The Remnants of Our Love | LingOrm (LadaEarn)

Chapter 12

It was Monday and the Doctor had to go to work again. Earn's scandal still did not die down, and Fahlada was still missing her little one. Her friends decided to bring her for her favourite food during their lunch break.

"E Lada. Didn't I tell you not to trust women so easily?" Bow told her friend.

"E Bow. Do you have the right to say that. Out of everyone, we know you are the worst woman to trust in terms of love. You're dating two women at the same time." Tan scolded his friend.

"But Lada knew what happened last time, yet still chose to be with her again." Bow complained.

"E Lada. Are you sure the scandal is true? I mean from what you told me, it's hard to believe that a woman like her would date a guy. What even happened back then?" Prem asked.

"Well. We were together for three years with no problem. Guys and girls would come to her, but she didn't show anything. But after she had to visit her mom in Bangkok, she suddenly decided to break up with me. She said she had someone else. I was so heart broken that I couldn't think of anything." Fahlada recalled the breakup.

"All of a sudden she just had a man? There were no signs of anything?" Tan and the other two were confused.

"Yep. We spent every hour that were free together. She even moved in with me." Fahlada explained.

"What if she made that up? Don't you ever think that her parents found out about your relationship and told her to break up with you? It's not a coincidence that she changed after her visit to Bangkok." Prem tried to make sense of it.

"Yeah Meung. Like E Prem said, what if that was the case?" Tan added.

"But that does not explain the recent scandal." Fahlada reminded her friends.

"The scandal is not true, I can testify." A voice came behind the group of doctors. It was Ingfah, the Actress' close friend and Petra.

"You're her friend. Of course you will defend her." Fahlada scoffed.

"Because I'm her friend, I will defend her from something that she did not do. Plus, do you not see it? Our group of friends and your group of friends, we have one thing in common. We like to flock with those alike." Ingfah pushed back.

"If you don't want to listen to Ingfah, you have to at least listen to me." Petra spoke up.

"What do you even have to say? That she has been meeting with more men than this?" Fahlada stated with anger.

"Lada. I was about to say that none of this is true. She has no involvement with any of them except work. Well, she is close with one of them." Petra explained.

"You see, she's close with one of them. You're a reporter, you will know of all the relationships she had.

"No. What Petra was about to say is that one of them is her older brother, Khun Ae. The others were just from projects. I was there. Trust me when I say she can never date men. That's why we're friends in the first place." Ingfah shut down the thoughts that Fahlada had.

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The conversation from her lunch break stuck with her. It made her think if everything she had thought was wrong all along. If their relationship was broken up by the same reality of society.

All of a sudden Ros announces her next patient, Susie. She was not happy to see the Actress' manager, but she had to be professional.

"Hello Dr. Fahlada. It's nice to see you again." Susie says with a big smile.

"Hello Khun Susie. Why are you here today?"

"I just wanted to get some treatments. It took me a long time to get an appointment with you."

Fahlada just smiled.

"I am getting so stressed these days. I haven't rested and my Actress is a mess." Susie complained.

Fahlada was still quiet.

"Why does she have to go through all that? I've had sleepless nights trying to clear her name. Someone powerful must be behind this." Susie could not shut up and Fahlada was starting to get irritated.

"Khun Susie. If you could keep your private conversations to yourself, that would be nice. Just let me know what treatments you want today." Fahlada finally bursted.

"No Doctor. I'm telling you. I don't know what is going on with you and N'Earn. But let me tell you. Ever since she had come under my care, she had never talked with anyone, nonetheless a guy."

*music cue: เธอไม่ยอมปล่อยหรือฉันไม่ยอมไป (You Won't Let Me Go, Or I Refuse to Leave?) by Lydia