of Sarah because she has always been better, but this is life or death, you have to think it through.”
“I am only asking you to do this because I don’t want you to regret it if something happens to your sister.”
Her emotional performance made the views skyrocket.
“This mom is begging her on her knees, and she’s still
unmoved!”
“Yeah, donating bone marrow isn’t that risky. Why is she trying to torture her family?”
“What her mother is saying
must be true, she doesn’t
want her daughter to regret it. That’s why she is risking everything to save both of her daughters.”
“She’s breaking my heart!”
My mother saw that I was unmoved, and crawled
towards me and hugged my
legs.
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“Ava, I know that you resent
me for taking care of your sister more than you, but I’m begging you not to hold it against Sarah.”
“If you save her, I don’t care if I die. If you and your sister become friends, then I can die in peace.”
Matt, who had been standing on the sidelines, finally
lowered himself to the floor.
He was kneeling upright,
staring straight ahead.
I laughed.
“What happened to you trying to beat me up in the
elevator? What are you doing now?”
Matt’s chest was moving rapidly and his face was turning purple.
He stared at me with anger,
and I swear he was going to
tear me to pieces.
Then he slammed his head
into the floor.
Awais jan shared photos
throughout the room, it was
obvious that it hurt.
The live stream went into a
frenzy again.
“This doctor is a
psychopath, is she trying to
kill her mom and her brother now?”
“We have her address, she works in that hospital, let’s
go protest!”
“Someone should go beat her up, right now!”
My coworker was tugging on
my sleeve. I looked at her
and motioned for her to stay calm.
The live stream only had a couple hundred thousand viewers. That wasn’t enough.
The Johnsons also realized this, and it was finally Robert’s turn.
He was limping towards me.
He looked at me like a loving
father.
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I had never seen him look at me like that before.
Even when he sent me away
he never looked at me that
way.
I rubbed my arm and looked away in disgust.
“Kneel, but skip the
bullcrap.”
Robert’s mouth hung open, then he just knelt down.
The live stream went crazy.
“Holy crap, that must have hurt!”
“This father is making me
cry, if I ever meet this
doctor, I will make sure she
never forgets!”
“Let’s get some money
together and hire someone
to give her a beating.”
The anger of the crowd was
finally at its peak.
Then Sarah got out of bed.
She stumbled to her mom.
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“Mom, don’t beg her, Mom, I
would rather die than see
you act like this.”
She was crying.
“Mom, please, stand up. Mom, my heart hurts for you.”
She couldn’t get her mother to move, and she tried to
pull Matt and Robert to their feet, but no one would
budge. The entire family was sitting on the ground, crying.
“Is it really that hard to
donate bone marrow? You
can just take mine!”
“Where can I donate? Test
me too!”
“The first people who are going to go beat her up are already at the hospital!”
“They’re all awful, why would
she donate to them? Don’t
give them anything, they didn’t treat you right, so don’t treat them right
either!”
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The live stream hit a record high.
There were so many people
outside the door, that even
the head of the hospital had
come.
My mother started to calm down, and grabbed my hand, her eyes full of certainty.
“Ava, we are family, there is
nothing we can’t talk about. I’ve talked to the hospital head, and they won’t do anything to you.”
“You can donate, I’ve
already spoken to your
father, and he’ll take back all
the things he said about disowning you.”
She looked at me.
“We’re all from the same
family, and I love all my
children. Once you’ve
donated, I’ll make sure to
give you some good food so you can recover.”
I stared at my mother.
She had similar eves. warm
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hands, and a kind
expression.
At one point in my life, that was the love I longed for.
But now, I just felt disgusted.
I pushed her hand away and made a motion to the door.
They made a path for my advisor and the head of the
hospital to walk into the
room.
“The head of the hospital is
here, kick out the heartless
doctor.”
“Kick her out! Kick her out!
Kick her out!”
The live stream was full of
people demanding that I be
fired.
My mother started bowing to the head of the hospital.
“Please, don’t fire my
daughter! I have already
convinced her, she’ll
donate!”
My coworker rolled her eyes.
Even the usually serious 180s of my advisor looked like he couldn’t believe what he w
I gave him a look that said, “What can you do,” and pulled out my phons.
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“Who said that I was going
to donats?”
My mom froz5,
The live stream was just as surprised
“She really hasn’t changed, Sven with all the heads of the hospital looking on, she won’t donate. We’ll have to deal with her ourselves!”
“Let’s go, get ready to meet up at the hospital”
I brought up a video on my phone and projected it onto the wall.
I then turned around and straightened my collar.
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“If you all want to watch, then let’s have a show.
“I am Ava, the second daughter of the family who wanted a boy, and had three kids trying to get one.
“I was sent away when I was four, and I was brought back home when the aunt who raised me passed away when I was seventeen.
“If you want to know why I am not donating bone marrow, please watch this!”
As soon as I said that, the Johnsons realized something was wrong, and Matt tried to grab my phone.
He was held back by
security.
My mother’s face was pale,
and she was pulling on
Robert’s arm.
“It’s all your fault, how could
this have happened?”
I turned around, and the
hospital head nodded at me,
so I pushed plav.
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The live stream went quiet.
The room and everyone
around it fell silent.
The only noise was the video of the night I went home.
The camera in the kitchen showed the entire dining
room.
I was saying, “Mom, I’m sick.”
She said, “Eat, then.”
I said, “Leukemia.”
She said, “Food will cure
anything.”
I asked if Sarah could
donate. Robert Johnson
threw down his fork.
The comments started up
again.
“WTF am I watching?”
“OMG, this is a plot twist!”
“I knew it, there was no way
this was fair.”
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“This family is so awful, it
makes me angry.”
The video continued.
Sarah said that I was just
too stressed, and that I
should just smile and I’d feel better.
“Oh, she’s the one with leukemia, so why isn’t she smiling now?”
“Smile and you’ll be cured, why are you even in the hospital, you selfish brat!”
In the video, my dad threw the envelope at me.
He hit me and said that he
was a man of his word, and
that we were no longer family.
I said with a fake smile,
“Whoever asks for help is a
loser!”
“This old dude is going all
out! Was he trying to kill
her?”
“He said he was a man of
his word! So why is he
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kneeling in front of her now? What a loser!”
“I was almost fooled by the old guy, he’s playing
favorites. How can people
be so mean, it makes me
sick!”
Then Sarah spoke.
She said whoever asks for help is a turtle, and they deserve to be struck by lightning and die a horrible death.
“Wow, she looks so
innocent, why is she so
cruel?!”
“Struck by lightning and die
a horrible death, karma sure does work fast!”
“That’s exactly what she deserves!”
The video continued, but it
was all after I left.
The test results were on top of the envelope, and no one bothered to look at them.
Matt threw them away like
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they were trash. He picked
up the envelope and gave it to Sarah.
