At that point, Kate regretted her words. Gosh! I really can’t control the words that come out of my mouth! I just blurt out whatever’s on my mind! Why did I say that? We’re no longer as familiar with each other as before, so I should really mind my words!
Suddenly, the situation around them seemed to come to a bizarre silence. She realized that she was in the wrong, so she took the initiative to provide a response, “I was just joking. Don’t take it to heart.” He replied, ‘I didn’t. I enjoy this feeling. You haven’t spoken to me like this in ages!”
There was an inexplicable tone of grievance in his voice, and Kate couldn’t contain the sadness within her as soon as she heard his words. The tears seemed to well up in her eyes. Actually, we haven’t even spoken to each other for so long, what more to say to speak in such a manner!
“Did you hurt your arm from that day?” Kate asked. He hadn’t intended to let her know about this but unexpectedly, she had seen it with her own eyes, so he decided not to hide it from her. And so, he commented, “Yeah. I didn’t feel anything at that instant but the next day, there was some slight pain so I went to get an X-ray done.
Subsequently, the doctor made me put it in a cast. The cast makes it look quite serious, but I’m actually fine.”
Kate wasn’t quite used to Nathan’s current way of interacting with her, so she smiled out of instinct. As for Nathan, he voiced out upon seeing her smile, ‘What’s so funny?”
She responded, “In the past, even if it was just a tiny cut, you would have tried to rest in bed for a few days if you could. You were so exaggerated in your ways. Right now, though, this is such a bad injury but you seem quite nonchalant about it. I can’t believe that you actually said that you were fine! The doctor wouldn’t have put a cast on your arm if you were fine?!”
At that point, Nathan had a slightly guilty look on his face. He seemed to be reminiscing about the past, and there was once when he had been hospitalized after getting into a fight with someone else. He had been unconscious in the hospital for three days, and this woman here had taken care of him carefully for that period. From then on, he had given her the nickname of Katie the silly. After all, she was quite silly indeed.
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