Trapped with the Doctor

In the Biologic Clinical Laboratory of

Bio-engineering Preparation Major of Pharmacy Department of Onimore Medical University, Shine Empire.

Using his horn-rimmed glasses, the old professor peered over his students doing experiments. Today, the students must improve their formulas.

He walked through each student's work area to check their progress. Suddenly, something caught his attention. He looked very displeased. "Angela! Look at your laboratory rat!"

Angela looked at the dying rat and felt embarrassed with herself. "My new formula was correct. I wonder what went wrong?"

The old professor grabbed her formula and glowered at her, "Angela! You did it on purpose, right?" He suspected that it was her plan all along.

Angela gave a puzzled look, "What went wrong, Mr. Angela?" She tried to understand what the professor had said to her. She looked closely and saw the dose, where his thumb circled around.

That meant she put an extra dose of 10 mg. The rat was clearly overdosed.

"You put an extra dose of 10 mg of chemical A, Angela!" It would be a miracle if the rat was still alive. "Whoever employs you as a medicine developer will surely have his medicine factory closed!" The professor blurted out. Someone laughed. There was no need for Angela to guess who she was. Well, of course, that was Susie!

Angela snatched the improved formula and held up her hand before Susie, whose face had just been injected with hyaluronic acid, could say a word. "Shut your mouth! Just say one more word and I will make this formula paper into pills and watch you swallow it every day!"

After Susie heard that, the color drained out of her face. She quickly took her gloves and checked her face. She felt an instant relief after making sure it was just fine.

Susie may have a tough shell, but she could be easily frightened. To get even, she complained, "Mr. Finch, Angela wants to fight with others in your class. She doesn't even respect you!"

Mr. Finch's expression hardened. He glared at Angela, "Stay after class and clean the classroom, Angela."

Angela remained unconvinced. She protested, "She started this! Haven't you heard what she said first, Mr. Finch? She provoked me."

"I said clean the classroom! I don't want to hear any words from you!" Mr. Finch couldn't be swayed. Angela's refute had completely outraged him.

Nancy Hammond moved closer to Angela and consoled her, "You knew that Mr. Finch was Susie's uncle, right? You shouldn't even say a word. Don't worry, I will stay with you."

Right! How could Angela even forget? Of course, Mr. Finch was Susie's uncle! She immediately went to the laboratory door and blocked the way. "So, you wanted me to clean the classroom? Fine. But Susie is going to stay and clean with me! Otherwise, no one leaves the laboratory!"

Mr. Finch was named Berg Finch but Angela liked to call him Bug behind his back.

Despite Berg's irritation, Brant, the tutor, had always treated Angela nicely. Because of this, he felt compelled to show her a little bit of mercy. He ordered his niece, "Stay and help Angela clean the classroom!"

Susie knew this was going to happen! She felt bad. She didn't know what Angela had to do with their tutor. Why did she always get this kind of treatment? She didn't get any punishment for her misbehavior.

The drama was over. Angela told Nancy, who insisted to stay with her, to go out of the laboratory, "I'll be fine. I'll clean this quick. Just wait for me outside."

Nancy didn't object. "Okay. You don't have to rush. I'll wait."

Angela returned to the laboratory and saw Susie holding a disinfectant liquid. She blocked her way and said, "Don't you like Randal Rogers, Susie?"

"How did you know that?" Susie's cheeks turned pink when her secret was revealed.

Angela felt so pleased with herself, "Of course, I know. I will get him to ask you out if you would stay and clean the laboratory. What do you think?"

"Well, I don't believe you! You actually think that I don't know but I am fully aware that you like him too!" She couldn't take any of the lies that she just heard from that woman.

Much to Angela's surprise, she stuttered, "How did you know that I like... Randal?"

Susie answered, "Every time you see him, your eyes would always light up! It's not hard to notice that!"

Angela attempted to open her mouth but no words came out of it. 'Is it really obvious?' she thought to herself. "How about I tell you a secret?"

"Why should I believe in what you're about to say?" Susie said with an obvious skeptic tone. She could no longer be deceived by her lies! Because.. being with Angela in the same classes in the University for three years, Angela had fooled her so many times.

"This news has cost me an arm and a leg! Tonight, Randal will..." Angela whispered into Susie's ear. Whatever Susie had heard, it made her eyes widened.

Angela's eyes were full of deceit, "At 8 o'clock tonight, Randal will..."

"What? Say it, Angela!" Susie was very anxious. She was like an ant on a hot pan.

But Angela didn't want to say it on purpose. Susie felt like she had no choice but to agree on her request earlier, "Fine. I will clean the classroom."

"You promised. At 8 o'clock tonight, Randal will..."

After a minute, Angela walked out of the laboratory. When Nancy finally saw her, she looked at her with her confused eyes, "What's going on?"

"I don't have to clean up. So, here I am!" With her hands inside the pockets of her white coat, Angela looked up to the beautiful sky with a smile on her face.

Nancy realized what happened right away. She looked at her, "So, you fooled her, again?"

"Well, I told her that Randal would go to the girls' dorm at 8 o'clock tonight."

"How did you know that?"

"Of course, it's a lie. Hahahaha!" Angela tapped Nancy's shoulder, "Let's go." Together, they left the lab.

Clearly, what she did was just a response to Susie's everyday dose of sarcasm. If she forgot being tricked every day, Angela was in no way to blame.

Actually, Angela didn't know Randal's schedule at all. Despite the fact that she liked him, she would not bother knowing those things. She was not like the other girls.

At 7:40 p.m.

Angela and Nancy left school and went to their dorm. When they crossed the playground, Angela saw a man and her heart tripled its beat. She clutched Nancy's hand, "Look, Nancy, that's Randal!"

Under the tree, a tall and thin man was talking to the three men across him.

No one knew what these four men were talking about. However, the other three slowly approached Randal, one of them even pushed him.

"Well. It looks like they are gonna fight.." To see more clearly, Nancy pushed her eyeglasses back on the bridge of her nose and squinted her eyes.

"Yes, it looks like they are fighting!" Angela's face darkened. Why would they hurt Randall? She released Nancy's hand and rushed towards them.

She stretched out her arms against the three men to protect Randal. She looked like a hen that was trying to protecting a chick, "What are you going to do with Randal?"

It looked like the three men were freshmen from the clinical anesthesiology college nearby. They didn't know who Angela was.

"Who are you? Mind your own business! Get out of the way now! Otherwise, you will get punched too!"

"What's the rush, Keith? How could you punch such a pretty girl?"

"What's your name, pretty girl? Do you want to be my girlfriend?"

This made Angela furious. She clutched her fists and said, "Say that again? Go away! You don't want to get punched by my fists!"

"Angela, you don't have to..." The boy behind her spoke softly.

"It's OK, Randal. Let me protect you!" Heroically, Angela was nearly going to pat her chest to reassure herself that she could!

"..." Randal was speechless.

The three boys were angry and had nothing else to say. They pulled Angela away directly, and started punching Randal.

Randal immediately got hit in the face. Seeing they actually did that, Angela hurried to help.

She hit the three boys with a few fast strikes and forced them to kneel. "You are, Angela... Please go easy on us!"

"Which department do you belong to?" Angela brushed her hands and blew the dust off.

The male student named Keith immediately replied, "The clinical pharmacy school next door."

"Are you going to find trouble here again?"

"No, no, we won't!" The three boys ground their teeth in frustration. They didn't expect a little girl would master taekwondo! And even then be able to subdue three adults in a few strikes!

"I'll hold you to that! Don't you dare come again. I'll beat you the moment you show up!" Angela shook her fist and threatened them, and the three boys ran away without leaving a trace.

Under the tall tree, there was only one boy and one girl left. Angela blushed at once. "Randal... Randal, are you alright? Do you need to go to the infirmary?"

Randal rubbed his sore lip and shook his head. "I'm fine. Thank you, Angela!"

"It's OK. You're welcome!"

They lapsed into silence, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward. Fortunately, Nancy came over and broke the awkwardness between them.

"Angela, are you all right? You aren't hurt? Didn't your brother say he wouldn't tolerate you fighting anymore?" Nancy held Angela and asked her anxiously.

"I'm fine, those three boys really sucked!" Angela said casually. Then she seemed to think of something and asked the boy nearby. "Randal, let me go with you to the infirmary!"

The corner of his lip seemed a bit blue. Angela's heart tightened slightly.

This time, Randal did not insist and walked to the infirmary with Angela.

"Randal, you will be a senior soon. Will you continue on and take the postgraduate entrance exam, or go out for an internship?" On the way, Angela asked him again.

"Going out for an internship. My parents asked about a job for me at Yaprye Hospital!" Speaking of this, Randal seemed very proud.

The Yaprye Hospital was operated by Cruz Family and was the biggest and best hospital in Onimore, many people studied until their heads were bursting, just to try to get in. There were many postgraduates and postdocs in it. The point was, even if you could get these certificates, you wouldn't be always able to work at Yaprye Hospital.

Angela had certainly heard about Yaprye Hospital before. Having been studying in the university in Shine Empire for three years, she had been there too!

"What are you going to do in there?" Angela asked casually.

In the dark, Randal's expression was a little weird, but he finally told Angela. "I'll go to the pharmacy department first. Then if I feel good, then I'll go to the Research and Development Institute."

The Research and Development Institute was what really suited his major. In fact, Angela was a little disappointed in Randal, because she always thought that Randal would prepare for the postgraduate exam instead of being so anxious to work.

Angela and Nancy accompanied Randal to take his medicine. On their way back, they passed the girl's dormitory, and sure enough, they saw that Susie was meticulously dressed.

When Susie saw Angela and Randal together, her face, which had been coy and shy, suddenly changed.

Of course, Angela also saw Susie. In order not to let Susie bother her again, Angela had to tell Randal about her. "Let me introduce you to another classmate."

"Great!" Randal didn't refuse. For him, another connection meant another opportunity.

The group walked towards Susie. "Randal, this is our Susie, the most beautiful girl in our class. Susie, I think you already know about him!" Angela told Randal before Susie opened her mouth.

The furious Susie stopped her anger as soon as she heard Angela's words.

Noticing Randal was looking at her, Susie wore a shy smile immediately. "Randal, our resident School Adonis. I've heard a lot about you!"

Randal looked at Susie and smiled. "Nice to meet you, Susie!" The smile made the three girls around him all cover their mouths in excitement. Randal was worthy of being the School Adonis. He was absolutely gorgeous!

Knowing the thoughts of the three girls, Randal enjoyed the reactions his appearance brought. He said to them politely. "Girls, it's very late, I must go home now."

"Yeah, right. Bye, Randal!" Angela was the first to respond and waved to Randal.

Randal took another look at the other two girls who had not recovered from the shock and left the gate of the girl's dormitory with satisfaction.

The first thing Angela did when she went back to dorm was to call Sven. "Sven, do you have any friends at Yaprye Hospital?"

"What's the matter?" Sven had been prepared for surgery and was ready to enter the operating room.

Thinking of Randal's smile, Angela blushed and bit her lower lip. "Nothing. I just want to intern there in my senior year."

"Intern? Angela, are you eager to be scolded to death by father? No way. Go and prepare for your postgraduate exam!" Sven urged his sister seriously.

Angela pursed her lip. "Why would I go to graduate school? It's all theoretical knowledge there anyway. People like me should be doing drug research and development, all we require is the gift for it!" She didn't mean to do that in today's experiment, because all she had in mind was... the way Randal played basketball.

Absolutely gorgeous! Super cool!

Sven had nothing to say. "Okay, let's just put this aside. What are you going to do? Go to the pharmacy department?"

"... Just barely enough!"

As a result, Sven called her back the next day and told her that the pharmacy staff was full, and no one would be leaving for three months!

Angela clenched her teeth. For her School Adonis! "Alright, which department needs more staff?" The first thing was to just get in there.

"Every department needs nurses!"

"..." Angela said nothing.

Sven guessed that his sister would not go, because of a ridiculous reason. Angela, a medical student, who was born in a family of medicine, would faint at the sight of blood!

As a nurse, blood and needles were two of the most common things they would see!

Two Months Later.

Taking a deep breath, Angela put on a clean and tidy nurse uniform and went to the VVIP ward floor to report!

Thanks to Sven, she had successfully entered the VVIP ward of Yaprye Hospital to be a nurse!

It was a great assignment to save her from dealing with eccentric people.

There are only ten VVIP rooms in the whole inpatient department of the hospital. The patients who can live in the hospital are either rich, noble, or powerful.

She was also here with Nancy!

The woman next to her, also dressed in a nurse's uniform, took her by the arm. Her face was smiling and she spoke softly. "Angela, how happy I am to be with you!"

Angela joyfully patted Nancy's face. "Honey, it seems you can't live without me!"

Nancy tapped her glasses and looked at Angela earnestly. "You're right!" Don't leave me, Angela!"

"Oh, kisses, definitely not. Let's go get the head nurse!"

"Let's go!"

Winnie Morphew, a 38-year old mother with two children, was the head nurse of the VVIP Ward Department. It was her fifteenth year working in the Yaprye Hospital.

She scrutinized the two new nurses in front of her, knowing that they've got their jobs by pulling strings. This made Winnie extremely annoyed.

She cleared her throat, and asked, "Are you Angela? And you are Nancy?"

They both nodded. Angela told Winnie with a smile, "Winnie, I'm Angela Bennet, and she is Nancy Hammond!"

Winnie seemed to be offended by the pleasantry. She narrowed her eyes and replied with an unfriendly tone, "Have I asked you about it?"

Winnie was playing hardball with them. Angela wanted to say something back, but Nancy interrupted her in a low voice, "Angela, calm down!"

To calm her nerves, Angela took a deep breath and thought of her brother's warning, "Going out to work is not the same as studying in school. Hold back your tantrums, or you won't even know why you've been trapped!!"

She paused for a while so that she could cool down, then she answered Winnie with a smile, "I'm sorry about what I've done, please continue."

Winnie glanced at the two ladies and nodded with satisfaction, "You may start your work now. You should start at the bottom and work your way up. I don't care how you landed this job but you would never receive any special treatment. You would be treated as ordinary nurses here. If you can't stand the difficulties, I wouldn't stop you from leaving."

Winnie was a straightforward person. Without much talking, she asked two qualified nurses to take them to work right away.

Time had passed quickly. Luckily, this morning's work had been a breeze. Since there were only ten wards with two patients, there was no need to ask the novices to get their new hands in treating the patients. They just spent their time watching how the tenured ones work to familiarize themselves in their new working environment.

At noon time, Angela asked Nancy to come with her to the Pharmacy Department. When Angela ran, Nancy pulled her to stop, "Angela, you better take care of your looks..."

Nancy was like an old conservative lady. She had always been reminding Angela about the proper manners. Angela stopped in her tracks, "Nancy, as a girl, sometimes you can't be too tender, you know? Well, you should learn from me..."

Nancy gave a disapproving look, "Your brother has told you to learn from me!"

"... Just forget it!" Actually, Angela learned something from her but it was not a good experience. Nancy was too kind and weak-hearted. It was a piece of cake for her to confront ten girls like her at the same time!

She shook her head and frowned at her. However, her expression quickly changed when she suddenly saw someone, "Hey, Angela, isn't that Randal?"

Randal, the guy whom Angela really liked, was the only reason why she was rushing downstairs and hoping she would ran into him.

Even if she only saw his back, she was sure that the thin boy was Randal!

She quickly straightened her cap, patted her pink uniform, and then made her way to him. However, Angela wasn't fast enough. There were two other nurses who came to him first, "Hey! Randal!"

Angela suddenly felt discouraged, "Nancy, tell me how can these women be..." so persistent like me!"

Nancy chuckled, "So, there's only you who can be determined to win his attention?"

"Well, whatever!" Angela left Nancy and hurried towards Randal, "Ran... Ah!"

When Angela was about to tap Randall's shoulder, she ran into a man who was looking down on the medical records.

Unfortunately, Angela lost her balance and spinned around... And another spin before she was able to steady her feet.

Angela looked blankly at the medical records flying around her. Why was there no hero who came to save her?

Where was Randal?

He had already gone...

Suddenly, a cold voice had pulled her back to reality, "What were you doing? Why are you being so rash!"

Come on!

Angela sensed something strange yet familiar. How come this voice sounded like someone she already knew... The anticipation made her feel a bit jumpy. When she looked at the direction where the voice came, she immediately recognized him, "Ah!" Wing! Why are you here?"

Arvin seemed like a clever and sensible man in normal times but he got really confused when she called him "Wing".

She didn't even realize that she already blurted out the nickname she gave to Arvin. To hide her embarrassment, she immediately covered her mouth, "Nothing. Just watch where you're walking! Didn't you know that you have actually wasted my time!"

As soon as those words finally came out of her, she turned her back and rushed to chase after Randal.

"Stop right there!" His cold voice has stopped her abruptly.

Angela sighed impatiently before she looked back at him, "What do you want?" It was all his fault! Now, Randal had gone out of her sight!

"Pick them up!" He shot her a stern look while he was ordering her.

Alas! Since she had no reason to rush because Randal has already went away, Angela did not resist. She lowered herself to the ground and picked up the medical records.

After picking up the papers, she found out that there was only one medical record left on the floor. She looked up at the man with a hint of annoyance, "Hey, don't you feel ashamed standing over there and watching me pick up all these medical records alone?"

'How can he be so tall? I have to tilt my neck back just to see his face!'

"No, I don't!" Standing at the same place, Arvin folded his arms.

Angela was pissed off and hit his arms with the medical records, "How could you have the nerve to stand there and not help me? You were the one who bumped into me! You're not a gentleman at all!"

Arvin didn't even bother to catch the medical records. He seemed unconcerned as the medical records fell again to the ground. He just looked at his tie which Angela has touched. He pulled off his tie, crumpled it, and tossed it right into the trash!

...

His assistants, who were standing behind him, knew that Arvin was angry. They rushed forward and picked up all the medical records for him.

Angela gaped at the trash, and then turned her eyes to Arvin. She glanced at his shirt without a tie, and finally at her hands. Did she have... A virus?

Or did he... Much to her annoyance, she spit out three words, "You have issues!"

Without a doubt! When someone's mysophobia reaches a certain level, he must have some issues! Just like her daddy...

After roaring those three words at Arvin, she grabbed Nancy, who was taking the pleasure of looking at Arvin, and they walked away.

"Angela, did I say that you can go?"

As soon as she heard him, with a surprised look in her eyes, Nancy whispered, "How did our director know your name?"

Angela stopped and didn't make another step. She was really confused. She whispered to Nancy, "Who is our director?"

Could that wing be the... Director of this hospital? No! She could not believe what she just heard.

"Arvin is our director! He is my brother's good friend! Arvin is the deputy director of this hospital! His father, Hogan Old is the director of this hospital. There's another deputy director called Zack Old. Their family basically runs this place..." Nancy's older brother, Gage Hammond, was a good friend of Arvin. However, due to their age gap, they were usually busy with different things. That was why Nancy only met Arvin for a couple of times, and it wasn't even a face-to-face meeting.

Angela almost chocked on her own, and she didn't respond for quite a while. "Did we fall into a goose nest?"

Arvin slightly moved. "What's do you mean by a goose nest?"

Still in surprise, Angela thought it was a question from Nancy. "Their surnames are all Cruz! This place is certainly a home for goose!"