A Love For Keeps

Stay With Me

(LUBAO)

I almost screamed when I saw my boyfriend's battered face when he entered his office in the first floor of the hospital. I came to him in worry and touch his face. "Okay, it's either you are involved in a fight or you fell down the stairs, three flights of stairs, and your face slammed against the steps all the way down. Which is it? And did you really walk around the lobby looking like that?"

SengYou gave me a tired look. "Why are you here? I thought you will be with Dayu." He asked before going to the examination bed where he once cornered me to lie there.

"Dayu is being looked after his parents." I said as I follow him. I sat on the edge of the bed and gaze down at him. "Did you win? Tell me that the other guy's face is pulverized."

"Qing spat blood...so yeah, I think I won." SengYou grumbled while touching his cheekbone with a red mark on it.

I gasped at what he said. "You fought with Qing? Why? Oh..." I grew dismayed.

SengYou sighed and put an arm on top of his eyes like he is warding off the lights. "I am tired..."

I sighed sadly as I spied scrapes on his knuckles. Indication that he used those hands to hurt someone. For a doctor like SengYou whose main purpose in life is to save people and cure sickness, hurting someone physically must be so hard. The reason behind it must be so severe.

I sighed again, "Yeah...well I think everyone is tired. Except for Dayu who keeps on sleeping." I nodded my agreement before we both go quiet.

I don't know what happened but if Qing and SengYou are brawling and hitting each other, then it must be bad. I want to ask my boyfriend but our relationship is only a week old and I don't know if I should meddle in his family affair at this point or if I should just keep my mouth shut.

Oh wait...I already meddled in SengYou's family when I corraborated with Qing in almost overtaking their hospitals. So yeah...

I slid closer to my boyfriend's head to touch his hair. "I am here..." I found myself saying. "I don't know what's going on...but I want you to know that I am here and I have no other plans for today aside from staying here." I added.

I don't know why it seems important but I think I have to assure SengYou that I am here beside him and I will not leave him alone.

Maybe it's the sadness on his eyes when he walked in his office or the defensive way he is trying to keep things on himself or the tightness of his jaws that tells me he is doing everything he can to keep it all together.

And then there is also the tears that seeped from the corners of his eyes.

All of those things tell me that I should stay with SengYou because even though he is not saying it, I know he needs me right now.

I kept on patting his hair as SengYou continued to cry. My heart is breaking for him but this is not about me, this is about this person who captivated me from the moment I met him.

I still remember that afternoon when the Wang brothers entered their home, laughing and pushing each other playfully with smiles on their faces until they saw that their mother has visitors.

I remember just staring at SengYou and asking myself if he is true and a real person. He turned out to be very real and since then, SengYou never totally left my consciousness.