余生， 请多指教 - Please Guide Me for the Rest of My Life (English Translation)

Chapter 2 : My Frown Disappears But My Heart Worries

When love starts, we often don't know that it is love.

Date: 2009.4.3

I propped my head as I looked out to the dark tunnel outside the car window in a daze. The glass reflected someone playing with an IC card*. I suddenly thought of a person who also flipped his/her IC card while walking to the subway station.

*integrated circuit card: is a payment card that uses an embedded microchip to store data in addition to/instead of a traditional magnetic stripe; used to pay for services (stores, transportations, vending machines etc.)

After leaving the hospital, the only other contact we had with the hospital besides the return visit calls from the nurse station was whenever Mr. Lin's white blood cell count decreased. My mom had made two calls since then and I listened to them on the side. The calls were nothing more than simple "thank you, no and you're welcome."

Today I went back to Town X. Suddenly having my mind off of books, I felt something invisible coming in abundance. It was after a long time that I found out, that worry lingered around me like ghosts.

At night, I stayed over at San San's dorm. Her school was very close to the school that I re-tested at. After showering and drying my hair, I turned my head to see San San's contemplating face. "Girl, why do I suddenly feel that you had this 'frown just left but worry forms' vibe?" she asked.

"Please bring out your STEM* student morals. You don't have to show off your sophisticated knowledge."

*STEM: a common abbreviation for four closely connected areas of study: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

"Then when do you think you can get Dr. Gu?"

"I think you should continue reciting ancient poems." You won't be finding any kind of restraint on this girl.

"I just know that you don't have the courage to do it. I just texted him through your phone."

"What?!"

I quickly went through my phone. There was clearly one line that read, "Do you have a girlfriend?" being displayed in my text messages. I was careless in making friends. I definitely was careless in making friends!

How I wish I could ram my head into a wall! "Sis! I have my re-test tomorrow! Can you leave me in a good mental state?"

"A good mood comes by often but a good man doesn't easily come by. Work hard, my friend, work hard." San San grabbed the towel and glided into the bathroom. I angrily and sadly buried myself into my covers. I looked at the baffling text message. Never in my life have I ever wished that there'd been a glitch in the mobile communication tower. 

Before going  to bed, I hadn't received any text messages. Before I fell asleep, I calmed myself by thinking, "it's okay. It's okay. He wouldn't know my cell phone number. Maybe he thinks it's a prank message."

I realized afterwards how ridiculously wrong I was.

Doctor's Comments: Hahahahaha ....

(Why are you laughing? I still haven't avenged you for giving your phone number when we've only known each other for about ten days!)

Dr. Gu's text message: I gave it to my patient. Do you have a problem?

Date: 2009.4.5

It was said that the geology department was famous for females being better than males. I only found out about that when I got to the site. Who says that women were inferior to men.

Diagonally in front of me was a petite girl who was on her phone. "I'm re-testing on Tomb Sweeping Day*. I can't believe they have re-tests on Tomb Sweeping Day! If they don't choose me, I won't forgive them even when I die!" Right after she ended the call, she slipped.