Hopelessly In Love

Chapter 2 -- When the Love Meet Again

Chapter 2 -- When The Love Meet Again

9 YEARS LATER...

"GOOD MORNING DR, EVLAN." Nurse Maria said, standing at her front desk station of Willows' Children Hospital with folders of patients' information in her hands and her black hair tied in a bun. She's been working in this hospital for about ten years while I've only been a doctor for two and a half.

She handed me the folders, "There's a new patient that'll be here in about an hour. His name's Julian Augustus, seven years old, Positive for ALL."

I placed my white purse on the counter and reviewed the folder. As usual, the nurses gave me work to do before I put on my white coat. Apparently, Justin had experienced some back pains, stomach swellings and facial swellings around his eyes. ALL stands for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. His enlarged spleen and liver caused him to lose appetite. He's been transferred here by a doctor who was my mentor during medical school from another hospital.

Honestly, reading this type of report stirred deep in my heart. I mean what have these innocent children done to this world that they have to suffer from such sickness? It gets me every time. It became a reminder that the world we live in is unfair.

After reading the rest of the information, I looked up to Maria, "How's Diandra, Maria?" Diandra is Maria's fifteen-year-old daughter who always waited till' her mom finished her work by the waiting room. She's such a sweet young lady. Ever since her alcoholic father left them, she's been living cautiously. Since it's only both of them, Diandra wanted to make sure her mom get home safe.

"Ever since you got her the volunteer job, that's all she's been talking about. Last night, she told me she wanted to become a doctor like you, a doctor full of love." She smiled brightly, "I'm so proud of her."

I grinned, "Diandra and her play with words."

"Indeed. Oh, how did the date go?" She asked excitedly.

I frowned, "What date?"

"With Dr. Thomas. on Friday."

A date? Oh, yeah. He did ask me to go on a date with him but I told him I had dinner plans with my mom. He's also a doctor in this hospital, but he's the surgical doctor and I'm not. He's been hinting me by touching my hands and staring at me from his office whenever I played with the kids at the family room which was right in front of his office. Honestly, I felt rather uncomfortable in his presence. Not the good kind like the ones when I'm with-- NOO, don't even think about saying his name.

"I didn't go on a date. I don't like him." I simply put it that way, which was the truth but Maria doesn't believe me.

"Shut up! A lot of nurses and doctors gushed about him." Maria got closer and whispered, "His dark hair and shimmering green eyes." She laughed and took a step back. "It's a wonder how many things you can hear in the changing room."

"Yeah,"

"Honey, you need to go out and find someone. Kristin told me you haven't even gone on one date during college. It doesn't even have to be Thomas." She's right, starting a relationship wasn't in my book of life during college. More like a massive NO NO.

I checked the clock on the wall, 10:20 a.m. I have a couple of minutes to check on my little children and wait for Justin to come. "Maria, I'm gonna go. I have to make rounds. Checking some minions along the way." Minions are referred to the graduate students in residence. New ones just came yesterday and had a hard time adapting to the environment of the hospital from a classroom.

"Alright," She went back doing her work.

As I walked through the colorful hallway, I could hear the laughter of children from the family room where the other children patients are playing with their parents. It's beautiful. When I became a doctor, I've seen people loving each other in ways that I wouldn't have known if I hadn't become one. To be in a situation where your child was diagnosed with cancer can be frightening and depressing, but these parents have grown to be the legs to support their child no matter what. Sometimes during my lunch time, I would sit by the hospital's playground watching them play, thinking of how one day I would have children of my own. That idea was always crushed when my mind goes back to him.