EVELYN'S POV
The next day when I got up from the bed, I called Eros' parents and briefed them on what was going on with mum since they deserved to know, after all she is their in-law. When Mrs Taylor received the news she let out a shocked gasp and asked me how I was doing. She asked for the hospital address and told me she will be there with her husband. I equally called Ethan and told him too since he told me to keep him posted.
I thought to call Eros and tell him but decided against it. Besides I still didn't have his contact number even after the months we have been married and for the last month he has been away he didn't care to reach out to me either so I brushed the thought out of my mind.
I freshened up and looked at myself in the mirror. My eyes were all puffy and there were dark circles beneath it. All night I couldn't sleep, I kept tossing and turning till the day broke. I kept having this nagging feeling in my guts that something terrible will happen today so I was terrified and eager as well to get to the hospital to see mum.
After I was done freshening up I headed to the hospital. I stayed with dad and mum though she was still unconscious with the life support machine plugged into her. I was trying to convince dad to go home and change and probably get some little sleep because I am sure he hasn't had a proper sleep since mum's crisis but he wouldn't budge. Just then Eros parents came in.
"Jameson" Eros father called out to my dad
"Hey buddy how are you holding up?" He asked dad and immediately tears started rolling down from dad's eyes. All these while he hasn't let the tears fall but his eyes has been purely red. He was holding it all in and has been heaving heavy breaths from time to time but thank God he let it all out because I was getting concerned as well.
"You see Lucy wants to leave me all alone in this world" dad said in between sobs.
"Shhhh...don't say that your daughter is equally here so you are not all alone" he replied my dad
Fresh, hot tears started rolling down from my eyes too, Mrs Taylor brought me closer and hugged me. Mrs Taylor whispered something into her husband's ears.
"Jameson I think you have been cooped up into this room for too long so let's take a walk and breathe in some fresh air" he told my dad. Dad stood up and left with Mr. Taylor without a word of refusal and I was happy because dad needed the fresh air. At about 20mins later they came back. Sooner than that Ethan equally joined us.
We were altogether making small talks when the life support machine started beeping erratically. Mum was jerking on the bed and it seemed she went into a cardiac arrest. Dad was trying to hold her down while I was still dazed and fixated at the sight. I couldn't do anything so Ethan rushed out to get the doctor.
The doctor rushed in with his team and they brought their defibrillator machine with them. They told us to leave the hospital room so that they can proceed with immediate treatment but we didn't budge, we insisted to stay and since there was no time to drag us out they set to work. They raised mum's hospital shirt up and one of the the nurses applied a gel on the defillbrator while the doctor rubbed the two defillbrators together.
"Apply 150 joules" the doctor told one of the nurses. She did and the doctor placed the defillbrators on mum's chest and she jerked up due to the shock. The doctor looked at the machine and mum's pulse wasn't picking up.
"Raise it to 200 joules " he told the nurse which she did and he applied it on mum's chest again and she jerked up again. The doctor kept increasing the joules each time but mum was not responding at all.
The doctor dropped the defillbrators and started applying CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) on her aggressively, he was sweating profusely but rather the machine stopped beeping and showed a flat line. The whole world became quite and still. I could not hear anything, the doctor was talking but I could not hear anything but I saw him looking at his wristwatch while talking. He took the bed spread cover and covered mum entirely. I felt dizzy and wanted to fall but Ethan caught me and held me in his arms.
Someone barged into the room and grabbed the doctor by his coat and was shaking him. I looked and saw that it was Eros. Finally someone decided to show up. I didn't have time for him neither did I have the energy to face him so I leaned closer into the arms of Ethan because I needed the comfort.
Eros left first, we were still in the room when the nurse asked us to leave so that they could stretch her and take her to the morgue. We all left and met Eros outside the hospital room with Ivan. Our eyes met briefly but I looked away because he was the last person I wanted to see. After a few minutes the doctor came out with his team, dad and mum who was entirely covered from head to toe on a stretcher. Dad stopped for a brief moment and said something to me.
"Princess you should go home now and get the house ready your aunt is already at the airport, I will meet you at home later", dad said to me while leaving with the nurses.
Ethan let me go while Ivan came and gave me a brief hug, he whispered a "You will get through this and I am always here for you" in my ear before letting me go.
"Evelyn dear come let's take you home because we can't leave you to go by yourself in the state you are in", Mrs Taylor said. Eros' dad whispered something into Eros ear too before we left.