90 Do I know you? (1/2)

Everyone looked at one another, different emotions and thoughts running in their minds.

”I am going in to see him,” Mei Zhen declared and before anyone could stop her, she had entered the room.

Tang had been gazing at the snow falling outside the window and turned to look at Mei Zhen who entered the room. He struggled to sit up. She hurried towards him to aid him.

”Thank you,” he said politely before looking at her questioningly.

Chu came in then and he gave her a surprised but relieved smile.

”You also flew down from Shanghai to see me? I seem to have worried all of you. Is dad here as well?” he asked her warmly.

Mei Zhen had a stricken expression on her face as she waited for some sort of recognition to flit on his face by looking at her.

”Do you not remember me?” she asked him.

He looked at her, confusion etched on his face, ”I am sorry. Do I know you?”

Chu immediately intervened and said, ”you never seem to remember my friends. She is Liang Mei Zhen, a friend of mine from school. She was my senior but we were close.”

Tang smiled ruefully and said, ”hi! Sorry, I can't remember when we met last but I am very pleased to meet you. And I thank you for your concern but you needn't have come to the hospital. Do you live here in New York?”

”We aren't in New York but in Moganshan. You remember Moganshan at least, right,” she responded bitterly.

He looked at his sister in surprised confusion, ”no wonder the view outside felt familiar yet different when I woke up. And the doctor had also looked at me strangely when I had mentioned NY. How did I reach here?”

Chu gave her sister in-law a murderous look before replying, ”uh…”

”We flew you down from America after the doctor cleared you for travel. I thought coming back to your birthplace would help you heal faster,” his father entered the room, and cut off Chu's response.

”Dad, you are here. I just asked Chu about you,” he exclaimed.

Mr. Xie's eyes softened at hearing the warmth in his son's voice for him. He couldn't remember the last time Tang had spoken like this to him in the recent past.