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Their first Encounter
**Please take note that this takes place at the very beginning**
"This may be the last chance you have" Christina muttered up under her breath as she stood in the bathroom looking back at herself in the mirror. She was closer to the edge than she wanted to admit, things were completely out of control and she wasn't sure how much more of this she could take, it was time to finish this and now all she needed to do was to figure out how. It was a really nice Fall night when she arrived to start her 11 to 7 shift at the hospital, and from the moment she clocked in she had the strangest feeling that her life was about to change in more way then one.
"Hey Chrissie, looks like tonight is going to be a slow one," Bobbie told her as she came out of the patients room headed back over to the nurses desk.
"Hey yourself, how many do we have? And I hope it is I'm not sure I can do anything other then slow tonight,"
"We have ten, hey have you met the new doctor yet? He started a few days ago." and Christina shook her head at her best friend as if what new doctor.
"He's the doctor on call tonight."
"So you want to do something this weekend?" Christina asked, trying to change the subject knowing that her friend could get a little carried away at times, but truth be told she hadn't heard about a new doctor and really didn't care to. As she stood there looking over a patients chart she glanced in her friend's direction to see her smile and a second later she turned to a tap on her shoulder.
"There he is." she whispered, "His name is Dr. Thomas Wakefield he's a cutie"
"Bobbie you know you need to keep thoughts like that to yourself," Christina told her as she looked up in the direction of the new doctor to get a better look, damn he is cute and no I haven't met him yet."
"Hey."
"Hey what, I was just saying? Well he is" she told her as they both started to laugh,
"You're a happily married woman." and the laughter quickly came to an end and so did the smile.
"If that's what you want to call it" Christina muttered up under her breath, before turning away, her and Bobbie had talked about a few of the problems in her marriage but not everything. "Hey I can look as long as I don't touch." Christina told her as she grab the chart again and took off down the hall to check on her patient.
"Hey Christina, what was that suppose to mean?" Christina turned shrugged and smiled back at her friend.
"Nothing it doesn't matter." and the smile disappeared as quickly as it came as she turned back and entered the patient's room.
As she finished up with her patient she made it back to the empty nurse's station she stood there going over some doctor's orders when he approached the desk.
"Hi I'm Dr. Wakefield." he introduced and extended his hand, and smiled as he did.
"Christina Hawthorne." she told him as she shook his hand and smiled back. "How may I help you tonight Dr. Wakefield?" Christina asked as she stood there in a little bit of awe as he still had her hand in his, she pulled it back slowly and smiled again.
"sorry, I wanted to know if you could change the dressing on Mr. King wound please." he blushed and looked down at the chart he was holding and started to make some notations on it, she could see that he was still smiling but never looking back up again in her direction.
"Sure Dr. Wakefield I can do that." she told him as he finally looked up from the chart, his face was still a little red from embarrassment, but Christina smiled she thought it was kind of cute, and he seem to be a really nice doctor he asked didn't tell.
"Thank you Nurse Hawthorne." he told her as he gave her another smile before starting to walk off back in the direction of the patient's room.
"You're welcome Dr. Wakefield." Christina told him as she smiled back at him then turned to see Bobbie approaching the desk.
"I see you just met the new doctor and what was all that smiling about?"
"Nothing he just want's me to change the dressing on the new admit patients that's all."
"Ok Christina I haven't seen you smile like that in a long time."
"Like what Bobbie? I smile all the time."
"Not like that. Not like a kid with a new toy." Bobbie told her as she took a seat behind the desk with a concern look on her face.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Christina told her as she answered the ringing phone that Bobbie so kindly let ring before making it over to Mr. King's room. Bobbie sat there shaking her head and wondering what Christina had up her sleeve for the new doctor, at times Christina could be a little overbearing, forceful, but compassionate and had a way of getting her own way at any cost if it was for the good of the patient, Bobbie had a feeling that the new doctor was in for it, Christina had him in her sights, she had seen it to many times before to a few other doctors that she had (bullied) ok persuaded to do what she wanted them to do and from the look in her eyes he was going to be no different.
It had turned out to be a semi long night and she didn't see the new doctor again, most of the time the 11 to 7 was pretty quiet but tonight was a little bit of a hustle nothing that her and Bobbie couldn't handle, as the night started to turn into morning and it was time for the shift change they both clocked out gathered their things, and headed for the ER, as they walked out of the double doors and headed for the parking lot, they started acrossed it she glanced to her right, Christina saw him a few feet a way talking to Dr. Jones, he glanced over in their direction and smiled she smiled back and Bobbie just looked at her and shook her head.
"Christina what ever you have planed, please don't do it, it will only get you in trouble." she told her friend as they reached their cars parked next to each other.
"What are you talking about? I don't have anything planed for him." Christina told her as she opened the door.
"Yeah right, sure you don't, just act like I don't know you." and they both started to laugh she knew her friend well and what ever she had planed for him she knew that he wouldn't even see it coming until it hit him right in the face. "But seriously Christina what ever you're thinking, leave it alone."
"I'll see you to night Bobbie."
"I'll be here, tell Camille and Michael I said hello."
"Will do." she told her as they both got in their cars and drove out of the parking lot headed in opposite directions. Twenty minutes later Christina made it home, it was her day to drop Camille off at school as she walked into the house she notice that Camille wasn't ready to walk out the door. "Camille you need to come on or you're going to be late." she yelled from the living room, and about ten minutes later she appeared from her bedroom dressed and ready to go. Camille was this cute precocious little happy go lucky eight and half year old with this creamy peanut butter smooth skin she took more after her mother then her father, she had curly dark brown hair, and dark eyes that she did get from her father, and a smile that would light up a room. "Good morning mommy, I'm ready, we can go now." Camille told her as she headed out the door grabbing her book bag and coat out of the chair on her way.
"Good morning to you too sweetie," she told her as she passed her by "the door is open just let me tell dad were leaving." she headed into the bedroom where Michael was still in the shower, she opened the bathroom door and called out to him "hey I'll be right back going to drop Camille off." she told him as she turned and headed for the door. As they reached the school she kissed her daughter on the forehead. "You have a great day sweetie I love you, a lot." Christian told her as Camille started to get out of the car.
She turned back and smiled, "Bye mom, love you too a lot. She told her as she got out of the car and headed over to stand with her friends.
After making it back home again she walked into her bedroom where Michael was getting dressed for work.
"Good morning?" Christina said with a smile and a kiss, as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Good morning, so how was work?" Michael asked as she readjusted his tie.
"It was work, nothing special, Oh there is a new doctor on staff." Christina told him but was sure his mother had already filled him in on it, she always did most of the time he know things before she did, and she knew just about everything that went on at Richmond Trinity.
"I heard," he told her as he looked into her beautiful hazel eyes "I hear he's a good doctor and an excellent oncologist it seems that ever one is very impressed by him, Richmond Trinity is lucky to have got him."
"And when did you hear all of this?" Christina asked as she pulled away from his hold to grab her things for her shower.
"My mother mentioned him last night when we talked."
"I just bet she did" Christina muttered up under her breath. Amanda would tell Michael every thing she could about hospital business.
"Did you say something Christian?"
"No Michael I didnt, but he seems like a really nice person, I only talked to him for a few second last night," she told him as she got her things and headed for the bathroom, "I'm going to take a shower now."
"What do you mean you talked to him, you met him already?"
"Umm…yeah I met him last night," Christina told him as she stood in the doorway of bathroom with her arms crossed and a look on her face, wondering what he was getting at.
"I just didnt think that your paths would ever cross."
"And why would you think that because he's an oncologist? Well most of the time it probable wouldn't but there is always a chance that it would, seeing that he is a doctor and I'm a nurse at some point they would have to cross if it was just in passing." Christina told him as she turned and walked back into the bathroom.
"I see it was just something my mother said that's all, so how did you run into him last night? I would expect doctors like that to only work during the day.
"He just happened to be the doctor on call last night, and was seeing a patient on my floor that's all."
"And what was it that your mother said?" she asked from the bathroom and got no answer and when she turned and looked back into the bedroom he was gone.
Christina stood there for a few minutes thinking about the conversation, she had a strange feeling that this wasn't going to be the last conversation they had about the new doctor at Richmond Trinity.
It would be another six months before she would laid eyes on the new doctor again, it was around 6:30 p.m. and Christina had just arrived a few minutes earlier to cover the ER, they were short handed and she had been called in on her day off to work a few hours to help out a lot of the senior nurses would do it from time to time. Christina was going over a patients chart when she saw him out of the corner of her eye approaching the nurse's station.
"Nurse Hawthorne we meet again." he said as he smiled at her with both hands still in his pockets.
"Yes we do Dr. Wakefield, how may I help you tonight?" Christian asked in a smile as she was a little more then impressed that he had remember her name after only a very short and brief encounter six months before, most of the other doctors wouldn't take the time out.
"I was called down for a consult." he said with a little confusion in his voice all the nurse said was that they needed a second opinion.
"Umm… I'm sorry Dr. Wakefield I just got her give me one second to fine out who called you down." she told him as she went to find out who paged him, she returned a second later, "its room three Dr. Wakefield sorry about that here's the patients chart. "
"Thank you Nurse Hawthorne." he said as he smiled turned and disappeared into the exam room. That would be the last time she would see or talk with him until she started to work days again.
It would be another year before Christina would move back onto days, Michael wasn't happy about it but he knew that when she made up her mind about something it was going to happen one way or another, he could argue and fight about it or go along with it either way if it was something she wanted to do she was, and he knew after nine years of marriage what battles to pick.
"Tom are you ok?" the tall brunette asked as she took notice that he was coughing more like chocking on his drink.
"Sorry, yes I'm fine." he told her as he tried to cleared his throat again, and looking across the room at them, forgetting that he was on a date for a minute, he had only worked with her a few times since being at Richmond Trinity, he had heard a lot of nice and a lot of not so nice things about her, but seeing her out and dressed like that, she looked so amazingly beautiful, he started to study her ever movement she was dressed in a little black dress that fit in all the right places a pair of black heels that looked just out right exquisite on her, she wore a very simple necklace that brought out the beauty in her eyes, and with her hair down and in curl's like that she was just beyond beautiful. He knew that he had no right feeling this way she was off limits she was a married woman and married to one of the Board of Director's, the son of Amanda Hawthorne of all people, she was known to be a hard ass at time's but all he could think was "damn he's a lucky bastard" as he watched their interaction, and for a second he thought he saw her smile and look over in his direction.
They were there to celebrate their ninth wedding anniversary and this happened to be one of her favorite Italian restaurants, as she sat across the table from her loving husband at times, she glanced around the room and was a little shock to see him sitting there she smiled and before she could turn back she saw Michael turn in the direction she was looking in, "do you know them?" he asked and Christina wasn't sure if she wanted to answer the question or not but she also didn't want Michael to think she was hiding something if she didn't. "Its Dr. Wakefield" she told him trying her best not to look directly at him, or take notice of the beautiful tall brunette dressed in blue that he was with. "I'm starving, where is our waitress at?" she asked hoping that one would show up quick before Michael started to ask questions about him knowing that he probable knew more about the man then she did, "so how was it working with him?" to late she thought to her self as she started to answer him. "Well I really didn't work with him." she answered.
"Well I thought you said you did." and he looked at her studying her face as if he though she was about to tell him a lie.
"no I told you that I talked with him and it was just long enough for him to ask me to take care of a patient that's all." she explained knowing if she didn't clear it up quickly that it would turn into a fight later, and a few seconds later she saw the waitress approaching there table.
"Good evening may I take your order please?" The waitress asked "a glass of red wine please, and I'll have the Chicken Florentine with sautéed Spinach." she told her as she closed her menu and gave it back to her. "And you sir what can I get for you?"
"I think I'll have the same, thank you." he told her as Christina glanced up to see Dr. Wakefield headed in their direction.
"Nurse Hawthorne I thought that was you." he said in a smile and Michael took notice at how he was looking at his wife, and the expression in her eyes was telling him to please stop, she didn't consider Michael a very jealous person but it was something about Dr. Wakefield that rub him the wrong way she could see it in his eyes.
"Dr. Wakefield how are? Please meet my husband, Michael, this is Dr. Thomas Wakefield, Dr. Wakefield this is my husband Michael Hawthorne" Nice to meet you, both men said simultaneously as they extended there hands to shake and they both smiled in a little laughter as they said it.
"Well you two have a nice evening."
"You have a nice evening too, Dr. Wakefield." Christina told him as she noticed the look on Michael's face as he started to walk off toward the door where his date was waiting for him, and a minute later the waitress returned with their glasses of wine. "Thank you" she told hers as she took the glass and took a sip, she then looked at Michael and smiled at him "Michael if I forget to tell you later Thank you for a lovely evening." he smiled back took her hand into his and kissed it "your welcome my love happy anniversary" And for the next hour and a half they would sit back and enjoy there dinner and each others company.
It had been over two year since Dr. Thomas Wakefield came to work at Richmond Trinity, Christina and Bobbie had both switched back to days they both were working the 7 to 3 shift it was Bobbie's day off, Christina always hated when she wasn't there it just seem to make the day so much longer. She was working the ER when she glanced up and saw him approaching the desk, as she stood there inputting patient's information into the computer and with out looking up or missing a key stroke.
"Good morning, Dr. Wakefield, how may I help you this morning?"
"Umm… Good morning Nurse Hawthorne, I don't need any help with anything I'm here to work the ER."
"You're what; ok who did you lose a bet to?"
"No one, and why would you say that?" he ask with a bewilder look on his face.
"Because, no one likes working the ER, most of the doctors don't like the fast pace of it." Christina told him as she laughed in a smile and handed him a chart, "room two fractured arm" she told him, he smiled back and turned, and as he started to walk away he stopped and turned back around.
"Thank you Nurse Hawthorne, will you please assist me?" he smiled as he asked.
"Yes Dr. Wakefield I'll be right there." she told him as she put in the last bit of information and closed the file. He stepped into the curtain. "Hello, there. I'm Dr. Wakefield and this is my friend Christina, can you tell me your name?" he asked the young boy sitting on the exam table holding his arm with his head laying against his mother and tears in his eyes he couldn't have been no more then six. The little boy nodded yes "Jake" and his mother smiled "so Jake how did you hurt your arm?" he asked as he offered him a sucker, and he took it happily, "I fell off my bike" he told him as he popped the sucker into his mouth. "can I look at your arm please it will only take a few minutes and I promise that I will try not to hurt it to much" and the young boy nodded his head, as he gently examined his arm, "you are such a big little man thank you, ok mom its broken we need to set it and put it in a cast, "so Jake I bet your favored color is blue?" and the boy looked up at his mother then back at them and nodded his head in agreement. "Okay then, Christina and I will be right back to take care of your arm is that ok with you?" and Jake smiled and nodded his head, as they left the room. "Not bad, Dr. Wakefield you did great in there, he's not scared at all, and you kind of have this whole doctor thing down packed." she told him in a smile.
"Thank you, I'm guessing that was a compliment the whole down packed thing?"
She smiled again "take it the way you want to." and she smiled at him again,
After setting the young boys arm and handle what seem like the millionth patient in the waiting room, and the few incoming's she watched him in amazement he was defiantly a rare breed of doctor, his bedside manners impressed her, and it took a lot to manage that, he was good at what he did, from the young to the old, most doctors were one or the other, a good doctors what bad bedside manners or a bad doctors with good bedside manners but he had both he had it all, she liked that, to know that there where still good ones out there and Richmond Trinity definitely seem to have the best one of all. As the day came to an end and she was on her way out, she turned to the sound of her name.
"Nurse Hawthorne"
"Yes Dr. Wakefield did you need something?" Christina asked him with a smile.
"No I just want to say Good job today, and it was nice working with you." he told her as he gave her a smile and walked her through the double doors of the ER.
"Thank you Dr. Wakefield it was nice working with you too, and I guess I'll be seeing you around." she told him as she smiled back, and headed for her car.
For the next year they would work together closer then she did with any other doctors she enjoyed working with him because he was good at what he did and he enjoyed working with her. Christina had put in for a promotion but wasn't sure that they would even consider her for the position, with her mother-in-law on the board of directors she didn't have much of a chance knowing how she felt about her. Amanda Hawthorn has never forgiven her, from day one she thought that she had trapped her son into marring her, she has always been under the impression that getting married was her idea and not his no matter how many times he to told her it was all him, she always felt that he could do better then her and was just doing the right thing by her and his daughter. But Mr. Tomkins assured her that ever one would be considered no matter what or who they were related to.
"Congratulations Christina," Bobbie told her as she walked over to give her best friend a hug.
"Thanks Bobbie, I can't believe that I actually got it, I'm just….in shock. I'm not sure how i feel about this. I need to call Michael and tell him, he doesn't even know about it."
"You didn't tell him you were up for the CNO position?"
"No I just didn't think that I would get it with Amanda on the board."
"Well call and tell him."
"Bobbie you already know that the minute I left Mr. Tomkins office Amanda called him, hell he probable knew before I did."
"Did you know that they made Dr. Wakefield the new COS?"
"No I didn't, I hadn't heard yet."
"I heard that he really didn't want the job but Mr. Tomkins talked him into it."
"I wonder why he didn't want it."
"I don't know but you can ask him yourself, here he comes." she told her as they both stood there as he approached the nurses station.
"Congratulations Dr. Wakefield."
"Thank you Nurse Jackson."
"Nurse Hawthorne I hear congratulations are in order."
"Thank you, I hear congratulations are due you as well."
"Thank you, but I'm not sure I'm ready for this entire COS stuff." he told them as he stood there with both hands in his pockets and a look on his face of uncertainty.
"you'll be just fine I promise." she told him as she gave him a winning smile and Bobbie stood there looking at the both of them in a odd way exchanging smiles, hers a little more innocent then his she thought.
"So Christina have you been to your office yet?"
"No Bobbie, not yet." she told her as Dr. Wakefield was crowded by a few doctors pulling him off to congratulate him on his new job.
"Ok what's going on with you two?" and Christina looked at her in a puzzling way.
"Bobbie what are you talking about? All I did was congratulate the man"
"Christina, just be careful please."
"What are you talking about Bobbie?"
"Nothing Christina, just…please be careful" she felt that her friend could be a little naïve at times even if it was staring her right in the face, "come on lets go check out your office." she told her as they both started down the hallway headed for the elevators.
Christina made it home that night to a surprise cake and balloons that read congratulations on your new job. Amanda wasted no time in stopping by to let him know that she had been promote, she couldn't even give her the chance to tell her family herself. As she walked into the house they, both yelled Congratulations, she smiled giving them both a hug and kissing her husband tenderly.
"Oh my God you guys, thank you." she told them, Michael could be really sweet when he wanted to be.
"Congratulations mommy, grandma came by and told us the good news so dad and I went out and got you a cake, we have strawberry ice cream to."
"Congratulations Christina, why didn't you tell me that you were up for the Chef Nursing Officer position?"
"Umm…I didn't because I didn't think that I would get it."
"why wouldn't you?" you're the best person for the job and I hear that Mr. Tomkins really fought for you to have It." and she looked at him with a half smile as he said it so her suspicions was right Amanda had fought against her getting the job.
"I hear there better hours from 9 to 5 and no moor weekends maybe now we'll have more family time," he told her as hugged her from behind " maybe we can try again for another baby," he whisper in her ear as he kissed the side of her face. She stood there with a half smile on her face she was a little shocked at what he just said, Amanda had already put the pressure on her by reassuring him that she would be home every evening by 5:30 and now he wants to try again, like another baby would solve there marital problems.
It had been a long first mouth for the both of them, but they had gotten through it their first budget meeting together, making her first nurses schedule, his first OR schedule and their first committee meeting, all was good at Richmond Trinity.
It had been year since Christina had become the new CNO and she did her best to make it home ever night by six no later, she didn't like auguring with Michael their marriage was already strained and she was holding on by a thread and working late would just add fuel to the fire. As she drove up into the driveway she didn't take it to be odd that Michael's car was there to, it wasn't out of the norm for it to be there when he went out for boy's night most of the time David would pick him up. Christina made it home later then she had expected but she didn't think as being a problem seeing is Michael was out, and Camille was spending the weekend with Amanda. As she made it into the house, she kicked off her shoes dropped her bags hung up her coat and tossed her keys into the dish on the table by the door she made her way over to the sofa and dropped herself down into the plashed cushions she laid her head back closed her eyes and sighed out of pure exhaustion.
"You're late," and she jumped startled by the voice behind her,
"You told me that this new position wouldn't keep you at work this late."
"No! Your mother told you that, and Michael I'm not in the mood for this I'm tired," and from the tone of his voice she know that a fight was on the way. "And I'm not that late, and you're acting like I have been late the whole time I have had this job, anyway I thought that you were going out with David and Chris?"
"I changed my mind, and you don't call three hours late Christina."
"Considering that you were suppose to be out no, Michael it's a new position, I'm not sure what you want me to do it's my job now, I had a lot of paperwork to finish up on it's the end of the month I had paperwork and reports that needed to be finished so that I can turn them in on time."
"Your job is from 9 to 5 not 9 to what ever time you decide to come home Christina."
"Why in the hell are you trying to turn this into a fight?"
"Was he there?"
"Was who there?"
"Don't play dumb Christina you know who the hell I'm talking about."
"No Michael, No I don't." she stood up placing her hands on her hips. "Who the hell are you talking about Michael?" she could see he was pissed but really didn't understand why.
"Wakefield?"
"What the hell does Dr. Wakefield have to do with this?"
"He has everything to do with this; you think I don't know what's going on between the two of you Christina you two have been spending a lot of time together."
"Ok! here we go, ok Michael what the hell is going on between us enlighten me because I don't have a clue about what the hell your taking about and as far as us spending a lot of time together yeah we do in committee meeting and budget meeting along with six other people." she told him as she started to cross the room headed for the bedroom.
"Don't walk away from me Christina." he told her as he grabbed her arm.
"Let me go Michael you're hurting my arm and all you want to do is fight and I'm not in the mood for it."
"Your going to listen to me, you think I don't know about the talk going around the hospital about you and your Dr. Wakefield."
"Ok first he's not my Dr. Wakefield, and why you're listing to hospital gossip now? You as well as anyone should know to take that with a grain of salt no this is coming straight from your mother."
"Leave my mother out of this."
"Why Michael, she been in this form the beginning since day one of our marriage, why leave her out now? You haven't." she yelled back at him.
"My mother has nothing to do with this."
"Your mother has everything to do with this, you're just too damn blind to see it, but you just keep telling yourself that she doesn't, and I'm not sure how much more of this I can take."
"And what the hell is that suppose to mean?"
"Take any way you want to." she told him as she just looked at him for a second and then turned and started to walk off again.
"I told you don't walk away form me, and you can't have it all Christina." she turned and looked at him in a way that he only seen when she was more then pissed and he knew it.
"I don't like it when you try and give me ultimatums Michael, you know that,"
"You need to come to a decision Christina."
"Michael you really don't want that, right now the best thing you can do is leave me along before I do or say something that only one of us will regret."
"And what the hell would that be Christina?"
At this point she knew where he was headed and what she had to do to defuse this situation, if she was going to try save what little of a marriage that she had left and her family. She stood there for a second gathered her thoughts and in a calm voice she started to speak. "I'm not giving up my Job Michael that's just not going to happen, but I wont be late again either and as far as Dr. Wakefield is concerned I don't know why you feel the way you do about him, there is nothing going on between us, but as my husband and for the sake of our family I will keep my distances as much as I can, now if you don't mind I would like to go take a shower and go to bed." her words seem to put him at ease for now he knew that if she said it she would do it, and for the next year Christina did exactly what she told him she was going to do until the day she found out that Mr. Tomkins had scheduled her and the head nurses for a conference this would be her first as the CNO, but at the same time there was an oncology conference going on and Dr. Wakefield would be attending it. And they would be at the same hotel at the same time, and she knew that her nice and quiet home life that she had worked so hard at was about to go up in smoke, and the Hawthorne house whole was about to go from calm to pure D' hell.
"Hey Christina, what's this I hear about the head nurses having to attend a nursing conference in Lancaster next month?" Bobbie asked as she stepped into her office.
"It's a re-education conference, Mr. Tomkins thought it would be a good idea since we haven't went to one in over four years and this will be my first as the new CNO." she told her as she ruffled through the papers and files on her desk.
"So you're going with us?" she asked as she took a seat across from her desk.
"Umm…I don't really have a choice for some reason it mandatory for all of us. I just know when Michael finds out that there holding an oncology conference at the same time and Dr. Wakefield will be there its going to be hell on me, I'm not sure how he's going to react to this"
"What is going on with you two these days?"
"Divorce if he keeps listening to his mother."
"Chrissie what are you talking about, are you seriously considering that?"
"Its nothing Bobbie, and I'm considering a lot of things"
"Well I think you better tell Michael before Amanda does then."
"Knowing her she already has, God I don't want to go home tonight I just don't feel like dealing with this I don't think I can take another fight with him, Bobbie I'm not sure how much more of this I can take I'm holding on by a thread. I'm pushing every night to get out of here by 5:30 or before just to avoid fighting with him it seem like when I fix one problem I end up with another one. This last year hasn't been a cake walk" Christina said as she took a seat at her desk with a look on her face that Bobbie had never seen before, and she know that her friend was way passed stressed out.
"Chrissie I am so sorry, but I know its all going to be ok, you and Michael will get through this you'll work it out.
"I don't know if we can, did I ever tell you why I push so hard to get out of here by five?"
"No, it is something I have been wondering about but you never seem to want to talk about it."
"So I didn't tell you that Amanda reassured Michael that I would be home every night by 5:30?"
"No you didn't tell me that."
"Yeah the day I got the promotion she stopped by the house and told him and Camille before I got home. Michael did a really sweet thing, he went out and got me a cake balloons and my favored ice-cream it was really sweet but then he started telling me how he liked that I would only be working from 9 to 5 and my weekends would be free, and for the first year it worked out just like that, until that night, it was a Friday night Camille was spending the weekend with Amanda and Michael was suppose to go out with David and Chris for boys night out, and at the last minute he changed his mind, but he didn't call me so I decided to stay late and finish up on my paperwork but when I got home Michael was there and the only thing on his mind was fighting, his reason for being so pissed was I was late because I was with Dr. Wakefield he was talking about some hospital gossip, something about us have some kind of an affair. I couldn't believe what I was hearing so I told him that I wouldn't be late anymore and that as far as Wakefield I would keep my distances, and for the last year things have been fine but now this whole conference thing I'm not sure what's about to happen, I just know I'm tired of it all I can't take this anymore."
"It's all going to work out Chrissie I know it."
"From your mouth to Gods ears, I'm just to the point where I just want out."
"You don't mean that."
"I do Bobbie, I really do, don't get me wrong I love Michael I'm just not sure that I'm in love with him."
To be continued