SIXTY FOUR

“So brief a time we have to stay, along this dear familiar way. It seems to me we should be kind, to those whose lives touch yours and mine. The hands that help us who may know, how soon the long, long way must go? And might we not their faults forgive, and make them happy while they live?

So many faults in life there are, we need not go to seek them far. But time is short and you and I might let the little faults go by. And seek for what is true and kind, in those whose lives touch yours and mine. It seems to the better way, then why not friend, begin today?” – Anonymous.

LILY’s POV

I stand at the edge of Kane’s hospital bed as a physician tends to him. My feet tap nervously on the ground and my fingers dig into my palm as I stare at Kane who lays motionless with his eyes fixated on the ceiling.

The physician is shining a mini torchlight into his eyes and calling out his name. “