Paramedics: A Short Story

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I couldn't feel anything. The last thing I remembered was watching the paramedics take my mom away from my grip as I walled and thrashed with all of my remaining strength until an officer held me down. The second his foreign hands touched my body I clawed at his face. I felt the tears surface my checks.
"Mom!" My lungs croaked with every word. My sorrowful eyes followed the speeding ambulance as it disappeared from my sight. The officer wrapped his arms around my fragile shoulders meanwhile my ears caught the other's soothing, sanguine words. I repeated the words "You're going to be okay" so many times, part of me commenced to believe it until I spotted my handcuffed father being dragged out of the room with his head hanging on his neck.

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