Chapter 144

When I woke up, I found myself in the hospital. The pungent smell of disinfectant made me feel as though I was drenched in alcohol. I lifted my head and saw my parents, who looked as if they had aged ten years. "What are you doing here?" Seeing me awake, Mom kept pressing the call button by the bedside. "Will you ever stop worrying us?" She wiped at the tears gathering at the corners of her eyes while her sobs escaped uncontrollably. "Mom, aren't I fine now? I'm okay." She was crying as if I were on the verge of dying. "And what if something had happened to you? Do you have any idea how dangerous that was?" This accident had almost cost me my life, and with my old injuries flaring up again, Mom said that the doctor had warned them that had I arrived any later, I wouldn't have made it. "If something happens to you, how do you expect your father and me to go on?" Mom wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, her whole being on the verge of collapse. I couldn't be