"Calm down, Cassey. Don't you remember Dr. Santos' advice to you? Don't think too much about the things you've forgotten and that will only hurt you. Just let it be remembered by you slowly."
His name is Jason Nebura. He is Marcus' friend and business partner," said Dindi's soul who only spoke now.
"Jason Nebura," she pronounced the man's name. "I'm not familiar with his name but why does his face seem familiar to me? Do I know him or did I already see him before my accident?"
"Cassey. Don't even think about him, okay?" Clea's eyes glared at her to stop her from thinking of him. Then he suddenly frowned. "It's good that Jason somehow helped you stand up while that Marcus didn't care. Even for just a cover-up, he didn't bother to offer you to take you to the hospital when he was about to run over you."
"That's enough, Clea. You're the one who told us not to talk about them anymore," she scolded her friend who looked pissed off at Marcus. "It's better that we go to Dr. Santos in his office so that I can see him."
"We should go there and let him check on you," she quickly agreed.
As they travel to the hospital Cassey can’t help but reminisce in her mind about what Marcus looks like. He is more handsome in person than the photos they cut out in magazines and newspapers. He's a handsome man despite being cold and having a stiff face. Tall, young, rich, and handsome. He's every woman's dream. Dindi would have been lucky if she hadn't died too early.
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Hey! You didn't tell us that you're going to this hospital too. We could come here together."
Both Cassey and Clea stopped walking when they recognized who are the two men that they had met in the hallway.
"So your destination was here too?" Clea asked the man. Suddenly, her headache attacks again when she saw Jason.
"Yes. I accompanied Marcus to visit one of our staff," Jason replied smiling. Clea was talking to him but his eyes were focused on her.
"It would be nice of you to visit one of your staff," said her friend. She was still smiling at the man she was talking to. She has an interest in him.
"Of course, we are obliged to visit him because he was still on duty when the accident happened. Somehow we are also responsible for what happened. Especially me, because I am in charge of the place where he works," he explained. "Wait, we've been talking for a while but we haven't know the name of the beautiful girls in front of us. I'm Jason Nebura and this man beside me is Marcus Monteverde."
"Nice to meet you, Jason." Clea couldn't hide her giggles as she accepted Jason's handshake. How could she not giggle when the two men standing in front of them were so handsome. But her friend's eyes caught Jason that's why she is acting cute in front of him. While she was a bad trip of Marcus because the man hadn't helped her. Or at least offered to help. "I'm Clea Aragon. Single and available. And this lady beside me is my best friend, Cassey Villacorta," her friend answered quickly.
Jason smiled at her and extended his arm to shake her hand. “I’m very pleased to meet you, Cassey Villacorta.
"N-nice to meet you too, Jason." Cassey didn't want to reach the man's hand because she was worried that the pain in her head might get worse but she didn't want to look snobbish and rude so she reached for his hand.
When their palms met, what she feared suddenly happened. The headache got worse and she felt that her vision suddenly rotates. She quickly withdrew her hand from its grasp but her posture suddenly shook. Marcus quickly helped her when he saw that she was going to fall.
"Are you, okay?" Marcus finally spoke as well. That was the first time he spoke. And she didn't know if she had just heard the seeming concern on its voice when he asked her.
"Cassey! What happened?" The voice of Dr. Santos from behind them. He was passing by when he saw that she almost fainted so he stopped walking and approaches her. "Haven't I told you earlier to go home and rest? Why are you still here?"
"I'm okay, Doc. Maybe I'm just too tired," she reason him. She didn't say that her head suddenly hurt when he saw Jason and touch him. They might have wondered why she felt that way.
"Didn't I tell you earlier to go home and rest? Why are you still here until now?" Dr. asked. Santos again.
"What's wrong with Cassey, Doctor?" Marcus asked uncontrollably. He shifted the doctor's gaze to him.
"She suffered from temporary amnesia after her accident. A part of her memories was lost. She can't even remember what she did before she had the accident. And her head hurts when she tries to remember something so I monitor her condition," explained the doctor.
"Amnesia? Do you mean, she doesn't remember everything that happened before the accident? And she also doesn't know why she got an accident?" Jason asked the doctor curiously.
Not a question but a confirmation. It sounds like that in Cassey's heard.
"I think you should follow what the doctor said to you. You better go home and get some rest," Marcus said. He didn't wait for her or any of the four of them to speak. He simply grabbed her by the elbow and guided her out of the hospital. Confused, Clea just followed them. The doctor left behind as well as Jason who just shrugged his shoulder before he follows them.
Cassey did nothing but walk together with Marcus to his car which was parked outside the hospital. She sighed secretly. Why does she feel like this? Why did she feel as if she knows these two new male acquaintances when she was sure that she had only just seen and met them?
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