I've Been There Before

Things were simple. It was so simple that all it took was for Grace to continue to cowardly and undignified comply with any of Ruby's unreasonable and even insulting demands.

 

But in the deepest part of her heart, she was greedy - she wanted that long-lost "respect" so that she didn't have to be like before and only needed to be like the most ordinary people to get the respect of "human" that she deserved.

 

But apparently, things didn't go as planned.

 

Since then, Grace hid her heart, which was riddled with holes, even deeper. She hid the things that her heart longed for in the depths of her soul, where no one could touch it. There were dark, cold, and lonely as when the deep sea was at its most still.

 

Ruby came and went. She always came at mealtime and left after delivering the food.

 

"I want to get out of the hospital” On the fourth night after the incident, Ruby, as grim as ever, put a take-out box on Grace's hospital bedside table, turned and prepared to leave. Behind her, the woman in the hospital bed who had been silent said slowly.

 

This coarse and slow voice caused Ruby, who had been indifferent for four days, to stop. She turned her head somewhat agitatedly and refused without thinking,

 

"No. You are not well enough’

 

Did she care about her? Grace looked fixedly at Ruby, "I'm better. My fever's gone. I want to work?

 

"You did that on purpose, didn't you? You want everyone to see the gauze on your forehead?" Ruby said angrily, "Grace, you are indeed something. The saying that you may know a person's face but not his mind is really true. I thought you were honest, but I didn't expect you to be such a schemer”

 

Grace lowered her eyelashes to hide the disappointment in her eyes. Sure enough, she thought too much. How could she care about her!

 

When she looked at Ruby again, Grace's eyes became a little numb, “I have to go to work. You're going to do the discharge papers”

 

With that, she lifted the covers, got out of bed slowly, and changed into the clothes she'd worn when she came.

 

Ruby's eyes widened in shock. Was Grace just ordering her?

 

She?

 

Grace?

 

Order her?

 

of

 

door. Even though she was walking slowly, she was indeed ready to leave the room. In other words,

 

was really ready to leave

 

How did this work!

 

of panic. She was still afraid. How could the cripple go back to the Royal Club before the

 

a nice way of putting it. People who don't know will think about how much

 

Isn't your job just to please men? You haven't recovered from your illness, and you're in such a hurry to please men? You

 

would you rush to

 

ignored how harsh her words were. The more she talked, the more silent Grace became. She just looked down at her toes. Her hands behind her back were clenched into fists and she couldn't stop shaking. She wanted to retort and explain so

 

that it was useless to

 

was true that she got down on her

 

knees and learned to wag tail like a

 

she was telling the truth

 

exactly what

 

could she retort

 

explain it

 

has a belief. That might be a person or a faith’ she said in a hoarse voice and suppressed the soreness in her heart. Grace said

 

that belief, the people who try to achieve and strive to get it, at least they shouldn't be laughed

 

How could such words come from an ignorant and

 

in her mind, she looked at Grace

 

grabbed her arm with one hand,

 

at a time, “I'm going to work, and

 

pulled Ruby's grip on her arm away. Without looking