Love Began with the First Meeting

"The operation is done, let me just suture the wounds," Dr. Young said. The hospital's deputy director handed him the tools from a metal tray and he began the suturing process. Suddenly, Dr. Fan's stressed voice spoke out, "Wait a minute!"

Dr. Young immediately stopped what he was doing. Everyone in the operating room turned to look at Dr. Fan, who frantically said, "Something is wrong with his heart!"

"His blood pressure is dropping drastically!" the nurse cried in shock.

Dr. Fan frowned. He gestured to Dr. Young to exchange positions with him. Moving to the operating table, he began to perform a check-up and then said, "Intracranial hemorrhage!"

Everyone in the room blanched upon hearing Dr. Fan's diagnosis. On second thought however, they could not help but feel grateful that the hemorrhage was discovered before suturing. Otherwise, not only would Mark's body fail to endure a second craniotomy operation, but it might be too late to remove the hemorrhage as well.

Opposite the operating room's walls, people outside of it had no idea about the nerve-racking situation happening inside. They could only do so much as wait. Like a knife, time kept cutting everybody's heart in pieces repeatedly as the hours rolled by. Molly felt like a century had passed, and during that century, she nearly used all her strength to stare at the glowing sign "In Operation" on top of the operating room's doors.

A male voice cut through the tense silence. "Molly…" Brian said softly as he strode to her, arms outstretched seeking to embrace--but Molly turned away slightly, as if she felt what he was going to do. Brian's arms paused in mid-air, sensing her hesitation. With bitterness etched on his thin lips, he receded slowly. He just stood by her side to watch over her, feeling that she would collapse at any minute.

At that moment, Molly didn't think of anything except Mark. She only cared about her son.

Tap tap tap…

the corridor, alerting everyone in the waiting area. Everyone instinctively looked to where the sound was coming from. They could sense two people getting nearer, but could not recognize them because of the hallway's rather overly

floor because it was

voice came from one of the two visitors and everyone now saw who

Looking at him like this made the middle of her forehead

again, his attention was focused on Mark. Worry was written all over his exhausted looking face, and with a frown he said, "I

just shook her head. She didn't want to say anything at this moment. Three hours had passed, but still nothing came out of the operating room. Molly's mind was going chaotic with

Spark said, trying to comfort her despite feeling somber himself. "He already overcame the most difficult thing ever before, how could he give up now?" he said in the best

traumatic moment Mark did not cry out when he had just been born. The middle of her forehead was still sore. She felt she would have a migraine soon with all the stress about

Molly with determined eyes, as if he was encouraging her to be strong. He waited too and just stood there with her in silence. It seemed that all this time, he forgot Brian was with them, standing on the other side of the corridor.

face wore a mask of indifference, but his sorrowful black eyes were seemingly filled with rolling storms, keeping the others

looked at Brian and then at Richie. Richie was really aloof. He never showed his emotions on his face except to Shirley, like an expert poker player secretively dealing his cards. Nobody could read

as Dr. Fan performed the suturing by