Chapter 60-Breaking point

I couldn't breathe. The room felt like it was closing in on me, the walls pressing in tighter and tighter, and there was no escape. Everything felt wrong. Nothing made sense anymore. My heart ached, my mind was spinning, and I felt like I was drowning in my own thoughts. I needed to escape. I needed to make it stop, but I couldn't. Why was this happening? Why couldn't I find Ethan? Why couldn't I just wake up from this nightmare and have everything be okay again? I wiped my tears away, but they just kept coming, unstoppable. I had no control over my body, over my mind. It was like a storm was brewing inside me, and I couldn't calm it. The pain, the fear, the guilt----they were all too much. I couldn't take it. "Where are you, Ethan?" I whispered to myself, my voice shaky. "Why aren't you here?" The hospital room around me seemed distant, like it wasn't even real. I could hear the faint beeping of the machines, the rustling of papers, the muffled voices outside my door, but none of it m