Arvin sped up to catch up with her, put his hand around her shoulder, and said, "Babe! Don't walk so fast, or you'll twist your ankle."
In order to escape Arvin's arm, Angela moved aside, but she stumbled upon something, making her spring forward.
Unexpectedly, she wasn't freaked out, nor had she let out a scream.
She was sure that someone would support her.
As she had expected, a man stretched out his arms to catch her. Then, he pressed her toward a wall along the corridor.
He held his hands against the wall at both Angela's sides and posed an intimate gesture with her.
He looked into her eyes and asked her, "How could you be so careless? Aren't you scared of anything?"
Angela cast a contemptuous glance at him and waved her hand to brush him off.
She didn't say it out aloud in case others were listening to them.
She had realized that his stretched-out foot was the culprit of her stumble when she fell. ...
Arvin smiled and pressed her against his chest. "I'll be late for the meeting. Don't be naughty. Let's go!" said he.
What Arvin said made the people around them excited. They clenched their teeth to avoid letting out screams.
Angela had to pretend that she was doing it on purpose. She gave a fake smile and walked forward together with Arvin. "Take your hands off me!" she warned him in a low voice.
"Okay." Arvin released her, and after she could stand by herself, they went on walking in the direction of the office.
...
It was a common sight for Arvin to chase Angela in public.
In order to pursue Angela, Arvin often did notorious things which were being brought up by the authorities of the hospital. They were blaming him for breaking regulations of the hospital and ignorance of his identity as the acting director of the hospital.
But for Arvin, it was nothing, not a big deal.
Actually, Arvin only flirted with Angela during her break time.
He was still that cold Arvin most of the day.
Before they entered the office, Angela said, "I think you need to be examined by the Neurology Department. I can see that you have symptoms of schizophrenia."
If he didn't have schizophrenia, then how could he act like two totally different men?
As they entered the meeting room, he pulled out a chair for her. Then, he murmured beside her ear, "I just have a dissociative identity disorder. You should know that it's not the same as schizophrenia."
Sitting at Angela's another side, Sven was watching them with a smile, as if he was watching an interesting show.
He loved to watch their banters. In order to see it everyday, he even moved back to the old house of the Si family with his family.
He was on duty last night, so he couldn't go home until the meeting was finished.
He was so happy to see this couple ribbing about before he returned home.
'Two years have passed, and Arvin still tolerates her. Well done!' he spoke to himself.
"A person who has more than two relatively unique and separate sub-personalities is regarded as someone with a dissociative identity disorder, which is a mental disorder of hysteria." Angela sat down and glanced at him with scornful eyes. "It is also a severe disease! Don't you want a psychologist to help you?"
Arvin sat down beside Angela and cast an indifferent glance at the authorities who were carefully looking at them. He smiled and said, "If you are the psychologist, I'll be very happy to be treated... at night!"
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