Chapter 3 - The Meeting 1

"Good morning!" he greeted his parents with a wide smile. "Good morning Jacob, sit down and have breakfast." Madam Kelly ordered Jacob with a questioning look on her face. "You're leaving?" "Yes mom, I have an 8 am Major operation at the hospital," he answered excitedly as he sat beside his mom.

"Jacob!" he almost got choked while his father accidentally spits out the coffee in his mouth. Madam Kelly shouted at Jacob and smashed his arm. "Mom!" "You just got home last night after working for 5 years in a foreign country and the first thing you do is schedule an operation! How could you do this to your mother who missed you so much! Can't you just stay here for a day?!"

He looks at his mom. She looks half-angry half pleading with tears starting to form in the corner of her eyes. "Oh, come on mom! Don't be too hard on yourself. This is my job. It's been 3 days since my last operation. My hands are trembling now. I miss blood, scalpel, the action!" he said while hugging her and looking at his father asking for help. "Hon, don't give your son a hard time. You knew this is going to happen once he took over the hospitals. You should at least be happy that he's home. Because of his work here he won't be going back abroad for a long time." he felt his mom loosen up a bit. He gave his father a smile and a thumbs up.

"Well then, I have to go. James is waiting for me outside. I'll make it up to you mom some other time." He stands up and kissed her mom goodbye. He waved to his dad, he nods at him in return. Jacob quickly gets out of the house before his mom could stop him.

Outside the house, he saw his brand new black heavy tinted luxury SUV with James beside it. "Thank you, James." He quickly gets behind the wheels and drives off to the hospital.

At the hospital, J does her usual routine. Punch in at 6:15, head over the Department of Surgery, receive the endorsement from the outgoing nurse, arrange the nurse' station the way she wants it to, put her ball pen on the left front pocket of her scrub suit and put her phone with headphones attached to the right front pocket of her scrub suit.

She put the earphones to her ears then she heard Kane Brown's Heaven playing. She heads out of the Nurse's Station and checks out the OR's Schedule Board to see if there are any major operations, she will be scrubbing in.

Staring at the whiteboard she noticed an unfamiliar surgeon's name scheduled at 8 am. Dr. Jacob Parker, General Surgeon, Case: Mini Gastric Bypass.

Jacob arrived at Camila Lopez Parker Hospital, the main branch of the CLP Group of Hospitals. He instructed James to go ahead to his office as he will go straight to the Department of Surgery. When he enters the Department, he was stunned in place to see a girl looking at a whiteboard. She is wearing a white scrub suit, her hair is in a ponytail, she has a fair complexion, both her hands in the front pocket of her scrub suit. She was facing the wall so he can only see half of her face but enough to say they she is a beauty.