The Last Voyage

Chapter 1: Hopeless

“Kent, you only have six months to live. That's why, if there's something you haven't done yet, do it."

The nearly fifty-year-old doctor spoke calmly to the young man sitting across from him.

The young man of about twenty-eight years old, with a normal face, a well-proportioned body, no matter how he looked at it, he could only be seen as a very ordinary person.

Yes, this young man's name is Kent.

Kent was surprised to hear the other doctor say that he had only six months to live. He couldn't believe what he had just heard was true.

Kent stammered: "Doctor, I-I'm only twenty-eight years old, how can I die?"

The doctor looked at Kent with pity in his eyes. After all, he has been working for more than twenty years, there are many things like this, so he is very calm.

“Kent, you have cancer, now the cancer has metastasized everywhere. Now, if you accept treatment, you can only prolong your life by three months, but after that, death is inevitable.” The doctor said.

After listening to this, Kent felt like he was struck by lightning, his eyes involuntarily overflowing with tears.

“N-it can't be. Why is this happening to me?” Kent cried out, kneeling on the ground, covering his face with his hands and crying like a child.

The doctor saw this and could only sigh, letting Kent cry. He didn't know what to comfort him anyway, leaving Kent to cry.

Kent cried for a while, then calmed down, bowed to the doctor and then left.

"Wait!" The doctor called Kent, and he asked: "Do you want to be treated?"

Kent sighed and replied: "No need, die anyway, sooner or later you have to die. Now the treatment can only last for three months, so it's good to die a little early."

After saying that, Kent immediately left, not waiting for the doctor to say anything more. The doctor also just sighed, he shook his head and calmed down. After all, after doing this job for many years, how many people died and how much suffering he had seen, no less than one person.

Kent walks on the road but the soul is no longer in the body. Kent really wants to ask why this happened to me, really wants to ask why I have to die?

Kent was originally an orphan, since childhood, he had no parents. Although he was adopted by the orphanage, the orphanage did not have enough money to maintain it, so from the age of seven he had to do everything to survive in this society.

By the age of eighteen, Kent had graduated from college and even won a scholarship. That's why he went to college without paying any fees, but also saved a small amount of money.

As time passed, by the time he grew up and had a stable job, Kent thought he could begin to enjoy a true life.

But fate is ironic. Now Kent is about to start enjoying life when he receives bad news.

Kent is also just one of the seven billion people in the world. He's not a billionaire, he's not a politician or a celebrity. Kent is extremely normal, so even death will not affect anything.

Besides, Kent is an orphan, even if he dies, he won't have a loved one by his side to mourn.

"No, I'm not alone." Kent thought: "I have Ann Reed."

Kent couldn't contain his emotions anymore, he ran as fast as possible home hoping to meet that girl named Ann Reed.

Ann Reed is Kent's girlfriend, the two met through the social network Factbook. Ann Reed is also not considered beautiful, but Kent considers Ann Reed as a family member because in Kent's mind, whoever likes me, I will really appreciate that person.

That is why Ann Reed's position in Kent's heart is very high and very important.

Kent suddenly stopped walking, he thought he couldn't bring home this pitiful appearance. If he let Ann Reed look at her miserable like this, he would definitely be very sad. Kent did not want Ann Reed to be sad, so he stopped by a public restroom to wash his face to wake up.

Not only that, he also stopped by the roadside flower shop to buy a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates as a gift for Ann Reed.

…

Kent stood in front of the house trying to stay calm, not letting his negative emotions show.

Currently Ann Reed is living with Kent. Although they live together, they sleep in separate rooms, so "that" hasn't happened yet. Not because Kent is physically weak, but Ann Reed is not mentally prepared to go to that stage.

Kent loves Ann Reed very much so respect her decision. That's why the two have lived like this for nearly two years, at most they only kiss on the lips.

After calming down, Kent rang the doorbell. It's funny right, this is Kent's house, whose legal owner is Kent, who pays the full bill is Kent but still has to ring the doorbell to wait for Ann Reed to let him in.

After a while, Ann Reed opened the door. Ann Reed looks a bit beautiful, blonde hair, blue eyes, white skin, full figure.

“Wow! That's interesting?" Ann Reed saw Kent holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a box of chocolates in the other, and said with a bored expression.

Kent froze for a moment, then tried to calm down when Ann Reed's words reached his ears again.

“Always giving flowers and chocolates, anything else?” Ann Reed stood in front of the door with her arms crossed, her voice full of disgust: "Look at people's boyfriends, they give their girlfriends Iphones, lamborghini cars, which are extremely expensive things. Besides the Iphone 13 I'm using, what else would you give me more precious?"

Kent said sadly: "But… I can't make that much money right now."

“Then try to make a lot of money, you look at people's boyfriends, they are all directors, have millions of dollars in assets, have luxury cars, have villas. Kent! What do you have? He has nothing. If I don't give you a little pity to love you, I'm afraid that now you are nothing, without love."

Kent heard that, both hands clutching the bouquet and chocolate box so tightly that it was distorted, teeth clenched together. Just thinking about coming home so that he can be comforted by his girlfriend who is also the person he loves the most, but…

"Shut up…"

"Huh? What? What did you say?” Ann Reed heard Kent mutter something and immediately asked back.

“I TELL YOU TO SHUT UP!”

Kent suddenly shouted, startling Ann Reed. Kent had never raised his voice at Ann Reed before, not even shouting or getting angry. Therefore, when Kent shouted like that, Ann Reed was both startled and angry.

"You yelled at me?" Ann Reed rolled her eyes and asked, “How dare you yell at me? DARE YOU screaming at me?”

Kent glared at Ann Reed, raising his voice word for word, "What if I yelled at you. She stayed at home all day and played, refusing to look for a job. The house she lives in is bought by me, the phone she uses is also bought by me, the food she eats is provided by me. Who do you think you are? What princess? Do not work but still want to have food? Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Don't think I don't know. She and the manager in my company are having a relationship, the two of them even do "That". You think I'm blind? Ann Reed, I tell you, it's not that I don't know, it's just that I don't want to say it because I still love you."

“Try looking back at the past. I give you everything you want, what do I get in return? It's nothing but a kiss, and the manager is in bed with you."

Kent said while crying, this was too much for him to bear. A dying person who wants to be saved is cornered by the person he loves.

"Fuck off!" Kent said.

"What? You chased me away?” Ann Reed was surprised, she asked Kent again.

"Why not?" Kent smiled bitterly and said: "Get out of my house. Go to the house of the other manager. Ah, I forgot. After all, in his eyes she was just a prostitute playing on the street. If you go to his house now, he'll kick you out."

Ann Reed was angry when she heard that, she shouted: “Enough! Good, you want me to go? OK! I go. Then you will regret it.”

Ann Reed went back into the house to get her things to leave when Kent grabbed her hand. Ann Reed swatted Kent's hand away with a sneer: “Hahaha, how? Do you regret it?"

Kent's expressionless face said: "This house is mine, you are not allowed in."

After saying that, Kent hugged Ann Reed and threw her out into the yard like a trash can, and then threw a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates in her face and slammed the door.

Ann Reed was surprised for a moment, then regained her composure and shouted: “AAA!! Kent, Peter Kent. You are so good, you dare to treat me like this. Don't come begging me to come back from now on."

…

Ignoring Ann Reed's curses and screams, Kent went inside the house and brought all of Ann Reed's clothes and belongings out into the yard through the window.

Kent didn't care if Ann Reed picked it up or not, didn't care if anyone took her things. Kent just wants to be alone right now.

How did Kent know that Ann Reed betrayed him? Of course, he had new evidence to say so, Ann Reed did not refute and proved that his words were true.

This was not discovered by him by accident, but by the manager in the company who told him directly. That's right, the manager's name is Steve, he said that mainly to provoke Kent like a feat he had just achieved.

But Kent still trusts his girlfriend, still trusts Ann Reed, still thinks Ann Reed will come back. Kent thought that he could use his sincere feelings to seduce Ann Reed, but he was wrong. Completely wrong.

Kent took out a bottle of wine from the cupboard, which he was given by a friend. Kent himself has never drunk alcohol, so he has not touched it.

Before, I didn't know how to drink like now. Kent doesn't need to know what kind of wine the bottle is, how strong it is, nor does it need to be poured into a glass. He took the whole bottle of wine and drank it.

Alcohol brought with it a high temperature that burned the stomach, like burned Kent's throat. But he didn't care, so he drank. Drink to forget suffering, drink to forget boredom, drink to forget your life.

“Huh… Why… why?” Kent sat huddled in a corner crying and drinking. No matter how brave a person is, no matter how strong he is, he cannot stand his ground in the face of death.

Kent is the same, he is not a great man or a hero, he is just an ordinary person. He wanted to live, more than anyone else he wanted to enjoy life.

But now everything is falling apart. He only has 6 months to live, the girlfriend he loves the most also betrayed him, everything left him.

It's lonely.

Kent laughed to himself, up to this moment he was alone, with no relatives or friends.

Trying to make life happier, but in the end Kent's life came to a dead end.

Kent drank a lot of alcohol, drank until he vomited, his stomach hurt so much that he passed out.

In the middle of the night, Kent woke up. You lie in the middle of a puddle, no, that's not water, it's wine. His whole body smelled of alcohol, the pungent smell of alcohol made Kent a little more awake.

Kent picked up the phone and looked at it, it was two in the morning.

Looking at the mess I laid out, he was a little bored. After all, I have never drank beer or wine before, now I can only drink a little when I try to drink, most of the alcohol I drink will be vomited. That's why Kent gets drunk very quickly and wakes up very quickly.

What about waking up? Depressed, Kent left to wander the streets.

He walked up to the bridge over the river in the city, leaning against the railing, his heart mixed with emotions.

"If.. if I jump, will I be able to end this painful life?"