Andy POV
“Mom!” I cried as I rushed into her room at the clinic.
I had been told that she was awake, and all better, but I hadn’t really been able to believe it.
Actually, I think I was scared to believe it.
Because if it wasn’t really true, I didn’t know how I could stand it.
Seeing Mom laying in a hospital bed, all pale and still like she was dead, had made my stomach hurt.
But now I saw her, sitting up and talking to Dr. Amelia and an older man Dad told me was my grandfather. And I felt so happy that I just started to run.
I couldn’t help it.
She really was awake!
“Mom!”
I jumped up onto the bed, with Dad hurrying over to help me, so I could wrap my arms around her neck.
Burying my face in her hair, I breathed in her familiar scent.
It was so good to see her, to feel her a
