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Melendez spent the night at home, he was indeed worried still, although Lim was in good hands. He couldn't help thinking about the miscarriage. His brain couldn't cope with the idea that they would have had a baby with Lim if this day wasn't like this. Without the quarantine and the stress she had gone through. He couldn't sleep nearly all night, he needed to grab a beer - and one more later on that night- to process the information. He would have been a father. And Lim would have been the mother of his child. "It's impossible."

He could take some rest at around dawn before he had to wake up. He didn't have to work that day although he was on call in, but he promised Lim he will visit her next morning, so that's what he did. At eight a.m. he knocked at Lim's door in the hospital. He could hear her approval to come in.

"Good morning." he smiled at her. "How are you feeling? Could you sleep?" he asked.

"Morning." Lim looked up at him. "Physically...I'm okay. It was just a miscarriage. I can handle it..." she sighed.

"I know your body can." Melendez nodded. Lim knew what he tried to point on.

"I didn't even know that I'm pregnant, Neil. I wasn't really expecting, so I don't really know what to think about this. I'm confused." she tried to explain, but she couldn't describe her feelings. Melendez stepped closer, picked up a chair, placed it at her bedside and he sat down on it. "But we definitely have to talk about this." Lim added.

"I agree." Melendez nodded. "I couldn't sleep last night. I'm confused too. Do you realize that we almost had a child together?" he asked seriously.

"Yes, I do. It's crazy. I know you want to have children, but me...not really. Or I should say I can't imagine myself as a mum. But anyways, this all, between us, it was just a fun night and that's all, right?" she looked in his eyes.

"Yeah, sure. But does it mean to you that we are going to forget about this and move on?" Melendez raised his eyebrow.

"Doesn't it to you?" Lim shrugged her shoulder. She really didn't want to think about this more deeply. "We have to move on and never talk about this again. You can't tell anyone that it was your child! I'm already the topic of many rumors, but until you are not included, I don't care. As soon as they start speculating, we are in trouble. Nobody can find it out, okay?" she tried to put the words into Melendez's mouth.

"Okay. I'm not an idiot, you don't have to make me look like one." Melendez shook his head and stood up. Honestly, her words hurt a little bit, he had to realize that the night they spent together probably ruined their friendship. Lim was cold with him ever since. He had to stop being this nice and caring about her. "Did you want me to come here today just to tell me this? Because you could have just send me a text message instead." he sighed. "Is there anything else you want to make clear? Otherwise I'm out." he crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked at her while waiting for the answer.

"No, this was it." Lim answered quietly. Melendez walked out of the room without saying 'goodbye' and Lim couldn't really understand why. "Did I say something bad?" she thought.

"Unbelievable..." Melendez mumbled when he walked up to his office. Still, he didn't have to be there, he just wanted to pick up something. Bad luck hit him. He met Andrews on his way.

"Good morning, Dr Melendez. I thought you are only on call." Andrews greeted him.

"Good morning, Sir. Yes, I am. I just had to deal with something in here." Melendez sighed.

"Did you visit Dr Lim?" Andrews asked. He knew that her room was in that direction where Melendez came from.

"Yes. She is fine..." Melendez nodded. "…and arrogant..." he added quietly.

"You still don't get along well since the incident in the OR?" Andrews raised his eyebrow.

"No, as it turned out. I thought we do, but she made it clear that we don't." Melendez shook his head. "But I better be going. I have many things to deal with at home too."

"You two sound really fix your problems because you can't work together like this." Andrews told Melendez but he left already.

"I know..." Melendez waved back from the corner of the hallway before disappearing. He couldn't risk to tell anything more about this situation to Andrews by accident.
When he arrived to his office, a pile of documents welcomed him on the table. "Oh shoot..." he sighed. He totally forgot about the paperwork he should have done the day before. He was so focused on Lim's condition he neglected his job. But now he was in anyways, so he sat down and started to work on his tasks.

As time went by, Lim started to feel guilty for her words to Melendez. She was harsh, she had to admit. She picked up her phone and sent a message to Melendez asking whether he is free to talk or not. When he received the message, he thought about to ignore it or not but at the end he didn't reply anything to it. Lim still waited a little before deciding to give it a try and look for him in his office. She put on some sweatpants and sweatshirt -she hated the gown she was given to wear in the hospital, she didn't even want to leave the bed in it- and she was ready to go. She looked like there was nothing wrong with her. She put her hair up in a ponytail on her way out of the room, then nothing could stop her from walking up to Melendez's office.

Melendez buried himself in the papers, he wanted it to be done as soon as possible because he wanted to come home before anyone calls he in for an emergency surgery. He wanted to be at home. He wanted to sleep as he couldn't really at night. A knock on his door disturbed him. The door opened.

"I'm not in charge today, try again tomorrow…" he said simply without looking up from the paperwork.

"Neil..." he could hear Lim's voice. "Can I come in?" she asked politely.

"What do you want here?" Melendez glanced at her, sighed then nodded to approve her request. Lim walked in and closed the door behind her.

"I came to apologize. I was rude. I'm sorry." Lim tilted her head and tried to look in Melendez's eyes but he avoided it. "Look. Honestly...I want to keep our friendship as good as it was before everything went wrong between us. But despite this, I have to admit something..." she sighed.

"You were the one who ignored me for a month!" Melendez stated.

"Yes, you are right! It was my fault. But I was scared from my feelings, okay?" she said out of the blue.

"What?" he looked confused. "Feelings?"

"Neil...it's complicated." she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then look up at him again. "I pushed you away because I didn't want to fell in love with you." she admitted finally.