“The winds are strong and it will make a tender flower as you fall,
Let me hold your tenderness for a moment,
Forgetting all pains that the tenderness has caused....”
Luffina Lourduraj
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Sitting on a revolving chair placed behind her duty desk outside the trauma ward of a prestigious hospital, Agatha was studying the indoor files of the patients admitted in the ward. Her full attention was on these files. She didn't even know that since when Dr Terence has come and stood in front of her. She was just studying the indoor patient files lost in her own thoughts.
Dr Terence called her very intimately and said, Darling, what's the matter, today you are not even looking at me, I felt that you are immersed in some deep thought.
May I know what is your problem?
When Agatha raised her head in shock, she saw Dr Terence standing in front of her.
She told him no sir, nothing like that. I'm not in any trouble. Only, I was reading the indoor files of the patients.
Dr Terence told her again, no it can't be that you are not in trouble, you are always a happy and smiling doll.
Today you are looking extinguished. Let's order coffee from someone for me and for yourself and then tell me what happened to our sweetheart, why is she sad today?
Agatha opened the small door on the side of her desk and called Dr Terence inside and gave him a chair to sit on, then called an employee and ordered two instant coffees.
Agatha is a very beautiful, soft-spoken, popular, and senior nurse at the hospital, Terence is very happy to have on duty because he likes her very much.
Dr Terence is still single, but Agatha has been divorced from her husband within 1 year of her marriage.
Dr Terence and Agatha love each other deeply but till now neither of them has expressed it openly.
Coming inside the desk, Agatha didn't say anything until Terence sat quietly on the chair waiting for the coffee. After about 5 minutes the coffee came and both started drinking, now again Terence asked Agatha.
Yes, dear now tell me why are you so sad today, where has the 440 bolt electric smile on your face gone, if someone said something wrong to you?
Agatha took a fake light smile on her face and told Terence that no one has said anything wrong to her, but today my ex-husband is admitted to the ward, who has had a terrible accident and had very little hope of survival, he is in very critical condition.
Seeing him in this bad condition, I went into a few old memories, because even though we have taken divorced each other, still I had never imagined him in such a bad condition.
Dr Terence very softly took Agatha's hand in his hand and said, look, sweetheart, I know very well that your heart is so tender that you cannot see any person in sorrow but no human being has any emphasis on any incident and accident in this life, it all happens by the will of that God. Don't make yourself so sad, if God wills then everything will be alright.
My dear sweetheart, this life does not stop when someone dies, lives or leaves, you yourself are a girl with great courage, you know how to live life wholeheartedly, and someone has said it very well, "no matter what happens." The Show Must Go On".
Agatha's distraught mind got a lot of relief after hearing such soft and sweet words of Dr Terence and she became a little normal.
Then Terence consoled her and said to Agatha in very loving words, today I want to tell you that I love you very much, and can accept you in any situation. Whenever you want from your heart, can give your consent, I am ready to marry you.
Because Agatha already knew that Terence loved her, but she did not even dream that he would express his love so suddenly and while on duty, tears of joy welled up in her eyes and she got up from her chair and she hugged Terence and for some time stood close to his chest without saying anything.
But Dr Terence understood her acceptance hidden in her silence and then he also silently got up from there and went to his duty.