Night Before The Club Meeting

Letting a heavy breath of air escape his dry throat eventually turning into a sigh of relief. Shi was just about finished with his homework when his mother bursts through the door. Shi turns around frantically and meets eyes with his mother. An expression that he has never seen. Tears rolling down her face, a tissue covering her nose in one hand, and the other hand gripping onto the wooden door frame as if it was about to crumble to pieces. Shi spoke with a dryness to his voice,

"What's happened? Why are you crying?"

Struggling to form the words to convey such emotions of sorrow and heartbreaking sadness.

"It's your father. We have to go." Shi's Mom said with tremendous effort and a nasally tone. Grabbing his phone and comforting his mother with such speed, he followed her out to the car their father worked so hard for his family.

Upon arriving to the hospital, Shi tried his absolute best to comfort his mom without having a clue to the event that transpired. With the same enthusiasm, Shi's mom burst through the hospitals front doors and ran towards the front desk clerk.

"I need to see my husband." rushed Shi's mom.

"Are you Mrs. Keng?" questioned the clerk.

"Yes I am. I need to see my husband as soon as possible." demanded Shi's mom.

"Go right through that door to your left, take a right, down the hall, he is in room 23." replied the clerk. Both Shi and his mom began to run towards room 23 when they were confronted with the police that was outside his hospital room.

"Are you Mrs. Keng?" asked the officer. Covering her mouth with her hand she replied,

"Yes, why are you outside my husband's door?"

"I need to speak to you privately ma'am." said the officer. Shi walked away from his mother. At this point Shi has not said a word since arriving at the hospital. The expression on his face when he sat down in a nearby waiting room read from a range of emotions. Confusion fled from his face, sadness began to peel from his eyes; the windows to the soul and surround the room, anxiety was screaming from the tapping of his foot and biting of his bottom lip. The anticipation of what had happened to his dad is the driving motive of these cold and unwanted emotions. To Shi it must have been hours of waiting, but five minutes after sitting down his mother gestured for him to come to the room.

Entering the room, the temperature read 17 celcius but to Shi and his mom it must have felt like 10 celcius. His eyes first caught a foot peeking from a hospital bed. the rest of the person's body was being blocked by shades preventing from anyone seeing a reason for an eventual broken family. As Shi walked closer he visibly started to shake. His father laying in the bed was littered with gauze and tubing piercing his arms and legs. A moment of happiness shot Shi in the heart when his dad opened his eyes and smiled seeing his family again. Thought the dad could not speak, Shi and his mom could already hear what he was saying. It was time for him to go. His father gestured his son to come towards him, and so Shi did. Shi kneeled beside his dad. His dad grabbed his hand and Shi knew what was about to occur. Without a moments notice his father pulled Shi and his mom towards his lips. Kissing them both on the forehead, the noise of the flat lined monitor swallowed the room whole. Tears flowed out of Shi it was as if the room was to be filled with the loving tears of losing his father. A sensation began to flow in with Shi's body, elevating him off the ground, shoving him into the atmosphere of our beautiful planet. The blue marble spoke to Shi, and Shi spoke back.

"Is this all that life can give? Heartbreak and sadness?" said Shi. Finishing his sentence, our star that we revolve around peered above the Earth. A feel overwhelmed him, a sort of weight lifted from his shoulders. He looked at his mom and hugged her. They were all they had left in their family. That night Shi drove his mom back to the house, she fell asleep in the car. Carrying his mom into the house, he looked up at the bright stars engulfing their home. He felt small yet oddly bigger than normal. He has to take care of his mom now. With the passing of his father, it gave Shi a whole new feeling of motivation to become something great and do something great for this world.

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