CHAPTER 4

Burke's Apartment

7:00PM onwards

Cristina tried to open the door carefully wishing Burke is not yet home. She wished she came there earlier fear of seeing Burke and Burke persuading her or forcing her to talk. She knows Burke, he always want to talk and fix things.

The light is off. No one is possibly there. She switched on the light and the first thing that came to her mind is when she first used her key. He said "There's nothing you could reveal about yourself, that I wouldn't want to know," she was so scared to let him know things about her, fearing facts about her would scare him away. Then she remembered she has to take all things quick before Burke gets there.

She started to walk towards the room but things they shared came flooding all over her, like when Burke cooked for her, when she started to become a person she never was by taking care of someone, by loving someone so true and being dependent on them. She never imagined those things would happen and she hated it cause she loosen her grip on him, on the future they are going to have. She thought, she'll be with him permanently.

SGH Hospital, In front of the OR Board

7:00PM

Burke didn't have any patients then. He was staring at the OR board arms crossed. He wants to go home but he is too afraid not to find Cristina waiting for him and that her things would be missing.

Derek is been watching Burke lost in his thoughts. "It is true then?"

"Are you watching me? What are you asking if it's true?" Burke pretends.

"That you and Cristina…" Derek lowered his voice, "broke up?"

Burke didn't answer him.

Derek is about to leave his friend when he spoke again, "I love her so much. I don't know how would I live without her. My life before isn't that meaningful until I met her."

"Maybe you were just meant for a moment. God's way of reminding you that life is not just about career and being the best. You and Cristina have met for a reason, and now you've broke up maybe there's a reason for that too. We just don't know that it yet."

Burke and Derek were surprise with his choice of words. When did Derek used God in his words, when did he use reason as an answer more over to comfort someone? When did he start talking with a lot of sense? Burke laughed at their expression. Shepherd joined him and thought at least Burke had relax for a while.