“Enough about that, Dolly … you … you really don’t want to talk to me about Jayden …? ” Brayden converge the smile on his face, he originally wanted to ask her about this matter very frankly, but did not expect the words to the mouth, but became so stammering.
The summer cicadas outside the window chirp endlessly and continue to chant their tunes without any eyesight.
Dolly shook her head, but she paused for a moment to gather enough courage to speak, “I … me and Jayden actually …”
“Ring, ring, ring–” the shrill ringing bell rang untimely, and Brayden, with an apologetic face, said to Dolly, “Excuse me, I’m going out to take the call. ”
Dolly’s heart was empty all of a sudden, I can’t tell you what it’s like, as if you originally poured your whole body into a fist, but the result was empty in front of you, you didn’t hit anything.
Within a minute, Brayden walked in while hanging up the phone, as if he was visiting an old friend he knew very well, and not as if he was taking care of his lover.
He approached Dolly and gently tucked in the corner of her quilt, as if he would not mention the previous topic again: “Dolly, there is a meeting over at the company that I have to attend quickly, don’t worry, I will come back to accompany you when I am done with the matter at hand …”
“You go ahead …” she was not originally a capricious and unreasonable woman, even if thousands and thousands of reluctance in her heart, she will not say the inner disallowance out.
Brayden leaned in and left a tender kiss on her forehead. The refreshing smell of him close to himself wrapped Dolly tightly in a moment, and the warmth of his breath could bring tears to her eyes in an instant.
“So, I’m off.” Brayden said.
“Well …,” she said with a slight nod.
The moment he turned around, she was tempted to grab him by the scruff of his shirt and tell him ‘Brayden, I wish you wouldn’t go, I want you to stay with me.’ Her hand was held in mid-air in a vain grip, and in the end she only caught the piece of air where he passed.
The right hand, hanging helplessly in the air, the heart also followed this action to fall down, tears, also fell down with. This seems very harmonious together, in Dolly’s heart, as if there is still a little something missing, so she feels uncomfortable in any way.
It was as if something in the dark was invisibly changing, changing into something completely different from the original. Called her from the depths of a loss of emotions.
She did her best to put all the nonsense thoughts in her head far away, but they were like cut and tangled threads, and she had no way to sort them out, except to helplessly take them away from herself and ignore them.
She called a woman in the design department and asked her to bring the unfinished designs on her desk to the hospital. The woman quickly obliged, thinking that perhaps only such tedious work would force her not to think about anything related to Brayden.
But at Ravenwood University, her major final summary report was still lost at the school, but she didn’t have any close classmates to bring her stuff over.
Thinking about it, her not-so-bright mood became worse, she put the quilt over her head and tried to force herself to sleep for a while, just at this time someone stood at the door and knocked, she thought it should be a female colleague who had arrived, so she smothered herself under the quilt and shouted, “Please come in.”
“Laura? Just put the design on the cabinet next to you, please run.”
The visitor did not respond to her, but walked straight to her, a pair of good-looking white hands attached to the quilt she covered her head, it was clear that it was not a woman’s hand.
“Just put the stuff away for a bit, thank you very much.” Dolly pulled the covers a little tighter, feeling secretly strange in her heart.
“Ahem …”
The man coughed, Dolly shook violently, and at that moment really understood what is called “sitting up in a dying illness, laughing and asking where the guest came from?”
Jayden was amused by her carp-like wake up call, and Dolly breathed a small sigh of relief to see it was him.
“It’s you. … I thought … was my colleague.”
“And did you feel a little happier to see it was me?” Jayden still smiled at her like that, gentle as the sunrise.
Dolly was uncomfortable with the question and her mind suddenly went back to the day she went over to help Jayden with his medication and the latter grabbed her hand. She felt awkward.
Jayden took the initiative to break the ice by pulling something he had brought from behind his back and holding it in front of her like an offering.
“Dang dang dang dang ~”
A stack of snow-white papers was delivered to her eyes, not only her design drawings at the company, but also her final summary report at school, all brought together by Jayden.
Dolly’s eyes lit up as if she had seen a great treasure, and she took it with both hands: “Oh my God, I didn’t think you’d bring all this stuff. How did you know I wanted to get the final summary report from school? And how did you know I wanted to get the final summary report for school? And how did you even bring my company’s design? This is incredible!!!”
“Originally wanted to go to your company to see you just met your female colleagues said to come over to you to send documents, I think you definitely need the summary report of the school side, so I took the liberty to bring things to you, you … will not blame me, right?”
Dolly smiled with her eyes bent into a crescent, looking at the pages of print she turned in her hands, “No no no, I want to thank you all too much.”
Jayden shook his head helplessly, “It seems I’m still no more attractive than these documents.”
The smile on Dolly’s face was even wider: “Don’t joke about it you just sit down.”
Jayden casually pulled a chair and sat down beside her bed: “By the way, you still haven’t told me why you were suddenly sent to the hospital? Are you sick? Is it serious?”
“Ugh … I’m embarrassed to say it myself, I went to see Orion at the nursing home that day and collapsed right in front of someone’s house because of anemia.”
Jayden picked up an apple from the cabinet and peeled it while saying back, “I guess a workaholic like you must have tired yourself out to the point of illness because you were overwhelmed with work.”
Dolly had already taken off the ballpoint pen pinned to the side of the folder and was holding it as she drew a few strokes on the paper: “But it’s no big deal, I can be discharged anytime.”
Jayden tossed a broken apple peel into the trash: “Why continue to work here when you can be discharged at any time?”
“Anyway, when I go back, I will be alone, and if I take care of myself, I can’t take care of both work and reports, so I might as well infuse some nutrients here.”