Chapter 15

Zara's POV
Honestly, I felt embarrassed for being late. Especially when they looked at me like this. I feel like I'm at a loss for words right now, but luckily Doctor Leo picked you up here. I was still limping and was in the middle of the door. Hmm, Orion even joined in picking me up. This really became like a colossal drama. I was flanked by two men at once. But I chose to keep walking straight ahead. Then I apologized very bravely as usual. I tried to admit my mistake, which was, in fact, coming late to this place.
"Sorry, I came late." Without telling the reason why I was late.
Everyone understood my mistake. Because they could already read that I was too much of a workaholic. I dedicate myself to this job. So even when I overslept there was no problem. Because previously my time was taken up by this heavy task. So they didn't really mind and didn't care if I only made a mistake that they considered small.
After apologizing and being forgiven. I immediately started the meeting and opened the forum. All were attended by the heads of each field and also, this time, complete with their respective teams.
I began to open a discussion about the problem points that have not been revealed until now.
"Today I received a statistical report that the number of patients with this phenomenon has been recorded at seventy-eight percent. The average age of those experiencing it is between thirteen and thirty-four years old. But most are between fourteen and twenty-five years old and are still productive from puberty to the most fertile age. This is only what is recorded in the report. We do not know yet whether there are still many out there who are not aware or have not had the chance to check themselves. For that, I need help from fellow journalists to further investigate the extent to which the impact of this major phenomenon has occurred among the community, especially in this city first. Because we have only been assigned to this city, especially to be studied. However, the director had time to give a leak. If we start to find common ground and a bright spot in this problem. Then the health service and ministry will assign us to join in the next broader research concerning the country and even much more than that about the world."
They paid close attention to me who was speaking very carefully.
"Excuse me, doc, from several patients who have been interviewed and experienced early menopause. They explained that there was a fluid that they found at night. This fact is reinforced by several questionnaires that were found when we distributed them." A journalist explained.
"Huh, what fluid do you mean?" I started to get curious about the contents of the interview in question.
"So in the interview, it was explained that when they woke up from sleep they found fluid left on the edge of their lips."
"They probably drooled, hahaha..." said one of the journalist friends.
"Hahahahaa..." The whole room echoed with laughter. But I didn't want to laugh at all even though almost everyone in the room was laughing out loud.
I think this time it's serious and we need to know what fluid is meant. So can the fluid affect a person's menstrual cycle? I'm really curious and this is the key to the problem. I will get the answer from the statements of these correspondents.
"Hmm, enough! Enough! Stop laughing! Let's get serious again. Ahem.." I banged the table in front of me.
Instantly, everyone fell silent, and the laughter immediately disappeared and became silent. They looked at me in shock and immediately lowered their heads feeling ashamed of me for laughing out loud because they were provoked by the joke.
"Umm, let's continue!"
"Okay..." They answered in unison.
"If I may ask, what color is the liquid?"
The journalist answered firmly again according to the information he got while in the field.
"Um, wait, let me open the recording again."
"Okay, um, if for example, white could be sperm or red is blood or other chemicals or many possibilities that could happen, right."
"Yes, that's right." Doctor Leo said confirming my guess.
A journalist opened the recording of the interview that he had done with his source. It turned out that the liquid in question was clear and thick as if there was a mixture of mucus. I started to guess what the liquid might be, what type? All the experts started to re-record the results of this recording. Then they asked that if one day something like this happened, please set aside the liquid as a sample to be studied. Maybe there was more left, as many people had said. But before that, make sure to inform first so as not to immediately clean it up if there is a big possibility that there will be another similar incident experienced by women who are still fertile and still menstruating until now.
On the one hand, psychology experts are also present here to complete the minutes of this study. Because this phenomenon could also be based on psychological conditions.
We started to gather to consolidate to smooth the research process. Starting to schedule several important schedules related to this research. There was no free time for anything other than being busy with the smooth running of this research.
The name of the journalist was Julian; I entrusted everything to him at this time, accompanied by Orion, of course. I saw Doctor Leo glance at Julian with a different look. But I didn't really care even though I was thinking about other things about Doctor Leo.
A moment later, everything started to clear, and we divided the next tasks. So I started to close this forum. One by one, they said goodbye to leave the room. Meanwhile, as usual, Doctor Leo and I were left in this room. As for Orion, this time he went out first with Julian and several other journalist friends.
"Doctor Leo?"
"Yes? What's wrong? Need help?"
"Come here!"
I asked him to help me make a report from the discussion earlier. He also served as the notary in our discussion earlier. We also started to compile all the related things that we would need in the next research. Doctor Leo has collected some data that we have obtained and created in the past few days. This has been the third day since we were given the mandate to handle this problem. The hospital director entrusted everything to me. With the note that by the end of this week, we will find a bright spot for this problem. For that, I started to feel confused and stressed taking care of everything. But I am not stuck and keep moving for the smooth running of this research.