Chapter 524 Suicide Attempt

My mother’s silence had me even more worried. While nervously asking if she was still on the line, I was genuinely concerned about her health becoming compromised as a result of her inability to handle this news.

“I’m still here. Oh, Janette… my poor child. How could such a thing have happened to her?”

She started to choke up as she spoke. It was understandably upsetting for her as a mother to learn of the tragic fate that befell her own daughter.

“What’s happened has happened, so you should restrain your grief. Having just been discharged and have yet to fully recover, you need to be more mindful of your own health.

 

Feeling no less disturbed by it as well, I was able to empathize with what she was going through. However, my concerns, at present, rested more on her physical well-being.

“Where is Janette? How is she now? With everything that has transpired, why is it that she had told me nothing about it? This girl is really getting me worried sick.”

Her voice quivered while she rattled off a string of questions pertaining to her daughter.

“Emotionally, Janette isn’t very stable right now. I was the one who decided to withhold it from you as you were still in the hospital when this all went down. I chose not to tell you as I was worried that you might not be able to cope.”

That was all that I could have said about Janette’s situation.

“Where is she now? I want to see her. She needs someone to keep her company.”

“Okay. I’ll drive you over to see her in a bit.”

that the extent of her affinity for Janette was much greater in comparison. Her sentiments toward me had been mostly rooted in guilt, whereas what she felt

sentiment was hard for me to contend with, but now was not the time to wrangle over such things; Janette was in a

did not

these past two days, I could always find Janette seated on the couch in the living room, unspeaking and doing nothing else in particular. Her absence at the moment got

Janette? Didn’t you say that

sounded even more anxious when she was unable to catch a glimpse

tired out over these past couple

was evident that no one had slept in it. Frantically, I

it was Janette. Ill at ease,

doing, Janette? Don’t you

the balcony with her eyes cast out into the distance, and I was seriously afraid that she might decide to jump down from there outright. As we were on the tenth floor, there was going to be little to no chance that she would

stare vacuously into the horizon. Drawn to the commotion, Alicia had also hurried over by this time. She got herself quite a fright when she saw Janette in such a

for, Janette? Please come back in. It’s

nerves as she spoke, and I saw that her body was trembling ever so subtly in the throes of

hearing her voice that Janette turned this way, and the moment she

Mom… every minute that I draw breath feels excruciating. Do you think I’d be able to find relief by jumping down from

these with impassivity. Therein, I was able to hear the despair in

you are, you would be able to get through this, no matter what. Plus, you still have me. What am I to do if you were to jump down from here? Do you mean

like beads untethered from their string. The pain was palpable upon

that night, Mom? How could I bear this stain for the rest of my life? How could I face other people from

anything silly! If anything were to happen to you, I wouldn’t

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