chapter 5 - waiting at college

24 January 2000.

Hong Kong mid valley private hospital- jiale office.

11am

"Doctor gu, may I know when can I be discharged from hospital? I want to go back to school." Cheng Dong asked.

"Your health report is out. You can still go for lessons but you have to be on a wheelchair." Jiale replied.

"How is my report?!" Cheng Dong asked anxiously.

Jiale kept silent.

"The results are not good. From the report, it shows that you are contracted with acute leukemia stage 2. You must have a bone marrow transplantation to survive." Jiale replied.

Cheng Dong kept quiet, clutching his hands and cried.

"If…if there are no donor, how long can I still live?" Cheng Dong asked.

Jiale tabs on Cheng Dong shoulders….

"Don't worry! You can still do treatments and eat medication. You haven't even tell your angel that you love her, right?" Jiale asked.

"My…my Angel is so beautiful and healthy, she won't like such a sickly guy like me." Cheng Dong replied in tears.

"You're a singer, who will not love you!? Once you have recovered, you can sing songs and act dramas and be very famous! She will definitely chase you instead." Jiale said loudly.

"Yes! With your these words I will do the treatments and faster recover and be a famous singer! But I need to go to school tomorrow." Cheng Dong replied.

"Sure! I will fetch you go." Jiale said.

Cheng Dong nodded his head.

Cheng Dong went back to his ward and starts writing his diary.

24 January 2000.

Sunny day.

Will I really recover?

I just found out I am contracted with acute leukemia stage 2.

I don't understand! How can it be me!? I have been eating lots of vitamins since young and my parents are so healthy why do I have such illness?! I am only 16! I haven't even have a girlfriend!?

I haven't even succeed my goals! Yet I am already convicted with death sentence! No one came to see me today! Everyone is giving me up!

I must go to school to look for her and tell her I love her.

Cheng Dong

That day, Cheng Dong done lots of treatments. His body is very very weak.

In the ward.

6pm.

Cheng Dong is being sent back to the ward. The nurse gave home medication...

"Missy, when can I have dinner? I am very tired and hungry. Did you see my mum today?" Cheng Dong asked.

"We will be serving dinner in 20mins time. Your mum is busy today she won't be coming tonight." The nurse replied.

That night cheng Dong wrote a letter to michelle….

To My dearest angel,

Hi, my name is song cheng Dong. Thank you very much for saving me. If not for you, I may have died.

You're like an angel to me.

I am not sure if you remember me. I went to your mini concert in the school and you saved me again from the school bullies.

Can I ask you to be my girlfriend? I would like to understand you further.

Cheng Dong

Cheng Dong fell asleep on the table without folding up the letter. Jiale came into the room and saw it….

"This silly guy. Seems like he love her very much." Jiale said to himself.

Jiale lift cheng Dong to the bed.

The next morning 8am.

25 January 2000.

Cheng Dong try to walk to his wheelchair and jiale walks in…..

"Why did you get up the bed by yourself!?" Jiale asked anxiously.

"I am able to get up alone." Cheng Dong replied.

Outside the first floor waiting lounge.

845am

"Cheng Dong you wait here for me. I will drive my car over." Jiale said.

Cheng Dong nodded his head. Not long after, he heard ci en voice coming out from the lounge. He pushes the wheelchair over and overheard their conversation.

"Madam Li, please ask your son to come to the hospital to check if his bone marrow donor is suitable for my son, song Cheng Dong. He is your brother biological son, Li jia Dong. If he doesn't have a bone marrow he may not survive till 17." Ci en said.

"You..you mean the singer, song cheng Dong is my brother's son?! No wonder they look so alike! My son is not at home these days. I will go to the school and find him and ask him to come for check up tomorrow." Li Min replied shocking.

"What is your son name?" Ci en asked.

"His name is Li Ao." Li min replied.

Cheng Dong fell down from the wheelchair upon hearing their conversation.

"I…I am not a Korean?! I am not the son of the song family! Why?! Li Ao!? Is Li Ao the bully in the school? Will he donate his bone marrow to me?!" Cheng Dong asked himself.

Cheng Dong sat on the floor, grabs his chest tightly and cried badly. Jiale drove over and saw Cheng Dong crying badly siting on the floor with some minor bruises on his feet. He ran over and lift him to the car.

"Cheng Dong!? What happened!?" Are you alright?! Your legs are bruised. I bring you back to the ward." Jiale asked anxiously.

"I…I am fine. I want to go to the school, I am going to be late already." Cheng Dong replied softly.

Jiale kept the wheelchair in the boot of the car. He didn't noticed that Cheng Dong waist was bruised badly. Cheng Dong sat down in the car with pain.

At the gate of the college.

9am.

Jiale set up the wheelchair and lift cheng Dong to the wheelchair.

"Ah! Ah! Ve…very pain!" Cheng Dong scream and cried in pain.

His screams were heard by Li Ao and his friends.

"Bro, look, that Song Chengdong is back at school. It seems he has a problem." Classmate A said.

"There is someone around him now. We shall visit him after class." Li Ao replied.

Jiale pushed Chengdong in the wheelchair in the campus.

Lhasa Academy-In the acting class. 9am.

"I...I can push myself into the classroom. You can go back to the hospital first." Chengdong said.

"But, can you do it alone?" Jia Le asked.

Chengdong nodded. Jiale stored his phone number in Chengdong's mobile phone.

"This is my number. If you feel unwell, call me immediately." Jia Le said.

Everyone in the class is looking at him.

"This...isn't this the singer Song Chengdong? What happened to him?!" Student B asked in surprise.

Chengdong pushed himself to his seat.

The teacher walked over...

"Classmate Song Chengdong, you haven't come to class for a few days. Are you sick or injured during filming?" the teacher asked.

"I...I went to the hospital with a fever. Now...I'm still in the hospital. I may have to miss classes." Chengdong replied softly.

The teacher saw Chengdong holding his waist and he was still sweating.

"Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?! Why not go to the lounge first." The teacher asked.

The teacher pushed him into the lounge.

"Do you need to lie down?" the teacher asked.

"I...my waist hurts very, very much. The medicine...the medicine is in my backpack." Chengdong replied in pain.

When the teacher gently picked up the medicine, he saw that his waist was severely swollen, bruised and red.

Li Ao and several students were watching outside. Just then the teacher called Zuer from the singing department to come to the lounge.

In the lounge. 9:20 am.

Zuer came into the lounge and saw the teacher and Chengdong.

"Zuer, your family knows massage. Can you see what's wrong with him? I'll go back to class first." The teacher said.

"Yes, teacher." Zuer replied.

The teacher left the lounge.

"You...you are Michelle's classmate, right? Is Michelle here?" Chengdong asked.

"Don't worry about her, worry about yourself first. Can you lie down on the bed? Let me help you take a look." Zuer answered.

Chengdong stood up vigorously, but the pain in his waist made him unable to move.

"If you don't mind, I'll help you up." Zu'er said.

"Ah! It hurts!! No... no! I... I can't get up." Chengdong answered hard.

"Did you fall this morning or yesterday?" Ayer asked.

"Morning...I accidentally fell from my wheelchair while I was waiting for my friend to pick me up this morning." Chengdong said.

"Honestly, do you have bone cancer or bone problems? Ordinary twisting of the waist will not be serious like this. I'd better call your friend to pick you up." Zuer said.

"No need. I have to wait until get out of class is over. I'm looking for Michelle in your class." Chengdong replied.

"You mean Chen Michelle? You don't have to wait any longer. She went back to Shanghai the day before yesterday. She is from Shanghai." Zuer asked.

"She...she must have been so scared when she saw me that she ran away." Chengdong replied sadly in a low voice.

"Ay! No! Don't think like that! In fact, she is not a student here. She is just a transfer student. She only takes one month of classes. She will come again next year. Before she left, she asked me to look after you for her. Don't say I give this to you. These are her contact number and address in Shanghai. Don't give the information to others. Especially that Li Ao." Zuer replied.

Chengdong accepted the note happily.

-End of chapter-