“You’ll live here and I’ll live next door.”
Ming got out of the car and followed me.
“Next door?”I saw it is a house with the same pattern as this one.
But there was nothing in the yard.
Ming handed me a small bag.”Here is your passport and certificate. I bought you a mobile phone and there is a local mobile card in it. By the way, there is also cash in it. If you want to leave here, you can do it at any time.”
I opened the bag and checked it.
It was a wonderful feeling.
Sean didn’t let me go before, but I desperately wanted to leave. Now Ming gave me everything and I was totally free but I thought it was good here.
Ming handed me a key and let me in.
I went in and found him still standing at the door. I turned to him and asked, “why don’t you come in?”
“This is your home now. If the host doesn’t invite me, of course I can’t go in.”Ming smiles.
I was in a daze.
I made a move to invite him.
Ming came in.
He accompanied me around the house. The house had two floors. The lower floor was the living room, dining room and kitchen.
The upper floor was a dressing room, study and a large bedroom.
The bedroom window was connected with a large balcony, which was placed with several small shelves with flowers.
It was like a little house in a cartoon.
“Do you like it?”
Ming asked me in the back as I watched the flowers on the windowsill.
“Yes.”I nodded.
Ming nodded.”That’s good. I’ve already bought supplies and clothes. You can have a rest first. We’ll go to town for dinner later.”He looked at his watch.”We’ll start in half an hour.”
“OK.”
After Ming left, I went to the windowsill and sat on a metal chair looking at the distance. Sunset was falling.
Everything was so peaceful and beautiful.
But I always thought about one person.
Sean.
Where was he now? How was he? Was he continuing to take the medicine?
What if he couldn’t find me?
I wanted to leave him and hated him for killing my baby.
I really left him now but I had been thinking about him.
Half an hour passed but I forgot the time.
When I watched the sunset, I heard a slight footsteps behind me. I felt someone standing behind me and asking, “what are you thinking?”
This voice…
“Sean…”I subconsciously called out Sean’s name, but when I looked back to see the man behind me, I was disappointed and forced myself to smile, “Ming, why are you here?”
Ming pointed to the watch on his wrist.”We have an appointment for dinner.”
“Ah.”I remembered it and said apologetically, “I’m sorry I forgot.”
Ming shook his head.”It’s OK. Are you hungry now? We can have dinner later if you are not hungry. There’s a time difference between here and home.”
“I’m hungry.”
I interrupted him and stood up.
After all, I asked Ming to help me. Now he did what I said, so I couldn’t be unhappy.
He did nothing wrong.
If someone did something wrong, I was the only one.
Ming said he would take me to a restaurant for dinner. I thought of my face and refused.
But he assured me that no one would care.
Eventually I took off the mask from my face and went to dinner with only my gauze.
Ming took me to a local restaurant which was very popular. When we went in, it was almost full. When the owner saw Ming, she immediately said hello to him. She just smiled when he saw me.
Then she took us to a quiet corner.
The owner here was a middle-aged woman in her forties. She didn’t mind what I looked like and introduced me the signature dishes.
We were here for the first time, so we followed her recommendation.
After the dishes were served, to be honest, the dishes here were not so good. Their taste was very strange, but we were foreigners, so the owner repeatedly asked us if they were delicious.
To live up to her enthusiasm, I could only eat them.
As Ming said, people around me didn’t really care what I looked like.
I felt relieved.
After dinner, Ming thought that I was tired, so he asked me to go back to have a rest. At the same time, he asked me to go to town tomorrow.
I looked at Ming suspiciously, “Ming, you are usually so busy with your work. What about your hospital after you leave?”
“Don’t worry. It will work.”After Ming finished, he suddenly became serious and looked at me.”I took you abroad to make you think seriously. Ask your heart what you really want.”
What I wanted.
I looked at Ming and seemed to understand what he meant.
Ming touched my hair.”Go back to rest. If you need anything, you have my number in your cell phone. You can come to my house directly. One of your keys is mine.”
After that, he seemed afraid that I might misunderstand him, so he said quickly, “but I don’t have the key to your home. In the evening you didn’t lock the door and you didn’t answer me, so I went upstairs.”
He was nervous. I smiled, “I know Ming is honest.”
He never made me worry.
Ming laughed, “maybe.”
Then he went back to his home.
I changed clothes and took a bath when I got home. I was alone in bed thinking.
My heart and head were full of Sean.
I took my cell phone and wanted to call him several times.
Was I crazy?
I managed to escape. Why did I want to go back?
Even if I wanted to go back, I would wait for two months. I wanted Sean to believe I was not sick.
I suddenly realized that it wasn’t me but Sean who became abnormal. He believed that the woman in the video was me and then persuaded and forced himself.
And he forced me…
I kept thinking about him and fell asleep in bed.
I dreamed about Sean that night. I dreamed that he was standing in a desert and shouting my name.
He was frantically looking for me but I was not there.
He kept shouting until he was exhausted.
I had been looking at him. When the morning sun woke me up, there were tears in the corner of my eyes.
Sean.
Sean.
What should I do?
The doorbell rang.
“Good morning”
I washed my face and put on the clothes Ming prepared for me and went downstairs. He had stood at the door waiting for me.
Beside him were two bicycles, one was blue and the other was pink.
He saw me come out and waved to me, “I’ll take you to breakfast.”
I looked at him and put away my sadness. I put on a relaxed expression and walked forward.”OK.”
I got on the pink bike.