Short Story: An Inspector Calls

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Born with a heart problem, Luke almost got a heart attack when he was told that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were killed in an accident. It was Williams Hospital that told him with a call at 6 o'clock. Luke had went several times to this hospital; however, the hospital was not too trustworthy.
Williams Hospital is where Luke was born. He was taken by wrong parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson when he was a baby. Original parents and new parents did not find out almost an year until the hospital reported its mistakes in handling babies. Despite this crazy incident, Luke's biological parents decided not to exchange their babies because they found out that he had an inherent heart issue. Since then Luke was raised for over ten years by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
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"prrrr." He was a little bit nervous.
"prrrrrr."
"Sarah..."
"prrrrrr..."
Luke was worried that she would not take his call. He was even thinking she forgot about him. He looked at the clock in the house; it was almost 8'oclock. He heard some footsteps and chatting voices that he was used to hear. His mind went blank all of a sudden. Feeling some terrible apprehension, he moved the telephone, which was still not answered, apart from his ear to hear what he was hearing. Feeling that something was definitely approaching to the front door, he was terribly nervous now for different reason. His heart beated in the speed of light. After the footsteps and the voices went silent, he door lock was turned by a key. He dropped his telephone with a loud sound hitting the ground. Then the loud sound was followed by another loud sound of the front door.
"bang!"
There were Mr. and Mrs. Johnson standing. They seemed surprised by the loud sound of something dropping that they heard right before. The speaker of the telephone that he dropped was mumbling something. His heart stopped in shock with his eyes gazing them with widely opened eyes. he falls on the floor like a dead

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