Chapter 32: Vanishing Act
Back in the day, when her father had been fighting cancer. Emily had sometimes gone with her mom to pick him up after he had completed a session of chemo.
Back then, walking through the huge corridors of the hospital, she had often looked around. Spying on people in a way only children could.
And during her adventurers in listening in when she was not supposed to. Emily often heard things that she was not supposed to. Not because they were secrets, but because they were personal things that were not meant for other people's ears.
More often than not, the things she heard often circled around the same things.
"I love you,"
"Do not leave me,"
"Fight, you have to fight, fight for yourself and for us,"
"It is alright to let go if you are tired," She had not known what the words really meant until she was much older.
But one time, while listening in to a sick old man and his son's conversation. Emily had heard something that had shaken her to the core. Her eight year old self running, terrified back to her room.