Bed Partners

Ideas

(DAYU)

"Should I gave you back the tapes?" I asked Dra.Yen.

"Do you want to give them back to me?" She asked back. I feel irritated at her. "Why do you answer my question with a question too? Can't you just give me a straight forward answer?"

"You want a straight forward answer?" Dra.Yen smothered a smile after asking that.

"I hate you..." I groused.

She smiled at me. "I will give you a straightforward answer. You are a client, Dayu. You are paying me. I ask you what you want because I am obligated to make you happy because you are a client."

"So after all is said and done...our relationship is based on money?" I felt bad about that.

Dra.Yen shook her head, "Of course not. In my line of profession, we cannot help but feel a closeness to our clients. As you know a person, you learn his or her reasons for doing things and for acting like how he or she acts. We can sympathize and sometimes even see ourselves in our clients. Feeling same emotions in the same situation, making the same decisions. We are humans too, after all."

"So you like me," I smiled at her teasingly.

She smiled back, "Yes. I like you, a lot, Dayu."

"Not because you know Qing and you know how he feels about me? Do you like me because of my sparkling beautiful personality and soul? Right?"

"What sparkling beautiful personality and soul?" She frowned.

I winced, then laugh. "Yeah, I know that one is a stretch too far. Thank you. For liking me..."

"Do you like to keep the tapes? Have you finished listening to them? All seven tapes?" She asked.

"Yes," I nodded. "And yeah, it was...I," I sighed. I felt tears gathering in my eyes, "I want to keep them. Maybe until Qing got his memory back. I like how he describe me...his voice..."

I feel like until Qing got his memory back, he won't talk about me that way again. The way he talked about me to Dra.Yen.

I feel...loved. In his tone. In his words. The way he phrase them when he talked about me. They are filled with adoration and love.

"Dayu...what are you feeling?" Dra.Yen put a box of tissue in front of me.

"I feel frustrated." I plucked some tissues from the box. "That I won't hear those words from him again. Not while he can't remember me. I wish...I wish he told them to me before the accident. I wish, I heard them from him. From his lips." I sniffed loudly. "He told me he loved me but...I had no idea how much. That for him...I am his miracle. And that I make him feel...so much..."

"I wish I could show you what he looks like when he talks about you, but I don't videotape my clients. For their safety." Dra.Yen said. "But I assure you, Dayu. I never saw Qing's eyes come alive before, until he started loving you. You are right, you made him feel. You make him feel alive. And for that, I want to thank you. You changed him. He has his family and friends but there is only one person who forced Qing to feel and it's you. Qing is a kind of person that can change the world, that is great. But do you know what is greater than that? Who is more amazing than a great person like Qing? A person who can change a person that can change the world. And that is what you are Dayu. You can be a driving force behind a great man and not everyone can claim that. You can. You have. Changed him."