Later that afternoon, I was back at the floral shop. Grandmother was in the back room resting as she was not feeling well, so I decided to run the shop. I had already served four customers and was now arranging a bunch of flowers. To me arranging the flowers was calming and I could see why grandmother would do this for a living.

as time passed, I had finished closing up the shop.  I had finished placing all the flowers into their respected places, swepted and mopped the floors and turned the light outside off. As I was heading back to the store room, I could hear a loud weezing sound, almost like someone was struggling to breath.

rushing into the back room, grandmother was hunched over on the beaten up couch trying to catch her breath. Running over to her, I patted her on the back giving her instruction to take deep breaths. After she calmed down and regained her breathing, she reached over to her puffer.

"grandmother are you okay?" I asked as I looked at her with worry. She nodded her head still trying to stable her breathing. "Let me call an ambulance" standing to my feet I walked towards the phone. " wait" grandmother whispered. Turning my head to her, she beckoned me to sit back down with her. Once I took a seat beside her, grandmother placed a hand over my knee squeezing it slightly.

" There is no need to call an ambulance. I already know I'm not well" she said as she sadly smiled at me "But shouldn't I call one then?" Grandmother shook her head. Gazing at me with sad eyes she spoke. "I have been sick for a long time hyemi, and I know my time here isn't very long." My heart dropped at