Chapter 1: The Doctor and the Patient

Syaoran lifted his head and looked outside the window of his office. The sun is almost unseen behind the tall mountains. He closed the book he was reading and stood up to pack his work stuffs.

The door of his office opened. A man with with sapphire eyes came in.

"What can I do for you?" he asked.

"Still in work mood, Syaoran?" asked the man.

"Eriol, if you are here just to bug me about my work, you better get out now. I'm not in the mood." He said then he closed his suitcase,

"Nah, I'm not going to persuade you to stop it, Syaoran. I know that this work meant your life." Eriol said. He slumped on a couch inside the office and stretched his legs on the coffee table.

Syaoran did not speak. He just stared at Eriol blankly. Eriol smiled at him and took a cigarette from his pocket and threw it in the waste bin.

"I stopped smoking." Eriol muttered. "Did I tell you that already?"

"You did. But I kept seeing you with cigars in your coat pockets." Syaoran said. "You are still not telling me your purpose of disturbing me here."

"Syaoran, is there any other thing that equals your work?"

Syaoran avoided Eriol's gaze by staring outside the window once more. "Nothing." He said.

"Are you sure you will not quit this? Even-"

"I will never quit my work. Even my father or my mother told me so. Even it means losing my friends." Syaoran said then faced Eriol, "I am leaving. Do you still want to stay in here?"

"No. I'm leaving too." Eriol stood up and with a wave of his hand he left.

"Hear.." chuckled Tomoko, "Our doctor quack squared is here!"

The group of men and women laughed as Syaoran approached. Syaoran sat beside a young-looking woman and put his arms around her. She shoved his hands away and stood up eyeing him angrily. The men hushed each other and the women gasped.

"What did I do, Megumi?" Syaoran asked rather surprised.

"I told you, quit that damn work! My friends thought I am a laughingstock! Look around you!" the girl shouted, "Look at your work!" tears welled in her eyes, "You work with psychopathic people! And everybody thought that I am a psycho too because I am your girlfriend!"

"Why would you listen to them?" Syaoran demanded. His voice broke as anger slowly rises in his head. Megumi took her handbag and left the table.

"Told yah, Syao, you should've quit that stupid work of yahrz." Sniggered a short dark man who's holding a beer.

"Shut up." Muttered Syaoran then he followed Megumi outside.

The dark night was illuminated with bright stars in the sky. The moon is full and the street is busy with cabs and motorcycles. Megumi is walking along the sidewalk. Her pink handbag pressed between her arm and side. Her left hand swung listlessly as her sandals made a ticking sound against the pavement.

"M-megumi…" Syaoran called almost breathlessly. Megumi paused and faced him with anger in her eyes.

"Why are you following me, doctor?" Megumi said sarcastically. He walked towards her and held her close. "Don't touch me… You smell like idiotic patients in your hospital!" she shoved him away.

"Fine." He said with finality in his tone. "I didn't go after you to make up anyway."

"You bastard! No one has humiliated me before!" she screamed as her hand made contact with his cheeks in a furious slap. "I loved you with all my heart and with that way you will repay me?"

"You loved me? Huh!" Syaoran made a furious gesture in the air. "You never did, Megumi, you never did." he fought back the furious tears that are slowly welling in her eyes. "You just loved me because I gave you money to sustain your damn habits!"

"How dare y-"

"How dare me speak to you like this?" Syaoran sighed, "I dare to speak because it is not my fault why our relationship fall apart. You just love my money, not me… Never… You never hug me unless I tell you so, you never kiss me unless you need a cent to buy cigar. You never say I love you unless you want me strip you on your bed!"

"We never had s-"

"Yes we never. But you did with others!" Syaoran growled. "When I was busy with something, you will fuck with somebody else behind my back… Did I ever complain to you? Did you hear me say something bad? No!"

"Sy-" tears flow down Megumi's eyes as she fell in Syaoran's arms.

"Then you will hug me like that?"

"I am so sorry-"

"Leave now, Megumi…" he said. He pushed her away and walked towards his parked car in front of the club.

Her emerald eyes gazed on the little dome shaped glass with little dolphins in it. She shook it lightly and watched the glittery snow-like dust fell slowly on the dolphins.

"Sakura…"

She lifted her head and faced the figure by the door. She smiled sweetly at her father and watched him walk towards her. He ran his fingers through her soft hair and on her pale cheeks. Sakura is sick and the doctors said that it is impossible to cure.

"I don't believe them, Sakura, you will be cured." Her father said almost in a whisper. "You are not like them. You can hear… You can speak- before… You can understand… Right, Sakura?" tears ran down her father's cheeks. She put her index finger just below her father's eye and traced the tears down to his cheek.

Sakura frowned. She knows what her father is saying. Everything. She can understand every word her father uttered but she cannot speak her heart out. She is too weak to say anything to him. Whenever she tried to speak, only whimpers and faint sounds came out from her mouth.

"I love you, daughter…" he whispered. "Please… get well…" he murmured.

Sakura gently put her hands on her father's hands and smiled at him. Her father stood up and went out of her room. Sakura went towards the window and watched the stars in the sky glitter and shine.