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 the truth, but he couldn’t bring himself to

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

porridge.”

the table, and his hands were

spilt a bit of the

cleaned

You should head

to be with or talk

will not bother you.” Bertie sat down

Bertie could be and she probably couldn’t

her phone. It was something brutally hilarious, but her

would like to be alone.” Kathy sounded a bit

at her and tried to

please,” Kathy repeated

eyes and hence he

her if she wanted to be

and saw Joseph

was leaning against the wall and there

one?” Bertie walked up

box of cigarette to him. Both of them who would only ever talk about business started to talk about

“Can she undergo surgery?”

the success rate is nearly zero.” Joseph

plan to hide it

out sooner

nothing else we can do?” Bertie looked down, his eyes were filled with anguish and

young, how could

she won’t die,” stated Joseph clearly and

was discharged from the hospital the

gave

medicines to control her tumour from

and on the way, he kept reminding her to eat her meals on time, rest well and to not

but she looked

in to the exam period and

sat down in the last row and listened intently to

some time. She couldn’t catch up and the

the lesson plan and frowned feeling

a pop quiz during the class and a few including Kathy failed the quiz.

a while and hence Joseph asked her to stay

me to give you

Kathy’s results, it was worse than

I will study

mentioned before that to pass my class, one had to pay full attention in every class. If you can study it up on your own, then there’s no need for me to hold lectures.”