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My world stopped. Jessica hadn’t just replaced my life-saving medication with harmless salt water.
She had introduced toxic substances into vials I relied on to stay alive. Twenty minutes later, my parents, Robert and Linda, burst through the hospital doors with Jessica trailing behind them. Her eyes were red from what I now realized were completely staged tears.
You must be so scared.”
Dad approached my hospital bed with barely concealed irritation. “America. I can’t believe you’re making such a big deal about this.
Jessica made a mistake, but calling the ambulance was completely unnecessary.”
“She poisoned me,” I said, pointing to the IV drip keeping me stable. “The doctor found chemicals in my blood.”
Jessica’s performance reached new heights. She collapsed into our mother’s arms, wailing about how she never meant to hurt anyone and how sorry she was for her harmless joke.
“I just wanted to scare her a little bit. I bought saline at the pharmacy. I don’t understand how anything else could have gotten mixed in.”
My parents believed every word.
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