Five days had passed.

Five agonizingly painful days.

Seconds felt like hours, days felt like years.

Nothing could prepare me for this heartbreak, feeling completely and utterly helpless. There was nothing I could do to speed up this process and that made me feel pathetic, I needed to do something. Anything to save Megan from slipping into unconsciousness forever.

But I couldn't. I couldn't do a single thing but sit here and wait for the clock to tick by.

I had chewed down on the skin around my fingers and stared endlessly at the wall as a thousand thoughts filtered through my mind. My eyes had run dry, my body...