It was a beautiful day with perfect weather. Leonard was standing in-front of the hospital window watching families smiling and laughing with their friends and family.
"L-Lenny" *inhale* Leonard keeps staring out of the window. "Lenny I know you can hear me." She repeated with a slight aggression in her voice. "Leonard snaps back to reality and sits next to his mother's bed"
*Inhale* "Lenny, I want you to know you are the best son I could've asked for" *inhales* "But please Lenny." she takes a break to breath. "I don't want you to destroy your future for me"
"I am an old woman Lenny" *inhale* "I,ve lived enough" Lenny looks emotionless and in despair.
Leonard has always been considered a genius amongst his peers. he had always been the smartest in his grade and already has gotten fully covered scholarship offers to the best colleges in his country while he was still a sophomore in high school.
He got accepted into a very prestigious College at the age of 19. Leonard would've been a very successful man if it wasn't for the incident.
He was in the middle of preparing to depart to college when he received a call. It was from a hospital. "Hello, Is this Leonard Huffman?". "Yes, Who might this be" he replies. "you were the only emergency contact of Ms. Deborah Huffman." "I am calling from BTC Hospital we need you to come here" "The address will be sent to you shortly".
Leonard rushes there and talks to the doctor. He finds out his mother was found unconscious while walking home and transported to the hospital. He told me they found a tumor that has grown to an uncontrollable length on her abdomen. He says she needs to be transported to a much larger hospital for the surgery.
Leonard asks how much the surgery would cost. The doctor looks at him nervously. "the least I can help you find is $500,000 USD upfront" he says. Leonard's eyes sink. how is he supposed to get this amount of money. "How long does she have to left". "I can't say for sure anything from 2-3 years to at most 6 years".
Leonard was forced to drop out of college and get multiple jobs to try and get the amount of money before it's too late. he got 3 jobs for a total of 18 hours a day and none of them were easy. But they paid good.
He moved into his mother's apartment to take care of her. he earns about $100,000 after tax and all the expenses like rent and food. he spent a very minimal amount on himself.
The jobs were all labor related and he was eating a single small meal a day to save money so he became skinny and frail after a few months. he was only getting about 3-4 hours of sleep so he looked like a dying corpse.
3 years have passed and he isn't looking any better. He came home from work exhausted and shaking. He opened the door with dinner for his mother and saw her laying unconscious. He ran her over to a hospital and waited for the doctor's news.
The doctor finally came out of the emergency room and Lenny ran over to him and stared at him with his emotionless eyes. "we have managed to stabilize her for now" he said. "but her tumor has gotten much worse she has at most 1 month left to live unless she goes through a surgery.
Leonard's eyes look despaired and hopeless. he is still missing almost $200,000 it was impossible to get that amount in less than a month. "we will transport your mother to a patient room so we can monitor her for now" Dr. James says. Lenny walks into her room and chats with her. He then walks out of the hospital.
He is sitting on the sidewalk concrete in despair. He kept thinking but there was no way he could get that amount of money in his current state. Leonard was desperate and not in his right mind. he then ran over to a shady neighborhood.
he walked up to a shady looking corner stand selling basic things like chocolate bars. He looked at him and said "give me a gun". the merchant nervously looks around to make sure no one heard that. "are you crazy saying that out loud". "any ways it's going to cost ya 150 bucks" he says. Lenny buys the gun covers up his face and walks into a bank.
He was planning on robbing the bank.
He points the gun up and shoots. Everyone screams and gets down. He yells at the cashier " TAKE ME TO THE VAULT". She leads him there while crying. after she opened it he walked in there and quickly started filling his duffel bag" he took exactly how much he needed and not anymore. He runs outside and there were countless cops pointing a gun at him.
he was about to give up but that would mean certain death for his mom. He takes a chance and runs towards one cashier to hold her hostage. One of the officers shoot him and now he's laying on the ground. He hears muffled crying and yelling of the cops and people. he thinks to himself "Is this it?…. But… my mother." Lenny feels oddly at peace. He smiles and lets go.