She's My Sleeping Pill

“I’m not really sure when we’d be able to go back home but it should be after completing my assignment. Also, I’d be coming with Dr. Rivera and some of Chris’s friends.”

“I see. Then, you take care of yourself.”

“Will you miss me?”

“No.”

Her quick response made Tristan feel a little sad but he knew she didn’t really mean it. She’s probably still upset with all the things that happened in the past. It’s already a great start that she allowed him to get closer to him.

The next day, he met with Eliezer and the two other men that Chris sent over to help them. They looked normal businessmen wearing formal suits but Tristan knew they were more than what they appeared to be.

.....

“I’ll be in your care. I hope we’ll have great cooperation.” Eliezer stated and shook hands with Tristan.

“Likewise. I hope we’d get back home safely as fast as we could.”

P country was a group of thousands of islands. It’s near the pacific ocean and it’s neighboring countries like this place as well. Their people is very welcoming and hospitable. Since they are very open to trades, they offer varieties of food and other necessities. The country has a wide-range of cultures due to the influence of other countries who invaded them in the past.

It has the biggest biodiversity in the whole world and many scientists like to explore this place’s land and water resources. They get to discover so many things from them.

Although their population continues to increase over the years, they still have huge pieces of inhabited lands.

And because it’s an archipelagic country, there were islands that people haven’t visited yet or places that shelter to indigenous people and tribe.

Some tribes are welcoming to people but others aren’t.

When Tristan and Eliezer arrived at P country, the two businessmen changed gears and became tourists who come along with them instead. They mingled with the natives and tried their best to learn the culture as much as they could. At first, they pretended to be interested but as the time went by, they became genuinely interested of the people and their customs.

“I’ll establish a meeting with her first. Make a profile that I’m a renowned doctor in the field of pediatrics. I have few achievements but you can exaggerate them for this business sake. Let’s just delete it after meeting her.” Eliezer told Tristan, not bothered with the fact that he might be targeted after this project.

“I’ll do my utmost ability to make sure this won’t lead you to more danger.”

“Thank you.”

The four of them didn’t waste more time. While the two became tourists, at the same time observing the place, Eliezer and Tristan has started their assignment. Eliezer wasn’t really part of this plan originally. He was just visiting the country to meet with his patient who moved to this place. It was just a coincident that Tristan had to come as well.

Eliezer bought a sim card first from the nearest store and asked the seller to include load as well, a huge amount at that to make sure he won’t need to reload again and again.

“I’ll leave a message to her first. Do you think she’s still using this phone number?” Eliezer questioned as he typed the message he wanted to convey.

“Why don’t we give it a call directly?”

“Isn’t that a little too straight-forward?”

“You are a doctor. How come you are not blunt?”

“I deal with children. I always try my best to make things a little acceptable to them when it’s worse.”

“That’s why Jillyanna got away because you couldn’t be honest to her.”

“Hey!” Eliezer’s eyes widened at the sudden mention of Jillyanna. “How did you know that I like her? Also, it was in the past. Don’t bring it up now.”

“Alright.”

“Jesus! If Travis is here, he’d probably ship me off to another country and ban me from coming back home.”

“He’s that scary?”

“When it comes to his family. You should know that by now.”

“Well, I thought Stefan was scary enough. I didn’t know Travis could be worse.”

“Nah! They’re on par when it comes to being slave to their wives.”

From business to gossip, the two of them started to get comfortable with each other’s presence in just few hours of being together. In the middle of their conversation, they also decided to just send a message instead of calling Denise Amir.

While waiting, Eliezer decided to visit his patient first. He’s a pediatrician and Tristan understood that he deals with children but as far as he knew, autistic children have a different doctor who caters to their need. They have different needs compared to other normal children so doctors have to be very careful around them and must be sensitive to their emotions.

Surprisingly, Eliezer was treating an autistic child. She’s already 10 and she’s a genius. That’s the perks of being autistic. You get something special for lacking something. As long as they’re taken cared of and given special attention, these children will become great in the future. And that’s what Eliezer believed.

At first, he didn’t want to take this work because he didn’t know how to handle autistic children. He was afraid that he’d mess up. However, the patient specifically asked for him whenever she visits Senyu Medical Hospital back in City B. Eliezer still didn’t know the reason why she chose him but he decided to give it a shot. He started reading books about autism and talked to professionals in order to help this little patient of his. So far, he’s doing good at it and she’s slowly acting like how normal children do.

“Are you planning to take a side course related to autism?” Tristan asked by the time Eliezer finished his consultation time with his patient.

“Not really. It’s a very delicate matter and I’m worried for the children. As of now, I’m doing well because there’s only one of her. In the future, there will be more patients like her and I am afraid of making a mistake. Anything in their childhood development will affect them in the future.”

“You really are a good doctor.”

Eliezer just smiled faintly while looking up at the sky. ‘A good doctor, a good friend, but not good enough to be her partner.’ He thought when Jillyanna’s face appeared in his mind. He did say that he moved on from his love for her but he was obviously lying to himself.