The elevator's loud ding startled me as I stepped out of the doors and onto the third level of the hospital. Everything made me jumpy today though. I saw Mark coming up the hall and immediately turned right hoping to avoid him. I was wrong. Within the next 10 seconds Mark was already in front of me with a wide grin on his face. " Shut up, Mark." I said and tried to walk faster.

"So what part of my advice helped the most? The answering Erica's text, the pushing back her hair, the taking off her shirt slowly?" Mark laughed.

"It's not funny, asshole!" I yelled louder then I had wanted too.

"Sorry, Cal, but this is what you get for not inviting me too." He sighed, and I dragged him into the same on-call room, of which we had just been in last night. " Well don't keep me in suspense. What happened last night with you two, fine, young ladies?" He continued. I could tell by the emphasis he put on the word 'fine' that my problems to me and my problems to Mark had two completely different meanings.

"I don't know how it happened; we were having drinks at Joe's and next thing you know we're at Erica's apartment!" Realizing Mark had absolutely no interest in what I was saying I got more pissed and yelled louder. "Ituve gusto de él! El erica es caliente y el ayer por la noche era la mayoría de la diversión que he tenido en un rato, pero entonces congelé y me aterré y-"

"Whoa, now you just got my attention back. But, I'm afraid you're gonna have to speak English for me to even begin to know what you just said."

"Lo siento, I mean sorry." I answered. "I was just saying I liked it! Erica's hot and last night was the most fun I've had in a while but then I froze, and I panicked and… then you cut me off." I said.

"Maybe because the only word I got out of that was 'Erica'?" Mark replied.

"Yes, Erica. She's great, she really is. I don't know what happened. I was ready, Erica was all over me and I couldn't. I mean that ass, Mark? I wanted to be all over that but I couldn't. Something stopped me."

"Mhm, yes, I see your issue, please go on." Mark nodded.

"Seriously, who wouldn't want to bury there face in there girlfriends open shirt?" I finished.

"Uh, you?" Mark finally answered. "Personally, I think it was a good decision. I know this might sound strange coming from me, but obviously you're not ready for all those good, good times, yet."

"I need sleep. Or a rope." I moaned and threw myself down onto the lower bunk bed.

"Start with sleep." Mark said and went to leave the on-call room.

"No stay. Please?" It must have been the desperate way I said it because, Mark turned around and came and laid on the bed next to me, without making one remark. "I don't wanna be alone, right now. Will you sleep here with me, just for a little bit?" I pleaded.

"Just go to sleep, Cal. I'll be here when you get up" He answered and I passed out.

When I woke up it was 11:30 in the morning, and Mark was still asleep next to me with his head on my thigh.

"Mark" I said and moved my leg a little to wake him up. "Get up, we've been asleep for over and hour."

"I'm up" He half hearted moaned and staggered to his feet. "So are you going to call Erica, now?" he finally said and threw my cell phone to me.

"Why would I call Erica, now?" I questioned.

"Maybe because you said her name three times before I went to sleep. I got bored after you stopped so went to bed too."

"Do you really always have to be a smartass?"

"You love me." He answered and I shoved him out the door so fast, it took me a minute to collect my thoughts. I plopped back down on the lower bunk and grabbed my cell phone that Mark had set on the little wooden table next to me.

"Well, no point in sitting here waiting for nothing. I'm sure there's something I can do out there, and I'm suppose to be here in 45 minutes anyway." I said and tied my hair back away from my face. After changing into my scrubs and putting the pillows that were knocked behind the bed, back on it, I had about 35 minutes to go before I was suppose to be on duty. Before I was finished packing my other clothes in a bag, someone knocked on the door three times. "Uh, come in?" I said confused. It's not like I owned the on-call room, any doctor was allowed to use it. To my surprise it was Erica.

"Hey, Cal." She said and kissed my cheek.

"Uh, hey" I replied and asked why she was hear so early. Her shift was usually later at night on Saturdays, and by now, it was only 12 in the afternoon.

"I had fun last night." She finally exclaimed after two minutes of looking at each other.

"Yeah, me too." I continued. "Look Erica, I'm really sorry about what happened. I don't know, I just wasn't ready, something wasn't right..."

"It's ok Callie." She broke in. "I was scared too, and hey, it's not like we'll never get the chance again. I love you Callie, and if you're not comfortable yet, that's fine with me."

"Do you always make everyone feel better, all the time?" I laughed.

"Not everyone, just the one girl who means everything to me." She answered and I walked a little closer.

"Erica?" I asked and before I could finish my sentence she kissed the bottom of my lip and began to pull away. I pulled her back closer to me and continued to kiss her lips, slowly moving down her shirt. I pulled my scrub shirt off and threw it onto the bed I had been laying on. It was Erica's turn to kiss my neck, moving down my chest until I stopped to pull her shirt off too. We fell back onto the bottom bunk all the while never letting our lips part, until I wrapped my legs around her waist. Erica kissed lower and lower, keeping one hand on my chest while the other moved down farther, finally un-tying my pants. Her hair brushed back and forth across my stomach, as she kissed up and down the front of me, making any leftover doubt in my mind diminish.

"Cal," Erica started. "Are you sure you're-" I cut her off.

"Shh, don't say anything." I whispered, and let her continue to unclip my bra and add it to the pile on the floor that was now forming." I love you Erica." I said, and felt the sun seep through my shut eye lids.