Chapter Sixteen (Page Three)

“I heard somebody called her, a full-time care taker.” Tang said

“A friend, Fatima” Chan said

“The celebrity?” Tang asked

“She is up in California right now. But she made a telephone call, to her assistant, in Sydney, to get Walker a full-time care taker, the second she heard the news. Emma SMS the news to her.” Chan said

“She seems like a nice person.” Tang said

“She is. Fatima is a nice person. Plus, she and Hailey are good friends and not to mention that, like many celebrities, Fatima is rich, she can afford it.” Chan said

“Lucky.” Tang replied

“Yap” Chan said “Look, is it alright, if I go inside, to talk to her along, for a few seconds?” Chan finally asked

“Yeah sure, of course, just don’t take too long. She is still really weak.” Tang replied

“Alright” Chan said and then he turned to Eric “Eric, is it alright, if I talk to Hailey along?”

“Yes sir, I’ll wait out here.” Eric replied

“Thanks” Chan replied

Chan walked into Hailey’s room and close the door behind him, leaving Eric and everybody outside.

Hailey was happy to see Chan, she smiled “Hey”

Chan sighed heavily “How are you feeling.” He said and took a seat next to Hailey.

“The doctors won’t let me out of the hospital.” Hailey replied

“Well, you seriously screw up big time, this time around.” Chan said

There were a few seconds of silent, neither Chan nor Hailey said anything.

“Dr. Tang Wong, he is your brother, isn’t it?” Hailey finally asked

“Yes.” Chan replied “You should listen to him, he is one of the best doctors in the world, the board of this hospital, is trying convinces him to stay in Australia, to be the hospital’s new Chief of Medicine.”

“Is he staying?” Hailey asked

“I don’t think so. He is not used to, some of this country’s customs.” Chan said

“It’s interesting” Hailey said and then, there was another few seconds of silent. “I heard some people say, Tang is a bit as a player.” Hailey finally said

“He can be sometime, in his free time.” Chan said “I heard people saying, you are telling everybody that, you are in here, because you fall down the stairs, all by yourself.”

“I…I” Hailey wasn’t sure what to say

“Hey, you know none of those doctors out there, are buying it. Now, you are not going to start lying to me too, are you?” Chan said

“I thought you say that, you are not going to talk to me anymore.” Hailey said

“Considering the circumstances, I can make an exception. Come on girly, spill it, what happened?” Chan said

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Hailey said

“You have been bugging me, with your emotional problems, for years and now you don’t want to talk? Are you kidding me?” Chan said

“Look I just…” Hailey’s sentence was been cut off

“Hailey, I swear to god, talk or die.” Chan said

“I don’t know. I am just so confused.” Hailey said

“And you wonder, why I say, you would make a bad mother. I heard you lost your baby, because of this. Is it true?” Chan said

Hailey nodded

“And you wonder, why I say, you make a bad mother. Look at what happened to your kid. How can you take care of anybody, when you can’t even take care of yourself? Sam hit you, didn’t he? You know? None of these would happen, if you leave Sam.” Chan said

“It…it is just hard.” Hailey said

“Even for the sack of your child, is it? God, you are selfish.” Chan said

“I…I” Hailey couldn’t think of the right thing to say.

“Look girl, I am going to tell you this once and only once.” Chan said, he knows Hailey well and he has a good idea, what is most likely to be going on inside her head and he has decided to get straight to the point, assuming he is right about, what is going on inside Hailey’s head “Fact number 1, there is no universal rule of what true happiness is supposed to be and what true love is supposed to be. I know you Hailey, you been through a lot while you growing up, your dad hit you and your mum, you gone through numerous foster home while growing up and as a result, for some reason, I don’t really understand, you might have this image of what true love and true happiness is supposed to be like, a lot of those ideas are been feed to you via fairytales such as Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. I might be able to understand why, if I am a female, but I am not, I am a male. But anyway, those are just stories, not reality. Plus, those stories normally just say, they live happily ever after, but give no definition of it. If Cinderella and her prince are soul mate, that might justify the happily ever after, but if Cinderella’s prince is a player, who cheat on her on a 24/7 basis and would chop her head off, if she can’t give her a male hair, well, if that is true happiness, then I rather don’t want it. Same with Snow White, if her prince is a funny guy that make her laugh, then that might be a happily ever after, but if her prince is a wife beater, who lock her up in a dungeon, all the time. If that is true happiness, I rather don’t want it. Now, let’s look at some real-life woman that married into royal family. That chick who married into the…I think Demark royal family, Princess Mary, well she and her husband seem happy, although they probably have their up and downs, just like any couples, but overall they seem to be a lovely couple and her husband seem like a lovely guy, so Ok, maybe that is happily ever after, but let’s take another example, take a look at the most world famous, Princess Diana, she married to a prince too and what happened to that? Well, if that is happiness, I rather don’t want it.” Chan said