Anne spent the whole afternoon drinking she had no intention of stopping since she was so good at holding her alcohol content. She kept on drinking hoping to numb the pain that she felt as well as escape from reality for good. However, no amount of alcohol was going to make the situation disappear, her head was in a mess both the past and current events were fighting so much sending her into something like a trance and she couldn't bear it. She kept on drinking until the point when she was more than drunk. Everything felt like they were spinning, nothing was making sense. Later in the evening, she wasn't able to take herself upstairs such that she ended up sleeping on the couch which she had tattered with her knives.
The next morning doctor Flo woke up feeling so much refreshed and also her mood was so good. This is because the previous night when she got home she went through her relationship with Scar and realized that she had always been the one giving all the time, always the one who would try to make an effort for the relationship to work, always the one to say sorry. She had always wanted people to know that Scar and she were partners but he suggested that they kept it secret. He was the one to decide and she was the one to follow without fail. Thank goodness for the last events her eyes were opened. However, her foolishness broke her heart, she wished to even just delete that part of her life. She then decided to come to peace with the whole situation, she couldn't keep on crying over spilled milk so she then decided to try by all means possible to forget everything that happened between them and also get rid of all the feelings that she had for him. She encouraged herself to turn a new leaf and leave the past in the past since the coming day was new and a different day.
She arrived at her workplace, dressed in a navy blue slack, white shirt, and white glassy heels. She didn't have too much jewelry on her just small navy blue earrings, and a white lady's wristwatch. Her makeup wasn't too much, it was almost natural but it suited her so much. She was glowing and the moment she got into the hospital other co-workers were greeting her in a friendlier manner and they couldn't avoid looking back once she would have passed. She got into her office, put her bag in the cupboard that was beside her table she then took her coat from the hanger and whilst she was in the middle of putting it on someone knocked on her door once and before she could answer the person invited himself in.
"Hey sweetheart, wow maybe it's just me but something about you has changed like your beauty got something extra on it. What's the occasion if I may ask?" Said Scar with a calm, soothing voice, and in one of his hands, he was holding a bouquet.
Doctor Flo didn't bother to look in his way, she just rolled her eyes, took a deep sigh and continued putting on her coat, and then proceeded to sit on her desk.
"Come on honey, at least just smile or better still appreciate my compliment," he said dragging the chair that was in front of her desk.
Flo didn't bother to pay any attention to him, she acted as if he was invisible or like he never spoke and began to check some of her patients' records.
(Putting his hand on top of her hand) "Flo please, I know this is not the first time that we have fought but what you are doing right now won't solve anything. If you ignore me I won't know what's wrong also, I will keep on bothering you like a fly. You used to give both of us a room to air out our dirty laundry whenever we had a misunderstanding but now I don't understand what's going on, what did I do?"
Flo was writing something when Scar touched her hand and she briefly stopped, lifted her eyes, and looked at him for a few seconds. She then removed her hand from his, and then changed her position, and continued what she was doing as if nothing had happened.
"Flora!" He said angrily putting the bouquet that was in his hand on the table and also banging the table with the other empty hand.
His actions startled Flo a bit such that she almost lost track of what she was doing and that's when it occurred to her that if she didn't answer things would accelerate in the wrong direction and they would end up creating a scene.
"Don't you think if someone saw you walking into my office with those flowers, our relationship won't be a secret anymore?" She said organizing the papers that were in her hands, without even attempting to look at Scar.
"That's the least of my problems right now, all I want is for you to tell me what's wrong and also makeup with you."
"Does that mean you now want people to know about us?"
"I had always wanted that, it's just..."
(Annoyed) "Spare me the explanation, we didn't come here to talk about our relationship."
(Putting the pen that was in her hand down) "Doctor Naro, do you mind if we just concentrate on our work first then we will talk about our issues later?"
(Looking around) "Huh, are…are you talking (pointing at himself) to me?"
(No answer)
(Disappointed and hurt) "You…you have never called me Naro before, have broken up with me already?"
Flora then realized that Scar was becoming suspicious about her and she had no idea whether she was safe or not however, the other party seemed not willing to let go just like, and either way she had to deal with the situation at hand. But how? That was the question that was way more confusing in her mind.
"This is a working place so we have to grow up and keep all our ways of conduct as professional as we should, let's talk after work…"
"No, that's what you said yesterday and you ended up being rough toward me and you didn't give us a chance to talk. You sent me away like a dog…"
"I promise today we will have a chat after work…"
"What if you don't keep your promise?"
"Then we will just talk things out here tomorrow."
"Okay, so what's the location?"
Flo hesitated to answer this question, though she wanted to clear things with Scar she no longer felt safe around him. They could talk at work because that might disturb the progress of their job also who knows where their conversation would lead. A hotel or a restaurant was not a good idea because she couldn't express how much she felt besides as the top and the classy doctor she had a reputation to maintain. His place was a no-go area, and she finally had no option but to make the hardest decision.
"How about my place?"
(Smiling ear to ear) "Perfect, anyway, I had bought you these," he said pointing at the flowers.
(Faking a smile and looking at the flower) "Oh thank you so much, let me just finish what I am doing and I will take care of them."
"No problem love, see you later," he said leaving the office.
After Scar left the office, Flora almost got sunk in anger as well as disgust that she was feeling. She even took out a perfume from her bag, sprayed the whole office including the chair, and also widely opened her windows for the air to circulate. As for the flowers she took them went into the bathroom and put them in the trash can that was in there. Nevertheless, their conversation earlier helped because Scar listened and they managed to work professionally without getting into each other's way.
On another note, Ghost and her team spent the day monitoring their target's movements and also making sure that everything was in place without anything missing. Another thing they had to make sure that they were mentally, emotionally, and physically ready for the mission and all the possible outcomes.
As for Anne, she slept wasted the last night, thank goodness that she didn't vomit. She woke up in the morning and had another bottle, to ease the severe headache that she had woken up feeling. She sat on the floor with a bottle in her hand, the moment she woke up, her mind had begun to wander all over, she couldn't stop scratching her head and also hitting her forehead with her left hand. Her mind was leading her into a trance again, within a few minutes all the present events were shut from her again and she was taken back to the past again, just right at the moment she had stopped the previous day.