"Where are you now? Our daughter is in the hospital with a high fever," I said slowly with an effort to control my temper.
"I just finished tutoring my good friend's child."
"What? Your daughter is in the hospital, but you went to tutor someone else's child?"
Furthermore, Yasmine ordered takeout and ended up getting sick because she had nothing to eat at home.
"Enough, she's no longer a baby. Can't she go to the hospital herself? Besides, you are already there, aren't you?
"If she hadn't eaten something bad, how would she have gotten a fever?
"She should learn to be responsible for what she does!"
Faintly, I heard a little boy say, "Auntie Rena, I want ice cream."
Rena responded to him sweetly and hung up on me.
I remembered what Yasmine had just said.
"I had a stomachache. When I called Mom, she said she had something urgent to do and asked me to go to the hospital alone."
Her eyes turned red, but she managed to keep back her tears. She probably also didn't understand why her mother was like that.
Rena said Yasmine was not a baby anymore, but Yasmine was still a twelve-year-old little girl!
I couldn't imagine how she struggled to the hospital alone with a high fever!