and see

suggest to my father and then

my dad goes back and sees Frank Noyes

the apartment, so I open

is a chair in the middle of the living room, but Frank Noyes isn't sitting there. The rope is untied

he untie the rope, and now

hear a rummaging sound in the room and the murmur

like

the room, I see Frank Noyes turn the

Where is

Frank Noyes curses.