Stuck in you

The patient's mother had been asking the same question over and over for the past few minutes. But it was understandable given what had happened. The young lady held her shivering mother in her arms. She felt helpless and pathetic seeing her mother like this.

The doctor that approached them this time looked more experienced than the one before. Why were there two doctors taking care of the patient? Did the situation get worse?

Rachel didn't have time to pay attention to the patient until she was finished with her other patients.

She swung by the ICU to check on the patient before she got off duty. They told her that the patient was in a stable condition now.

Rachel took a look at the medical record and prescription prepared by Kevin. When she spotted something, she furrowed her eyebrows.

As soon as Rachel left the ward, the young lady from earlier had bought some food from outside.

When she saw Rachel, she was a little surprised. "Hello, doctor," said the sweet young lady. She tried to put on a brave smile for Rachel.

Rachel put her hands in her pockets and nodded at her. She looked at the bags that girl was carrying. "Did you go to buy dinner?"

The young lady nodded at Rachel and smiled sheepishly. "Have you eaten yet, doctor?"

"Not yet, I'm about to get off work," said Rachel. "I just checked on your sister, she's going to be fine."

Rachel saw how the young lady's mood changed. She even wept tears of joy. "Thank you so much, doctor!" she said as she wiped away her tears.

"You're welcome. Actually, I'm not her attending doctor."

The woman was confused and asked,

"Then who's my sister's attending doctor?"

"Your sister's attending doctor is Kevin Lin.

You should've met him before," answered Rachel.

"Oh, so he's the one in charge of my sister."

After saying goodbye to the woman, Rachel went back to her office. She decided to go to Kevin when she had time.

She had some problem with some prescribed medicine for the patient, and needed to discuss it with him.

He was the one in charge of the patient after all, not her.

The weather had been getting warmer lately as it was almost summer.

The twilight scenery of the Seaside Bridge was especially beautiful. From the bridge you could see a perfect view of the horizon where the sky and sea met in perfect harmony. The sunset dyed the heavens with a tinge of red and orange. It was a scenery that you would only see in oil paintings.

The scenery could have been perfect, if only there was no traffic jam, and it looked like it won't ease up anytime soon.

the sea, and carried with it a faint

a flock of birds gliding above the cars. He heard a woman's voice coming from the

was a woman wearing a short top adorned by flowers. Her belly button was exposed. She raised her left hand and kept cheering. Her hair danced freely with

take a picture of this!"

away. He had no interest in women like her, especially

been stuck in traffic for half an hour already. He didn't know how much longer it would take until this traffic jam was over. He looked at the

case he wouldn't be able to make it in time to

he could've sent her a message, his phone rang.

are you

on the

still pretty far from here. What

Jack glanced and the clouds and thought that Rachel might appreciate it. "Do you want to see

pisses him off. "Sure, let's see it," she said as she was fiddling with her pen to distract

able to make it in time. It would take him a little less than hour

on," Jack snickered He hung up and began

the horizon. Their silhouettes painted the now orange sky, and the sun had almost set. Jack

up, and

the photo and saw what Jack had sent

sky. There were birds roving towards the setting sun. And the sea...it was nothing

sent her another message. It read, "So, what do you think? I

he was showing off a precious gem that he found inside a cave. Rachel could almost imagine his animated

back herself from bursting into laughter

arms off, she sent him a reply.

down when he read her reply. It was much too plain than he expected. Did

waited for a few more minutes, expecting another message from Rachel, but she

didn't like the view as much as he thought she

girl with the colorful hair, and saw how much she enjoyed the view before them. He sighed and

a little bit later, Rachel took Mendes

they came back from

related to the patient that had been sent to the emergency department

pit in her stomach when she heard

heard that they were having a conflict amongst themselves. She didn't know why she suddenly thought of the

got close, she saw the lounge door. It was surrounded

Some families and patients came to see

them even sat on wheelchairs and peered inside,

security guards couldn't control the crowd anymore. There were far too many people to shoo away. If they shooed them away one by one, they would just put themselves at

Rachel. Where did they all come from, and why

the administrators of the hospital arrived and

until the crowd had been fully dispersed before

were afraid of

wasn't sure what had happened, but she felt relieved when she found out that