Love Because Love
INTRODUCTIONS
Laurel who walked hand in hand with Luciana and Mira held her breath slightly as they had to enter the hospital meeting room for her introduction to the officials at this rs. Standing in front of a crowd was nothing new to Laurel, but given the cold and unfriendly gaze of this hospital chief that made her uncomfortable.
"Let's see doctor Laurel, please come in," Mira pointed her hand at the meeting room. Laurel took her foot to enter the room. He saw in the front already sitting doctor Dave as the head of the hospital, looks ready to lead the meeting, while in front of him lined new chairs filled about 30% from the number of seats.
"Just relax, our boss is a good leader, all the doctors, nurses and employees here idolize the boss. You will definitely feel at home working here," Luciana patted Laurel on the shoulder and immediately pulled her hand to invite her to sit in a chair in the middle position.
Luciana deliberately said about the kindness of her boss because she saw the face of Laurel who looked tense when entering the meeting room especially when Laurel's eyes glanced at Dave, it seemed that Laurel looked uncomfortable. Laurel glanced at Luciana, one of the general practitioners at this rs whom she had only known this morning. She is younger than him, but Laurel is thrilled to get to know this friendly and kind looking girl, as it seems that in the future they can both be best friends.
"Look, the one in front of that is Dr. Dave, our hospital chief, you should have met him this morning, we used to call him the boss, sitting in front of ourselves to our left is Dr. Leo, the representative of Dr. Dave, he's an orthopedic (bone) specialist at this hospital, the others will slowly you will know them," Luciana whispered in Laurel's ear trying to introduce the two doctors who are the highest power holders in this hospital.
"Hi, we'll see you again," Hana who just came along with a handsome man who also seemed to be a doctor immediately greeted Laurel and took a seat next to Laurel, while the man who came with Hana immediately took a seat in front of Laurel. The action of the man was enough to make Laurel shocked because she immediately sat down with a position facing Laurel.
"There is finally a beautiful view in this hospital," the man said with a sweet smile to Laurel.
"Arnold, don't expect you to make Laurel your next victim" Luciana patted Arnold's uncaring shoulder, who with a teasing smile on her face, precisely by deliberately observing Laurel from top to bottom, making Laurel a little careless.
"Ehem," Dave's voice immediately makes Hana signal Arnold to stop his actions.
"Ok beautiful, later we continue our conversation," Without guilt Arnold stood up and turned his body to take a sitting position facing the right direction.
"Don't mind Dr. Arnold too much, he's always acting that way to new hires, especially if it's a girl as pretty as you are. Maybe it's because he's a pediatrician, sometimes he's kind of like a kid, he's often childish, even though he's pretty good-looking, you know, in this hospital the center of the doctors are handsome and beautiful," Luciana whispered softly into the ear of Laurel who just smiled amusedly, seen around her, and looked around her, indeed the average employees in this rs seemed to have above average appearances, but his smile immediately evaporated as he looked ahead and found Dave looking at them with a sharp look. As if a student who had just been caught off guard by the teacher for cheating, Laurel slightly lowered her face, avoiding Dave's piercing glare which to her felt so piercing.
"Ok, everyone has gathered in this place," Hearing the opening words from Dave, Laurel looked around her, the existing seat was filled with about 70 % of the existing seat capacity.
"Today I'll introduce you to a new member of our team, I'm encouraging doctor Laurel Tanputra to introduce myself up front" Hearing Dave's orders, Laurel got up and walked towards the front of the room with a whistling sound from Arnold.
"Good day everyone, it's a pleasure to join you at this hospital. Introducing my name Laurel Tanputra, I took a doctoral course at Harvard University in America and went on to specialize in internal medicine at the same university. I beg for his help to all the seniors during my time here," Laurel closed her introduction by slightly bowing her body to pay respects to the other employees present in the room.
"There's a question about Doctor Laurel?" Dave set his sights on the meeting participants. Doctor Feri raised his hand.
"Doctor Laurel is single or does anyone have one?" For a moment when Laurel just smiled at the question, Dave immediately set his eyes on Laurel.
"Please answer," Hearing the order from Dave Laurel slightly shook her head.
"I still want to pursue my career, it has not occurred to me," Hearing the answer that some employees and male doctors who are still single immediately cheered excitedly, while Arnold immediately raised his hand.
"May I sign up to be Laurel's doctor's girlfriend?" Hearing Arnold's question, Feri who was originally sitting behind Laurel's chair and happened to be carrying a paper immediately rolled up the paper in his hand, got up to his feet and hit Arnold's head slowly with a roll of paper in his hand, making Arnold slightly jerked in shock and laugh amusedly.
"Well, healthy competition, don't play back" Feri said as he returned to his original sitting position, while Arnold looked giggled with a face not caring about Feri's reprimand just now.
"I want to ask doctor Laurel something" Dr. Arman, a nearly 50-year-old doctor, with a slightly bald head raised his hand. Some of the heads of the meeting participants immediately turned towards him, the atmosphere turned a little tense.
"You are a graduate from America, surely the diseases you learn and face so far are common diseases experienced by residents there. Why are you so confident about getting into this best private hospital when you're not well-versed with tropical diseases?" Laurel was a little surprised by the question that was clearly intended to attack her blatantly, Dave's eyes glanced at Laurel, as if waiting for Laurel to respond to the question.
"I believe that there is no science that is too difficult for us to study as long as we are serious and work hard to learn it, therefore I personally still need a lot of guidance from my seniors here. I will try to do my best for this hospital" Doctor Arman scrunched his forehead, from his face it seemed that he did not like the answer from Laurel who was actually quite wise, and from his face, it seemed that he did not like it, but instead it showed his intention to corner Laurel failed.
"Are you sure you can quickly adjust here after 7 years of getting used to your life in America?" Laurel was about to open her lips to answer a question from Dr. Arman, but at first glance Dave got up from his seat.
"For questions that are personal may later be asked directly to doctor Laurel when you have lunch together or in your spare time, today is enough here. It's time for our lunch hour. Good day everyone," Dave's words immediately made Arman's doctor speechless with an unsatisfied face, while Arnold slightly breathed a sigh of relief because Arman's doctor did not manage to humiliate Laurel in front of other employees.
As soon as the meeting closed, Dave immediately walked to the outside of the room, while Luciana directly approached Laurel.
“Luckily the boss helped you get away from doctor Arman, maybe because the boss is also a Harvard alumni like you too,” Laurel looked towards Luciana deeply heard the whisper from Luciana in her ear.
“Really? Doctor Dave is also a Harvard graduate?” Luciana nodded slowly.
“True, 7 years ago he went to Harvard, but for his specialists he went there, I heard general medicine he went to Oxford,” Laurel nodded his head hearing an explanation from Luciana.
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"Can we sit here?" Laurel looked towards Feri and Arnold who were standing next to the table where Laurel was while carrying a tray filled with their lunch. Luciana and Nia had already sat down first with Laurel for lunch together in the hospital cafeteria.
Without saying a word, both Laurel, Luciana and Nia instantly shifted her seat, giving Feri and Arnold the chance to join their table.
"So we haven't had a chance to get acquainted, Feri Kusuma, just call Feri," Feri thrusts his hand towards Laurel to bring him a shake, smiling Laurel shakes Feri's hand, saying, but Arnold's hand quickly pulled Feri's and replaced him with his own to shake Laurel's hand.
"Arnold, the high quality single in this hospital," Luciana and Nia immediately laughed at Arnold's words, while Laurel could only smile amusedly and try to pull her hand back, while Arnold who sat right in front of Laurel continues to look at Laurel with a face of admiration so that Laurel must turn her eyes to the left so that they do not continue to look at her.
When Laurel turned her eyes to the left at a glance, she saw at the table to her left sat Dave and Hana. Unknowingly their existence made Laurel a little stunned. One is a handsome man who looks authoritative and charismatic, just by looking at it people will know that this man is not from among mediocre people, let alone supported by his bulenya face, while in front of him sat a young girl who is arguably quite beautiful, but what makes the girl quite attractive is her makeup that looks fashionable and graceful. From the clasps worn in her hair, clothes up to the same color shoes. Laurel wonders if if tomorrow she meets Hana her appearance will be like today too, wearing matching outfits and accessories from head to toe.
Seeing them sit together like that for Laurel like a couple on a date. Feeling a pair of eyes watching him Dave who was initially cutting meat on his plate raised his head and immediately directed his gaze to Laurel who immediately looked wrong when their eyes collided with each other. Laurel immediately turned her eyes elsewhere. Arnold who had seen the incident immediately cleared his throat slowly.
"Laurel, with his good looks and charisma the boss does have a lot of fans, but you don't try to get close to the boss, otherwise Hana's doctor will pounce on you" Arnold whispered softly, Laurel looked straight at Arnold.
"Is Doctor Hana Dave's doctor's girlfriend?" Everything on that table immediately shook his head at the same time.
"No, the boss seems calm, he also never be friendly to doctor Hana, if asked also never admit that doctor Hana is her lover, he also never admitted, but from the attitude of doctor Hana who always monopolizes the boss every chance there is really seen that doctor Hana really likes the boss. Although it looks elegant, do not try to find out because of Hana's doctor," Laurel nodded, from now on she will be careful to behave in front of Dave if not to cause misunderstandings for Hana, but somehow Laurel still can not resist the desire of her eyes to look back at Dave who she thinks does have a charm that makes her not able to look at him. And it turns out that when Laurel steals the opportunity to glance at Dave, the man is staring at him, making Laurel again misbehavior, like a thief caught red-handed.
