42.Illusions

"Nora! Bring the IV drop." I said to the nurse and checked the patient vitals.

"No.Not the injection. They are..." The patient who was the girl  in her late teens yell with scared looked and teary eyes.

"Ms.Ryon you don't need to be scared. She will do it without causing any pain. Just lay down." I tried to clam her and made her lay down on the bed.

"No, no please. Uh...can you ask my boyfriend to come over? He might be somewhere around the reception." She pleaded with a puppy eyes and I asked Nora to call him.

"Look I have asked to call him and now I need to inject you. You're weak and you shouldn't speak much. This will help you to sleep soundly." I tried to reason out to inject her but she started crying like a child.

I do not want to inject her with a force but if she didn't take the IV then her condition will get worse so I was about to inject her when a hand harshly pull me away and I stumbled upon Nora who caught me at the right moment.

"Doctor, are you okay?" Nora asked me with a concern look and I nodded my head regaining my composure.

"D-Derek! What have you done?" I hear the girl yell at her boyfriend who seemed to be some type of gangster with a bulky body, tattoos and piercings on his face and visible areas and the blood shot red eyes but look slightly mature than her.

"Seren, baby. Are you okay? Did she made you cry?" The boy said with a venomous glare at me and I shivered with the amount of hatred shone in his eyes.

"No! She is the doctor and how could you push her?" The girl name Seren get mad at her boyfriend and the boy sigh glaring at Nora and me.

"Excuse me. And Nora pass the IV. Now her boyfriend is here she wouldn't have any problem." I ignored the guy's menacing glare and pass by him to inject her.

This time the girl didn't protest nor winced when the syringe made contact but let a single drop of tear to fall off her eyes.

And that one sound of her made the boy violent and again his hand was on my arm with a harsh grip but he got pull away by someone else.

"Man! This is hospital and if you don't want your girl to be treated here then you shouldn't have bring her here. She was just doing her job and you were assaulting her." Bell shouted at him gaining other people attention.

"Doctors work is to treat patients not to make them cry. Can't you see she was hurting her?" The boy said with a pain voiced looking worriedly at his girl who was feeling sleepy due to the medicine.

"If we get sick then we will feel pain. And look that little pain help her to feel better." Bell retorted giving me a concerned look and glare at the boy.

"Still..." The boy was raising his voice which was causing the sound pollution disturbing the other patient so I interrupt him.

"Seren! You should sleep now and few hours later we will come to check on you. And Derek call her parents." I ordered making him more pissed but before he could creat another scene I pull Bell away from the emergency room and walk towards the cafe ignoring her protest to let go.

"Relax Bell. He was just looking out for his girl." I said with a bored tone and left her hand when we were alone at the hallway.

"No! That rude boy should be punished. How could he push you? And you didn't even protest! What's the matter choco?" Bell asked in a concerned voice and made me to turn towards her.

"He love her so much that he couldn't see her hurt. That's why I didn't retorted and I'm okay." I mentally roll my eyes when stare at me searching for my eyes to detect the lie.

"Love? From when my choco started taking about love and I know you're not okay so stop pretending." Bell pleaded me with her eyes to tell her everything but I averted my gaze looking outside the glass window.

"Why would I pretend?" I mumbled acting as if I'm in love with the outside surrounding.

"You can smile to show us that you're doing fine. But I know how much you're hurt. That day if your mom hadn't stop us then uncle and me would have kill that jerk of your husband. He...Oh! Shit. I..." Bell bit her lip when she realized what she had just said.

"I didn't want to take that jerk....oh! Choco. I'm so...pissed." Bell muttered under her breath and gave a sorry look.

That evening I loose all my senses and I crashed at Bell's apartment. And seeing me in that horrific situation she got so mad that I need to call mom and tell her everything.

My mom is a calm person unlike my dad who became so furious that he was about to sue him but my mom put some senses on him that he let all his anger out on my brother who was also the victim of that jerk's lie.

Except mom, Bell, dad and Syong were so furious which made it even worse for me to overcome the emotions. But with the help of mom, I came back to my senses the another day and live my life like I used to do.

It's wasn't easy at first but now I know how to pretend. If I don't smile or even zone out, they would try their best to cheer me up and that's what I needed. They're the once who care for me and would never hurt me.

"Ugh...what I'm saying? You're up for tonight party." Bell said changing the topic with a cheerful tone.

"I don't thin-" I was saying but she cut me off.

"Choco! You can't missed Terys birthday party. It's been long you haven't lose your guard down so now tonight we will rock the party. You're coming with me to my home and we will join them at Meckon club. Don't worry about dress. I have got a sexy dress for you which will make every guy wanna dance with you let alone talk." Bell squealed not hearing my protest.

I gave up with a loud sigh as the other were looking our way and I couldn't win over her. Sometimes I think why I'm even friend with her and let alone call her my bff.  But she knows how to make me happy even though she makes me mad most of the time.

"Cause you love me and we will definitely rock." Bell yelped pulling me into a hug and then the rest of the day end as usual with me checking out the patients.

We left the hospital two hour earlier to get ready and as Bell had said she dragged me to her home and do my makeup making me look like a whole different person with smokey eyes, dark lipstick and curly hair.

And the dress made me look sexy showing all my curves and even though the dress was shorter than the dresses I normally wear, it was not so revealing.

And I glare at her when she told me that how could that jerk resist me when she want to pounce on me. Also, my bff has gone crazy and it's cause of Alex, her boyfriend who is insane like her. They made a insane couple and tonight I need to bear them.

"Babe! You guys ready." Alex shouted from the living area and Bell go running towards him and peck him on his lips when he complement her.

And it's good that Alex is not like other guys she had dated and except his craziness he is a gentleman.

"Look who comes looking sexy as hell?"Alex said with a playful smirk and place a kiss on my hand.

"You don't look bad yourself." I said with a playful smile and walked to the sofa to grab my phone.

"Babe! Don't I look handsome? Your friend here hurt my feelings. I had tried 12 outfits and came with it. I fucking mess my whole wardrobe to impress her and she just said good." Alex pouted while making hurt face at Bell and I shake my head messaging mom that I would be late.

"No baby. You look breathtaking and see I'm having problem breathing. It's just she can't handle when someone calls her hot." Bell coo engulfing him in a hug and their craziness starts making me cringe.

I face palm myself when I listen to their conversation the whole ride and so wanted to jump out of the car but control myself thinking of making her pay.

Only if she had let me bring my car then my eyes wouldn't be hurt from constant rolling. And they tried their best to not to make me mad but I ended up boring holes on their head from the backseat as I was a third wheeler on their perfect night.

Gosh my bff laugh so much that it made my ear hurts and it would end after a while. A little longer I muttered under my breath and looked out of the window.

When we enter the club, I spotted Terys immediately with some boys and I sigh in relief thinking that I won't be alone with the crazy couple and head towards him to wish him happy birthday.

Terys is Alex friend who also happened to be my classmate in high school so we are quite close and I also see Luim with them who gave a huge smile when he saw me. I too return the smile but didn't talk much as his face remind me of certain words which still made me fell sick.

"Cheers! Birthday Boy. Let's hit the floor." Alex screamed gulping the vodka in a go and pulled the boys to the dance floor who were totally wasted as him.

I just have a beer and sat on the stool on the bar seeing my friends dance like wild animals. Bell insisted me to dance but this time I didn't let her win and enjoy sipping my drink while mentally rolling my eyes at my bff antics.

"Why are you sitting here alone beautiful?" I hear a slurry voice said from my left and I looked at the side to find a man in a suit giving me a lustful look which made me feel disgusted.

"Why do you care?" I said in a bored tone sipping my beer giving him a look that said I'm not interested but that idiot make it worse when he put his hand on my thigh.

"Your hands seems to.....need some exercise." I muttered twisting his arm and he winced in pain.

"Ssh...how pathetic? You can't even resist the pain and came to hit on me. You asshole." I shouted pushing him away and then I saw glimpse of someone whom I have been cursing a lot in my mind.

The one who had made me feel pain without doing anything and made me feel something beautiful yet painful at the same time?

Six months seemed a long time to forget everything but the more the time had pass the more pain I had felt. I so wanted to forget every moment I had with him but my heart misses him so much that I have illusion about him a lot these days which made me to think I'm losing my sanity.

So I shake my head giving a disgusted look at the bastard lying on the floor and the bouncers drag him out while punching him to bring some sense on him.

I ignored the looks people were giving me and glanced around to find my friends still dancing without any care of me. It might be the effect of alcohol and the ear piercing music and it's good that they didn't notice anything.

Then the bar tender gave me a knowing smirk and taking the last sip I hit the dance floor suddenly feeling hot and paranoid of being watched.

The dance floor was not so crowded so I sway my body enjoying the loud music and get lost in that moment without care of the whole.

After a while I feel a hand on my waist which made me alert but I didn't bother to snap at the person whose front was pressed on my back but in a good way and an unknown warmth spread through my body making me to feel relax.

Then the hand pull me dangerously close to his front and I inhaled his cologne which smell of aftershave and mint with a faint chocolate.

"You would be death of me." The man whispered making me shiver and the feeling was familiar and so was his voice but I shrugged it off swaying my body and enjoyed the feel of his body against mine.

I then saw Bell looking at me with wide eyes and mouthed Shuab but I brushed it off and turn out to see the jerk himself.

"Six months make you look even more sexier. And Don't blink your eyes? I'm real, my love." He chuckled seeing me clueless expression and I couldn't believe my goddamn eyes. How can't I differentiate between illusion and the real one?

Why I'm pissed yet happy to see my illusion become real?! I'm definitely loosing my senses.