location: mercy hospital, private room time: 5:03 pm status: closed for @emitylor
He was tossing up between which of his intense feelings were worse (guilt or humiliation was the hot topic for the last fifteen minutes) when there came a knock at the door. The visitors had trickled when the nurses had insisted that his family members take a break. But he was not a fool and he knew that the five pm end to visiting hours didn’t include the Viper guards stationed on the floor, and the blind eye from the doctors and nurses meant that he wasn’t truly left alone. But after imploring his siblings to go home and rest, he was sure that it would be the last visitors. Of course, he was wrong, and with the knock of the door, he was distracted from his thoughts, before calling out, “Come in.”
