A Day off?

Yeah right!

Chapter 1 The Trip

"Hey Mark!" Dr. Jesse Travis yelled down Community General Hospital's busy hallway as he ran down it. Dr. Travis had just spotted his long-time friend turning the corner.

Dr. Mark Sloan, hearing his name being called, quickly turned around and saw his young, colleague running after him.

Finally Jesse caught up with and it took a few seconds for him to catch his breath.

"Yes?"

"Everyone including myself are getting a day off this weekend so I was thinking maybe we should all, you me, Steve and Amanda, go fishing somewhere and enjoy everyone's company."

"That's a great idea, Jess. Why don't you tell everyone and see if tomorrow around 11 o'clock am at the old fishing hole will work? It works for me so I'll be there with my gear," Mark said.

"Sure thing. I'll even bring a packed lunch that will contain some ribs from BBQ Bobs," Jesse said. Right away he saw Amanda standing next to the nurses desk filling out some paperwork for one of her patients.

"There's Amanda. I'll talk to you later," Jesse said hurrying toward Amanda.

"Hey Amanda," Jesse said walking casually up to her.

She turned around the second she heard her name.

"Hey Jess."

Then he told her about the fishing trip thing that was scheduled for that weekend at the old fishing hole at 11.

"Sure, I'll come. I'll call a sitter for the boys."

"Okay, well I need to call Steve and ask him if he'll come since he doesn't know about it yet."

"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow," Amanda said picking up her paperwork and walking toward her lab.

Jesse reached over and dialed Steve's number.

"Lt. Steve Sloan."

"Hey Steve, its Jesse."

"Hey! How are you doing?"

"Good, yourself?"

"Fine."

"Well, the reason I called…."

"I was wondering when you were going to get to the reason of this call."

"Yeah, well, there's this fishing trip at the old fishing hole, just you, me, Amanda and your dad, since everyone's off tomorrow. I even said I was going to pack a lunch that included some BBQ Bobs ribs."

"Ribs?! Are you crazy? We cannot give out free ribs. Someone's going to have to pay for them."

"I know. I know. Chill out Steve, I was going to pay for them myself."

"Just checking. Sure, I'll be there," Steve replied.

"Great, be there around 11."

"Sure thing."

"Bye, see you there," Jesse said then he hung up. Then Jesse located Mark and told him that his son and Amanda could come.

"That's terrific," Mark replied to Jesse's news.

"Yep, it is."

Then they went to see how their patients were.