ANNA

My face had definitely whitened, and I was desperately looking for a chair to sit on. I found it in the hall. Emily’s voice seemed so distant to me.

“Anna, are you okay? Please answer me…”

I could hear her talking to me, but I didn’t understand the words. Just the ones on the phone kept resonating in my head. I felt a heaviness in my chest and my heart was stubbornly beating so hard that I didn’t know how it could fit in my chest. I was hyperventilating, ...