chapter 15

                                  1Then only the nurse came in. "Dr. Park has gone for an emergency operation. He has asked all of you to go to the general ward and look out for the patients", said she and left. Everyone got up. Zaini left her books there only and got up to follow the orders. She waited for all of them to leave so that she could follow them but they didn't move out. Zaini looked at everyone in confusion then she thought of leaving first. As soon as she came out of the department, she heard the laughter behind her. She ignored it and looked for the general ward and came in. Zaini started checking the reports of one of the patients. The patient and his acquaintances looked at her in curiosity.  Zaini tried to talk to them in English but they could not understand her. Then only the patient who was lying on the next bed said something in the Korean language and passed a lusty smile to Zaini."Excuse me?" said Zaini.He again said something in the Korean Language and laughed as if he was teasing her for something. Zaini's classmates who were standing by the door and peeking into the room, laughed hard. Zaini looked at them but could not understand anything. The patient got up from his bed and moved towards Zaini. He grabbed her hand and started pulling her aside. Zaini got scared and confused and she pushed the patient away.The patient fell and he got angry. He got up from the ground and again came forward to grab Zaini. But before he could do anything a boy came between them and he started talking to the patient in a harsh voice and made him go back to bed. Then the boy looked at Zaini and asked, "In which department are you posted?""Anaesthesiology", uttered Zaini. She could understand the cheap behavior of that patient but could not understand what made him behave like that."All the interns posted in Anaesthesiology department, report in the staff room. Immediately!!" shouted the boy looking at the interns standing by the door.Then he looked at Zaini and said, "Turn around""What?""Turn Around"Zaini turned around and the boy removed a piece of paper from her back and gave it to her. Zaini looked at the paper. There was a drawing of a male private part and something written in the Korean language. Zaini's heart sank. She knew she would be bullied but this was huge. She was humiliated in public. Her eyes got wet and she looked around. Everyone was looking at her. Zaini could not bear the stares and ran out of the department. She came out of the hospital and cried out. She ran towards her room with the piece of paper in her hand.                                 2There was no one in the flat. She looked at her cell phone to call someone but then she threw away the cell phone on the bed."Whom can I call? Prague, my parents, my brother? They will panic and will ask me to go back. Huma? She must be in the exam", thought Zaini.She kept on crying. "Why did they do this to me? What kind of bullying is this?? This is humiliation. What if that boy had not interfered? What would have happened?" said Zaini while crying.After Zaini had cried her heart out, she grabbed her cell phone. She checked on the web what was written on the paper and it made her cry even more. "I want to fucked up by you Koreans," it said.After a while, Zaini was filled with rage. Prague's words were ringing in her ears. He warned her about the bullying part and she had adamantly said that she would complain against them."I will complain against them. I am a foreigner to this country and they can not misbehave with me", thought Zaini.Zaini got up from her bed. "But who did it? I did not come close to them the entire time. Someone needs to stand next to me to paste it on my back", thought Zaini.Zaini went back to the trail of incidents that happened before she came into the general ward. "Ah! I talked to that nurse. She was standing next to me!! But why? Why would she do that?" thought Zaini."Whatever!! Whoever has done this, is wrong. I will not bear it. I will make them suffer too", thought Zaini and came back to the hospital. She went to the administration department. She asked the receptionist sitting outside to let her meet the Principal. Zaini was asked to wait a while and then she was allowed to meet the Principal. "Please sit, Miss Zaini""Thank you, Sir", said Zaini and sat on the chair in front. "Yes, tell me. Is there any problem?" asked the Principal."Yes Sir, I was humiliated in public today in your hospital. I need the people behind this to be punished as hard as possible!!" said Zaini in anger and passed the piece of the paper to the Principal.He looked at the paper and the lines appeared on his forehead. "Can you please elaborate on what has happened and what is this paper?" asked the Principal.Zaini narrated the whole incident. "Hmm... I am sorry that you have to go through this. I will take immediate action and find the culprit. Please calm down and focus on your work here", said the Principal."How will you find the culprit?" asked Zaini."That you leave on us. We have CCTV cameras everywhere. You may go now", said the Principal.Zaini looked at him with suspicious eyes but she could do nothing else and she came out of the office.As she came out she saw the same boy standing outside the office. His eyes met hers and he breathed out in stress. He went near her and said, "You should have waited before making the complaint. I know whatever happened was not right but there was no need to take this to the Principal. Such things happen. There was no need to exaggerate things."Zaini could not believe what she heard.