ENGLISH ROSE
CHAPTER 2
The afternoon passed by swiftly in the ER Department. There had only been 2 majors, one a RTA (Road Traffic Accident) and the other a house fire. Dr Benton and Dr Carter took care of the car crash victims, a young man and his girlfriend who were both in their early twenties. Both victims had needed surgery, so it got Carter out of the ER the rest of the afternoon, while Dr Greene dealt with the old lady who had suffered burns to most of the upper half of her body, after she'd left a chip pan on the cooker and had forgotten to turn the cooker off. They had managed to stabilize the old lady at first but sadly despite the teams best efforts she passed away in the early evening.
It was 7.30pm as Dr Kovac sat at the reception desk finishing off filling in his last patient of the days chart. It had been a long day, as he finished the last section he paused resting his elbow on the desk and rested his hand underneath his chin and and smiled to himself as he saw the collection of post it notes that were stuck round the computer addressed to Anna with various clerical requests for the morning. He was interrupted by a tap on the shoulder.
"Hey Luka, isn't it time you went off shift?" Cleo said as she collected a patients file.
"Hi Cleo. Yeah I've just finished up now." he replied resting back in the chair and stretching his arms above his head and yawned.
"Kerry told me about Anna. I wondered why there had been no answer on the desk phone when I called earlier to say that I was running late."
As Luka put his pen in his lab coat pocket he pulled out the prescription he'd written earlier for Anna, he still wasn't sure whether he should drop by, after all she'd no doubt have painkillers at home, he thought about it for a few seconds.
"Is something wrong?" she asked as she watched him in a daze.
"No. I just remembered I need to get a prescription from pharmacy for one of my patients. They left their prescription behind. So I thought I'd drop it into them on my way home. See you tomorrow." he replied heading off down the corridor.
Cleo rolled her eyes Dr Kovac always getting too over involved with his patients she thought to herself then sat down to make a phone call.
Luka hung up his white lab coat in his locker, put on his black coat and grey scarf then grabbed a pen and piece of paper and scribbled down Anna's address Apartment 1, Cotswold Drive,. He then headed out of the hospital and out into the dark cold night air.
Anna sat curled up on the sofa, dressed in red striped pyjamas and pink slipper socks, they had been a present form her mother before she'd left England. She'd been sat flicking through the TV most of the evening, as she got up to make herself a mug of hot chocolate there was a sharp knock on the door. She wondered who'd be calling round as she'd not had many visitors what with only moving in almost 3 weeks ago, as she didn't really know that many people, sure she was friendly with her neighbour but she was away visiting her family.
"I won't be a moment." She shouted as she scanned the kitchen work top looking for her keys. She found them in the fruit bowel and went to the door. She was rather surprised to say the least to see Luka on her doorstep when she opened the door.
"Hi Anna." Luka said smiling shyly at her then looked down at the floor.
"Dr Kovac.. Hi I urm… Please come in." She replied showing him in and closing the door behind her and ushered him into the living room.
"I just dropped by to bring you some more painkillers. Just in case you didn't have any." Luka took the small box out of his pocket and handed it to her "And of course to check and see if your ok. How are you feeling?" She took the box from him and put it on the table.
"Better thanks Dr Kovac. Sorry I mean Luka. In England on the wards we don't tend to call Doctors by their first names in the hospital. She could feel butterflies again in her stomach.
"I was just about to make some hot chocolate. Would you like some?" she asked getting up and heading to the direction of the kitchen.
"No thank you. I best get going. I have an early start in the morning." he replied heading back to the direction of the front door.
He felt like kicking himself, he wanted to make conversation with her but just didn't know what to say, he felt the words getting stuck in his throat. It had been a stupid idea just to drop round like this with a lame excuse of bringing her a box of painkillers.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow. I have an early start too." she said opening the door.
"Anna. Would you like to have dinner with me tomorrow night?" he blurted out.
"Dinner?" She replied surprised, she certainly wasn't expecting a dinner invitation. She felt hesitant about the idea. She didn't really know him, but then again it sounded a lot better than a meal for one in front of the TV.
"Sure. I'd love to." she said as he went out the door.
"Great. I'll see you tomorrow then." he smiled heading off down the street.
Anna closed the front door, locked it and put the latch on for the night. She slid down the back of the door closing her eyes and let out a sigh. Great she thought to herself feeling sick with nerves and the prospect of thinking of what an earth she was going to wear. She raced up the stairs to her bedroom and spent the rest of the evening going through her wardrobe.
Chapter 3 to follow!
