My Girlfriend Pretended To Be Sick To Test Me
Elaine Foster loved to test my love for her. She faked a chronic illness and convinced me to donate blood for her 99 times.
When it came for the 100th time, I was already severely anemic. I finally said no. She turned around and used the blood I had given her to make blood sausages for Karl Claflin’s dog. Karl was the most popular guy on campus.
Curled up in Karl’s arms, she said to me, “Michael Messner, I was never sick. I only pretended to be, just to see if you really loved me. Unfortunately, you failed the final test. I’m very disappointed. We are done.”
I smiled indifferently and walked away without looking back.
Five years later, we met again at the top hospital in the country.
By then, neither Elaine nor Karl knew that they both had malignant gliomas growing in their brains.
I had become the only neurosurgeon in the country capable of successfully removing them.
When she saw me in plain clothes, wiping vomit off the hospital floor, she had assumed I was a janitor.
She sneered, “Michael, you’d really stoop to anything to run into me, wouldn’t you? You even followed me here. It’s time you faced reality. I’m worth millions now, and you are just a janitor. We are worlds apart. Stop embarrassing yourself.”
I did not bother answering. At that moment, I was only thinking about which nurse I would need to speak to for slacking off on the job.
Luckily, I had just finished surgery and was going home when I spotted the patient in distress. Otherwise, the patient could have been in serious danger.