Chapter 19 Nineteen

Two days later, Alicia woke up in the middle of the night to a stinging pain in her chest, she grabbed her chest and rolled on the bed, her neck was hurting too and she wondered what could be wrong. It felt like her heart was about to be ripped apart and she forced herself to get up. She has to tell someone, she can’t explain what is going on. Leo was still sleeping in the master bedroom and she had not gotten herself to sleep there yet. She climbed down from the bed and walked crouching to the door, her hand gripping onto her chest. She opened the door, the pain was intense and she just wanted to yell out, but she didn’t, the last thing she wanted was to wake everybody up and have Mary and Joy gloat over her illness. She pushed herself up the stairs to Leo’s bedroom, as she got to the door, she wanted to knock but decided against it and just opened it. However, when she stepped into the room, she stopped short, her unbearable pain momentarily forgotten upon seeing the two people on the bed.