Reggie walked towards her and sat beside her. He gazed at her pale and colorless skin silently. A struggling pain tangled in him.
“How do you feel?” His voice was hoarse and with the care for her when he spoke. She was the second woman he cared most about in this world.
Sherry was innocent. He didn’t want her to be hurt.
“I have lost my baby, am I right?” Sherry showed a faint smile. Her hand touched on her tummy. Was her baby gone?
It was empty! Everything was empty! Her heart was empty! Her brain was empty! Her baby was gone! The baby took away all her might. She even forgot how sorrow felt.
Reggie tried to speak, but he did not know how to answer her question.
“It’s gone, right?” She asked again. Her gaze was hollow.
“Yes! Gone!” He finally answered.
Silence stroke down at once.
Sherry was surprised that she was still breathing, “My baby is gone. I lost it!”
Reggie sighed, “That was an accident!”
“No! It’s me. It’s me who should be punished. I’m too greedy, wanting more. That was why I lost my baby….If I did not ask for a loyal relationship, this would not have happened.” Yes, it must be because of that. God was punishing her, making her lose her baby!
“The God is punishing me…” Her voice was getting softer as if she was warning herself not to make the same mistake ever again.
Reggie felt pity for her, he sat on the edge of her bed and said gently, “Why is this a punishment? It’s everyone’s wish to own a loyal relationship. Don’t think too much. It was an accident!”
Sherry remained silent, and she spoke again after a while, “Everyone could wish for that, except me. I shouldn’t! Everything is over. Everything is over…”
Bang! The door was pushed open with force. William's forehead was drenched in sweat as he dashed into the ward. He was relieved, and his heart hurt at the same time when he saw the scene in the ward. Sherry was still alive, lying on the bed.
“Sherry…” He felt the pain when he spoke.
Sherry felt like crying when she saw William. Her gazed, which was hollow, was now filled with tears. The tears flow down from her eyes, and she turned her head away.
She didn’t want anyone to see her tears.
Reggie was wise and let out the space for William. He walked aside, and he gazed at William with a complicated look. He wanted to leave, but Sherry stopped him, “Reggie, please ask the others to leave.”
She said lightly with her sobbing voice. Both the men froze.
“Sherry!” William restrained the sadness in him. She called him the others.
“Please leave! I don’t want to see you. I want to be alone!” she said. “I couldn’t face you now!”
For a moment, the surrounding was in dead silence. William was stunned in a daze. He gazed at Sherry with a lost look on his face, “Sherry, what happened to you? Don’t scare me!”
Her face was drenched with tears, then she said, “William, it was my fault. I am sorry. Our child is gone now. Everything is over! I don’t want to see you anymore. Reggie, ask him to get out!”
“Please leave.” Reggie spoke out. “Her body is weak, and she should not be emotional.”
“What?” William felt as if his brain was exploded with a bomb.
“Get out!” Reggie was stern this time.
William glanced at Sherry, who was on the bed with a complicated look. He had to leave.
Reggie closed the door. He sighed and looked at the woman, who was trembling as she cried.
Outside the ward, William was still trying to understand the situation. He dashed towards the nurse station and asked about Sherry’s condition. He thought she only had an external injury. But when the nurse told him it was “miscarriage due to excessive bleeding”, he was stunned!
So, she was pregnant! Their child. He just knew she was pregnant, and he had lost his child at the same time.
The child must have been conceived when they were in Hokkaido, Japan.
When he recalled about Hokkaido, he did not even take a photo with her. The feeling of regret was like a blade cutting on him.
“You should stop crying!” Reggie walked towards her and sat on the edge of the bed. “Your body is in such condition. Stop crying. Do you hear me? Or I would let the man outside to come in!”
His words were threatening but Sherry kept crying.
Sherry covered her head with the blanket and wept. It could be seen that she was deeply in grief. She wasn’t crying until she saw William. Her grief memory and her anger were recalled. The regret flowing out of her made her lose her speech. She knew that the miscarriage was because of her and not him, but she didn’t want to see him either!
Reggie pulled down the blanket and saw her tearing face and she was biting on the corner of the blanket. Her appearance made him felt pity for her. He wanted to hug her in his arms and caress her like what a big brother would do.
“You should stop crying. You have yet recovered. Sherry, stop crying. Do you hear me?” Reggie held onto her shoulder, “If you want to cry, I’ll lend you my shoulder when you recover. You can cry as much as you want, okay?”
Sherry got up into a sitting position and looked at Reggie with gratitude. She stretched her hands and hugged his neck, approached him, letting her tears flow silently and shutting her eyes in grief. Why did she feel so much pain even she knew it was all over?
“Lend it to me now!” she said.
She felt like crying, very much!
“I’m talking about lending it to you later, not now!” Reggie suddenly felt dampness on his chest. He shook his head. Wasn’t she worried at all that the man outside the ward would be jealous if he saw her hugging him and crying like that?
She cried louder, weeping. Her tears and snots were all on Reggie’s shirt. “I don’t care, I just feel like crying!”
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...