58 Nurse Mable

'So how was it today?' Asked Dr Ray.

we were standing in the lobby a bit far from Leo's room. It seemed like he was heading to the reception desk. He was wearing a simple light blue t-shirt and a pair of black trousers. His harry potter glasses were lying on his nose bridge and his smile while he gave to me made every woman present in the corridor to look at him. Of course, his smile with a faint dimple on his right cheek made him look too beautiful, and I did not doubt it. I smiled back to him and said,

'As...usual.' Shrugging and smiling a bit.

'No progre-'

'No progress!' I shook my head and said in unison with him.

'Well, I already told you that he is quite complicated to handle.' He crossed his arms.

'I can see that now.' I said and we both chuckled.

Just as we finished laughing someone called Ray from my behind,

'Dr. Ray!' I turned around and found Anna coming our way.

'Oh! Anna, you're here!' Ray exclaimed.

Anna came and stood beside me, she was wearing a pair of light blue jeans, a U- necked maroon top tucked inside her jeans with a slight grey shrug covering her up to her knee, and a pair of white snickers.

'Cally!' She exclaimed and hugged from the side.

I covered her arm which was above my best with both hands and greets her back. After all this time Anna and I've become good friends. It feels so good to see everything being alright at once without any more hurdles. And just like this, I wanted Leo's life to be perfect too. I somewhat felt connected with him, I felt sympathetic for him, and with all these emotions I just wanted to cure him. I just wanted him to live his life.

'Hey, what happened?' Anna asked me as she snapped her fingers in front of my eyes.

And I realized that I was lost in thinking about Leo again. These days whatever I think it ends on Leo. His problem, his secrets, his sorrows, this is what comes to my mind at the end. It's all weird but I unknowingly start to think about him.

I looked at Anna and shook my head,

'Nothing.'

Anna looked at me suspiciously and to ignore her glare and shook off Leo's thoughts and said,

'Well, I'll take leave now and give the doc and the patient some private space.'

I waved my goodbye and left towards my cabin, I had many things to solve today.

I didn't tell Dr Ray about the painting, cause I, myself haven't found anything particular about it. Maybe, it could be that it was painted on that wall already and that there was nothing that I was thinking about it. In any way, I didn't want to make a fool of myself after going without doing thorough research.

I stretched back on my chair thinking about the painting which was painted on that wall. Thinking about anyone who could tell me anything about Leo, about his past, about his hobbies, or anything only one name came to my mind. Leo's nurse, Nurse Mable. The fat lady with a big mole near her nose on the left side. I knew she never talked to anyone much but still, I wanted to give it a try.

As all the nurses had told me about her, I knew that she sits all day in the nurse room but never talked much to any of the nurses. Though she shows no interest in any patient still, all nurses have seen her being worried about Leo. They say that she even once brought new clothes for him and kept it near his feet while he was sleeping at night. No one knew why she had a soft corner for him but still, no one ever asked her and let her do what she wanted to do.

I went to the nurse room and found that nurse sitting there putting something in her locker.

I went to her and said,

'Nurse Mabel, are you busy?'

She looked at me and exclaimed,

'Dr. Smith!'

Due to the uncertainty of me being there.

'Please give me a minute. You may make yourself comfortable.' As she said I nodded and sat on the chair present in the corner.

After some minutes Nurse Mabel came to me and sat beside me in another chair.

'Yes, Dr Smith. How can I help you?' She asked as her baritone singer like voice echoed in the silent room.

'I'm here to talk about Leo, Leo Rockwell. I've taken over his case. You know him, correct? Many told me that you help him out a lot.' I asked her casually.

But this question made Mable uncomfortable and she said,

'Who said so? I don't even pay attention to him. He is the most violent patient I've ever seen. And so, I keep a distance from him.'

She said it all in me breath and this made her suspicious.

'But they've see-' Before I could compete Nurse Mabel stood up and said,

'I have to go now and check in the patients under me.'

I knew that this would be hard but didn't want to make Nurse Mable uncomfortable with her questions. Nurse Mable started to walk towards the door and again the room went silent until I stood up and said,

'Nurse Mable, please! Only you can tell me who this person is!' I spoke as my voice

took over the silent atmosphere.

Nurse Mable hesitated but eventually turned around to face the screen of my mobile phone on which a photo being displayed. As soon as Nurse Mable saw the photo her eyes got widened and she just said,

'You went to his room?...'