Chapter 153

• "So we had both slept off, only to jolt awake from our sleep in the middle of the night. There was a loud noise coming from one of the machines in Nonna's room, and the doctor and nurses were rushing into her room. Panic filled Alexander and I. We both prayed nothing was gonna go wrong. Nonna's sister had also woken up and was in a state of panic as well. After a while, the noises for the machine stopped and one of the nurses stepped out, asking for 'Manuel'. I quickly rushed in and Nonna was literally too calm for someone who supposedly just had a crisis. The only words she said to me was that she wanted not to be taken away from her home. She wanted to be buried in Russia. In her favorite place." He sighed. "I'm sure you already know where that is?"
• "Hmmm." I nodded as realization set in. Oh myyyy.... That was how Nonna got buried on the island.
• "The next second, the machine was beeping again, and her body started to jerk. I held her hands calling for help, but when my eyes locked with her fixed one, I knew she was already gone. The nurses rushed in and tried pulling me out, but I kept resisting. Eventually, they were able to take me out, my face filled with tears. Oh, how much I had cried that night. That was eventually the last day I cried. Until yesterday when I couldn't take your absence anymore." He muttered, not able to hold my eyes.