Yuni was sitting in her room, staring at her cell phone. It had been an hour since she had heard from the hospital. She looked at her alarm clock and sighed. Her phone vibrated in her hand. It was a text from Emi.
"Alice is in surgery right now. They hafta take out her appendix. Zero and his team are operating on her."
Yuni held the phone close to her hand. "Don't let us down, Zero."
Back at the hospital, Zero and the team were delicately working on Alice. Her heart rate increased some, but went back to normal for a short time. For the final performance, Zero and his assisstant spotted the appendix and did everything in their skills to remove it from Alice's body. This girl meant to Zero a lot. He had to be extra careful removing the organ from her.
Disco was waiting in the suite that Alice was in. His mind was on Alice and how the surgery was going. Mostly, he thought about the way Zero was looking at the girl. She was seventeen and he was twenty-three.
"There's no way he could fall for a young girl like her. She's still in school for crying outloud." he thought. "But, then again,, could Alice have a crush on him? Sigh... what kind of love are young people experiencing nowadays?"
Finally, Zero walked in. "Disco..."
The older man looked to the surgeon. "Well, how's she doin'?"
"She's going to be fine, now. The surgery went well, but she's going to need four to five days to recover."
Disco patted his shoulder. "Good job, man. We really owe you a lot... by a lot, I mean-"
"Don't worry about how much the surgery costed. Since I knew her, the hospital will only let you pay half of the price."
Disco grinned. "That sounds cool, thanks."
Zero went outside the parking lot to call Yuni and tell her that Alice was alright. After a few rings, the young girl answered her phone.
"Hello? Who is this?"
"This is Zero. Alice is fine, now. The surgery went well and she'll be okay in about five days."
Yuni felt better after hearing that. "That's great! You truly are the best, Zero. Can you be my personal surgeon instead?"
He ignored that comment. "I only do what I can. I just thought I'd let you know about Alice."
"Yeah. Well, thanks for letting me know."
He looked to the sky after hanging up on Yuni. The stars appeared one by one. Zero felt blessed with his natural talent of healing people, especially since he healed Alice from her pain. His dream in real life was to heal all of the people he could heal.