Xavier POV
“He has an early stage cancer”
“….. I don’t understand, he has been careful with his health, I made sure of that, are you sure the tests are his”
I said to the doctor, I was shocked, cancer was the last thing I had in mind, I felt Jessica’s hand slipped into mine and squeezed thank God I have a calm person around me if not I wouldn’t know how to behave.
“Okay doc, is there a way to treat him”
I heard her ask the man, he sighed and removed his glasses
“There is operation, his health is okay to undergo an operation and where the cancer is located isn’t a major place to require a big surgery at the same time it isn’t a neglecting place, so yes surgery to remove it is the best”
“Okay, can we discuss about this then get back to you?”
“Of course make haste, the doctor that specializes in this case is around but not for long ”
“No problem, we won’t take time”
She lead me outside the doctors office, into my grandfather’s private room and sat me down on a sofa there
“Xavier pull yourself together and answer my question, so what do you think, the only way for father if for the surgery to commence ”
“I…. I don’t really know what to do, well let’s sign it, if it will make him to be okay then am okay with it but I need the best of the best doctors, I don’t want to hear anything went wrong”
“Okay, I will go talk to the doctor then, stay here with father, I will be back soon”
She left and shut the door, I really thank God for her, I wouldn’t know what to do in this situation if she is not here, I have lost my parents already don’t want to lose my grandfather too especially when I haven’t fulfilled his wish of seeing his great grandchildren, I held his hand as he lay down there with an oxygen mask over his face,
“Grandfather, you need to get better if you wanna see your great grandchildren, you see them if you are better, carry them and go to all those children trips you said you want to go, so better get better okay”
JESSICA’S POV
I may not look like it but am really worried, like super allowed, I had to feign calm because of Xavier, this is the first time I have seen him like this, he always looks calm and poise every time you see him but now, he looks disoriented, distraught and have aged a ten years in a span of few hours, my heart went out to him, he may not be related to me by blood but I am sad and hurt about his condition talk more often Xavier who is his blood relative and grandchild.
The doctor came in interrupting my thoughts, I look at him as he sat, he is a middle aged man probably in his late fifties
“So Mrs McCartney what have you decided?”
“We will go with the surgery, give us the necessary documents for us to sign, but…. We need the best doctors to attend to him, nothing should go wrong there”
“I assure you Mrs McCartney, your old man will be fine, come with me to sign the files”
“Okay, thank you ”
“No need, am just doing my job”
We walk to the reception and got the necessary files then we went to father’s room and met Xavier with his face down the bed, holding his grandfather’s hand,
“Xavier, the files are here, they are preparing to take father and start the surgery, so we need to sign the papers”
“Okay”
He rose and sat up the doctor brought it and after signing, the attending nurses came in and took him to prepare for the surgery.
We went to the waiting room as the surgery commence, Xavier was pacing up and down the hall making me feel nervous and dizzy
“Xavier can you just sit down for a moment first?”
“Okay”
He sat but his leg keeps thumping in the floor
“Xavier just calm down, you are making me nervous and dizzy, so please just calm down okay, he will be fine, the doctor assured us he will be fine so let’s wait okay”
“Okay….. Um…. Thank you ”
“Why?”
“For every thing you have done for me so far, I didn’t know what I would do if you weren’t here, thank you ”
“No need to thank me, we may not be related but he is my grandfather too so am doing what a granddaughter should do so don’t thank me, its making me feel like am not family which I am even though it’s contract but still we are married ”
“Am sorry if you feel that way but no matter what you are family ”
“Okay, now let’s wait okay”
We didn’t wait for long because the surgery light went off and the door opened and a doctor we hadn’t met came out
“Mr& Mrs McCartney?”
“Yes, it’s us”
“Well the surgery went well and the tumor was removed, we just have to wait for me to wake up and check how he is doing okay?”
“Okay, thank you doctor, can we see him now?”
“Yes, in the next ten minutes, okay then bye”
“Okay, thank you ”
We were so happy we hugged each other and Xavier kissed me on the forehead and when we became calm, we awkwardly separated, my cheeks turned so red and sure it will boil an egg, I cleared my throat awkwardly and looked up and down, just to avoid looking at his eyes
“Let me get water for you, am coming, am also thirsty so I might waste time ”
He disappeared, I rushed into the restroom to wash my face, I was still in pajamas,
“I need to go home and get a change of clothes for the both of us”