“No good!” KK rejected her without hesitation. Nini ate her defeat, her little mouth pouted, pulling her little eyebrows, looking at KK very depressed, “Why is it not good?”
“Fireflies are bugs yeah, what if they bite? I’m not going to get bit with holes all over my face.” KK refuted.
“Cowards! Fireflies don’t bite!”
“I’m not a coward!” KK tersely argued with her sister.
“Whatever, it’s just cowardice!”
The two adults lost their smiles as they watched them bicker at the drop of a hat, and had no intention of being peacemakers, just minding their own business.
“Otherwise, let’s go pick out a fluorescent light for Nini later. It’s what little girls like.” Jerry Xiao suddenly said to Zoey. Jerry Xiao suddenly said to Zoey, who looked at him before saying, “Don’t go along with everything, fluorescent lights are not good for children’s eyesight. She loves to play with it.”
“But she loves it.” He, wanting to do his last strength, spoiled the child a little. Understanding his feelings, Zoey also stopped obstructing him and only nodded her head in response.
The four of them, hand in hand, came out of the park, a picture so cozy that the bystanders could not help but look sideways. After sending the two children back, Jerry Xiao really wanted to go to pick the lanterns, Zoey was worried about him and wanted to stop him, but he insisted on going, so she had to go along with him.
After carefully picking out lamps for the kids, he didn’t think it was enough and picked out some desks, alarm clocks, writing pads, school bags, piles of workbooks, and even computers for the kids.
“A computer? The kids can’t use that right now. And schoolbags, just take two, you really don’t need that many.” Zoey couldn’t agree with his desire to buy. He brought home everything he had, even more than one school bag and stacks of homework books.
How long is this going to take them?
Instead, he obstinately took the bill, “It’s okay, wait until later.”
In the future … he couldn’t afford to buy them what they wanted personally, so … he had to buy them all at once now …
He didn’t say it out loud, but Zoey understood. A dull ache crossed her heart, and instead of stopping him, she just let him carry on.
He said he wanted to buy this and she nodded yes; he said he wanted to buy that and she nodded yes. Totally in tune with her.
The two of them wandered around the home furnishing supermarket, picking out household items like a newlywed couple, and Jerry Xiao couldn’t help but wonder if there would be another person who would be by her side after she was gone, who would accompany her to the furniture store and love their child as much as she did.
There’s going to be this guy who shows up, right? But what to do? Just thinking about it puts me in a terrible mood! It’s simply unbearable.
“Thinking about what?” Zoey asked a little suspiciously as she saw him pause in his movements.
“Nothing.” He grabbed a big handful of erasers and threw them in the cart and talked to her, “Remember the last time we went to see the sunrise? I said I’d take you again. How about going tonight?”
“Tonight?” Zoey looked at him and immediately shook her head, “No good, it’s been a long day out.”
“Don’t worry about my health, we can go early and rent a house in the mountains. That way we can wake up early in the morning and see the sunrise.” He made promises, and he wanted to fulfill them one by one.
Except, go to the civil office with her to get civilly married, other than …
…
Zoey was unable to persuade him, and even Xiao mother, the father of the show, agreed that the two of them should go out for a walk. So, the two of them drove the car in the middle of the night and went straight up the mountain. The warm spring in the mountains, especially quiet. The two quickly found a residential house and stayed there.
It was clear that they had been working all day, but they didn’t feel like sleeping at all. Solely, in the middle of the night, the two of them stepped out to talk, looking up at the stars in the mountains.
Zoey was sitting on the front of the car, and he was standing between Zoey’s legs, holding her in his arms.
Perhaps the atmosphere is too serene, two people are afraid of destroying this beautiful, so also both do not speak, just so tightly embrace each other, focused on listening to each other’s heartbeat.
Maybe …
This is the last time they embrace here …
And it will be the last time, watching the sunrise …
…
Zoey woke up from her bed before dawn, and Jerry Xiao, sleeping peacefully on his side, didn’t wake up, so Zoey carefully broke away from his arms, afraid of disturbing him.
Draped in her clothes, she stepped out of the house. The owner of the folk’s house, had not yet awakened, so she stood alone under the eaves of the house, looking at the light that was vaguely about to leap out of the mountains, and took a deep breath, the air so fresh that it mesmerized her.
Around her waist, a sudden tightening. Shoulders, lower jaw resting over, his face, with its light stubble against her face.
“How come you’re awake?” She asked with a smile, leaning back a little, intoxicated, against his arms, staring up at the hidden glow of the sky.
“I said I’d watch the sunrise with you.” His voice was soft and sounded a little weak because he had only woken up early in the morning. Zoey grabbed his hand that had fallen around her waist, “I wanted you to sleep a little longer.”
“Shh, look, here it comes!” He exclaimed softly, a faint note of delight in his tone.
Zoey was obediently silenced and raised her eyes to look over. The sight ahead mesmerized her so much that she couldn’t help but squint. The light grew larger and larger, golden rays breaking through the sky, bouncing out and leaping up the mountain, and almost instantly, setting the entire turquoise mountain in a glorious light. In the blink of an eye, it swept away all that darkness.
Zoey’s heart floated with emotion, took a deep breath, inclined her face, smiled and spoke to him beside her, “Jerry, have you ever felt that after watching the sunrise, your whole life is full of hope? You see, as long as there is sunshine, the greatest darkness is nothing. I think, as long as we have faith and plant a small sun in our hearts, the darkness … will eventually leave us …”
Behind her, he did not respond to her. Only, the hand that hooped her waist, loosened a few times.
“Jerry, don’t you have any confidence?” Zoey asked.
But, behind her, there is still no extra sound, only … those hands, gradually, gradually … from her waist, slipping …
The heart sank as if it had fallen into an abyss of ten thousand feet and was smashed to pieces.
“Jerry …” couldn’t help it, the tears fell, trembling as she called his name, her voice already choked.
“Jerry … you wake up …”
He didn’t wake up, just … feebly, leaning himself against her …
“Don’t scare me, I’ll hate you. Jerry, you can’t do this to me …”
She, who cried her heart out …
But, he still hasn’t woken up to wipe her tears …
Sorry, Zoey …
Don’t want to make you cry …
But this time … really, it can’t hold up anymore …
This time, he was in a coma for ten days. He lost weight, Zoey lost weight, Zhan father, Xiao mother lost weight. The hospital was full of people coming and going, Yami Hu, Sam Baker, Owen Baker, and the kids were there every day.
The two families, the usual grudges, nowadays, all seem to become unimportant. There is no one who still mentioned, all the people, are praying with all their hearts Jerry Xiao can wake up. In front of life, nothing is worth mentioning.
On this day, Zoey went home, showered, changed her clothes, and hurried to the hospital. He was about to enter the elevator when he saw a familiar sight standing inside, with two other people in formal dress standing beside him. The three were talking about something with their heads bowed.
“Feng.” Zoey called him in a low voice. Hearing the voice, Ah Feng then looked up, and seeing that the elevator was about to close, he hurriedly pressed the open door button before saying, “Secretary Baker, come on in.”
Zoey, only as an afterthought, rushed inside. “You’re not going to talk to Jerry about work, are you? He, uh, hasn’t woken up … yet,” said Zoey, her demeanor darkening considerably.
“The president is awake, doesn’t Secretary Baker know?”
“Awake?” Zoey exclaimed in disbelief.
“Yes, or the president called me and told me to come over.” Afon nodded with certainty.
“OH! Thank God, thank God!” Zoey couldn’t help the surprise, and mumbled a couple of words with her hands clasped together on the tip of her nose, her eyes already red with excitement. Every now and then, she looked up at the jumping numbers, wishing that the elevator could take wings and fly to him immediately.
Her heart as anxious and joy, A Feng see in the bottom of the eye, can not help but some moved. The document in his hand, handed to a side to follow the person, lips moved, in the end want to speak and stop. Zoey Look at the flashing led lights, suddenly thought of something, turned back over to look at Afon, “He is to talk to you about work? But he just woke up … Right, isn’t he leaving from headquarters?”
Zoey can’t care about anything right now, and his body comes first in everything.
“The president is leaving, but the board hasn’t had a result yet. This time … “Afon paused for a moment, and his complex eyes glanced at Zoey , before he spoke softly, “The president didn’t call me to talk about work either.”
“Is that …?” Zoey cocked her head at him.
Afon was silent for a moment, and in the end, spoke darkly, “Mainly, I was told to bring my lawyer.”
Lawyers …
Next to that, these two, actually lawyers …
At that moment, she felt a wave of dizziness, and Zoey swayed unsteadily. The whitish hand, deathly grasping the railing inside the elevator, only barely stood on his feet. Afon regretted that he should not say this, but, there are some cruel facts … sooner or later, have to face …
“What does he … want a lawyer for?” Obviously know the answer, but … she just won’t die, just want to confirm once …
This question, however, was not answered by Feng, and a color of pain floated in his eyes. Slightly tilting his face away, as if he didn’t want people to see his sorrowful expression at this moment.
After a long time, Zoeydidn’t wait for an answer, and tears were already floating in her eyes. She took a deep breath and bitterly swallowed the tears back into her stomach. Grasping the handrail, fingertips almost pinched into her own flesh. “Is it … making … a will, a will?”
But the simple six words, but she took several deep breaths before finally saying the whole thing. The last two words were even more staccato, like stones popping out from between her lips.
This question, too, caused Afon’s tall body to shake hard.
It was only after a long time that she finally nodded her head and gently spat out the word ‘hmm’ … Zoey Both her legs went limp and she was almost about to fall into the elevator. Ah Feng stepped forward to hold her up, his heart sinking as much as hers, but still trying to comfort her, “Secretary Baker, pull yourself together!”
“Ding-” There was a crunch of the elevator and the doors, slowly opened.
Zoey Whole person is like a void, suddenly have no strength to walk out from this door. She trembled and pushed Feng’s hand away, “You … go now, he is waiting …”
“Not coming in together? The president will want to see you.”