The tension in the hospital kept getting thicker as the days passed slowly. Although both Xu y and Jie were stable, both of them were not ready to wake up to face reality. Ti was ticking very slowly for them.
The tension was so thick that one could cut it with a blade. Everyone was anxiously waiting for so news... Any news...
When a person is feeling restless, the days seem to feel like months. But for Xu Cheng and Zhu Chen, these days felt like years. The anxiety was vying down by each passing second. Both fathers wanted nothing more than seeing their children absolutely fine.
*One week later*
"Xiao y!" Xu Cheng walked in her private room to see Xu y sitting on her bed. Her face was bright and rosy but her eyes seed to be upset over sothing.
"Dad, have you seen my phone? I can’t find it." Xu y pouted adorably making Xu Cheng’s tears to flow down. "Dad, what’s wrong?" She got anxious seeing him cry like this. Xu Cheng shook his head and ca up to her.
"How are you feeling?" Xu y frowned before hugging his waist tightly.
"Dad, stop crying. It doesn’t suit a big man like yourself to cry like a kid. And dad, I’m absolutely fine. Why are you asking?" Her reaction made Xu Cheng feel sothing amiss but he didn’t pay attention since he was over the moon to see her awake.
"It’s fine as long as you are okay." He whispered before kissing the top of her head.
"Oh, dad! You didn’t tell , why am I in a hospital? You know I don’t like hospitals. I just vomited a couple of tis. It was no big deal." She was whining like a kid and Xu Cheng didn’t know what she ant. "And give my phone, I have to contact my Ah-Jie. He left early in the morning today. Didn’t even give a goodbye kiss. How unfair!" She crossed her arms before her chest with a sulky look on her face.
Her words were heard by Zhu Chen and He Susu who were entering the room. Xu y didn’t saw them coming and kept tugging at her father’s sleeve. "Okay, give my phone. I need to talk to Ah-Jie. I had such a bad dream. I need to hear his voice."
"My dearest daughter, Jie... He is-," Xu Cheng’s words were cut off by Zhu Chen.
"What was the dream about?" Hearing He Susu’s voice, Xu y shifted her eyes to her and smiled.
Hesitating for a minute, she related her supposed ’dream’, "I saw he brought cheesecake and hugged but suddenly, I couldn’t hear anything as he pushed to the ground. Then there was a car that hit Jie and he fell down in the pool of blood. I couldn’t breathe as I saw him lying there lifelessly. It scared the hell out of ." She shuddered at the mory. "It was so vivid that for a mont, I thought it was real. Thank God! It was just a bad dream." She patted her own chest to calm down her heart.
Zhu Chen and He Susu shared a knowing look.
"Jie went on a business trip. We inford him that you are sick, he’s coming soon. Don’t worry about that. Now, go back to sleep. How will you nag at Jie if you will be this weak?" Zhu Chen coaxed Xu y like a child and she seed convinced as she laid back down on her bed. "Good girl. Go to sleep. I’ll ask Sis to make your favorite food for you."
Xu y smiled at him and closed her eyes in satisfaction. Xu Cheng gave Zhu Chen an inquiring look and he ’shushed’ him for the ti being. As they heard Xu y’s steady breathing, all of them walked out to the corridor.
"Why did you lie to her?" Xu Cheng imdiately voiced out his question.
Zhu Chen looked at He Susu and she sighed before explaining, "She seems to be suffering from DRC."
"Huh?" Xu Cheng obviously didn’t understand her.
"It’s called dream-reality confusion. Mostly found in the patients of Borderline Personality Disorder. People usually confuse their dreams for reality but Xu y seems to be confusing her reality for a dream." Xu Cheng was dumbstruck at He Susu’s detailed explanation.
"But... She doesn’t have Borderline Personality Disorder." He argued.
"No. But she has a history of extre emotional reactions. So people feel pain worse than a normal person and Xu y is one of those people because of her childhood traumas."
"What should we do now?" Xu Cheng felt defeated and helpless.
"I say, we should let her keep this delusion for now." Zhu Chen suggested in a calm voice.
"Why?"
"She saw the accident with her own eyes and it was a huge blow to her brain. Telling her about Jie’s condition might worsen her psychological shock. I believe, none of us want that now, do we?" Xu Cheng had to nod along since he definitely didn’t want to lose his daughter.
It seed to be the most accurate approach for the ti being. But not for the long run. They had to stabilize Xu y’s condition before telling her everything.
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