No One But You

I could be the only one in Knight’s family who behaved undue familiarity in front of all the people at the table.

When I was looking at Brooke, I knew that Calvin was looking at me.

I pretended not noticing him.

I thought Brook Knight would ignore me, but he just picked up the bowl in front of me, spooned soup to feed me, “Take care, the soup is hot.”

He gave me an out. I accepted it immediately.

So, I opened my mouth and took all the soup he fed to me.

Then he just fed me the whole bowl of soup, and I finished it.

Mrs. Knight looked at me with a complex expression. Mr. Knight cleared his throat. Maybe they all felt sickened by my behavior.

But I just wanted to sick one person.

When I looked down, picked up the bowl, and pretended looking at Calvin by chance. but he was having his meal as cool as a cucumber.

He thought I was invisible; I took him as a hollow man instead.

I was having my meal and suddenly I had a violent pain in my stomach with cold sweat on my forehead.

Brooke sensed my difference first and asked, “Josephine, do you have a stomachache?”

Not just stomachache, but a terrible stomachache.

I clinched my teeth and nodded, Zofia touched my face and said, “You look rather pale, go to see the doctor right now.”

Brooke carried me and walked out of the restaurant.

I was pregnant with a baby and weighed about 10 pounds more. Though Brook was not as strong as Calvin, he carried me very easily.

stumbled and followed us. “Go

Stella, “Call the family

was nice for rich people have

painful to say

my house and lay me on

painful to breathe heavily -- a severe

down and looked at me with a stormy look. “You shall

It was his mother who

me and consoling me. I knew she meant well, but she was as noisy as a fly, and I would

any more. He asked me what I had in the daytime, after checking and said, “You may eat too much in the daytime, and

doctors. I could draw

said, “Mrs. Knight cannot take stomach medicine due to her pregnancy. And there is no immediate way to ease her pain. Take

me with this pain?” I gritted my teeth against

hands to show there was nothing he could do. “If you are not pregnant, I can have you put on a drip. There is lot of medicine you cannot use at

feel the baby in my tummy. I was also worried if I used hot-water bottle, the baby would be killed by

me. I felt upset,

behind

let Brooke ask

I was worried that my painful tossing and turning would affect her sleep.

“You will have stomachache for a few days. Don’t you have the

drugs, but it prohibited pregnant woman from

waved to her weakly, “Enough, If I take the drug, I will

“You just hold out?”

was nothing I could do but

having stomachache. So I still asked her to go to

slept a little and woke

After medical checking, nothing was serious. Doctors said that my stomach might be

the pain was killing

too painful for me to stand any more.

would have stomachache. It would be all right