Later that, Heiley fell into sleep so, I transferred her into the bed and covered her body in a warm blanket. I even arranged her stuff and throw those shattered glass from the floor earlier. Her wallpaper is badly thorn off, so maybe I should fix that for her. I smiled at her before leaving the room and went straight to the living room. I sit on the couch and turned on the tv to watch some movie, Henderson passes by and stands in front the tv.
“What’s your deal?” I ask him, shrugging both of my arms and looked at seriously
“Fold the laundry young girl” He smiled. I pouted at him, staring at him so bad
“Don’t give me that look” he says while handing me over the basket of unfolded laundry
“But I’m still going to call Lucas!”
“Like how long that would a call takes than folding the laundry?” He sarcastically asks
I have no choice than to obey orders from this old fart. Besides, he’s been acting as my brother for 11 years or it can be a father. While doing my tasks, I opened my laptop and log in to my YouTube channel, checking for my previous vlogs that Heiley and I did. We reached into 5 million subscribers and I’m so proud of that. I have done folding the laundry and so I grab my phone, trying to contact Lucas. His phone keeps on ringing and never answered. I called him a lot of times and I bet I left him 6 missed calls already. I give up on calling him and placed my phone on the table, having thoughts of going to his place. I tried calling him back but then…
hey, this is Lucas please leave a message right after- *beep*
"oh hey, Lucas please answer my call, I know what happened and I'm here to help you guys out." I say sadly in the voice message. Heiley came downstairs and saw her walking towards me, she sat beside me and rest her head on my shoulders
"He didn't answer" She says softly with a sad smile on her face
"Hei look, I promise that you can get out of this situation, I just need a dinner with his parents and attend as your guardian. We had to settle this up" I tried to cheer her up
"His parents hates me, they hate seeing me “she groaned, rolled her eyes and glances on the other way.
"I understand they are rich but they can't treat you guys that way" I fended
"hmph... they hate me since I'm just a girl who lives in my best friend's house and earn money through social media"
"Fuck em' " I rolled my eyes and pursed my lips. My suddenly rings and when I grab it, it was Lucas calling over. I showed Heiley my phone and she seem really tense not for long I answered the phone
"Lucas"
-Sorry, but I have no choice other than breaking up with her
"Fuck you! What was it you say? 'I will never leave Heiley whatever happens' " I mimics his voice and became stern
-My parents-
"They made their choices Luke Ash, you decide on your own. Tell then I will have dinner with them at my restaurant this Friday and attendance is a must! " I say and hung up the phone, Heiley looked at me worriedly and that made me so sad. I widely opened my arms and gave her a tight and heartfelt hug. I never wanted to see her very sad, it was hard to make her happy after her parents died, it took me 2 years to pull her put of the blue.
After a few hours, I went to my room and wear a black turtleneck sweater inserted into a blue fitted jeans perfectly shape into my hips and a white moccasin shoes. I grab my black leathered handbag and put inside my white doctor coat and my stethoscope. I am Cardiac surgeon from a very huge hospital which is I've been working there for 2 years already, I experienced medical tourism at New Zealand and perform a heart surgery there but now I assigned to stay at the hospital because they might send me again back to New Zealand. I'm on my way to the hospital and told Henderson I'm leaving, I borrowed his silver hatchback car and drive all the way to the hospital. I spent 30 minutes driving on the road before I arrived at the hospital, I looked a place to park and make my way inside the hospital.
As I walk towards my office, a lot of nurses greeted me with a smile. I ride into an elevator with a lot of doctors with me, its relaxing music clears my mind and made me calm. The door opens and everyone wales outside and went to their separated ways. I opened the door in my office and walked in, I placed my handbag on my desk and grab the coat as I need to wear it. Someone knocked at the door and a woman in a nurse outfit came in
"Good morning doc-"
"SHUSH!" I interrupted her and gave her a fake smile. "Please, don't call me doctor" I frown
"oh sure. I was told to give hand this over to you Ms. Diaz" she hands over a lot of paperwork on the desk and my eyes are widen and forced to smile
"Wow, thank you" I sarcastically say, she left the room after giving me this papers to fill up. I grab my phone and open my Instagram account, another millions of likes to be seen. Suddenly, my phone rings and got a call from daddy so I immediately answer it
"Dad?" I say sadly
-How is my beautiful flower at Los Angeles?
"I-I'm doing great dad, I just got busy with work today" I response him so sadly, I was really sad that mom and dad got parted from work. Mom is in Paris and dad is in Mexico, knew that they had this argument and never even told me, thanks to Henderson for telling me about it, but I need to have courage to stay strong and won’t let this family torn apart.
-Remember not to stress yourself darlin okay?
"Yes dad" I response with a sniff as I started to cry a little
-Rose, are you crying?
“No, I’m fine dad”
-I’m really sorry for what happened darling, but I promise to make this right…
I haven’t given a response and just hung up the call since I never risen up my hopes anymore. My dad was drunk on that time and became aggressive, hit mom with a bottle and comatose for 2 days, and I did not even able to fly all the way to Paris because of the medical tour at New Zealand. My mom did not experience that once, but it’s been a lot of times already without me knowing.
I grab my phone and shut it off, sat on my office chair and massaging my head, it’s a bit boring in my office since I’m all alone until someone knocked the door, caught up all my attention. Another female nurse came in “Ms. Diaz, your patient has been prepared for the operation” She say
“Be right there” I response and she left after, I remove my coat and change into my operation outfit, and went straight to the operating room
As I perform the operation, I’m still thinking of the guy from the coffee shop earlier and Chase Wilson, like I had so many questions, ‘is rose guy Chase Wilson’s friend?’, ‘is he a regular customer at the coffee shop?’, ‘why is he giving me roses?’, ‘does he have any plans to meet me in person or just planning to make fun of me while I wonder so hard’. I’ll make sure to have those answers and also make sure to know him, sounds cringe and cliché but I think he watch too many fantasy stories to make such things like giving roses. After having a successful operation, I went outside the operating room and throw my gloves and any disposable outfit in my body.
“Good job Doc. Diaz” Mrs. Jones congratulates me. She is a cardiac surgeon like me but, she was serving this hospital for 10 years already. a 37-year-old doctor who I encounter first after the job hiring.
“Don’t call me doctor” I crossed my arms and squint at her. She laughs and smiled “okay…okay, well better get back to the emergency room” She wave and run away
I glance on the other way and had a little tour, I walked through the hallway and make my way towards the nursery to see new labored babies. I ride once again to the elevator with some doctors and when the door opens, everyone went to their separated ways, I walk a few more steps before arriving the NICU, I walk towards the glass where fathers watch they’re children in an incubator then I suddenly hear the door open and when I glance I saw a nurse
“Cheska, good to see you” She greeted while walking towards me. “Hi Stella” I response and glance back to the window
“Those newborn babies are cute isn’t it” She smiled
“it must be exhausting working on the other side of this glass”
“hmm… not really. Everytime you see those little kiddos, it’s like… you will never get exhausted. Taking good care of those babies on the other side of the glass, is such an honor” she opines with a smile and glee
“Its so different from a work of a surgeon. We mostly encounter surgeries and stuff, my most unwanted part is when I fail the surgery. Every family member of the patient puts all the blame to you”
“Have you experienced to fail the surgery?” as she asked me, I couldn’t look straight into her eyes and I’m terribly shaking after I had this trauma before
//FLASHBACK//
It was a long night, I spent 3 hours inside the operating room performing a surgery to a patient who has Coronary artery disease. What hurts more, the person I’ve been performing a surgery was my ex boyfriend’s brother. When I glance at the EKG monitor, his heartbeat turns into a flat line, I was shocked and couldn’t even move a muscle, I’m spacing out and my mind is majorly troubled. Staring at the other surgeons trying their best to bring back the patient’s the other surgeons shouting “CLEAR!” before using the defibrillator until…
“Time of death 11:20 p.m.” the doctor said and that’s when I fall into my knees, crying so bad, solemn tears rolled down into my cheeks with my chest tightens up that I could barely take a breath.
“We may fail, but we did all a great job fellow surgeon” another surgeon said
I heard some of the surgeons calling out my name and shaking me off, I still can’t hear them clearly and I’m still spacing out, I mindlessly just looking at their faces worried about me but I couldn’t move a muscle, then my vision started to blur as well but someone yelled my name and snapped me back to reality. I took a very deep breath and realize that I shed to many tears, my uniform was soaked wet and my hands as well. I looked at my co-surgeon and hugged her so tight, cried on her shoulders, aching so bad seeing the patient on the hospital bed, lying with no sort of heartbeat. After a while, I gather all my courage and faced my ex-boyfriend who was outside, waiting.
“Rose, how is he? Tell me he made it” He said worriedly.
I pursed my lips and took a deep breath, look straight into his eyes and couldn’t hold back my tears so it rolled down to my chin “We did all our best… I tried to- “I got cut off as he grabs the collar of my shirt and yelled at “YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED HIM!” he yelled straight into my face with his face really upset. I shed more tears, closing my eyes and faces on the other way after I got terrified
“I’m sorry…” I whimper. He tossed me away from him and punched me on the face, fell my knees on the ground and saw a drop of blood on the floor coming from my lips. I closed my eyes and sniffers, crying quietly on the floor. He pulled me back to him and pointed on me
“I shouldn’t trust you… YOU ARE A FAILURE SURGEON!” He hoarse and that hit me so bad, like a thousand of knives stab into my chest. He let pushed me away and drop on my knees again.
“YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE?! THIS GIRL IS A FAILURE! SHE COULDN’T EVEN DO HER JOB WELL!” He yelled out and caught every person’s attention in the hospital. I looked down and felt ashamed of myself, I clench my fist and cried it out, I don’t care how many tears fall into my chin already, its just so painful when someone you loved treated you like an animal.
“Here me out Rose, I never loved you, I’m just using you for fame and money and I AM PROUD OF IT” He said leaning close to me and smirked. I looked into his face and stared at him so badly, like for heaven’s sake I wanted to kill him
“How bullsh*t of you…” I whispered
“What did you say? Hmm?!” He avers, aggressively pressing my cheeks without him minding I’m really hurt. “YOU GOLD DIGGER!!” I shouted them he threw me down on the ground and bump my head on the floor. He stood up, kicking me in the stomach, feeling a cramp around my lower ribs and breathe hardly. I hear Heiley’s voice from a mile away screaming my name, I struggle to glance at her and saw her with Lukas, running towards me.
Heiley crouches and helped me out when my ex-boyfriend was about to escape, Lukas run into him, grabbing the collar of his shirt and punched in both side of his face “ You dared to touch one of them and I surely crush every part of bones!” Lukas hoarse at him, he soon let it go and my ex-boyfriend run away…
//END OF FLASHBACK//
“Cheska?” Stella called after I was spaced out
“Sorry, well yes… I failed once” I smiled sadly
Oh by the way, I should get going” Stella said her goodbye and left me
Not for long I hear this argument from the hallway and so I took a watch, I opened the door and went outside, it was Annica from the coffee shop. I observed there is this man and they’re both arguing with something, I don’t want to interrupt so I waited for their conversation, after a few minutes, the guy left her, so I had my chance to approach Annica
“Hey Ms. Cyrus” I greeted as I approached
“Rose? Hey, we meet again” She response
“Uhm… what brings you here?” I ask
“oh, its my brother who has an appointment in here. How about you?”
“I’m a cardiac surgeon in this hospital for 2 years. Well…can I know why your brother has an appointment with Doc. Larry?”
“Oh uhm… he had this CHD since he was 6, I presume you know what that is” She smiled. I looked down and still keeping my smile on “Well yeah, Coronary Heart Disease or also called Coronary Artery Disease”
“You’re right. Well look, I’m really in a rush right now but its nice talking to you anyway” She run off “Bye…”
I went all the way back to my office and grab my phone, texted Henderson to fetch me about an hour. I continuously did all the paperwork until an hour passes, I removed my coat and folded it, placed it in my locker. I filed all the papers and left my desk clean and organized. I closed my office and ride into an elevator, all the way down underground. As I arrived in the parking lot, I looked for Henderson and found him standing by his car that I borrowed earlier. I went inside the car and sat at the back. He seems really quiet right now so that made me really wonder.
“Hendy, why are you so quiet?” I ask. He ignored my word and started the engine and drive all the way home
Our trip is really quiet and boring, so I just lean my head by the window and looked outside. I notice that there are droplets by the window until then, the rain poured down, now I figured out that the rain is working along my mood. I notice Henderson is been driving the wrong way “Hendy, this isn’t the way home” he still ignored my word and continuously drive. I don’t know what’s got into him, so I ignored him as well. Maybe he’ll just stop by the grocery store that’s why he is driving the wrong way.
Now I doubted, we stop by a pet shop and I remembered we don’t even have a pet so I couldn’t help but to ask him again “This isn’t home Henderson” I hoarse. He glanced at me and smiled “out of the car” He ordered. I’m already confused already and also, I felt irritated, I did not complain and just went out of the car. The rain stopped already so its fine for me not to use umbrella. Henderson lead the way inside the pet shop, as we got inside, I already smell a mother’s milk. I look around and there are a lot of pet toys, beds, clothes, bowls etc. I heard Henderson asked the lady “Do you have any dog for adoption?” and that made my eyes widen, I run into him and asked, “What’s this about?”
“I am going to be lonely starting tomorrow since you and Heiley are going to work already” He smirked
“So you’re buying a dog for yourself?” I ask sarcastically
“Yeah…” He response and I pouted, spanking him with my bag “Haha, just kidding its our dog” He teased, but his laughing voice by the way is pretty deep, I don’t know if he’s being sarcastic or not
“Well, we have a lot a sir, follow this way please” the lady walked away and we followed, we went inside on the other part of the shop and saw a lot of dogs, cats, bunnies, birds, and fishes in cages and aquariums. Seeing those pets lit up to my face is like awiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
“You can choose any of them ma’am” the lady smiled
I started to look for a dog since I’m really into dogs when I was kid, I’m thinking for a chihuahua but I remembered that they stick to one owners, I also think of a pug but I remembered Heiley said it looks so sad that can also make her sad (it’s really cute though).
“You know that I also own that dog, right?” Henderson interrupted my search
“Well, I know. How about this husky?” I pointed
“Which one?”
“The black and white one”
“We are taking that one” Henderson told the lady, so as she opened the cage, she let me carry the puppy. It smells like milk, I caress my fingers into its fur and it’s so smooth
While Henderson is dealing with the papers, I went outside for a fresh air. The puppy keeps on licking my face which is it’s so adorable, it’s a bit heavy though, Henderson finally went outside and stand right beside me
“Any names for her?” He asks
“Hmm… Darling!” I squeal
“wutt”
So finally, we drive all the way home already, I’m sure Heiley would be glad after seeing Darling… and so we had a new family member
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Romance in Roses
Romance"Never waste the chances of spending time with someone" Kenji is diagnosed with Coronary Artery disease, but that doesn't stop him seeking for the love he deserve. She admired Rose, the woman who is a perfect wife material and also who is secretly...
