Chapter 25: Mom and Aunt Worried
When mentioning Diem My, a smile appeared on Mom’s face, clearly very satisfied with her. Beautiful, gentle, thoughtful, and so close to her son, no matter how you looked at her, you liked her.
“That classmate of yours is really formidable. Mom already asked about the situation at that time, if that girl hadn’t stabbed that guy, you don’t know what would have happened to you today.”
Speaking up to here, Mom’s eyes turned cold, her hands clenched.
“Hao, don’t worry, Mom won’t forgive the guy who harmed you. Wait until he gets out of the hospital, Mom will sue him, even if he doesn’t get the death penalty, he will be put in jail!”
Mom spoke firmly, like an angry tigress. Looking at Mom’s reaction, I knew she was really angry. Although in front of me, Mom has always been a gentle mother, but as the person who runs an entire hospital in the city center, her personality is not that simple. Ignoring the times when she is angry, even when she is scolding the staff for making mistakes, Mom is very dignified, saying each sentence firmly, making it impossible for people to argue with her. After all, a woman raising a child alone, with a husband abroad, if Mom is not strong, how can she get rid of the outsiders who are eyeing this family?
“Okay, okay Mom, don’t be angry anymore, I’m much better now, you don’t need to worry about me. You should go and rest too.”
Seeing Mom angry, I quickly comforted her, afraid that she would get too angry and harm herself.
“It’s still your son who loves you the most. You’re in our hospital, if you need anything, just tell everyone. Your friend should be awake soon, let me go and call her to come visit you, she’s been suffering a lot these past few days, I hope to see her get better.”
After saying that, Mom kissed me on the cheek and left, probably to go call Diem My.
Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!…
Mom had just left for a while when she heard hurried footsteps, coming from far to near, then stopping right at the door of my hospital room. It seemed like the person outside was trying to calm down, adjusting her clothes so as not to look too miserable.
Két~
The door was gently pushed open from the outside, Diem My poked her head in to look at me on the bed. Seeing me lying there safe and sound, she smiled brightly and walked in, came to my side and kissed me on the lips.
“Hehe, Hao, are you okay? You scared me to death earlier.”
Diem My tried to act happy in front of me, but her dark eyes betrayed her mental state these past few days.
“I’m okay, but I probably won’t be able to make love to you for a while, you have to hold it in.”
I shook my head, my face full of regret, as if I owed Diem My a lot.
“You pervert, at this time you still think about that. You told me to hold back, today I will see who can’t hold back.”
Diem My was teased by me until she burst out laughing. Her big round eyes rolled around, then she threw me a sly smile, making my heart jump, secretly saying that something was wrong.
She suddenly leaned over me, one long leg in white stockings slipped under the blanket, resting on my leg. Her right hand was like a water snake, slipping into my pants, grabbing my limp “meat worm” and fondling it.
“Hmph… you naughty thing, tell me clearly, who exactly wants it?”
Diem My breathed into my ear, seductive like a vixen, making my blood boil, unable to control myself.
“Hey, hey! Stop, honey, I was wrong, I wanted it, not you, stop seducing me.”
Diem My’s teasing made me both happy and miserable, and I quickly begged for mercy. My body couldn’t take such strong stimulation right now.
“Hmph, let me teach you a lesson for your foul mouth.”
Seeing that, Diem My stopped torturing me. After all, she knew my health condition and couldn’t bear too much stimulation.
“Do you want to eat fruit? I’ll wash it for you.”
“Do you want to eat tangerines? I’ll peel them for you.”
“Yes.”
…
The sunlight penetrated through the curtains and shone on the hospital bed. I stretched out my hand to catch the sunlight, feeling the warmth from the sun. But beside me, there was someone who made me feel warmer. Compared to that warmth, this autumn sunlight was a step down.
I lay on the bed and looked at Diem My. She was attentively removing the white fibers on the tangerine segments, a gentle smile on the corner of her mouth, looking as gentle and happy as a good wife. Now, Diem My and I have gone through hardships together, it can be called life-and-death love. Only when we lose it do we realize how precious it is. After going through this, Diem My seemed to cherish me even more. Looking at her face, I couldn’t help but smile too. Although I was only 14 years old, perhaps the feeling I was experiencing was the happiness of love.
This unexpected incident left me temporarily without anything to do. Obviously, I still had many goals to achieve, but I didn’t feel rushed at all. I suddenly felt that just lying on the bed like this, bathing in the sunlight, not thinking about anything was quite comfortable.
“Forget it, let’s deal with the future later, for now, let’s just consider it a short break.”
I thought to myself.
“Come on, open your mouth.”
Diem My peeled off a tangerine segment and brought it in front of me. I took a bite, the sweet and sour taste immediately filled my mouth, stimulating my bland taste buds.
“How is it? Is it delicious?”
Diem My opened her eyes wide, looking at me expectantly.
“Mmm, mmm, it’s delicious, thank you, my dear wife.”
I nodded teasingly.
“Shameless, who is your dear wife?”
Diem My’s face was red, but her hands still slowly peeled another tangerine segment and fed it to me.
“Oh, by the way, what happened after you fainted? Where is the guy who stabbed you?”
I asked Diem My curiously. She didn’t hide anything and told me everything that happened after I fainted.
It turned out that the bald guy who stabbed me was the pervert who tried to molest Diem My on the bus the day before. That guy was detained for a few days and then released, but he lost his job and his wife also asked for a divorce. He thought that it was all because of Diem My and me, so he investigated our school and then took revenge that afternoon. Originally, his main target was Diem My, but I stopped him so he changed his target to me.
Although I was stabbed in the shoulder, that guy was no better. Diem My stabbed him with a pair of scissors, hitting his kidney, and now it was removed, so it would be difficult for him to live a normal life in the future. Furthermore, waiting for him to be released from the hospital and being sued, the charges of molestation plus revenge, using a knife to cause injury, would probably be enough to send him to jail for a long time.
But that wasn’t what I cared about. What surprised me was that when my aunt heard the news and rushed to the hospital, her reaction was also very agitated and worried. It seemed that when I was facing life and death, my aunt no longer hated me like before.
“It seems that your aunt isn’t as cold as you thought, maybe you still have a chance.”
Diem My looked at me meaningfully, raised her hand to cheer, making me sweat profusely.
“Oh, is your injury serious? When can you be discharged from the hospital?”
Although lying on the hospital bed now, I felt a peace I hadn’t had in a long time, but I didn’t want to lie here for months, I still had work to do.
“Don’t worry, the doctor said that although your injuries look serious, they are all superficial, and your bones are not damaged. Moreover, your body is also healthy, and you will recover very quickly after the surgery. You can be discharged in about twenty days. But remember, don’t do any strenuous exercise after you are discharged, your wounds still need time to heal completely.”
“Sigh… Okay, I know.”
I sighed, it seems that within the next month, I won’t be able to actively have sex, this time I will have to endure for a long time. Diem My looked at my depressed appearance, a thoughtful expression appeared on her face.
…
Két~
“What are you two talking about so enthusiastically?”
The door hadn’t even opened completely when my mother’s voice rang in, clear and cheerful, no longer tired like before.
“Ah! Auntie, Hao and I were just chatting, just chatting…”
As soon as my mother entered, Diem My immediately jumped up from the bed, flusteredly standing there, fidgeting with her shirt, stuttering. This scene suddenly made me feel like an ugly daughter-in-law meeting her mother-in-law, even though Diem My was not ugly at all.
“Diem My, sit down, be at home here, no need to be so formal.”
Mom smiled as she walked up to Diem My, held her shoulder, and helped her sit down next to me. Then, she looked at her from top to bottom, her eyes filled with unconcealed love and satisfaction.
“Diem My, this time I really thank you. If it weren’t for you, I don’t know if my Quoc Hao would still be here or not. Don’t feel guilty. You used scissors to stab someone to protect Hao. Don’t feel guilty, okay?”
Mom sat down next to Diem My, patted her back to thank her, and at the same time comforted her to keep her mind stable. Normally, in the nursing home, as the head nurse, Mom had to comfort agitated patients many times, so helping Diem My relieve her mental pressure was naturally as easy as turning her hand.
“Auntie, I’m fine, I should be the one thanking Hao. If it weren’t for him, I would have been the one injured. It’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have asked him out for a walk.”
Diem My’s voice changed here, mixed with a bit of sobbing, it was clear that she was also blaming herself. Not only did I feel sorry for the beauty who was shedding tears, but my mother also felt sorry for her. My mother kept stroking her back and constantly comforting her, saying that I was a big guy, that I wouldn’t die from being stabbed a few times, and that when I was little, I fell from the third floor and was fine. In order to comfort Diem My, my mother really spoke without any restraint.
Looking at my mother and Diem My hugging each other, I suddenly felt like a monitor lizard.
“What the hell? I was the patient?”
I felt extremely helpless, but seeing my mother and Diem My talking so well together, it could also be considered a sign that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship would be stable and harmonious in the future.
Reng!
The conversation was interrupted by Diem My’s phone ringing. She picked up the phone and spoke to the person on the other end. It turned out to be her homeroom teacher calling, saying that she had been absent from school for 2 days, and that she should come to school quickly.
Only then did I remember that I had been sleeping for 3 days, the weekend had long passed, and it was time to go to school. Diem My had stayed here all this time just to take care of me.
“Yes… okay, yes, I know, I’m hanging up now.”
“Diem My, Hao is fine now, you should still put your studies first, just go to school, you can come over on the weekend.”
My mother also heard the content of the call, and immediately urged Diem My. But she looked at me with a complicated expression, not wanting to leave.
“You go home first, I’m fine, I’ll be fine after a while of rest. Go home, or else the homeroom teacher will call your mother, which is not good.”
Diem My understood what I meant, and reluctantly nodded. After all, between the two of us, there is still her mother involved. If she finds out that Diem My dropped out of school to stay here with me, with her personality, she definitely won’t let it go.
“Hao, then I’ll go first. You stay here and rest. I’ll come over this weekend.”
Although I felt reluctant, Diem My had to say goodbye to me and my mother. Looking at her back as she left, I secretly made up my mind to wait until my wound healed before I could start dealing with her mother’s matter.
After Diem My left, the next afternoon someone unexpectedly came to visit me, it was my aunt.
Beside the bed in the luxury ward was a newly delivered fruit basket, and underneath was a carton of milk, all brought by my aunt.
“Uh…”
I looked at my aunt sitting next to me in her teacher’s uniform, her legs crossed, scrolling through her phone, momentarily at a loss for words. Just now, my mother brought my aunt in and then hurried off to work, leaving the two of us in the room. No one said a word to each other, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Honestly, I never thought my aunt would come to visit me. After all, today wasn’t the weekend, my mother’s nursing home wasn’t near the school, and what happened between my aunt and I, logically she should still be angry with me.
“Uh… that… Auntie, don’t you have class this afternoon? You have to travel so far to visit me.”
After a moment of mental struggle, I decided to be the one to break the awkward atmosphere first.
“Yes, I don’t have class this afternoon. I already told the math teacher in advance and asked him to help watch the class for me this afternoon.”
She put down her phone and reached out to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear, her movements elegant and gentle. Her voice was still as cold as before, but it was much better than before, at least I could no longer hear the hatred in it.
“Oh…”
The hospital room fell silent again, the atmosphere became strange again.
She raised her head, her eyes looked at me through her gold-rimmed glasses, at my face, then at the bandaged wound on my shoulder. The white bandage was soaked with blood, it looked a bit scary.
“About the incident a few days ago, you did very well, very brave.”
She moved her lips, looking at me and saying the words from the bottom of her heart.
This was the first time my aunt took the initiative to compliment me, for a moment I thought I had misheard. But looking at her serious expression, I knew that what she had just said was true.
A hero saving a beauty, a plot that only existed in novels, had now happened to me. Facing death, I was able to act like a real man, standing up to protect Diem My. This action was definitely a bright spot for my aunt. My aunt began to look back at me. Perhaps what happened that night was really because my aunt was too charming, causing a child like me to be unable to control myself for a moment.
“I am a man, of course a man must protect a woman in times of danger.”
Having said this, I couldn’t help but puff out my chest proudly.
“I’m just a little boy, yet I still pretend to be a man. This time I was lucky, next time I have to be more careful.”
Looking at a 14 year old boy who claimed to be a man in front of her, my aunt felt a little funny, but what I did was indeed worthy of respect.
“Why aren’t you a man? You’ve done everything a man should do…”
Realizing that I had misspoken, I immediately shut my mouth. Hearing me say that, my aunt’s face immediately became serious, staring at me coldly:
“Quoc Hao, you think I didn’t dare to hit you because you were injured, right? Try saying that again?”
Each of her words rang in my ears, I could hear the anger in them. It seemed like she still hadn’t completely forgotten about it.
“I still have class tomorrow, I’ll go back first, you take care of your injuries.”
Seeing that I didn’t dare to say anything more, my aunt stood up and prepared to leave. The purpose of her visit had been achieved, she didn’t need to stay long.
“Auntie.”
When she reached the door, I called out to her.
“I’m sorry about that night…”
“Shut up! Don’t mention that night again, or else don’t ever appear in front of me again.”
I hadn’t even finished my sentence when my aunt interrupted me. She didn’t turn around, but I could see that her ears were red, her voice sounded more sulky than angry.
“Auntie, I’m sorry about that night…”
Clack! Clack, clack, clack, clack…
My aunt paused for a moment, her lips moving, but in the end, she didn’t say anything. She slammed the door shut, the crisp sound of her high heels fading away, until she couldn’t hear anything anymore.
“I’m sorry, auntie… but I’ll do it again next time.”
I thought to myself, still not giving up.
Even though my aunt only stopped by for a moment and then left, I was still very happy, because that showed that she still cared about me in her heart, our relationship hadn’t reached the point of being at odds. It seems that while waiting for my wound to heal, my aunt’s progress cannot be neglected. Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a little pressured.
Phew~
I took a deep breath to calm my mind. Although these pressures were all brought upon me, in my opinion, life must have such challenges to be interesting, otherwise I could completely sit back and enjoy the benefits, spending all my family’s assets.
In the following days, relatives and friends also came to visit me one by one. In their eyes, although I was usually quite mischievous, I was still very polite and well-mannered towards relatives and friends, plus my family was quite wealthy, so of course there were a lot of visitors. Every time they came, they asked all sorts of questions, mostly about when the wound would heal, how the situation was at that time, and I could only answer them one by one, it was so annoying.
“Oh my god, Mom, I’ve been so tired these past few days, every now and then a few people come to visit, surrounding me like watching a monkey.”
I held my head and laughed bitterly.
“Isn’t it boring to lie in bed all day? There are a few people to talk to for fun.”
Mom sat beside me, peeling an apple to comfort me. Because my workplace was right in the nursing home, whenever she had free time these past few days, Mom would come to my ward to be with me. She didn’t come home at night and slept in the room next door.
“No, I don’t want to be with them, I just want to talk to Mom.”
I lay on the bed, pretending to be mischievous, struggling a bit. These past few days, my wound was healing very quickly. In about a week, the bandages would be removed, so I could still do small movements.
“You’re so big but you still like to cling to Mom. When you grow up and get married, you won’t be able to do that anymore.”
“No, when you get married, you still have to live with Mom, we’ll all live together.”
“Okay, okay, okay, Mom will always be with you from now on. Come, eat some apple.”
Mom clearly didn’t understand what I meant, she bent down and fed me a piece of pre-cut apple.
“Hmm, so delicious, the food mom feeds is the best.”
I ate and praised her while eating.
“You’re just so sweet-tongued, normally you’d probably flirt with a lot of girls in class, right?”
Seeing me say it was delicious, mom fed me another piece, not forgetting to grumble. When I was in middle school, I was so promiscuous that I was invited to meet the parents many times, but I couldn’t blame myself completely. If I was so handsome that the girls would fall for me, what could I do?
“Hmm~”
I ate the apple mom fed me, enjoying its sweet and sour taste, while half-closed my eyes to observe mom. This familiar, dignified, and beautiful woman was wearing a white head nurse’s blouse, sitting next to me. Her delicate features on her oval white face were so beautiful that it was heartbreaking, and I really couldn’t get tired of looking at her for more than ten years. Even though mom was just sitting upright on a chair, her nurse’s coat was also very simple, but her luxurious and noble appearance could not be hidden.
Mother’s eyelashes were long and curved, combined with the light pink eyeshadow, making her eyes look big and bright, her gaze looking at me extremely gentle, like the ripples on the surface of an autumn lake. Under the straight high bridge of her nose were plump red lips, full of vitality, sparkling with a seductive color. Even though her clothes were loose, they still couldn’t cover up her perfect, mature figure, making her every move exude an indescribable charm .
“It seems a bit hot.”
Mother said to herself, completely ignoring my gaze. Mother reached out her jade-like hand, slowly unzipping her coat, the scene inside made my eyes shine, and my breathing became rapid.