Placing a deep kiss on her cheek and wished her well.
Bethany walked out of the room Bethany remembered to give her friend a smile phone so that she could keep the communication with her. Taking the phone, Eva’s smile was caught a glimpse of and appreciating her friend for her kind gesture, Bethany told her not to mention and she left the room and Eva abruptly stepped out of the bed just to see how lucky her friend was and smiling through the window, she said to herself that Bethany deserved to be happy as she is a girl with a heart of gold. She watched them leave and decided to do something in the house before leaving for her interview.
All through their journey to the hospital, Bethany could not help but stare at Duke and her sadness disappeared a little every time she looked at him and he smiled at her. Her heart had come to accept him openly and she was so happy about him helping her and her mother.
They drove some more, and when they finally arrived at an entrance with a large building, Duke turned the wheel to the left and the car went into another direction, making its way to underground parking. The place was well built at and with the big red cross on it, Bethany could already tell that it was a hospital so she slides her head on one side and looked at it more properly.
Duke stopped the car and stepped down to open the car door for Mrs. Marvin and Bethany but she had already come out and unlocked the door for her mother. Going out of the car, she asked Duke whether that was the hospital they were to come and nodding his head positively, Duke answered her question.
“Let’s go inside Mrs. Marvin, the doctor should be waiting for us now”, his voice was gentle but the look on her face showed that she was nervous to the core.
” Mommy, you do not need to be afraid okay, I am here with you and Duke too will not let anything happen to you. Once we confirm what we have come here for, then we will know the next step to take”, Bethany told her mother and her words took away the uneasy feeling she was feeling inside of her.
Telling them to pave the way as she follows, they all began to move towards the hospital to the reception desk to meet with the doctor. Duke had already booked an appointment so it was easy to get past the receptionist as she checked out his name on the desktop that was in front of her.
“Okay you may go in now, I trust that you can find your way around?”, the nurse asked and Duke nodded with a smile. Heading to the office, Mrs. Marvin’s heart could jump out of her chest and the heat that she was feeling, could not be understood by anyone. The truth that did not make her sleep the whole night, gave her a lukewarm sensation that she could not bear to ignore. Yes, she had been to that hospital before and the corridor leading to the doctor’s office was still the same, but this time she was going back there for a different.
They were had reached in front of Dr. Costas office and Duke turning his gaze to Mrs. Marvin, asked her to breathe before he could open the door. She did what he told her to and with a smile, he caressed her hair and knocked on the door before pushing it open.
” Good morning Mr. Costa”, Duke let out offering him a handshake.
“Good morning Mr. Smith, how are you today?”, I am well.
Dr. Costa looking at Mrs. Marvin welcomed her once more into his office with her daughter and asked how she was doing since the last time that they had met, she could not answer as sadness had taken all over her face.
” You all should sit down and make yourself comfortable”.
Duke pulled out a chair for Mrs. Marvin as well as Bethany before taking his seat. When Dr. Costa saw that they were seated comfortably, he welcomed them again and without further ado, he inclined on one side and pulling out a document from a drawer down his table, he brought out a file that he put on the table.
“These are the reports that we made multiple times before you called to ask for an urgent donor”, he said handing over the document to Duke. He took the documents the opened them but Bethany was feeling so impatient so she stood up on her feet and went closer to Duke to see what was written to it. Every test that was conducted showed negative and her heart was in good shape.
Taking out the echography from the other file, Dr. Costa showed them the state of her heart and it was doing okay, pumping blood like it normally had to.
” Do you mean to say that I am a fine doctor?”, Mrs. Marvin consulted with tears already falling out of her eyes without even catching a glimpse of the diagram.
“Yes you are very fine, except for the fact that your chest had developed some pain which I guess is caused due to overthinking and stress that you were going through all these years thinking that you had a heart issue”, the doctor explained.
” So, what can be done now for the problem that my mom is having?”, Bethany asked feeling all happy but sad about the situation but the doctor who had already discussed with Duke about everything, responded to Bethany and told her not to worry as everything was under control, he took out a paper bag of drugs and infections that she had to take for some time and everything will be okay.
Mrs. Marvin’s case had been examined thoroughly and all the solutions to it were established. Duke thanked him for his endeavor in opening their eyes about the truth and asking Dr. Costa whether he had received his package, he let out a smile as he thanked Duke for keeping to his words.
“Thank your doctor and I am glad that we still have few people like you who cherish their jobs and not the money that comes from it”, Bethany muttered. Her mother’s dress was soaked with tears but they could not at whether they were tears of joy or sorry as she kept was neither smiling sad but her face was just neutral.
Bethany went down to her feet by her, saying that she had to celebrate because she was not going to die but her mother turning her head to face her, asked what wrong she had ever done to Dr. Travis to deserve such inhumane treatment from him, and Duke touching by on the shoulder said,
” You do not need to worry Mrs. Marvin, as that is what we are going to soon find out”.
Taking out his phone from his pocket, he dialed through his call log to notify his friend to meet him at the address that he had sent to him. Bethany and her mother did not know what was going on so asking who he had called some seconds ago, he informed them not to be worried as everything was under control.
Wishing Dr. Costa a splendid day, Mrs. Marvin thanked him so much and wished him to continue with the good works that he was doing. But there was something different about him from the moment that Mrs. Marvin had entered his office. He seemed to be staring at her and feeling her pain so much and Duke looking at Bethany, notices that there was something extra about the way he was treating Mrs. Marvin.
“Hope to see you soon for your check-up”, his words came out, and listening to those, Duke let out a smile and they all left his office.
Walking out of the office, Mrs. Marvin kept on looking behind as she felt the connection that she had back there when Dr. Costa held her hands. Bethany noticing that her mother’s neck was only focused behind while they were walking in front, was forced to ask whether she had forgotten something in his office.
Her question was so funny that Duke almost laughed out but thinking back to the situation that they were in, he told Mrs. Marvin not to worry as she could always come back to the hospital anytime time felt pain or something that was not going on well with a part of her body.
Bethany realized what Duke was trying to do so she slapped his hand giving him a treating stare. They had reached the parking lot so Duke proposed to rapidly do drop them back home as he needed to go to Dr. Travis’s office to make a statement to his bigger boss.
” No way Duke, I have to be at the hospital because I need to look at his face while asking him the questions that I have on my mind”, she said but as Duke was trying to persuade her to enter the car, Mrs. Marvin spoke out slowly speaking one’s mind that she wanted to go see Dr. Travis.
It was clear that she had a lot to say so Duke could not stop her from going there. Walking closer to her, Duke made an effort one last time to persuade her from going there, but it seems like her kind was all made up. Not having anything to say again, Duke told Bethany to enter the car and he opened the door for Mrs. Marvin, ensuring that she was well seated before closing it to go start the car.
Eva was dressed in a simple way for the interview and her hopes were high. She was ready to reap that job because she needed it. Eva looked at herself in the mirror as she was looking better. Her face was gradually brightening up too and it was time for her to move on.
She was confident and with the work experience that she was having, her chances of securing the job were high.
“Today is my lucky day, thus I have to put in my best”, she told herself.
Glenn had been observing her for looking at herself in the mirror and without knowing what she was doing, she took stood behind her and was rehearsing everything that Eva was doing. Rachel walked into the room to ease herself, saw Glenn doing everything that Eva was doing and not being able to hold herself back, she burst out laughing so hard that the sound of her laughter had attracted Eva to turning in fright.
Watching Rachel laughing so hard, she was forced to asker what was funny and Rachel pointing out to Glenn that had stopped what she was doing l in a confused state, left Eva thinking that Rachel had gone crazy.
” I am sorry Eva but Glenn was mimicking you all this and you could not see her because she was standing right behind you”, she spoke out holding her mouth with her hand. Eva looking at Glenn with the innocent look that she had on her face, could not help but imagine what she must have been doing behind her.
It was her normal thing to do so it was not strange to Eva anymore. Taking Glen into her arms, she smile at her asking whether she wanted to be dressed like her and she nodded her head in acceptance.
“Okay, I all going to dress you up like a princess when I come back home okay?”, she told her, and Rachel asked from the back as she was seated on the bed, whether she was going to be adorned as a princess as well, but the only thing she collected was an insult from Eva.