CHAPTER 80

Hours pass by and I remain by my parents side, too scared to walk away from them again. Dad has been sleeping for hours, his chest rising and falling steadily. I rest my head on the mattress of Mum's bed and feel my own eyes grow heavy with sleep. The sky is beginning to darken outside and I breathe heavily, my body slumping against the mattress.
Now that I'm reunited with my parents, all of the weeks exhaustion and sleepless night catches up to me. With my hand in theirs, I drift away...