LOVE THE RECEPTIONIST

22. Misspeaking

"It looks like it's Leon" Firans muttered, as he walked down the hospital's long hallway, seeing a young man he's only known for a few days. He steps into the hospital garden to meet Leon who is accompanying someone sitting in a wheelchair.

"Hi Leon?" greet Firans, when the distance is only a few meters away from Leon.

Leon turned his head, as did a middle-aged woman sitting in the wheelchair.

"Sir Firans, are you here?" said Leon who recognized Firans while commenting on his smile.

"Yes Loen, I just arrived, and as I passed by I saw you here, so I immediately approached you," Firans said with a faint smile.

"What are you doing here, Leon, I think you're together, Firans' words hang, because Leon hastily cuts off his words with a nervous nose, making Firans feel a little astonished, but he didn't think too much about it.

"Oh, meet me, this is my mother" said Leon, introducing a middle-aged woman sitting in a wheelchair next to him.

"I'm Firans madam" said Firans warmly, commenting on her smile at the woman sitting in the wheelchair, extending her hand to shake her hand.

The woman also smiled faintly at Firans and welcomed Firans' hand to her.

"Mrs Gamsonrich, Leon's mother" said the woman, calling her husband's name a nickname for herself.

"His mother was admitted to this hospital as well?" firans asked the middle-aged woman who still looks beautiful at her age who is not young anymore.

"Yes, my son Leon is accompanying me here" said Leon's mother still reviewing his thin smile.

"May the madam recover quickly and recover as before" said Firans sincerely.

"Thank you" said Gamsonrich with a smile.

"I happen to meet you here Leon, I'd like to leave this for Monalizha" Firans said later. He then showed me the red tote bag he was carrying.

Leon's face looked nervous again. Firans was again amazed to see Leon's sudden change when he mentioned Monaliza's name, but he did not care much about it and continued to continue what was in his head to Leon.

"His mother left him a few pieces of change of clothes for Monaliza during his hospital stay" Firans said.

"Monaliza? Monaliza who are you guys talking about?" ask Mrs Gamsonrich who had been silent. The name called Firans is so familiar in his ears.

Leon was fixated, while Firans who again saw the change in Leon's face increasingly felt there was a peculiarity of the attitude shown by the young man.

"Monaliza, the mistress Leon's lover," Firans said plainly without any burden, as he stared at the middle-aged woman.

Mrs Gamsonrich was stunned to stare at Firans for a while, then turned to her son Leon with her mouth half-opened.

"Leon," the voice of Gamsonrich's mistress sounded trembling. Leon was still glued to where he stood. The nervousness of the young man was very noticeable as his mother looked at him with a sharp look in her eyes.

"Are you still in touch with that poor girl again without a trace of Leon's mother?" mrs Gamsonrich asked trying to suppress her emotions.

Firans almost choked on hearing the words of Gamsonrich's mistress to his son Leon, he immediately realized, if he had spoken wrongly in front of the mother and child. But what can be done, it was done accidentally because of ignorance.

"Ma-" Leon who received the gaze of Gamsonrich tried to calm his mother by rubbing the mother's back gently.

"Answer Leon?!" the tone of Mrs Gamsonrich's voice immediately shot up.

"Yes ma, Leon loves Monaliza," Leon said bluntly.

"Now, cut off your relationship with that woman Leon!" the mother of Leon's.

"Mama will never bless your relationship Leon!" continued Leon's mother with her tone still rising.

"I'm sorry Leon ma, Leon can't," Leon said, refuting, but he did not dare to return his mother's gaze that was dead.

"You-," Madam Gamsonrich suddenly held onto her aching chest, her face visibly enduring the excruciating pain within her chest that was unable to continue her words.

"Mama?!" leon's face panicked as he held onto his mother's body.

"Mama's okay?" leon asked to check on his mother's condition which immediately looked pale, weak and helpless.

"What happened to Leon?" firans asked, he also panicked to see the state of Gamsonrich's mistress who immediately dropped when he collided with Leon's son.

"It looks like your heart is relapsing again, I have to take you to see doctor Mr. Firans immediately" said Leon. He immediately pushed his mother's wheelchair and ran away to get a doctor's treatment.

Firans who saw that felt guilty. He did not know if Leon and Monaliza's relationship was not sanctioned by his parents. So by accident, he had caused Leon's mother to be so because of hearing his words about his son's relationship.

He looked at Leon who was carrying his mother half-run down the hospital hallway.

Firans then stepped out of the park towards the information room, which was quite a distance away.

"Good afternoon, sister," said Firans, as she arrived at the information desk.

"Good afternoon sir, how can we help you?" ask the nurse, it's friendly.

"Suster, for a patient named Monaliza, room xxx, what can be found? Since I was last here this afternoon, he hasn't been able to meet just anyone" Firans explained.

"So, my father is a patient?" ask the nurse.

"My name is Firans, I'm a patient's coworker named Monaliza, her mother left this, Monaliza's change of clothes," Firans said while showing the red jingjing bag to the nurse.

"Well, Mr Firans, please wait a minute? I will contact the doctor who handled the patient named Miss Monaliza," said the nurse with a friendly smile. He then pressed the number he would go to on the phone located on the information table to contact the doctor who handled Monaliza.

A few seconds later, it was seen he was communicating seriously on a phone that had been connected.

"Sir Firans," call the nurse who just put the phone handle in her place.

"Yes sus," said Firans, he immediately stood up from his seat in front of the information room.

"Patients on behalf of Miss Monaliza are still nowhere to be found. So Mr. Firans can leave the patient's goods here, later the nurse officer who delivered them to Miss Monaliza," explained the nurse.

"Okay sister, I leave it here then" said Firans, he then handed the red bag he brought to the nurse.

"Thank you sister, I'm saying goodbye first" Firans said, commenting on his smile.

"Together Sir," said the nurse guard still smiling kindly.

Firans then left the information room to the parking lot where his car was.

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