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

truth, but

Maybe he felt the same, they just didn’t have the heart to tell her the

bought you some porridge.” Bertie

table, and his hands

and spilt a bit of the

cleaned up

plainly, “It’s okay. You should head back, I’ll be

she didn’t want to be with or talk

sitting on the sofa and will not bother you.” Bertie sat down

and she probably couldn’t make him leave. She quietly ate

her phone. It was something brutally hilarious, but her

be

tried to read her expression, he

please,” Kathy

in her eyes and hence he didn’t

shouldn’t bother her if she

closed the door and saw Joseph standing outside

wall and there was a

have another one?” Bertie walked up to

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

“Can she undergo surgery?”

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

to hide it from her

out sooner

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

how could she accept a

of something so that she won’t

from the hospital the next

gave her had their labels

probably medicines to control

her to eat her meals on time,

but

was closing in to

classes every Friday. Kathy sat down in the last

She couldn’t catch up and the

lesson plan and frowned feeling

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

absent for a while and hence Joseph asked her to stay

me to give you extra lessons?”

frowned after looking at Kathy’s results, it was

study up on my

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