Demons Beside You

Chen Zhao reached the entrance of UCLA. However, the campus was close to two square miles and he didn’t know where his client was.

He decided to call to ask. “Hi, I’m the doctor. Are you my client?”

“Where are you? I’ll go pick you up.”

“At the main entrance.”

Chen Zhao waited patiently. A while later, Eveleigh Model appeared before him.

“It’s you!”

“It’s you!”

They both recognized each other. It was the college student Chen Zhao met on the train from San Diego to L.A.

“Miss Eveleigh, you don’t seem to be sick. From my preliminary judgement, you should be quite healthy.” Chen Zhao looked like he was observing Eveleigh’s health, but he was actually enjoying her body.

“You better be careful with your eyes. Otherwise, I’ll have the guys here knock your teeth out, just like how you were when we first met.”

“You have boxers in your school?”

“You don’t even reach my school’s average height for guys and you want to fight?” Eveleigh said with disdain.

“You can find someone to try.”

“If you get beaten up, there’ll be no one to treat my friend.”

“Aren’t you a medical student? Why do you need an illegal doctor like me?”

“Hurry up. My friend’s in a bad situation.”

They kept bickering along the way, but Chen Zhao didn’t dally. After reaching Eveleigh’s dorm, Chen Zhao saw Diana Bills who was lying on the bed. He immediately walked over and grabbed Diana’s wrist.

“You don’t need to feel her pulse. Her uterus is bleeding.”

“She went through labor induction?” Chen Zhao asked, looking up.

“Yes.”

“Illegal abortion?”

“Yes.”

Even in a progressive country like America, illegal abortions still occurred. There were many reasons why people chose to do one, but it was obviously very dangerous. The sanitary conditions in many illegal clinics were horrible. The surgeons weren’t very professional either.

Abortions required high standards for the environment and surgery. If it was done in an actual hospital, it would be very safe and just a small surgery. But if done in an illegal clinic, it would become extremely dangerous.

More than 100,000 Americans die from illegal abortions annually.

“Can I check under her?” Chen Zhao asked.

“Yes,” Diana answered in a weak voice before Eveleigh could say anything.

Chen Zhao took out a vaginal expansion device and started checking carefully.

“Her uterus seems to be infected. Did she take any antibiotics after the surgery?”

Most accidents after illegal abortions were due to the injury getting infected from the bad sanitary conditions.

“She’s allergic to antibiotics.”

“All antibiotics?”

“She’s allergic to most types of medicine,” Eveleigh said.

Being allergic to medicine was the worst situation.

“She has a high fever of 101 degrees. I have to lower her temperature,” Chen Zhao said. “She’s not allergic to alcohol, right?”

“Right.”

“Wipe rubbing alcohol all over her body.”

Alcohol was the fastest way to take away a person’s heat. This made it the best method for physical cooling.

“What about her infection?”

“I have some medicine I made myself. It should work.”

“Are you sure your disgusting-looking medicine can work? It won’t bring Diana to see God, right?”

“The biggest possibility is that she’s going to Hell.”

In western religions, abortion was one of the biggest sins. If Diana really died, she would have to go to Hell.

“Hmph!” Eveleigh huffed, clearly unhappy with Chen Zhao’s words.

Chen Zhao picked through his kit and chose a bottle of demonic medicine.

“What’s that?”

“My unique formula,” Chen Zhao said.

“You illegal doctors just love having random formulas. If anything happens to Diana, I’m never going to forgive you.”

“If something really happens to her, you’ll be to blame as well.”

“Miss, drink this. You’ll get better.”

Diana sniffed the medicine. “What’s this? I can’t tell the ingredients at all.”

“I told you it’s my own formula. Drink it.”

“Are you sure I won’t die?”

“I promise. I promise you’ll live nicely. Otherwise, I’ll have to go to jail.”

“It tastes weird.”

“I’ll add sugar next time,” Chen Zhao chuckled.

“You’re so sweet. Where are you from?”

“I’m from China.”

“Can you be my boyfriend?”

“I have a girlfriend.”

“When you break up with her, can you date me?”

“Why do you want to date a Chinese guy?”

“You make me feel comfortable. Plus, you saw my body already.”

“Uh...I’m a doctor. You’re a med student too. You should know that doctors often can’t help but touch a patient’s body.”

Chen Zhao wouldn’t take a half-conscious patient’s words seriously. Many patients would feel helpless and develop a reliance on the doctor. These may be Diana’s genuine words, but after a while, she might not even remember that she said all this.

Of course, rejecting Diana was mostly because Chen Zhao didn’t want to have another relationship. At least, he didn’t know anything about Diana and he couldn’t agree so impulsively.

Eveleigh glared at Chen Zhao without saying anything.

“Diana, how do you feel?”

“Better.” Diana looked at Chen Zhao. “Do you have to leave now?”

“After a bit. I need to observe your condition.”

“Can you talk to me?”

“Of course. What do you want to talk about?” Chen Zhao sat down beside the bed and looked at Diana with gentle eyes.

“Don’t you want to know who’s baby I aborted?”

“If you want to talk about it.”

Chen Zhao would never purposely probe into a client’s private matters. Even if he was curious, he still had to respect their wishes.

Diana rested her head on Chen Zhao’s thigh. She was a very pretty and youthful girl.

Slowly, she told Chen Zhao about her story. His heart felt heavy because it was such a sad past. However, he understood why Diana would choose abortion.

She’d been drugged and raped. She didn’t even know who the father was.

Don’t think that these girls are all very open. Not everyone was able to think lightly about these things.

To most girls, what Diana went through was a catastrophe.