Now that Elizabeth is with Emma at the hospital, the young girl runs at full speed, filled with longing to see her mother...
" go ahead!!! I will catch up with you "
Emma shouts back at her; she seems to be trying to catch her breath after they both ran all the way here on their bicycles...
Elizabeth, however, is not really waiting.
Despite her own exhaustion, she will not rest until she is reassured about her mother...
There is the door to her mother's room at the end of the narrow corridor, and as she approaches, she can clearly hear her father Henry's voice... Ignoring the nurses who call out to her, "Where are you going, miss?" "You can't leave your bicycle in front of the hospital like this!" says one of the nurses sharply, with a very angry face.
The young girl opens the door hastily. "Mom?!"
There is Nora, lying on the same white bed, the same signs of exhaustion etched upon her face ,she opens her eyes listlessly at the sound of her daughter's voice.
"Elizabeth!!"
Nora says with complete ease, unconcerned about her headache, slowly raising herself to a sitting position with a completely surprised expression, but at the same time with a happy smile as if she had forgotten all the headache that had been squeezing her.
Elizabeth didn't wait any longer, rushing to her mother's embrace. "Thank God you're alright!!" she cried, collapsing into her mother's warm arms, which she had missed dearly.
"You should let her rest, she's still tired," a quiet voice said, and who else could it be but her father, Henry, sitting right next to the bed...
Elizabeth looked at him for a few seconds without replying, then slowly turned her attention back to her mother. "You're alright now, right? Are you in pain anywhere?" A worried expression crossed the young girl's face.
Nora patted her gently with a kind smile, noticing the tense atmosphere between her daughter and her husband "What's wrong with you two?! I'm fine," she said, holding both their hands on either side.
At that moment, Emma opens the door with a completely tired face , It seems that the nurse did not let her in easil . "Leave me alone!! I want to check on auntie too!!."
"You must take permission! You're not a member of the family! How many times do I have to say this?!" the nurse shouts at her from the other side, clinging to her like a koala.
And so the three of them looked at each other with different expressions, ranging from shock from Henry to disbelief from Elizabeth towards the nurse...
in the middle of them, Nora laughs a little in a soft voice, "Leave her ! She's my daughter's friend," she tells the nurse, who almost melts like ice cream, finally leaving poor Emma alone.
Henry rolls his eyes whispering 'unbelievable' as he stand after receiving a call on his phone. "Excuse me for a moment," he says, taking a step outside to talk.
His daughter watches him with slight curiosity, wondering who the caller was..
"Thank God you're okay, auntie."
Emma says... which pulls Elizabeth out of her thoughts and refocuses her attention on her mother.
But this time, with eyes that slowly widen... blood suddenly drips from her mother's mouth in a full stream, coloring her medical gown to her chest with its pale crimson color.
Nora clutched her mouth in panic. "What's happening?!" A sharp pain shot through her entire body.
At that moment, the quiet corridor was filled with Nora's loud scream as she suddenly writhed terrifyingly.
" MOM!!!"
""AUNTIE!!"
Both girls scream in unison, their eyes wide with shock.
Elizabeth rushes to her mother, clinging to her to calm her down "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"
only to receive a strong push that knocks her to the ground from her mother, who screams with a terrible scream and complete crying, prompting the nurses to come in response to this scream..
"Get away, miss, quickly!" shouts one of the nurses, and with that, another nurse kicks both of them out of the room...Before either of them even uttered a word ..They find the door closing in their faces.
"She was fine just a moment ago!"
Emma muttered nervously, casting her gaze upon Elizabeth, whose hands and whole body were shaking as she heard her mother screaming from inside the room.
"No, no, something is wrong," Elizabeth whispers to herself, glancing around.
The frantic sounds of the nurses and doctors rushing past her towards her mother's room, trying to save her, assault the young girl's senses with ragged breaths.
It is only here that she notices, amidst the crowds, a body walking against the current, so that her wandering eyes meet... the back of a tall man holding both hands behind his back, only to stop for a few seconds looking behind him, his head tilted... with the same medical mask hiding his face and the same sharp golden eyes... It is Dr. Jeffrey, whose eyes meet Elizabeth's with a mixture of mockery and pleasure, blinking towards her.
"You!!" she mutters , and before she even realizes it, her feet begin to hesitantly walk towards him... only to find him disappearing further and further into the crowded throng.
"WAIT!!" Elizabeth screams, her eyes widening and her breath coming in short gasps. She's starting to feel like she's in a game... a vile game by someone she didn't really think how dangerous he was.
The sound of her father's screams behind her pierced her ears, along with the sound of his phone breaking on the hospital floor.
He was in fear after hearing his wife's screams and tried to catch up with the nurses as they moved his wife's body to the emergency room. "Nora!!"
Her breath grew heavy and relentless, and her heart pounded as if it would burst from her chest.
She couldn't even hear Emma's screams as she frantically tried to catch her.
Her vision was slowly fading. 'How could I let this happen?' she mutter to herself before hitting the frozen ground with such force that made all the air come out of her lungs .
The young girl remembers nothing after that except seeing a shadow running towards her from afar.
"ELIZABETH!!"