"Will it always hurt like this?" he asked, his voice startlingly clear in the quiet room. I nodded, curling my body into a tight ball. "We'll go to the hospital tomorrow," he said, wrapping his arms around me and pulling me into his embrace. I shook my head. "We just went!" I always felt it was a bad omen, constantly running to the hospital. After a long silence, I thought he had fallen asleep, bu