Monday night, Turk and I stayed in and watched a movie. Gone with the Wind, on HBO. That Rhett Butler, I tell you...
Anyway.
The movie was just finishing up when I got this headache that came on all of a sudden. Sure, it hurt, but being the manly man that I am, I worked through the pain and came out on top...
"Mommy, my head hurts, and I wanna go to bed."
Talk about coming out on top. But it really did hurt.
"Bed," Turk repeated like he'd never heard the word before in his life. "It's nine-thirty, dude." He laughed. "Oh, I see, man. You got a girl in there waiting. Ol' Right Hannah. You're gonna slap the one-eyed snake around a little."
"No, I don't--"
"Hey, I understand," Turk said, smirking like only Turk can smirk. "I'd be lying if I said I didn't beat around the bush now and then. Heh."
I smiled weakly and got up from the couch. "'Night, man."
"Oh, you're serious," he called after me as I went to my room and shut the door behind me. Yeah, I was serious. And so was this headache. Oh, Mother. I shucked my pants off, but didn't go anywhere past that. Turk is the only one in this apartment who sleeps in the nude. And occasionally Carla, when they're sleeping in the nude together, but I shouldn't say anything about that because I don't want Carla to hurt me. Eep.
It was hot that night. I took my shirt off, too, and collapsed into bed. Exhaustion tugged at my eyelids, but pain rushed up and down my neck and through my temples, making sleep pretty much impossible.
I couldn't help thinking, as I reached for a bottle of Tylenol on my nightstand, that this was the fourth head-splitting migraine I'd had this week. Sure, I was a first-year resident, just out of med school, but Elliot never got headaches. She did have the unfortunate habit of puking up her guts during breaks, though. I guessed that we could just chalk it all up to stress.
Stupid stress.
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this is going to be a chapter story, if i decide to continue it...i'm thinking about doing it from different points of views, even though i can't stand stories written from different POV's. Go figure, huh? let me know if you enjoy this!