“You’ve lost weight again, so when you wake up, I’ll cook you lots and lots of your favorite food and tonic it up.” Andrea Jones squeezed his wrist, sliding her fingers all the way over and down to his fingertips.
She shook it, and then, let go …
He, without ever buckling.
The astringency in her chest, a little more. Vaguely, not very sharp, but, nevertheless, like a needle piercing the softest spot in her heart, invading her bone marrow.
She didn’t know when he would wake up.
The doctor said, talk to him more, talk more about the past, maybe one day a miracle will happen. She tried very hard every day to tell him about the past, from the time they met, to know each other … to today …
Like playing a movie, she narrated the scene clearly enough. However, he would never give her even the slightest response.
She doesn’t blame him …
Don’t blame him …
As long as he was still alive, she was already being grateful. At least, he gave her a little hope, and that was enough …
Nothing is more important than being alive.
“Hair is messy oh, I have to wash your hair first today.” Collecting her mind, she began to continue the day’s busy work. “Wait for me for two minutes, to fetch you water.”
Andrea Jones said as she turned on the TV in the hospital room.
“Want to watch the financial news, or a TV series?” She asked him with a smile, as if she knew his answer, she shook her head, “No, financial news is too boring, let’s just watch TV series. Korean dramas!”
She suddenly remembered the Korean drama she mentioned to him last time she was at the beach. At that time, he was the one who said that dramas are crueler than reality. He carried her on his back, and swore that way that he would be together for life …
There are some things that you really can’t think about down the road.
The more I think about it, the more it hurts. It’s like a drill drilling into your own heart, and it hurts so much that she almost suffocates.
After holding back the mist from her eyes, she set the TV on the Korean drama one and went back to the bathroom to bring a basin of hot water over.
Washing his hair was quite a laborious task, so the nurse outside the door had to be called upon.
The nurse came in to help, and after rotating the bed, held him so that his head was resting on her lap. He never moved much, his face did not rise and fall even the slightest bit, he was unconscious.
Andrea Jones likes to wash his hair. At times like this, he rested on her lap, like a child. It always made her feel like she was taking care of her own child, maternal overflowing. So what if you take care of him like a child?
“Mrs. Jiang, you are so patient.” The nurse had to sigh, “It’s been so many days, and you’ve been here every day. The one in the next room is similar to your husband, their family, tsk! Not to mention the wife and daughter, even parents do not come much, all to a caregiver. How can this caretaker be as attentive as one of his own?”
“Yeah, just in case the caretaker doesn’t take good care of it.” Andrea Jones smiled faintly and washed Neal Williams’ hair like her mother had done when she was a child. The water was just the right temperature and she was gentle, rubbing the foam all over his head and not forgetting to give his scalp a gentle massage.
This scene, even for outsiders to see moved.
“You really have nothing to say about your husband. In the future, when he wakes up and knows that you are taking such good care of him, he will be touched to the core.” The nurse lamented.
Andrea Jones looked down, focused on the task at hand, and laughed, “If it were me lying in bed right now, he would take care of me just as well.”
“With you taking care of it like this, I’m sure your husband wouldn’t want to stay asleep. He wouldn’t want to see you work so hard either.”
“Actually, taking care of him doesn’t feel hard at all.” Bitter, but he never gave himself a response …
“That said, but you are at least pregnant now, you have to pay attention. Look at you so thin, also don’t work too hard, now the baby is more important than anything else.” The nurse advised.
She nodded, “I know and will live within my means.”
After a while, his hair was clean, and Andrea Jones took a dry towel and wiped his damp hair. The nurse was already familiar with it and immediately handed over a hair dryer.
Andrea Jones patiently blow-dried his hair.
The rumbling sound, ringing in the ears, was warm.
He, oblivious to it.
Hair, from her fingertips. His face, has faded to look pale and thin. Like a young teenager, only, still handsome.
She wondered if this was what Neal Williams looked like when she first met him many years ago.
“More and more like a child.” She couldn’t help but sigh, her eyes filled with pity.
The sunlight cast in from the window, enveloping the two of them, a warmth and warmth gradually emanated, haunting the entire ward.
Neal Williams …
If one day, no more tired, no more pain, enough sleep … then, wake up!
Open your eyes and look at her, look at the child, look at the warm world …
Miss you!
Really, really want to … very much …
Outside the door, the old lady and Christina Sanchez arrived long ago with chicken soup, but never knocked on the door to enter, as if they could not bear to disturb the scene inside. Just watching in awe, both of them were a bit moved.
The old lady couldn’t help but wipe the corners of her eyes and sigh. Now that I think about it, I was really mean to Andrea Jones.
“If they had become whole earlier, they might not have suffered so much.” The old lady lamented, her heart felt remorse.
Christina Sanchez is not unmoved either. Caring for an unconscious person with a child in her arms, without complaint. Even, from the beginning to the end, no matter how desperate it was, she never gave up. This friendship alone is enough to make people look at.
Since the incident with Neal Williams, everyone in the family has looked on the bright side. All of the neighbors have talked about Andrea Jones’ feelings for Neal Williams and praised them for being lucky enough to find such a good and faithful girl. This kind of thing, if it were on the other side, may not be able to hold out.
Even Shirley Jones advised Christina Sanchez to let bygones be bygones, no matter how much resentment there was in her heart, it was their generation’s business and they shouldn’t torture the kids anymore.
People’s hearts are made of flesh, and Christina Sanchez had long since gone soft. From the time Andrea Jones never moved to abort the child in her womb, she had already planned to accept the daughter-in-law.
“Mom, let’s go inside.” Returning to her senses, Christina Sanchez assisted the old woman inside.
Andrea Jones had just finished washing his hair and looked exhausted, with layers of fine sweat on her face. But she was happy to do it and didn’t complain at all.
When he saw the two come in, he smiled and greeted, “Grandma, mom, sit down, I’ll pour the water first.”
“I’ll do it, I’ll do it!” Christina Sanchez snatched the tub of water out of her hand, “You’re a pregnant woman, go sit down. I told you to hire a caretaker for Neal, what if you step on the wet floor and fall?”
Andrea Jones didn’t refuse and just laughed, “No, Mom, I’m being careful. And now that the baby is over four months old, it’s pretty stable. The doctor also said the baby is developing quite well.”
The old lady said: “I think it is better to hire a caretaker, you do not need to be so tired. The side things can not do, even if it is to give you a little hand, send water is also possible. Save your mother-in-law from worrying about you and the child.”
Christina Sanchez poured water and came out of the bathroom, nodding her head, agreeing with the old lady, “Look, even Grandma said so. This Neal is enough of a worry for me, you and the kids have to be less of a worry for me.”
Having said that, Andrea Jones naturally could not refuse.
“You haven’t eaten breakfast yet, have you? Drink this first.” Christina Sanchez poured a bowl of chicken soup out of the thermos, “I got up after 5:00 to simmer it, and it should be almost done by now.”
The fragrant smell, at once seeped into the air. The warm bowl of chicken soup was shoved into her hand, and Andrea Jones was moved to a sense of home.
In fact, today’s self is really a blessing among misfortunes. Although Neal Williams has been in a coma, however, other people are accepting themselves step by step, which is a situation that I could not even think of before.
She had thought that the knot between her and her mother-in-law would never be untied.
“Thanks Mom, I’ll just make myself some porridge for breakfast later, you don’t have to work so hard.” Andrea Jones said.
“Look at you, your belly is several months old, and you haven’t gained much weight. Eat more, and the baby will absorb more nutrients.” Christina Sanchez did not find it hard to make soup for her early in the morning.
Andrea Jones’ heart warms. “What about you guys? Have you all had breakfast yet?”
“Well, it’s all eaten, leave us alone, you hurry up and drink it.” The old lady said lovingly, “Is it time for you to have another checkup today? Let your mother accompany you later.”
“Then Neal Williams …” Andrea Jones was a little worried about him.
She didn’t want to leave him alone, not even for a minute, she couldn’t let him be alone …
“Don’t think about him, Grandma is here. You guys just go about your business.”
Andrea Jones had a routine checkup and both she and Christina Sanchez were relieved to hear the doctor say she was doing well.
Re-entering the ward, the old lady and Christina Sanchez sat for a while and then both went away again.
Andrea Jones asked the nurse to stay in the room with Neal Williams for a while before she made it a point to walk the two elders to the hospital entrance. From a distance, I saw Sammy Jones getting out of the cab with a bouquet of flowers in his arms.
She was still on the phone, her brow furrowed and her face unhappy.
When she got closer, Andrea Jones heard her voice, “Xu Shao wants to ask me to please him? Yuck! Who is he? Who the hell is he? I took the case, and I won it. What can he do to me?”
“He can revoke my law license? Great! Then I want to see how much he can do! Let him revoke it!” Sammy Jones was so furious that he pressed the phone off hard.
“Sis!” Andrea Jones called to her.
When he saw Sammy Jones, Andrea Jones took a deep breath and eased some of the anger on his face.
“What’s wrong?” Andrea Jones asked worriedly. She had that cranky temper that was so different from hers.
“Nothing, I just didn’t expect the first financial case I took back home to be so tricky.” Sammy Jones downplayed it.
“Bad day in court?” Andrea Jones asked tentatively, taking her hand along with her into the elevator.
“Not bad, this case is temporarily for my client won, but, may have to appeal, just do not know what the next step will be. Moreover, it is said that the plaintiff has a bastard named Xu Shao behind him.”
“Who is he? I just heard something about revoking your law license.” Andrea Jones was naturally worried. Andrea Jones is naturally worried, Sammy Jones graduated from school, until now, really involved in the industry only a few years, seniority is considered shallow, if someone really want to bully her, I’m afraid she does not have the ability to fight back.
“Specific have not seen it, but, listen to our boss said, before this person is the road mix. In these years, the family washed clean, into a black and white.”
“How did you get involved with this kind of person? Sister, in the future, you should be careful when taking cases, and don’t touch the tricky ones.”
“You ah, don’t worry about my business, this case to take I can get more than 100, 000 commission, enough to buy a small house half of the down payment.”