Me After Meeting You

Amber took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. After eating a hodgepodge off ridge left overs, she practiced yoga while she waited for her mind and body to relax. When she was ready, she sat down on the yoga mat and pulled out the phone number that Mark had given her.

As she entered the unfamiliar digits into her phone and listened to the ringing tone, it felt like an eternity before the person on the other end finally picked up. A tender female voice came through from the phone, very politely greeting her. “Hello, who is this?”

Amber indistinctly felt that this voice was somewhat familiar, but she didn’t think too much of it. She stated her identity and then said, “I’m a doctor from Presbiterian Hospital, Dr. Camille. A man named Mark Brown asked me to contact you. Do you have some time to talk with me? If possible, I’d like to meet in person.”

The other party didn’t respond for quite a while. Amber even thought that she had hung up and was just about to check her phone to confirm, but then she finally heard a response. “You’re a doctor.”

This time, her voice was no longer kind and soft, but cold and frosty instead. “Did he ask you to contact me because he’s ill and about to die?”

This time, the other party spoke for quite a while, and without the politeness masking her voice, Amber immediately realized why she found it so familiar.Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

Because this was actually someone that she knew, it was … Calvin’s mother!!

Amber hung up, somewhat dazed.

And then she immediately picked up her phone and called Calvin again. “Are … your matters dealt with? If so, I’d like to invite you to … um, breakfast?”

“At this time?” Calvin’s voice carried a hint of laughter with it as he responded, “Alright, I’m almost done. Where should we eat?”

“My place?” Actually, it would be better to meet at her office in the hospital because they would have more privacy there. However, there was no way she could meet him at the hospital, so her only alternative was to invite him to her house.

“Alright, give me ten minutes.”

He said ten minutes, and indeed, ten minutes later, Amber met him at the ground floor of her building. She didn’t know where he had run from, as despite the bright sunlight outside, the wind was strong, so strong that it made one’s ears hurt. She was already feeling chilly from head to toe just from standing outside for a moment, but he was sweating from his whole body.

He stood in front of her, smiling brightly and looking handsome as normal. “Am I late?”

“No.” Amber looked at his refined face, her heart skipping a beat. “What do you want to eat?”

“Are you going to make it yourself?”

“That’s fine too. But I have to say, I’m not great at cooking, and there isn’t much at home. So as long as you don’t hate it ….”

“Don’t worry. Even if you made poison, it would still be delicious.”

Because Amber’s heart was troubled, she didn’t even hear what he said clearly, and she only glanced at him briefly before leading him up the elevator.

Calvin was a very sensitive person. When he noticed her absent mindedness, his heart spontaneously began beating faster. Here flexively took out his phone and pretended to look at it, even calling Amber’s number.

Amber, upon seeing that Calvin had calledbher, waved her phone and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“You don’t seem too happy, so I’m just confirming that it’s actually you and not someone impersonating you to meet up with me.”

Amber couldn’t help but laugh at his lame joke, finally realizing that she had indeed been absent minded. When she had recollected herself, she apologetically replied, “Sorry, I’m thinking of something else.”

“Then let me guide you so that you don’t accidentally fall.”

After saying this, he stretched out his handand wrapped it around hers.

Unlike Ian, Calvin’s hand was warm and dry, and she could feel a thicklayer of calluses over his palm.

Amber wanted to break free, but he said, “Please don’t move. I won’t cross the line again.”

He wouldn’t cross the line, but he would slowly push it, and then eventually move it.

This was how many an illicit romance started, but Amber and Calvin were just an ordinary couple. She even knew that she shouldn’t refuse him, especially since she’d liked him for so long and since her heart had even fluttered during their reunion.

But strangely, she didn’t feel all that strongly about him at this moment. She vaguely remembered what she had once jokingly said to a student, that love was just another illusion.

Beautiful, but just a fleeting illusion.