Chapter - 37 The first clue....

Eva was now curious about Era and said " Let's talk something serious sir, we have to work together to find out what happened to Era back then, we need to talk about it , I am sure it's not that simple",

David interrupted her," no ...never, I don't want to risk anymore lives, and you need to stay away from this, don't get involved," he said furiously.

Eva understood that he would never help her and let her take the risk. ..... Now she had to find someone else to get some help.

Eva got up and started walking, but before that she saw Era lying down in that condition and thought, ' I will definitely get you out of this', and she left. Her intuition was so strong now that the lady she saw last night has something to do with Era's condition. She was thinking about how to get some help, who can help,..on her way back she saw Jerry coming towards her .

He saw Eva and waved at her," Hi Eva ,how are you today ?, you look fine now and that's good, but where are you coming from?" he asked.

Eva thought , that the help she needs can be Jerry, and said " oh.. I never thought you would be this great as a friend, or we would have been friends since high school, you are so cute like this, well I am doing fine now, don't worry, I'll be always fine?",

Jerry was excited with her change of attitude, and said," I was always like that, but you never noticed",

Eva was annoyed but smiled outside.

She continued," by the way , Jerry, I saw you with someone last night, are you cheating on Kate?",

Jerry tried to remember and said, "oh that, ...no ..no I am always loyal to whom I like , it was the same back then when it was you" , she thought, ' loyal ya ... he's continuously hitting on me from the moment he arrived, and loyal to Kate, ya this what loyalty means for guys, like you ', but she smiled to him.

He continued, "that lady is guardian of one of the patient, she's so friendly, she came to thank me, you know I am doing great as a doctor , so many people keep thanking me everyday, "he smiled at her widely,

Eva was annoyed enough , she has to endure this in order to get the information she needs, so she continued, "ya ...I heard about you...but what's wrong with that patient and who was that? ",

Jerry said ," uhh ...you know we are not allowed to disclose patient details, you are a doctor too...why do you bother, keep your mind out of tensions, you just recovered stay stress-free",

he said that holding Eva's head, just casually....but Ben was standing in front of them.... staring furiously...he turned back and walked away from them with out saying anything.

Eva felt bad for him but she had a mission to complete now, she had to get the details from Jerry, so she didn't go to Ben. She continued, "hmm I know we can't do that as doctors...but you know me,.. I am always interested in stories and get curious so easily, well that's fine if you don't want to tell me , we're not that close..." she said sarcastically and was leaving from there,

Jerry stopped her and took her along, "come with me,"

he took her to another ICU ward, and went inside one of the room , there was another girl lying down on the bed just like Era, Eva's curiosity was at the peak now, she asked, " what happened to her? who is she? why is she like this?",

Jerry said, " this is why I asked you to stay out of it, I know you are always curious, ...one answer lead to another question...",

Eva was completely immensed in thoughts , that she didn't even heard Jerry talking, she asked again, "who is she?"

Jerry said, "I know you won't give up , ok ...fine I would love to tell you about her, as she was one of my best experience, it would have been great if everything went well,"

"Hmm ", she said,

Jerry continued ," she is Suzie, she was brought here three years back with massive injuries in a car accident, her heart was completely damaged , and we were left with no other options except heart transplant, they gave her a pacemaker just to keep her alive, she was on observation for six months with that but suddenly, her condition become critical, and she almost died. I was just a junior surgeon back then , but that pacemaker idea was suggested by me ,I was happy to keep her alive. We all tried every means to find a heart for her, then suddenly a brain dead patient was brought here and his reports matched Suzie and she got a heart to transplant , every thing was perfect fine , I don't know where it gone wrong but she ended up here",

Eva was thinking deeply, and then asked him," if everything was good about the surgery, why did she ended up here" ,

Jerry said ,"that was always a puzzle for me it's been three years now ,but she is still the same, she have such a good family, her sister comes here every day with a hope and goes back with sadness",

Eva was keenly listening to him and trying to find some clues, "So, the women I saw with you last night was Suzie's sister," she asked.

Jerry looked at Suzie emotionally and said ,"Hmm... that's Serra her sister ",

Eva looked at Jerry and realised that , he is not that bad as a human being. She said " Thankyou Jerry for taking time to tell me everything, you are really a good friend, ok then .. I'll go and finish up my work and you go on with yours.. bye", she left the room thinking about the connection among them, and Jerry was smiling widely with happiness after hearing Eva's compliments.

Eva was sorting out the clues she got while walking on the corridor of the hospital in her own world. When she saw around, everyone come across were staring and laughing at her, she realised that she was acting weird and that made her look like a joker, so she kept her head down and ran out of the hospital.

She took a deep breath and was going to her room to get changed, but she saw Ben sitting on the bench in the garden arena of the hospital.

She went to him , and sat beside him on the bench and said " Hello Mr Ben Smith, are you fine?",

Ben looked at her and turned his face like angry child, she smiled and asked, "did I offend you somewhere?" ,Ben didn't respond.

So she got up and said, "Ok fine sorry to disturb you" and was leaving from there,

but Ben grabbed her hand and made her sit on the bench again and sat silently again. Eva looked at her and smiled, he really looked like a cute angry child, she said, "if you don't want to talk then let me leave Ben",

He stared at her and said, " if you really don't like me then why didn't you tell me on that day when I confessed, that you like someone else?",

Eva laughed aloud and asked "someone else who, David sir...!! , I was never in a relationship Ben but I do consider to have someone ,but that should be a human being, not a robot,...and for your confirmation, I know Jerry from my high school, he was Steve's classmate, and now I see him as a friend that's it...",

Ben was murmuring something, Eva couldn't hear, so she went near him to here, Ben was stunned to see her so near, and stood up , Eva went back and asked, "what were you murmuring Ben",

Ben thought for a while and said, "if you don't like him, then why were you so close to him ?".

she smiled and said " yesterday I had bad dream and I was frightened he was just comforting me but ...are you jealous Ben?"

" jealous .!!,why would I ?" he said shockingly, hiding his expressions.

Eva stood up from the bench and started walking and said sarcastically," ya ....why would you be..?,ok ...bye get back to work",

Ben was happy to talk to her as she explained everything, and finally got the mood to get back to work.

Eva went to her room and sat down on the chair and was sorting things out she took her diary to write down all the clues she got but unexpectedly saw the note Era wrote for her about the flashes she got .....