Thanksgiving Divorce

When I woke up again, I was lying in a hospital bed.

The nurse was pleasantly surprised to see me wake up. "Mr. Gregory, you're finally awake. You've been unconscious for two days."

'How could it have been two days already?' I pondered.

I looked at the nurse and asked, "Where's Mindy?"

The nurse's eyes looked a bit off. I frowned and asked, "Has she left?"

The nurse quickly waved her hand and replied, "No. Ms. Horton is in the hospital. It's just..."

She stammered but eventually made up her mind and told me, "Ms. Horton is in the hospital, but she’s never come to see you in the past two days. Even when you fainted that day, it was the doctor who sent you here. Ms. Horton has been with Mr. Leeman."

I paused for a moment before biting my lip hard. I never thought Mindy could be so cruel to me. Naively, I thought Mindy still had some feelings for me.

Just then, piano music came from the ward next door.

Harvey's voice rang out, "Mindy, you're amazing."

My eyes froze, and I ran to the corridor without even putting on my shoes. This was a private hospital, and the other patients on this floor seemed to have already been sent away.

Harvey and Mindy were sitting at a piano in the hospital corridor.

Mindy's fingers danced nimbly across the piano, and she looked at Harvey with a smile. "Does it sound good? Is it the same song I played for you before?"

It was the first time she had played the piano since we got married.

When I asked her to play a piece for me before, she always answered, "Why should I bother doing that?"

It was not playing the piano that she did not want to bother with—it was the person she would have been playing to.

I walked over with tears in my eyes. "It sounds beautiful. Really beautiful! Of course, that’s as expected of Mindy. No wonder you were known to be so talented and accomplished back in college."

Mindy froze instantly.

Harvey narrowed his eyes before turning around to look at me. "Mason, you're awake! I was thinking of visiting you in the ward later." He reached out to grab my arm.

I looked at his defiant face and shoved him away. "Go away! Don’t bother pretending."

I had not expected Harvey to be so weak. He fell to the ground at the slightest touch, and tears immediately streamed down his face. "Mason, I was just concerned about you."

Mindy looked at Harvey on the ground and quickly pulled him up. Then, she glared at me. "Mason, you lunatic! Harvey cares about you. What's with your attitude?"

I looked at how close they were. I deserved to be the third party in this relationship. "He cares about me? You didn't care when I was lying in the hospital ward for two days, but now that I'm awake, you care? Mr. Leeman, you're a bit slow, aren't you?"

Harvey's tears kept coming. "Mason, I know you've never liked me. If that's the case, I'll leave. I won't show my face in front of you anymore."

He was about to stand, but Mindy grabbed him. "Why are you leaving? He should be the one to leave."

I let out a bitter chuckle. "Okay, Mindy. You said it yourself."

I turned around and walked out of the hospital without even changing out of my hospital gown. Harvey said, "Mindy, Mason isn't mad, is he? Go and comfort him! What if he really leaves?"

Mindy scoffed. "Don't worry. Pigs would fly if he ever got mad. He'll find his way back home in less than two days."

I thought I would burst into tears after hearing her cruel statement. However, when I touched my eyes, there was nothing.

It turned out that love really could be eroded, bit by bit.