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With a heavy heart, I slowly slipped my hands away from my chest where my heart was wildly beating. With shaky hands, I moved my hands towards the doorknob. I didn't even dare to look at him from the glass of the door. I just kept looking down at the knob where my handshake more and more as I thought about my dad's condition. 

Jack kept supporting my weak frame as I kept moving slowly with glassy eyes and shaky hands unlocking the door. I pushed it a little and opened it in slow motion. I still kept looking at the motion of the slow opening door. I took a deep breath and braced myself to look at the lying figure of my father in the hospital bed. I slowly lifted my eyes and more tears spilled out of them making me more weak and vulnerable than I was feeling. As soon as my glassy eyes fell on my dad's lifeless figure on the hospital bed my heart felt like it was groped and squeezed very hard. My breath ragged and my legs gave up as I saw so many machines were attached to his body. 

"Nina" Jack called my name in panic as he took a hold of my small frame in his big arms, not letting me go out of it. I just kept looking at my dad's unconscious body. There was no movement of his body; the only sign he was alive was the constant beeping of the machine which was showing his heartbeat. Looking at his lifeless figure a sudden familiar scene flashes in front of my eyes. Amelia's lifeless body was attached to many machines too. 

I felt my body giving up as it became heavy and making me slump more in Jacks' arm. Listening to Jack's panic-filled voice I saw with my half-open eyes uncle and aunt came rushing into the room with worried faces. They too panicked as they saw me on the verge of losing my consciousness. I just kept looking at my dad's motionless figure lying on the bed. Jack refused to let me go off his hold as if he let me be shattered into innumerable pieces if he loses his hold even slightly. He moved me towards the couches and made me sit on them. Aunty pressed a glass full of water to my lips but my mouth refused to open as my whole body felt so numb. 

"Dear just a small sip" aunty Sam pleaded as she saw my eyes were still fixed on dad. I slowly opened my mouth and slipped the cold water. I don't know how much I drank as things happening around me I couldn't get a hold of anything. My body still felt numb as I just kept looking at dad. I was not even crying but just staring at him. I don't know how much time passed like that with me looking at him with my dry eyes. Jack was sitting beside me with me still in his hold; he just refused to let me go as his body was in an alert mood from the moment we entered the room. 

"Dear just let go of your pain. It's not good to hold it inside you," said Aunty Sam in her motherly soft voice as she took hold of my hand and made me look at her while cupping my face. As if her words were the only words I was waiting for, the dam of my sorrow broke. Looking at her crying face a low sob left my mouth. 

"It's all because of me. I--l--told him to go away and he c---chooses this way to a--abandon me for forever" I said while stuttering and sobbing hard. 

"It's all because of me. I knew he gets s---sad when I leave him or don't take him with me. I took this step and saw in which state I have put him" I said, still whimpering loudly. 

"Nina told me nothing is your fault so stop blaming yourself," she said as she cried with me. I moved my head in denial and refused to believe her words. She hugged me tightly as she saw my outburst. She kept comforting me as I kept weeping my heart on her shoulders but I couldn't find the comfort I was yearning for so long. I didn't know until I kept crying on her shoulder. I only felt my body getting moved when Jack pressed me to his hard chest. He wrapped his big arm and my small frame. 

I had no strength in my body to the left to fight with him. I just kept silently sobbing as he wrapped another arm around me while his other arm soothingly stroking my hair. He didn't talk with me much but just kept comforting me in his arms. The warmth I felt to get anyone's arms I felt in his. I don't know what he was doing but he was calming my crying heart in some way. Uncle and aunty went out of the room as a nurse who came to check on dad instructed that not more than two people can stay in the room. So they decided to wait outside leaving me alone with Jack. 

"I want to see his face from close" I whispered in my crooked voice as I was still looking at dad. 

"Yes I will help you," Jack said as soon as he heard my voice. He took me near his bed and made me sit on the chair in front of it. He stood behind me with his protective hand on my shoulder to support my weak frame. The close look at dad's face was enough to make me cry like a child. Even if people told me not to blame myself for dad's health I knew I was one of the reasons why he had a heart attack. I moved my shaky hands towards his lifeless one which was resting on the bed. My heart cried even more as I took hold of his slightly cold hand. 

"Dad, I'm sorry for behaving so rudely with you. I'm sorry I told you to go away" I said with a heavy heart. 

"I'm sorry that I refused you to take care of me. I'm sorry for everything I have done. Please dad please come back. I won't leave you ever, I won't even get mad at" I said with a heavy heart as a big lump formed at the base of my throat making that for me to speak further. I pressed his hand to my lips as I hiccuped while doing it. 

"If you don't wake up, how will you be able to play with your grandchild, who will tell him all the stories? Dad, please wake up at least for your grandchild" I said sobbing and hiccuping while squeezing his hand in mine. 

"Please just for the sake of life growing inside me wake up," I said with a heavy heart with more eagerness in my pleading. My heart sank more as I knew my pleading was not having any effect on him but I remembered my sister's words never lost faith in him. And with him, I kept pleading to him while holding on to the last ray of faith. 

"Please" I whispered with a weeping heart and that's when I felt him squeezing my hand back. My swollen eyes widened as I felt him pressing my hand back. 

"C---call the doctor. Call the doctor, fast he just pressed my hand" I said in my thrilled voice as I early nudged Jack to call the doctor. Hearing my words he called the doctor and in no time the doctor walked into the room. 

"D--doctor dad just now pressed my hand back," I said with happy tears in my eyes. 

"It's good news, just let me check on him to confirm it," he said with a polite smile while instructing me to move away from him. Jack helped me move away from him as the doctor checked on him. He examined him for fifteen minutes while I stood impatiently with all the family members.  Once he was done checking all marching he looked at us and I looked back with hopeful eyes. 

"It's good news. He is out of danger but now we have to wait till he gains his consciousness" he said with the same polite voice making me take a deep breath of relief as my body slumped on the hard chest of Jack and he didn't waste any time wrapping his hand around me to support my frame. After the doctor left, aunt Sam asked me to go home and rest but I refused to leave the room before my dad regained consciousness. She made me eat some fruits as my body was feeling so weak. I didn't feel like it so she handed the plate to Jack and told him to make sure I eat everything and he feeds me all the fruits without listening to my excuses. I eat it all as I don't have any strength in arguing with him. I rested, I was on the couch still looking at dad. I don't know when I slept but when I woke up I found myself in a completely different place. 

The place where I vowed to never return. 

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