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我爱你们，爸爸妈妈
(2006-03-11 11:42:00)| 分类： 英文原创 |
这篇小说描写了女强人Kelly得知她得了不治之症后，才知道世界上最可贵的是爱和温情。
Kelly cried, tears streaming down her hollow face.
“Cancer!” The
diagnosis struck her like a sword that suddenly cut her seemingly
fulfilling life to a dead end. The lung tumor would expand and
devour her body in a few months.
The forty-two-year-old
single attorney stood there motionless, her eyes fixed ruefully on
the verdict paper. For a long moment she stared, unaware of the
doctor’s solace. Being independent, intelligent, and sometimes
even pretentious all her life, she was too seasoned a woman to let
other people allay her grief.
“Now What?” The fear
of death totally blew her away. Probably for the first time in her
life, she was too bewildered to figure out what to act next. Then
all of a sudden instinct took over --- “I need to call my parents
and tell them.”
She hastily took the
address book from her purse and fingered though it, her parents’
number was not listed --- She hadn’t called them for 2
years.
As if she would die any
moment, she took the next train and was headed to her parents’
little townhouse. There was something she had to tell
them.
When she stepped towards
the entrance, she saw her mother was carrying a tuna sandwich and
her father was reading the morning newspaper. Their life hadn’t
changed a bit --- she used to sit on his lap reading the cartoon
section of the paper while waiting for the tuna sandwich with
ketchup. She was a ketchup maniac – wouldn’t eat any sandwich
without it.
She dashed in and
embraced her mother tightly, tears gushing out.
“I love you, mom and
dad.” She finally yelled it out.
Her mother stood there
dumbfounded. Fighting back tears, she put down the sandwich and
went back to kitchen.
“Where are you going?
Didn’t you murmur Kelly’s name almost every night? Your daughter
is standing right next to you now, darling!” Her father wept with
a smile.
“The tuna sandwich
doesn’t have any ketchup. I have to fetch some for my
daughter.”
For the next two months,
she turned off her cell phone and became that Little Ketchup Kelly
again. Her parents were a lot stronger than she had expected upon
such a devastating misfortune. Every morning, she jogged and read
cartoon section with her father, and ate her mother’s ketchup tuna
sandwich.
Her life circled back to
where it started --- loving parents and simple pleasure. When she
felt her dying time was due, she left them quietly, feeling that
she would leave the world without any regrets.
She turned on the cell
phone and saw a short message from the doctor. “I am sorry, Kelly.
We mixed you up with another patient Kelly. The tumor is benign.
You are a healthy woman that will live a long life”.
“Now What?” She
rejoiced at the unexpected turn of fate.
“Now I want to become a
parent!”
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