Chapter 19 - Eccentric hobby

It's another weekend. Since she started working, her weekend isn't the same as everyone else. This weekend she spend almost 13 hours inside the OT to perform a complicated brain surgery that requires meticulous care. This is her last operation before she have a day off. Still wearing her scrub, she drag herself towards the locker room.

"Yo, what are you going to do after this?" Farrah asked because she too finally had her day off.

"Want to go and have lunch?" Rachel added. It's very rare for the three of them to have a day off together. Although Alicia was feeling tired but her stomach needs food.Then she can have her peaceful sleep.

"Yeah, sure. I'm hungry." She said as she change into her long sleeves T-shirt and loose trousers. She never like wearing tight and revealing clothing just like other people who are the same age as she is. She never found it comfortable. And the same goes with Rachel and Farrah. The only difference was they can wear short sleeve or sleeveless whenever they want. For Alicia, she doesn't have much of a choice.

"Hurmmm,,, i seem to be forgetting something." Alicia said as they head out for the closest restaurant they could find. She had a feeling that there's something important that she forgot.

"Better filled your stomach first. Then you can think." Farrah stated. Rachel nodded her head and she decided to do just that.

It wasn't long before the important thing she forgot start to reveal itself. It's in the form of her brother's bodyguard. With her brother smirking at her as he leaned his body on his car. Her mind start became sharp all of sudden. It's the dinner party. His company dinner party. Crap. Without thinking, she grabbed onto Farrah and Rachel's hand and made a run for it. All of her exhaustion just went away as she dragged her blurry friends to an alley that only she knows. Of course she knows. It's her shortcut to go to the inner place where the homeless people are and are guarded by another gangster that happen to know her as well. Her phone keep on ringing and she just ignore it. She doesn't have to look to know who. It's Ralph. He must be fuming when she ran away.

"Are we going to keep on running?" Rachel asked as she pant in between. They're doctors. And they don't really do exercise. Just a simple run will do but not this much of a run.

"I'm hungry. I can't take it anymore. Can we stop? I don't think anyone is chasing us now that we're here." Farrah cried.

"Just one more block to go. We'll take our rest there. And i can promise you that the food there taste better than the place that we're going." Alicia said as she forced her two friends to keep on running.

Finally they arrive at the destination that she told them. It was almost like an abandoned town. Where you could see gun shots ruining part of the building and there's not much of living person roaming around like they do. Farrah and Rachel couldn't help but feel scared. As for Alicia, she took it as a stroll in the park as she guide them to a building that sells pizza. She casually walked in as they followed them inside despite their doubtful stare.

"Don't worry. They have the best pizza ever. And i suggest you taste their soup as well. Pumpkin soup to be exact." Alicia sat down and explain it to them.

"But, there's no one here. We're not in a haunted building right?" Farrah pointed out.

"What are you thinking? Of course..." Alicia didn't manage to finish her sentence when a chubby woman came out from the back of the restaurant.

"Well,well,,,what do we have here? Early visit this time doctor?" Anna, the owner as well as the waitress stood by the table smiling widely when she saw Alicia sitting on the table along with her two friends.

"You brought your friends with you. And here i thought you don't have any friend at all considering your eccentric hobby."

Rachel and Farrah burst out laughing after they heard what Anna said.

"Anna...how many times have i told you. I do have friends and saving someone is not a weird job. This is Rachel and Farrah. They're doctors as well." Alicia pouted her lips. Anna snorted as she nodded towards her friends.

"No doctor would be crazy enough to walk freely in this part of town like you do. Heck, even the hooligans gave way to you if they ever saw you here." Anna just had to mentioned something that she doesn't wished to know.

"Anna, we're here for food. Do you have my favourite pizza? As well as garlic bread and hot creamy soup." She decided it's best to change the topic. Otherwise she'll just die of hunger from all that running.

"Oh, i want whatever she's eating since it's the first time we came here." Farrah said. Rachel join in also. She was relief no one seem to be following them anymore and they can eat peacefully.

As the food arrive, they immediately dig in. With Farrah's glutton stomach, they decided to order another whole pizza. It is just satisfying.

"I forgot to ask. Why did we run again?" They've eaten their filled and are now resting inside the restaurant when Rachel asked the question.

"Ralph wanted me to go to his company's dinner party. I totally forgot about it until i saw him in front of the hospital." She mumbled out the reason.

"Now i remember. My brother did mention about that party to me. Told me to bring you along. But i'm the same as you. Never like going to such party. It's tiring. Might as well deal with brains, skull and the likes of it. At least it saves my energy." Rachel said as she nodded her head.

"That's a pity. You just wasted food by not going." Farrah, as usual would always have her focus on food.

"Trust me. When you're in that kind of party, you won't have the stomach to eat anything. The portion is only for the people who take care of their body." Alicia gave her assurance.

"Then what do we do? We can't be sitting here the whole day. I need a bath and sleep."

"Me too."

"Me three."

"Do you think my brother's bodyguard gone already?" Alicia asked as she looked outside the window.

"I don't think they knows you're here." Rachel said.

"Yeah, let's go back. I'm staying at your house Farrah. My brother won't give up that easily." Alicia told Farrah. Farrah just nodded her head.

"Count me in. I don't want to hear my brother nagged at me." Rachel follow suit.

This time they walked back to where they come from leisurely. But Alicia won't use the same alley that she used when she escaped. Her brother's bodyguard could still be lingering there. She was about to bring her friends to another alley when five black cars blocking their way. Circling them, leaving them no place to run. Farrah and Rachel start to get scared while Alicia was looking around to find a perfect chance to go for another round of running. They were only five steps away from the small alley. There she can easily get all the help she needed. Her mind start working vigorously not realizing someone step out of the car and watched her every move. Just when she thought she found a perfect chance and was about to drag her two friends again, she was stopped by a gruff voice.

"I wouldn't do that if i were you." She looked at the man and for the first time she realized that she's in danger. The man who's looking at her intensely giving her the very meaning of danger. She was stunned. How she wished she could curse herself for running away from her own brother just because she refuses to attend to those dinner party. Now, encountering the person in front of her she can see the headlines news for tomorrow.

'Three doctors were found dead'

The person in front of him doesn't need to draw out his gun. With his domineering aura, they were hopeless against him. She just hope, her brother won't get revenge for her if she does end up dead in the hand of this man. She stare back at him bravely and just stood there still figuring out a way to let Farrah and Rachel to escape first while she distract the man.

"They won't make it even if you let them escape first."