(1)
While a good fragrance entering into the nose....
While the hand examining the delicate skin of someone....
Zaw Htet, a young inexperienced doctor, sensed his heart thumping with excitement.
"Is that your picture?"
While lying on the patient bed, she asked something the young doctor by pointing to the photo opposite to her.
Zaw Htet takes off his stethoscope from the ear and asked “Huh! What did you say?”
When she gave a bright smile, a spark from a small diamond on her tooth flashed suddenly.
"I asked is that your picture because the lad in the photo is so handsome and attractive?”
"Of course, that's my photo at my young age. Nothing special! Just to remember my youth!”
"So are you a model?"
"No..No! It is not! At that time, my friend lured me to join a model school. So, I joined model class unintentionally for a while, but I am not now. It was over!”
Hearing at his awkward reply, she laughed quietly and said with a smile.
"I bet you must be success if you continue your career as a model because of your good-looking face," she praised him imperceptibly.
“By the way, my name is Ms. Phyu Lae Yee. I opened modeling school that was not too far from your clinic.”
Zaw gave a nod in order to recognize her introduction, though her name and age had already been noted in the clinic book.
With the branded makeup and sophisticated manner with a perfect scent, it could definitely mask the actual age of a 35-year-old woman, as she looked like a young 20-year-old lady.
"Then are you a model also?"
When Phyu heard his words, a smile appeared on her face.
"I just opened a modeling class as a career, but I am not a model! You know I wanted to be a doctor since childhood. Unfortunately, I got typhoid fever before my matriculation exam and stayed at the hospital for ten days. As a consequence, I missed out the entrance to medical school. I was so depressed at that time and decided to go abroad. There I learned about both modeling and design artwork which took part in my interest. When I decided to come back and settled down this country, I chose to open modeling school because that was my another passion."
Hearing that, he started noticing that she was a graceful and talkative woman.
(2)
"This is for you."
A surprise surged when she put the box on the desk.
"What's this?"
"A Gift For you."
He thought no one might accept those kind of present from an unfamiliar patient who met for less than a month.
"Bring it back! No need to do so!"
With surprising manner, she asked: "Why? Did your teacher ever teach you not to accept a gift from a well-intentioned patient, Humm?"
"No, no, not like that."
"Then, it is because of worthless?"
It was clear that she will persist until he accept. Personally, he assumed he should not take any advantages from any female patient, but at the same time he thought it was acceptable too because of her good will.
"If so please leave it here. Thank you for your present!"
"Oh, your word! You know I'll come to you later."
Gazing at the attractive woman, he heaved a long sigh of relief silently.
(3)
"What's going happening? I notice you are gasping your breath many, many times. Don't you enjoy with me?"
Poe Wathone, his three-year-relationship girlfriend, said with dissatisfaction. He heaved a sigh silently and replied.
"Nothing at all! Just my matter, not concerned with you totally."
"No, no, something is wrong for sure. I know you're always thinking about something in these days. Let me know about it?"
Observing his manner all the time, she knew something might be wrong for sure.
"I'm just thinking about my patient, probably the complicated heart disease."
As luck would have it, she did not continue her suspicious question again as the answer making sense.
In fact, that disease might probably be related to him directly. To be honest, he suspected himself to be suffered that disease because of a woman so-called Ms. Phyu.
(4)
In these days, he had been very close to Phyu.
There was no way to decline for being closer to Phyu because she came to his clinic every day. The biggest problem was just one thing - her attractive and interested manner. Being a young doctor, who had not been much experience before could be a problem while facing a close-up relationship with a beautiful and elegant woman like Ms. Phyu who also tended towards him.
Frankly, she is so beautiful and graceful than enough to say when compared with other ordinary girls. As a woman, she had a distinct feature of gorgeous face with a character of long stylish mahogany hair, making her perfectly graceful and mature, unlike Poe who was just a cute childish girl.
For him, the biggest challenge might be Poe, who had never been betrayed him since they started falling in love for over three years, so how could he leave this cute girl alone.
But ...
(5)
"Let's Break Up"
Zaw Htet's voice struck her ear loudly. She gazed in disbelief manner.
"What are you saying? If it is a joke, please don’t do me like that"
When she was asking with pathetic manner, Zaw Htet felt upset. However, he suddenly changes his manner sternly.
"Look! It's not a joke. I’ve decided to break up with you, understand!"
Probably, that might be the craziest moment in three years of their relationship. Tears flowing down from her eyes.
"What's wrong with me, brother?"
"No, that is totally not your fault, just mine! I apologize you! Please."
"You... You... so ruthless!”
A tense horrified voice from her mouth can’t leave in his ear till now.
(6)
"What are you thinking about, Zaw?"
His sense came back to the present day when a sweet voice entering across his mind. Right! That voice surely came from Ms. Phyu, who was just sitting next to him. Looking at her graceful face with the soft and fluttering hair in the breeze, his heart beat was started fasting.
Actually, Phyu became his girlfriend since he left Poe alone. Ms. Phyu loved him a lot, not even letting him losing from her sight for a millisecond, so it couldn't help go away. Now they were sitting in a couple chairs facing to the Inya Lake.
"Zaw Htet“
”What?”
"When are we getting married?"
"I haven't told my parents yet."
Phyu let out a long sigh and gazed at him.
"I don't want to be missed out because of our age difference. I want to be married with you within this year if you approved. It would be safer to get married these days. I am afraid that your parents are not allowed to marry me.”
He felt great sympathy because of her heart-touching words and despondent manner. It would be fair to say from her side because of age difference for about ten years. Zaw Htet smiled with sympathetic manner.
"Don't worry too much. My father will surely be as I want to. Don't be afraid in this case."
Phyu smiled when she got his words. As usual, a tiny diamond on her teeth sparkled with flash.
(7)
October 14th...
Zaw and Phyu agreed on their marriage date secretly by themselves and decided to let their parents know after their secret marriage at court has been finished. That's exactly what Phyu wanted.
"If I am just separated from you, I would gonna die."
This heart touching words make him to encourage their marriage suddenly. Then on, he has already planned his close friend, Ko myo and his senior doctor, Dr. Kyaw, as their documentary witness in the court.
Probably his bachelor time will be over soon.
Thinking back on his decision, he confused it was a good idea or not. Would it be fair to decide by himself as a son who had always been consulted everything to his parents before? He confused in this case. When he took an advice from his senior Dr. Kyaw, he flattered like a young guy.
"Hey, don't think twice again. Just keep on doing what you want to. You both are a good pair. There is no one like Ms. Phyu who love you that much.”
The last word struck him to remember Poe because she had also been loving him enough to permit letting her alone at the time when he requested to end up their 3-year-relationship. All these matters were over. At last, he had already chosen to Phyu and there was no way to meet her again in life.
But.....
(8)
In the Morning of the marriage day!
A phone call coming from Dr. Kyaw in the early morning, but his sound did not seem good.
"Poe is now in the hospital, the emergency department. She arrived yesterday after taking the whole bottle of burmeton by herself due to tendency to suicide. All her condition is under observation. So, once you have finished your marriage in the court, you should go and look at her condition. I will be coming to the court shortly."
Zaw suddenly felt a mysterious feeling because of that report, which make him in remembering their past. Actually, he had been thinking about Poe yesterday. When he heard Poe's condition, he felt sympathy a lot because all the situations resulting from his unfair decision. Poe might be still in love with him. However, his side has already chosen to Phyu. In a while, he and Phyu will be getting married in court.
Meanwhile, Phyu's voice came out of her room suddenly.
"If you don’t mind, could you please take me the scarf out of the car I left yesterday. The court time will be closer.”
He was wondering if every woman always wants to give orders before they got married. When he was getting in the car and take the scarf out left in the back of the car, and then he was about to closing the back door, he suddenly noticed an NRC card putting on the front dashboard.
At that moment, his face was turning pale like seeing a ghost when he saw the photo from the NRC. The face of a man named "Mr. Phyo Lwin Ye" is looking at him from the photo outside.
"This...this is Phyu."
He uttered a surprise word.
(9)
"Ms. Phyu Lae Yee" or "Mr. Phyo Lwin Ye”
He realized the truth behind that both were the same person. While he was trying to cope with all this shocking truth of the real event, each and every scene of the story was coming in and out of his mind which figured out the truth behind it. Now, he was totally under sweating.
Once he thought about Phyu as a sheep, was actually a wolf. Phyu deceived him first, then he deceived to Poe in turn. Now he had been totally deceived by fate again. At last, Phyu tricked him completely into marrying her. What a surprise!
He finally realized the truth behind the nature of people that a sweet person can even be much more frightful than the ones without it. It was not just a thought, but sensed it with his whole heart.
"Darling, Come quickly after taking the scarf. Just let's go to the court quickly."
A voice suddenly coming out from behind, he was shocked as he realized it must be Phyu. His heart beat thumping again while the door was closed and turning around, he unexpectedly faced up Phyu who becoming his wife in a short moment. Suddenly, some words said by Dr. Kyaw once in the past, coming around in his mind.
"What a pitiful! There are hundreds of thousands people living in such way in the world."
(THE END)
Dr. Aye Min Htoo
Ziwaka Magazine
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