Colin

　　I parked my car and then meandered inside the hospital building where Reed’s mother was being hospitalized. I didn’t expect that Reed's mother's health was getting worse. Ken’s trembling voice on the phone when he was calling me seemed to panic. Reed was sitting in grief before the operating room. And the others had been by his side.

　　I didn’t have a say, just taking a stand near Reed. None of us knows how long it had been since Reed's mother had early stage cancer. That boy never shared us the anguish he had been through including his mother’s disease earlier. It was just last few days he told...