For the last five minutes, he was just staring at me, I honestly didn't know what to say or do. "So, you are a doctor?" he asked, breaking the extremely awkward silence.

"You would be correct," I replied, trying to avoid eye contact. This was a really awkward situation and I never know how to deal with this, more so with creepy people like him. I felt my anxiety coming on and my heart raced, causing me to not be able to breathe properly. I looked back over to him, his eyes were so deep and a lovely shade of light blue, I found myself getting lost in them, rather odd... I'm not use to this. I decide to quickly lose eye contact and finally continue a conversation, "so, let me see your report Mr...."

"Walter," he finished my sentence, still staring at me.

As I read through his reports, I noticed the main problem and said it aloud to him with sorrow, "I see you are suffering from brain tumor."

"Yeah, yeah," he said emotionlessly.

"Okay," I began, "I will be diagnosing you and then we will start your radiology tomorrow, but first you have to be checked up properly, here are several tests for you to make your position clear, and then we can start with your treatment."

"Tests, more tests, doctors, chemotherapy, radiology ... damn it all!" He cried.

"Hey, Walter, I think you should be hopeful, you are definitely strong enough to get through this," I tried to encourage him.

"I don't need your encouragement, Doctor, sorry," he snapped, still grinning as he stood up and went away leaving me with those final, rather rude words.

It was the first time I was actually impressed by a guy. Jennie always wanted me to get a boyfriend and hang out with him, she wanted me to marry or find a guy whom I like. But nothing such has ever happened through the past years, I couldn't find anyone who interested me. Jennie and her boyfriend Paul wanted to get married, but Jennie didn't want to leave me alone. She did not want to marry Paul unless I also got married. It made me feel guilty in front of Jennie sometimes, Jennie wanted me to marry John because of his great likeness and affection for me, but I rejected him at once. John was my childhood mate it was impossible for me to choose him as my life partner, and to me he was just a friend.

Suddenly the door to my office opened and Jennie came running towards me shouting, "Here she is!" She put her arms around me and started telling me her long day story.

"Hey guys," I suddenly grinned, "Should we party tonight?"

"Let's go baby," laughed John as we put our arms around each other and went to a nearby club.

The next morning, Jennie woke me up as usual, and After taking a long shower, I got dressed, put my glasses on, tied my hair and put a little gloss on my lips. And like usual, Jennie made the breakfast and I made the special morning tea for her, we laughed and giggled on the breakfast table and then we got into our car and drove to the hospital.

Reaching the hospital we quickly got out of the car and went to our own rooms. By the time it was lunchtime, I was very tired and I wasn't feeling well. I went downstairs for lunch to find Jennie already waiting for me.

"Laura," she smiled, noticing the expression on my face, "I think you forgot something."

"Now what?" I questioned angrily.

"Today we have to go for the workshop at the society."

"You gotta be kidding me," I whined, covering my face with my hands.

"Get ready, dear, and try to get a smile going," and walked away from me.

"See ya" I sighed, the last thing I wanted was a workshop, I was really tired and just wanted to go home.

I sat in my office treating one patient after another. "Next, please," I called out, and to my surprise, that weirdo appeared again. It was actually quite surprising to see him back, "Oh, you decided to come back."

"Well, yeah," he said with a monotone voice.

"So shall we start Mr Walter?" I asked looking at the reports he brought along with him.

"Yeah," he repeated, staring at me coldly once again. I took him to the Radiology department and unlike the other patients, he was very calm and quiet. He was the first patient that I saw that was not nervous or worried.

After his Radiology I was shocked to see that the tumor had turned malignant."You need surgery," I told him as I watched his eyes become hopeless with deep expressions of grief, but without a word he just stood there for a moment. Then suddenly he came close to me.

I swallowed hard as I looked at him, he looked at me and asked in a low voice "Is there any chance? "

"There is always a chance for everyone," I replied.

"You are just trying to console me," he said looking directly into my eyes.

"I won't force you to believe me, but maybe trusting in God will help you find a way," I said hopefully.

"Well, that has inspired me," he smirked and walked away. I laughed as he went away.

"Hey," shouted John coming up to me, "you are smiling I need a picture of you right now."

"Shut up" I said sarcastically.

"No, no, I really need it, come on smile, sweetheart."

"John!" I replied frowning.

"So, what's so special about today?" he questioned.

"Nothing, I have to go home now, bye, love." I said kissing him on his cheek.

I went home and lay on my bed wrapped in the soft and fluffy blanket around me. I was lost in thought about Walter, "What is he?" I thought, "What does he want? Why does he always stare at me in such a creepy fashion? How can I deal with him?" These questions kept me awake until late at night, where my exhaustion finally made me pass out.