Love Because Love

TURN TO ME

Dave could not clearly hear whatever Hana was saying to Laurel, but given Hana's nature, Dave could guess it must not be something that was heartbreaking to hear, moreover, Dave remembered the incident last afternoon in his office which ended with an incident involving Laurel and Leo.

"I like you Dave, I love you" Dave who stood at his desk fell silent for a moment to hear a confession from Hana after Hana said happy birthday to him just now.

"Don't joke Hana, what's wrong with you today?" Dave tried to laugh so that the atmosphere did not become awkward because Hana's previous words were enough to shock him. Although from the beginning Dave knew Hana harbored a liking for him, but he did not expect that as a woman Hana dared to express her feelings first to him, but he did not think that Hana would express his love first, whereas all this time he had tried hard to show Hana that he only considered Hana as a friend, no more, because his heart was filled with the figure of another girl.

"I love you, I'm not kidding, you know that," Dave took a deep breath, trying to think of putting out words of rejection that didn't hurt Hana, she said, because after all their relationship is not just bosses and employees, but also old friends.

"You're a graceful, gentle, beautiful girl, there must be a lot of men interested in you, why should I? I already have the person I love, I've told you about it, and I didn't just say it once,"

"Laurels? Laurel Tanputra?" Dave was slightly jolted to hear Hana mention Laurel's name with an angry look and glimpsed glint of hatred from the look in his eyes.

"You haven't known him for a month, how can you say you love him compared to me who's known you Dave for a long time?" Hana's tears suddenly flowed down her cheeks without her being able to control anymore.

"Hana, don't cry, our relationship isn't as superficial as you mentioned, it's just that I can't explain it to you right now" Hana stared intently at Dave with tears still streaming down her cheeks.

"Why? Because he always comes to your office and teases you? Looking for an opportunity to approach you? I've seen him so often in and out of your office than any other employee. Has her cheerful and smiling face fooled you? Don't be fooled by Dave's pretty face! You're not a fool, why don't you know the difference between a wolf in sheep's clothing and a real sheep?" Dave's eyes widened to hear what Hana had just said, however he did not accept his wife being demeaned like that by Hana.

"Hana! Stop your insults against Laurel!" Hearing Hana's words about Laurel, Dave's tone of voice shot up, making Hana a little jolted, because just this time she saw Dave yelling at her.

"No! I'll say everything on my mind now!” Hana walked over to Dave.

“You know a lot of male doctors in this hospital who are vying to attract Laurel's attention, is that why your male soul got up and felt like competing with them? I've liked you for so long, but you never thought I existed. Is it because she's such a good girl to seduce? What has he offered you? If you like a girl like her, I'll turn out to be like her. Whatever you like about him, I can make myself change like that,” Dave held his breath while his right hand held his forehead.

“You have misunderstood Laurel, she is not a cheap girl like what you said, actually she is..

“Dave! Iloveyou! I don't want to hear anything about him from your mouth!” Hana's left hand moved towards Dave's face, with Dave quickly holding Hana's hand with his right hand, while his left hand accidentally nudged the glass on the table, to his left, he fell to the floor and broke, and a few seconds later the door opened. Dave's blue eyes widened in shock when he saw the figure of Laurel standing in front of the door, making him not alert as Hana moved to kiss his cheek in front of Laurel.

Dave took a deep breath considering the incident earlier that afternoon, with a slow step Dave intended to approach Laurel who was seen still in her place, in the concrete chair, and was still there, but suddenly from the other direction came Leo and casually and immediately sat down next to Laurel, making Dave again stop his steps and could only look at them from afar.

For some time Dave let his body flabbergasted by the heavy rain while raising his head up with his eyes closed and his hands clenched, clenched, until suddenly a hand pulled him gently towards the edge of the building to invite him to shelter.

"Boss..," Dave turned his head towards the voice that called out to him in a soft voice, saying, and without any rejection Dave followed him towards one of the terraces of the building that is near the hospital garden to shelter.

"Boss, uh.., Dave.., why let yourself be rained on like this?" Dave looked on in disbelief as Laurel was standing in front of him, while Laurel herself was busy taking a handkerchief out of her doctor's suit pocket and thrusting it at Dave who looked unconcerned.

"Why did you come back here?" Laurel was a little confused to hear Dave's question, from the question means that Dave was here, and I don't know how much she knows about the events she's been going through today in the park since she was with Arnold.

At first Laurel had almost returned to the polyclinic of internal medicine until she realized she had to go back to her office because there were files left behind, and it just so happened that he chose to go through the hospital park to his office and happened to see the figure of Dave in the rain, and his figure at that time looked so pitiful, so sad, making Laurel subconsciously approach her and reflexively pull her hand away from the rain.

"Laurel..," Dave walked over to Laurel, making Laurel walk backwards until her body stuck to the wall of the building and could not move backwards anymore.

"Yes.., why Dave?" Dave's right hand moved towards the wall behind Laurel, leaving the forearm up to the elbow part of her right hand against Laurel's back wall, just above Laurel's head, with his right palm clenched. Dave lowered his head towards Laurel's face which could only lower her head. With the height of Dave is quite far the difference with the height of Laurel's body makes Laurel's current position as in the right arm of Dave. And the distance of the body close, making the raindrops that had soaked the whole body Dave also wet Laurel's body through the water that dripped from the ends of the hair, and, dave's face and arms are attached to the wall behind Laurel on top of Laurel's head.

Laurel's chest is pounding violently at the moment, she knows logically as a girl, she should be running away from this place, but somehow seeing Dave's current figure actually made him want to be close to the man, not want to let Dave alone as he had just seen in the rain earlier. Even if possible, Laurel now wants to hug the body of the man in front of her, I don't know what he's thinking that makes him look like at the moment not like Dave who usually looks strong and charismatic, who usually looks great and admired by many people, and seeing Dave's current state unknowingly makes Laurel's heart ache, there is a sense of unwillingness to see the male figure in front of her today look so fragile.

"Can't you? Can't you just look at me? Why are you doing this to me?" After saying words that were not understood by Laurel, Dave covered his face with his left palm with his head bowed above Laurel's face.

"A..., what do you mean? Did I make a mistake with you?" Dave removed his palm from his face, and quickly his left forearm hit the wall behind Laurel, leaving Laurel gasping in shock. After that both arms of Dave's hand rest on the wall, making Dave and Laurel's body closer, there is almost no distance anymore and the gap for Laurel moves dodge.

"Mr Shaw..," The soft voice of Laurel's lips, which gave her name as Mr. Shaw, suddenly made Dave realize, and he did, dave quickly removed his arms from the wall and moved away from Laurel's body.

"I'm sorry," Dave moved his body to the side, and without saying any more he immediately moved away from Laurel, walking towards her office in a drenched state, letting Laurel look at her departure with a heart that seemed to be torn to shreds, and inexplicably seeing the figure of Dave today made Laurel shed her tears, she said, if it were possible he might have wanted to run towards Dave and hug the man's body, trying to comfort him, but remembering everything Hana said just now made him only be able to look at Dave's figure who was getting away.