Present day
Abuja, Nigeria

"Dr. Jemima Audu," A tall, lanky nurse sitting at the hospital reception called, "You can go in now."

Jemima nodded, straightened her skirt and made her way into Professor Chibuike Anya's office. He was the Head of the Cardio-thoracic surgery department at National Hospital, Abuja. He was going to be her supposed supervisor for her residency program which she just applied for.

"You will be starting immediately. Your fellow interns have already started doing ward rounds and I don't want anyone lagging behind." He said to her, handing her her ID cards, scrubs, ward coat and other necessary materials she would be needing. She nodded, receiving the materials with a lot of 'thank yous'. It wasn't easy getting the opportunity and she was determined to use every bit of it to her own advantage.

She was led to the female on-call room by the same reception nurse so that she could change into the appropriate wear to begin her day.

"Umm.. Dr. Jemima, Prof. Anya wants to meet all the interns in the conference room in the next five minutes." The nurse from earlier told her and she nodded in reply, speeding up her dressing.

In ten minutes, all the interns were seated in the conference hall with Prof. Anya explaining a rare case of Ebstein's anomaly in a 58 year old patient in which everything related was projected on screen for everyone to see. "Does anyone have any idea on the best procedure that could be performed in this case?"

A hand was raised and Prof Anya instructed his assistant to hand over the microphone to him. "Sir, I think a tricuspid valve replacement should be done." He began and Jemima couldn't help but search frantically for the owner of the voice. She couldn't because he was seated far back and a lot of people were obstructing her view. She just tried listening without actually focusing on the speaker.

"Any other opinion?" Prof Anya asked and Jemima raised her hand

"Sir, since the patient presents with patent foramen ovale, I think the tricuspid valve should be repaired instead." Prof Anya nodded at her to continue. "In this case, extensive repair of the tricuspid valve and the right ventricle can be achieved using the cone repair technique." Prof Anya smiled at this revelation. It was exactly the solution he needed. He dismissed them after sometime to go and finalize everything concerning his patient's treatment and since Jemima got the answer correctly, she was also invited to go in for the surgery.

In a hurry, she picked her writing materials and dashed out of the conference room only to collide with someone's chest. "Owwww...." She winced in pain, rubbing her forehead gently. She raised up her head to see the person she bumped into only to come face to face with the same light brown eyes that got her mesmerized from day one. They both pointed at each other in shock, their words colliding in a jinx,

"You!"

"You!"