Unveiled: The Survivor's Triumph

Chapter 293

Chapter 293 I Have a Girlfriend Now

Lacey messaged: [Still awake?]

Jason replied: [Insomnia's been my constant companion lately.]

Lacey: [In that case, I'm heading to a midnight screening. Care to join me?]

Jason's fingers hovered over the screen, hesitation evident in his delayed response.

Lacey quickly added: [It's a horror film. I've heard the midnight showings are practically empty-like having a private screening. I don't want to end up scared stiff with no one to call for help!] She included a playful tongue-out emoji.

A smile tugged at Jason's lips as he read her message. After a moment's consideration, he simply replied "Sure" before getting up to change.

While driving to the theater, his phone rang unexpectedly. Upon answering, he immediately made a U-turn and accelerated toward Grace Hospital.

The caller was Mike, bearing shocking news: Yara Griffin, the student who had

confessed her feelings to Jason earlier that day, had attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. She'd been rushed to Grace Hospital, though details remained unclear.

At the hospital, a female student was waiting to escort him inside. As he hurried through the entrance, Jason quickly texted Lacey: [I'm terribly sorry, but I won't make it. A student has attempted suicide with sleeping pills. I'm at Grace Hospital now.]

A crowd had gathered outside the operating room-teachers, classmates, and Yara's family. The woman sobbing uncontrollably was presumably Yara's mother.

Mike handed Jason a neatly folded note. "Yara left this for you."

Rather than reading it immediately, Jason pocketed the letter and strode toward the operating room.

"What's her status?" he asked.

"She just arrived. The doctors are preparing to pump her stomach," Mike explained.

Having previously worked at Grace Hospital, Jason was well-known among the medical staff. The attending physician invited him to assist with the procedure.

Fortunately, Yara had been brought in quickly enough. After having her stomach pumped, she was out of immediate danger.

While waiting for her to regain consciousness, Jason read her letter-three pages of heartfelt emotions, the ink smudged in places where tears had fallen as she wrote.

that Jason was the unwitting catalyst for this situation, yet he was blameless. Even Yara's mother, despite her tears, couldn't reasonably hold him

seeing Jason at her bedside, tears immediately welled

"Mr. Foster!" she exclaimed.

and energetic, she now appeared fragile against the stark white hospital sheets,

many young people experiencing their first heartbreak, she behaved as though her world had ended. She poured out her feelings to Jason

you embarrassed yourself enough already?" he snapped, stamping his

embarrassing about first love," Jason

glimmer of hope in his words, Yara grabbed his

I've never felt this way about anyone before. I don't think I'll ever be able to love anyone else. Please tell me

sensitive topic, but Jason, mindful of her emotional state, didn't immediately dismiss her. Instead, he asked softly, "What is it that you

she admitted quietly. "Maybe it's your appearance, or perhaps your voice. All I know is that I fell for you

earlier intervention, Jason

at the university for months, and I've

"He's not lying."

Jason was wondering how to maintain his well-intentioned deception, a woman's

came here instead," she explained kindly. "It's fine-we'll have plenty of other opportunities to go to

in defeat. "Listen," Lacey said with remarkable gentleness, "nothing is insurmountable. Taking your own

Yara glanced toward her parents, a flicker of

greeting the teachers and

girls kept glancing at Lacey before whispering something in Yara's ear. Whatever she said caused Yara to look at Lacey with sudden recognition, but

time to move

She seemed genuinely resolved.

nodded, relieved.

Lacey left

can be quite intense these days. It seems you're quite the

don't make fun of me. It just shows how today's youth lack

experience, good or bad, has

her words resonated with

on, I had to learn to take care of myself and step up as a good daughter, filling our home with warmth again. My father often said his life was a failure, which made me silently vow to become his source of pride," Lacey

to Jason. "How about you? I believe everyone hits rough patches while growing up. If you haven't faced

a light box, lit a

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