A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

"It's like..." Emily couldn't find the right words to explain so she used German and led Beryl out of the room.

Now it was just her and Jack alone in the room.

She had no plans of inviting him in but he still went in and even had a cute dog with him.

"Good, good. What did you eat? Because that's where you got your food poisoning," Emily said. She was still at a loss as to what to say but she still did her job. When she looked at him, she saw that his face was white as a sheet.

Meanwhile, Jack had opened his eyes to meet her eyes, "Emily," he murmured.

But Emily paid no attention to him.

He continued, "It wasn't food poisoning. It was you and I don't think I can ever be cured."

Emily bit her lips, and scolded him. "Just shut up."

"No, I'm not going to. I really think I'm dying..." Jack sounded so weak and he was heaving, "Emily, I was bitten by a dog yesterday," he whispered in a low voice.

Emily could tell he wasn't himself yet. He was delirious so she just kept making him talk, "Mhm, okay and then?"

"So I most likely have rabies now. Once you get rabies, there's no cure for that. This is probably the rabies already so just stay away from me or I might hurt you..."

Emily couldn't help but laugh, "Can you hear yourself?"

He was claiming his food poisoning was rabies. If he hadn't just been checked up, she might have believed his story.

Jack suddenly stood up to hold Emily in his arms, "Emily, I'm telling you the truth..."

first instinct was to push him but then Jack

now?' Emily asked to herself.

hug on Emily as tears fell, "If I die, who's going to look after

need you to

that he just kept on mumbling on, "Get me a pen and paper,

trouble recognizing what she was feeling in this

dying of heart break and he just wanted to make sure they were taken cared of.

head - her heart softened at the sight of Jack crying like a child, "Don't cry, you're not dying, okay? This

what's happening here... I shouldn't have chased that dog in

what to do

everyone who gets food poisoning really get

dead set on believing that he had a rabies attack and was subsequently dying. He begged Emily to give him a pen

nonstop as if he was trying to say everything he wanted to say while he still could.

sent you 999 roses and a huge heart-shaped candle and you just threw cold water on it... I remember you said it was too

flowers. I bought too much that we weren't able to eat them all! So we

continued to recount all his

off as she listened to Jack.

now. Whenever she tried to remember them, she could no longer clearly remember

just really let go of her past

she couldn't help but feel ache in her heart. She dared not tread into that feeling ever again because

at the ceiling above and started to think back to

he held Emily as he sobbed. He was telling her how he had rabies and how he was about to die

himself look

shame. How he wished he could go