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.

at

but he couldn’t bring himself to do

understood how Joseph felt. Maybe he felt the same, they just didn’t have the heart to

some porridge.” Bertie inched closer to

and his hands

and spilt a bit of the

cleaned up the

head plainly, “It’s okay. You

didn’t want to be with

accompany you, I will be sitting on the sofa and will not

be and she probably

was reading comics on her phone. It was

I would like to be

at her and tried to read her expression,

back, please,”

in her eyes and hence he didn’t

shouldn’t bother her if she wanted

the door and saw Joseph standing outside the

leaning against the wall and there was a lit

have another one?” Bertie

of them who would only ever talk about business started to talk about private matters

“Can she undergo surgery?”

the success rate is nearly zero.” Joseph had a heavy

plan to hide

will find out sooner or

else we can do?” Bertie looked down, his eyes were filled with anguish and

could she accept a cruel

she won’t die,” stated

was discharged from the hospital the next

gave her

that these were probably medicines to control

to the university and on the way, he kept reminding her to eat

yes, but she looked

the university were as usual. It was closing in to the exam period and everyone was preparing for

Kathy sat down in

some time. She couldn’t catch up and the class was hard

the lesson plan and frowned feeling

including Kathy failed

She was absent for a while and hence Joseph

me to give you extra lessons?” asked

looking at Kathy’s results, it was worse than what he

need, I will study up on my

in every class. If you can study it up on your own, then there’s no need for me to hold