Focused on her

Viviana's POV

Hospitals have a strange kind of silence.

Not quiet exactly, there are footsteps, murmurs, machines, but it's a heavy silence that presses against your chest.

I sat in the waiting area outside Silvia's room, my hands clasped together so tightly my knuckles had gone pale. The fluorescent lights hummed above me. Every few seconds someone walked past, but everything felt distant.

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