My Sweetheart

Bertie was standing by the door and heard what the doctor said. His frowned deeply.

He ran after the doctor when the doctor left the wardroom, only to see Joseph waiting for the doctor in his office already.

“Mr. Joseph, are you sure you want to hide it from Miss Kathy, the fact that her brain tumour is spreading?”

“You should know that the success rate for the surgery for brain tumour doesn’t even exceed 5%.”

Bertie froze up listening to their conversation from outside the room. He heard everything clearly and his body started to tremble violently.

Kathy was…

He abruptly rushed into the room, the two of them were surprised to see him.

Bertie grabbed Joseph by the collar furiously, “Joseph, you were lying to her this whole time!”

Joseph was wearing a heavy expression and there was a glint of anguish in his eyes.

He just didn’t know how to tell her.

It was a fact so cruel that even he couldn’t accept it.

Let alone Kathy.

She just fulfilled her dream and had just started her postgraduate. He didn’t want the illness to take away everything from her.

“What will happen if she doesn’t undergo surgery?” asked Bertie bleakly.

The doctor shook his head and answered, “Best-case scenario, she’ll have three more years to live.”

Bertie let go of his hand frustratedly after hearing what the doctor said and punched the wall as hard as he could.

Kathy was standing outside of the door. She was initially here to get her medical record from the doctor and the news came like a bolt from the blue.

She laughed bitterly, that was the reason why.

No wonder her head would hurt so badly for no reason and her health was steadily deteriorating, and that she would pass out every so often.

Three years…

And three years was the best-case scenario.

Kathy didn’t know how she walked back to the ward. She lied down on the bed and closed her eyes, she felt very sorrowful, but she couldn’t seem to cry.

She covered the blanket over her shoulder as if the sadness would go away being embraced by the blanket like this.

She only came back to her senses when she heard footsteps coming in from outside.

It was Bertie.

looked at Kathy solemnly.

the truth, but he couldn’t bring himself to

same, they just didn’t have

porridge.” Bertie inched closer

the table, and his

distracted and spilt a bit of the

Bertie quickly cleaned up the

“It’s okay. You

didn’t want to be

will be sitting on the sofa and will not bother you.” Bertie sat down and never came

persistent Bertie could be and she probably couldn’t make him leave. She

It was something brutally hilarious, but her tears started

like to be alone.”

and tried to read her expression,

please,” Kathy repeated

the determination in her eyes and hence he didn’t say anything

her if she wanted

saw Joseph standing outside

leaning against the wall and there

one?” Bertie walked up

only ever talk about business started to talk about private matters in

“Can she undergo surgery?”

is nearly zero.” Joseph had

hide it

find out

Bertie looked down, his eyes

was still so young, how could she accept a cruel fact like

she won’t die,” stated Joseph

the hospital the next

medicines that the doctor gave her

these were probably medicines to control her tumour from

kept reminding her to eat her meals

yes, but she looked

the university were as usual. It was closing in to

Friday. Kathy sat down in the last

quite some time. She couldn’t catch up and the

lesson plan

the class and a few including Kathy failed the quiz. They were summoned by Joseph to go to

case. She was absent for a while

you need me to give you extra lessons?” asked

Kathy’s results,

I will study up

every class. If you can study it up on