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

truth, but he couldn’t bring

same, they

some porridge.” Bertie

table, and his hands were slightly

was distracted and spilt a bit of

Bertie quickly cleaned up the

her head plainly, “It’s okay. You

she didn’t want to be with or talk

accompany you, I will be sitting on the sofa and will

Bertie could be and she probably couldn’t make him leave. She quietly ate the

she was reading comics on her phone. It was something brutally hilarious,

to be alone.”

at her and tried to read her expression, he

back, please,” Kathy

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

bother her if she wanted

closed the door and saw Joseph standing outside

the wall and there was a lit cigarette between

you have another one?” Bertie walked up to

Both of them who would only ever talk about business started

“Can she undergo surgery?”

rate is nearly zero.” Joseph had

plan to hide

will find out sooner or

can do?” Bertie looked down, his eyes were filled

so young, how could she

will think of something so that she won’t die,” stated Joseph clearly and

from the hospital the next

medicines that the doctor gave her had

that these were probably medicines to control

kept reminding her to eat her meals on time,

said yes, but

closing in

his classes every Friday. Kathy sat down in the last row and listened

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

lesson

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

was absent for a while and hence Joseph asked her to stay after

give you

after looking at Kathy’s results,

study

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