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.
situation, yet he was blameless. Even Yara's mother, despite
after the procedure. Upon seeing Jason at her
"Mr. Foster!" she exclaimed.
fragile against
experiencing their first heartbreak, she behaved as though her world had ended. She poured out her feelings to Jason until her father, unable to
already?" he snapped, stamping his foot in
nothing embarrassing about first love," Jason replied
hope in
don't think I'll ever be able to love anyone else. Please tell me what's wrong with
relationships were always a sensitive topic, but Jason, mindful of her emotional state, didn't immediately dismiss her. Instead, he
not sure," she admitted quietly. "Maybe it's your appearance, or perhaps your voice. All I know is
Mike's earlier intervention, Jason
the university for months, and I've
"He's not lying."
maintain his
but he came here instead," she explained kindly. "It's fine-we'll have plenty of other opportunities to go to the cinema. Your life is far more important." Jason hadn't expected Lacey to appear, but her timing was
said with
Lacey's words, Yara glanced toward her parents,
teachers and Jason, they
Lacey before whispering something in Yara's ear. Whatever she said caused Yara to look at Lacey with sudden recognition, but a
Foster, I won't do anything foolish again," Yara said. "I just need time to move on.
She seemed genuinely resolved.
nodded, relieved. "Good. Rest
left the hospital
these days. It seems
don't make fun of me. It just shows how today's
"Every experience, good or bad, has value," she said thoughtfully. "It's the challenges and setbacks
her words resonated
my parents had a troubled relationship. Eventually, my mother left with my younger brother, leaving my father and me behind. From that point 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
hits rough patches while growing up. If you haven't faced them yet, you
a light box, lit a cigarette, and began to
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