“Good morning, doctor”

“Good morning, miss”

She sighed at the formal greeting.  “Doctor, it’s Suzy” He nodded with a yawn in response. “You didn’t get that much sleep last night?” she asked

"I couldn’t” He watched as another wide grin appeared on her face. She moved closer to him, he was almost afraid.

“Why? Couldn’t sleep because you kept thinking about me in a swimming suit?”

He immediately broke in a fit of laughter. Her eyes widened a bit. It was the first time to hear him laugh.

He tried to hush his when he noticed how loud he got. It was the first time he let out a genuine laugh in a very long time, and the building up exaggerated it. She noticed he had tears in his eyes. “I thought you didn’t notice me staring” he told her.

“You have a very lovely laugh doctor; you should do that more often. That and smiling, it looks good on you”

They fell quiet. He noticed the blanket was failing to cover her. Even though it wasn’t that cold, he moved to fix it. She reached her hand to help him, when their hands touched. They both froze. He raised his eyes to look at her. He noticed she had a faint blush. She gazed right into his eyes, their hands still touching, when his beeper rang. He quickly left the room.

The next day he noticed nurses and staffs were staring at him as he was smiling, they didn’t often see that. A young boy, who had a frizzy brown hair, told him he looked better with a smile. His name was Min Young, and he was another cancer patient admitted to the hospital a couple of weeks ago.

As soon as he had his break, he rushed to meet Suzy at the garden. She was reading a book under the shade of an old tree. “See doctor? I told you it looks good on you” she remarked. She stood up to walk over to him, then continued to a short stroll with him following.

“Should we go to the bench?” he suggested. “You’ll get tired”

“No. I’m feeling stuffed, can’t we just walk?”

He nodded. It was a while of small chatter later that he asked her to sit again. She pouted at the firmness and asked him for a bit more ti