Chapter 145 Kendrick Stands Up
Chapter 145 Kendrick Stands Up
Chapter 145 Kendrick Stands Up
Natalie honored her promise.
She taught Nomi and her friends a lesson.
When Nomi was live-streaming, someone poured a bucket of iced water over her head.
There were ice cubes in the water.
The audience in the live stream was shocked.
When the audience stared at the screen dumbfounded, another bucket of cold water mixed with lots of
ice cubes poured over Nomi again.
The audience thought it was a gimmick that Nomi brought forward to make fame, so they made real-
time comments and asked her to do it again. Some of them even gave Nomi generous tips.
The number of audiences in the live stream reached a new height.
However, the live stream soon got disrupted.
Someone grabbed Nomi by the hair and flung her to the ground.
A pair of flats appeared before Nomi's eyes.
Natalie looked down at Nomi and said, "It was me who decided to get you out of our live stream. I didn't
plan to cooperate with you after that, but you had the nerve to offend me..." She tilted her face and said
coldly, "Don't ever think of being a live streamer again."
Nomi struggled to get up and beckoned her assistant to call the police.
Natalie smiled and said, "Do you want to call the police? I did that for you already."
As expected, two cops arrived after a while and said someone reported that Nomi was suspected of tax
fraud.
Nomi was soon taken away.
Natalie went to make a statement with the police.
The cop in charge of the case was polite to Natalie. After she made the statement, he said, "You can
leave now. Your friend is waiting for you outside."
Natalie was puzzled. Who was the friend?
She looked back.
Saul was standing behind her.
Previously, he asked Natalie how to deal with the pranksters.
Natalie said she would give them a lesson and teach them the correct behaviors.
To Saul's surprise, Natalie asked her men to pour several buckets of cold water over Nomi in the live
stream.
She even brought Nomi to the police station.
"Let's go." Saul said, "It's okay now."
"Of course, it's okay." Natalie said in surprise, "Why are you here?"
"After I learned that you went to the police station, I got worried about you."
Natalie said, "I called the police and told them Nomi had committed tax fraud."
Saul was speechless.
He was silent for a while, racking his brain to find a topic. In the end, he said, "There will be an Orionid
meteor shower tonight. Would you like to go stargazing together?"
Natalie looked indifferent.
Saul frowned.
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One year ago, the astronomy club watched the Cassiopeia meteor shower together, and they said they
would observe the Orionid meteor shower in one year.
Natalie noticed his disappointment and asked, "What's wrong?"
"You don't seem interested in it."
Natalie said casually, "I have something else to do tonight."
"Orionid meteor shower is once in a century. If you make a wish at the meteors, it will come true."
Natalie glanced at him in surprise. "Didn't you learn science before?" She continued, "Meteors are just
light traces produced by electron transitions of cosmic dust when it passes through the Earth's
atmosphere at a high speed. They are not different from dust."
She asked in bewilderment, "Will you make a wish at the dust?"
Saul was speechless.
He felt helpless.
He thought Natalie had changed a lot.
Natalie looked at Saul's face and felt her words were too blunt. She tried to make it up to him. "But you
can give it a try. Maybe your wish will come true."
"Would you..."
"I gotta go." Natalie said, "I'll treat you to coffee next time."
...
When Natalie learned that there would be an Orionid meteor shower at night, she got excited.
Wasn't it romantic to go stargazing with the man she loved?
The meteor shower would begin at eight o'clock.
Natalie went back home to fetch a telescope before going to the hospital.
Kendrick was wheeled out by the carer for fresh air today.
When he came back, he saw Natalie coming with excitement.
Didn't he ask her to go home to rest?
Why did she come again?
Natalie took the telescope out of her bag as if it was a treasure. "There will be an Orionid meteor
shower tonight. It's once in a century."
Therefore, she had to come and watch it with Kendrick.
The carer suggested out of kindness, "Mr. Ramsey..."
He intended to say Kendrick needed to stay in bed and take a rest.
Kendrick raised his hand and interrupted the carer, beckoning him not to continue.
"When will it start?" asked Kendrick.
"At eight o'clock."
Kendrick nodded in agreement.
The sky was clear tonight. The constellations in the night sky could be seen at high latitudes in the
northern hemisphere.
Kendrick and Natalie sat on the balcony and gazed at the sky, wrapped in the same blanket.
Natalie didn't know much about astronomy. She didn't have the time or mood to gaze at the stars in the
past. She just leaned against Kendrick's shoulder and pointed at the night sky, asking him about the
constellations.
It was autumn in the northern hemisphere.
Sirius was the brightest star in the sky.
The stars of Orion were also vivid.
At eight o'clock, a meteor shower flashed across the night sky.
Natalie heard clearly the screams from the hallway.
She hastily said, "Make a wish at the meteors."
Following that, she crossed her fingers and made a wish. She was not greedy.
There were swings and roundabouts in life, and one couldn't have everything going his own way.
Natalie was willing to give up everything to make her wish come true.
She leaned against Kendrick's shoulder and saw the meteor disappearing with a long tail of light in the
sky. It was a fleeting moment, but it was wonderful.
Natalie suddenly thought of a song and sang softly.
"I'll watch with you the meteor shower falling on the Earth. If you wanna cry, cry on my shoulder. I want
you to believe my love is only for you, and you will see where happiness lies."
It was so romantic.
"My love is only for you."
As Natalie sang, she blinked at Kendrick.
She wondered if he sensed her love.
Kendrick asked in confusion, "Why should I cry?"
Natalie was speechless.
It took her a while to calm down. She exhaled deeply and said without a smile, "That's not the point."
Kendrick chuckled softly. Although he felt a sharp pain in the wound when he sat up, he endured it and
said, "I believe you."
Natalie held his hand and said, "I made a wish. I'm not greedy, so it will come true."
"What a coincidence. I made a wish too."
Natalie looked at Kendrick curiously. "Did we make the same wish?" She quickly said, "No, don't tell
me, or it won't come true."
Kendrick smiled without saying a word.
He had made a wish about her.
He didn't value anything but her.
A breeze was up.
The two of them leaned against each other, and their shadows overlapped.
...
It was one week after the surgery.
Kendrick's wound almost healed.
After taking another injection of GM-1, his nervous tissues grew fast, and he felt the increasing strength
in his lower part.
He stayed in the rehabilitation center alone and took training in the daytime.
The rehabilitation physician held Kendrick's back and helped him up, asking him to put his hands on
the swing rings and exercise his legs.
When Kendrick's feet touched the ground, they were not limp and floating as before.
He seemed to feel the gravity.
Kendrick could sense the existence of the ground.
His back seemed to support his weight.
Thinking of this, Kendrick beckoned the physician to let go.
The physician hesitated. "It'd be safe if I support you."
"Let me give it a try."
The rehabilitation physician quickly dragged a soft mat over, lest there would be an accident.
After the physical let go of him, Kendrick gripped the swinging rings hard and put his feet on the
ground, steadying himself.
He stood for several seconds.
He soon sensed the piercing pain in his legs.
Sweats broke out on his forehead.
Kendrick breathed heavily.
The physician looked at him in disbelief. "Mr. Ramsey, did you stand up just now?"
Kendrick ordered, "Support me."
The physician quickly helped him up.
Kendrick endured the great pain and sat back in the wheelchair. He beckoned the physician to lower
the swinging rings and clutched at them again. Gritting his teeth, he got up staggeringly from the
wheelchair with the strength of his arms and back.
This attempt exhausted his strength.
He soon turned pale.
The biting pain in his back and legs invaded his bones and spread all over his body. Kendrick held onto
the swinging rings tightly. His fingers almost got disfigured, and his knuckles turned green and white.
It hurt.
Kendrick almost fainted in the pain.
However, it could be seen that he could stand up on his own with the strength of his back.
Although he couldn't walk, he had made unprecedented progress.
Brock came to report on his work. He saw Kendrick stand up from the wheelchair with the help of the
swinging rings and steady himself.
Kendrick stood for only a few seconds, but Brock was overjoyed.
His mind went blank. When he came back to his sense, he dashed up to Kendrick and caught his
falling body.
"You... You..."
Brock opened his mouth wide. He was too excited to say anything.
The rehabilitation physician wanted to say something, but Kendrick gave him a warning look.
"Keep it a secret."