"The operation is done, let me just suture the wounds," Dr. Young said. The hospital's deputy director handed him the tools from a metal tray and he began the suturing process. Suddenly, Dr. Fan's stressed voice spoke out, "Wait a minute!"
Dr. Young immediately stopped what he was doing. Everyone in the operating room turned to look at Dr. Fan, who frantically said, "Something is wrong with his heart!"
"His blood pressure is dropping drastically!" the nurse cried in shock.
Dr. Fan frowned. He gestured to Dr. Young to exchange positions with him. Moving to the operating table, he began to perform a check-up and then said, "Intracranial hemorrhage!"
Everyone in the room blanched upon hearing Dr. Fan's diagnosis. On second thought however, they could not help but feel grateful that the hemorrhage was discovered before suturing. Otherwise, not only would Mark's body fail to endure a second craniotomy operation, but it might be too late to remove the hemorrhage as well.
Opposite the operating room's walls, people outside of it had no idea about the nerve-racking situation happening inside. They could only do so much as wait. Like a knife, time kept cutting everybody's heart in pieces repeatedly as the hours rolled by. Molly felt like a century had passed, and during that century, she nearly used all her strength to stare at the glowing sign "In Operation" on top of the operating room's doors.
A male voice cut through the tense silence. "Molly…" Brian said softly as he strode to her, arms outstretched seeking to embrace--but Molly turned away slightly, as if she felt what he was going to do. Brian's arms paused in mid-air, sensing her hesitation. With bitterness etched on his thin lips, he receded slowly. He just stood by her side to watch over her, feeling that she would collapse at any minute.
At that moment, Molly didn't think of anything except Mark. She only cared about her son.
Tap tap tap…
The sound of hasty footsteps suddenly coming broke the silence at the corridor, alerting everyone in the waiting area. Everyone instinctively looked to where the sound was coming from. They could sense two people getting nearer, but could not recognize them because of the hallway's rather overly bright lighting.
It was a general rule that not everyone could enter this floor because it was in the hospital wing for the exclusive surgery departments.
"Mol!" a soothing voice came from one of the two visitors and everyone now saw who came. "How is Mark now?"
When Molly heard the familiar voice, she turned her head slowly, seeing Spark who she hadn't seen for half a month. He looked gaunt and dispirited. Looking at him like this made the middle of her forehead throb again in dull pain. "Spark, Mark is undergoing an operation," she said as calmly as she could.
The air around them instantly felt strange. Everyone was looking at Molly and Spark, however Spark didn't find anything unusual - but then again, his attention was focused on Mark. Worry was written all over his exhausted looking face, and with a frown he said, "I came here as soon as I heard that Mark was ill. How could it be? Isn't he healthy as before?"
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