Me After Meeting You

Only later did Amber hear about what sort of problem Susan was dealing with.

It was Saturday, and Amber, as planned, had met up with the head nurse and some of her colleagues to all go over to her mother’s house together. Because her parent’s house was in the country, the head nurse and Amber’s other coworkers had searched around before hand and found that there was a reservoir nearby. Thus, they had animatedly decided to go fishing and brought their gear with them.

The weather that day wasn’t bad. After a long streak of cold days, they had been rewarded with a rare, sunny one. As her other colleagues went to climb the small hill by the reservoir, the head nurse walked up to Amber and began to gossip. “Dr. Susan got a divorce.”

“Hmm?” Amber didn’t react in time.

“Dr. Susan from the gynecology department. You haven’t forgotten her, have you?”

“Oh, I remember.” As Amber said this, she assembled her fishing rod and then asked, “What happened to her?”

“She got divorced,” the head nurse repeated with a bemoaning tone as she looked at the lure in the water with her hands in her pockets. “Apparently, she found out that her husband was having an affair. Originally, she wanted to forgive him, and the man was also willing to work on their relationship again. However, two months after that, Dr. Susan ultimately decided to get a divorce.”Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

Amber didn’t know what to say, so she nodded and merely said, “I understand.”

The head nurse was very dissatisfied with her reaction. “That’s it?”

“Yes. What else can I say?”

“You’re really boring.” The head nurse pouted.

Wary of spoiling the trip, Amber followed along with the head nurse’s wishes and asked, “Is she alright?”

“Perhaps. It’s just that she’s gotten really thin. I’m telling you. When you saw her that day, that’s not at all what she used to look like. I started working at the hospital around the same time that she did, and she used to be so pretty tall and well developed.

However, the present her is, gosh, barely recognizable. Apparently, her husband started his affair because she was too busy at work, and became entangled with a young girl from his office … aish!”

After the head nurse finished summarizing the gossip, she let out a loud sigh. “That’s why, nowadays, even being a doctor is a high risk profession as you have to worry about both your patients and their family prodding you whenever they think that you’re not doing a good job, and also about what’s going on with your own family.”

Amber smiled. When the head nurse noticed this, she glanced at her. “You should pay more attention! I’m telling you, the three major problems of modern doctors are dying, getting injured, and having an unfaithful partner! While you’re young, you have to learn to train your man to be faithful. Don’t think that he’s treating you well just because he brings you a healthy lunch every day.

While your emotions are strong, he’ll be willing to submit to you at every turn, but you have to keep in mind what might happen later! Aren’t you a psychiatrist? You have to keep him continually entranced. He needs to believe that he won’t be able to live if he leaves you, that you’re the only fairy in this world, and that everyone else is a worthless hussy.”

Amber couldn’t help laughing loudly at the head nurse’s last remark.

But the head nurse was still talking. “Don’t laugh. I’m really being serious here. You don’t know how devious those little hussies are many doctors at our hospital are actually suffering from this.”

At this time, a young, warm, and male voice spoke up from beside them. “Um, this miss? Actually, even if Amber doesn’t hypnotize me, I would still think that she’s the only fairy in this desolate world.”

Upon hearing this, the head nurse’s expression looked as though she had swallowed a whole duck’s egg. It was only quite a while later that she recovered and started laughing dryly.

Clearly, the man who had recently been bringing Amber lunches was standing right behind them. She secretly pinched Amber and greeted him. “Hello, it’s nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too.” Calvin was also a bit embarrassed, as he wasn’t here alone. Standing beside him was one of the ‘young hussies’ the head nurse had mentioned.

Amber felt the urge to laugh well up within herself again. Instead of giving in, she stood up and nodded politely to the girl. “Hello.”

Melody was expressionless.

After everyone had greeted each other, the head nurse snuck off to find her colleagues, extremely embarrassed. Calvin went to get something from the car, and Amber took out a fishpole to teach Melody how to fish.

She was actually the one who invited Melody. Just a day ago, Amber had suddenly received a message from Melody on chat. “Are you going somewhere this weekend?”

Although Amber was surprised, she still answered, replying back, “Yes.”

And then Melody asked very straight forwardly, “Can I come too?”

What else could Amber say? Nothing but “Alright.” Anyways, the head nurse and her colleagues would be there too, so Melody’s presence or absence wouldn’t be a problem.

Additionally, Calvin had mentioned that Melody seemed to be under mental duress, which was another reason why Amber had asked him to bring her along.

Because Melody lived quite a distance away, Calvin had been a bit late since he had to pick her up. Amber didn’t think that, just as they arrived, they would hear the head nurse lecture her about taming potential husbands.

Melody didn’t care too much about what the head nurse had said, and Amber didn’t bother spending time explaining it either because there was no need. Instead, Amber focused on carrying out a very simple test with Melody, asking her to put the fish bait on the hook.

Actually, this should have been a very simple task, as one merely had to roll the fish food into small balls and then string the hook through it until the sharp end pierced through slightly. This way, the food wouldn’t float unnaturally in the water, and it would also be easier for the fish’s mouth to catch on the hook.

Because she knew that Melody would be coming, Amber had specially chosen fish food that wasn’t very sticky and thus would require some patience to knead and rub into the right shape. Melody tried it twice and failed. On the third time, as Amber was about to explain it again, she threw the fishpole down out of frustration. “I quit!”

And then she got up and left.