My Addiction by Ida Gonzalez (summer reading list TXT) 📗

"Please, sit down," he waved his hand to her.

"Well, let's see where we start. You know your diagnosis. Don't you, Miss Katherine?" He asks her gently and lovingly.

"Yes," Katy responds dejectedly.

"Tell me, doctor, what can be done?" I ask quickly as this is killing me.

"I have her tests results. My colleague has already told me about her case and we will start treating her as soon as possible," he explains.

 

  "And how much is the treatment cost, doctor?" The doctor watches me, maybe he can see the concern in my eyes.

"It's a bit expensive and I guess you don't have insurance," he states.

"No doctor, we don't have health insurance," I answer with a big lump in my throat. The tears threaten to come out but I hold on. I try to stay strong, for her, for my sister.

"Well, I will give you the whole cost estimations and I will wait for you on Friday to start the treatment. She will be hospitalized 3 days every month for the treatment and we will continue doing studies to monitor her evolution, ok?"

"Okay doctor, we'll be here on Friday," I repeatedly nodded my head.

The doctor gives me the estimation and we leave the office. But again before leaving, the doctor says goodbye to me with a look that I could not interpret, holding my hand more than necessary. I had to clear my throat so that he would let go of my hand while Kathy just raised a brow. We walk out of the hospital and I start looking at the estimation and my heart hits the ground. It will cost me $ 30,000 or so for her first treatment. God! And that's just part of it, where will I get that amount of money from?

"It’s a lot of money?" Katy asks me.

"No, princess, don't worry. I'll get it. You just rest, eat and don't worry about the money"

 

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Today is Wednesday, back to work, Katy is still normal, she goes to school, I was able to talk to the director telling her about her health condition, and she understood me perfectly, she even gave me the option of distance classes in case she cannot attend due to her health condition and I think it would be the best thing to do at least for now, until we see how she evolves with the treatments.

"Good morning" I greeted my classmates without much encouragement, it will be so hard to concentrate at work thinking about my sister's health.

"Good morning." they replied. "Isa hugs me quickly as she arrives next to me." How are you friend?  

"Well within everything, Emm but I need to talk to you Isa, can we at my lunch time?" Because I'm working double shifts again today, especially now that I need the money.

"Yes friend of course we can, we'll talk later." at that Marc arrives greeting everyone, approaching me.

"Hi beautiful how are you?"

"Fine Marc."

"You know you can ask me for anything if you need right?" I nod without encouragement.

"Thanks Marc"

"You're welcome, precious." he leaves a kiss on my forehead and goes back to his office.

The morning flew by, suddenly like an erotic mirage three gorgeous men enter the restaurant and my mouth drops to the floor and I am not the only one because when I turn to look at my companions they are the same or worse than me, Holy Virgin, I look at those men again, my eyes are diverted to them by themselves. But it's not their demeanor or sensuality that catches my attention, but one of them, it's the same man to whom I had spilled the fucking coffee a week ago. Shit! I turn my face away when I notice his presence so he doesn't recognize me.

"Where did these men come from?" exclaimed Isa.

"Wait! Isn't that man the same one you left worse than rotisserie chicken the other day?" i dead embarrassed affirmed with my head. "Fuck! It's a small world, too bad I can't do anything to him here, otherwise I'd throw him out of here." she said.

"No, no, Isa, nothing like that, you won't do anything like that, or the one who will get kicked out of here will be us." She rolled her eyes.

"I'm going to attend to them." she said waggling his eyebrows repeatedly and I just deny.

I walk to the kitchen to avoid meeting that man, I don't want him to know where I work. "Beautiful how are you?" Marc appears in front of me covering my step.

"Fine Marc, I'm fine." I lean my body to look towards them and I observe Isa who was heading towards the kitchen with the order of those men. "I'm glad, I don't like to see you crestfallen Paula."

"I'm sorry but I can't be smiling Marc."

"That's not what I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm just saying it makes me sick to see you like this." Marc was still talking and my mind was on that man alone.

"I'll be fine don't worry." Isa walks past him. And suddenly Marc turns his face towards the table of those men. "Please don't make those people wait too long, they are important customers." he informed and we just watched each other with Isa watching as Marc walked away from us.

"Did he recognize you?" I asked turning to her.

"Yes, obvious, but he didn't say anything just watched me first with surprise and then wrinkled his brow in annoyance." I bit my lip.

"I'll try not to let him see me, I'll wait at the tables in front Isa, I don't want that man to know I work here," he just nodded. I took the order from table ten and walked covering myself among the people, ducking my head so he wouldn't see me. I politely served the table, setting the plates down.