Cakes and cokes 3.
I had explained my story to my roommate, Denise in the morning when we both got up by seven. It was horrible. But I wasn't jealous at Denise that was going to sit by a bench studying all day. I was going to a hospital taking care of people but first of all, I was going to meet all the stars again! And not to forget, my teacher, Dr Carter, or John. I wanted to meet him the most of all.
I had not told her the real story of course. But the one with that I had just come to Chicago three days ago from Sweden. So she now knew I was very unsure in this different country and big city. She was going to help me getting to know the city. I was relived.
We came out to the horrible weather. But it didn't snow after all. But you could saw it had all night.
"I guess you are use to this weather too!" Denise said giving me a smile.
"Yeah, kind of."
I know many Americans thinks we have like snow all the year in Sweden. It so stupid, almost funny!
When we got into a cab I just shook, it was so wonderful every time to get into warmness.
"So, any cute doctors?" Denise asked after some quiet moments. We just smiled at each other almost laughing. I had waited for that question.
"You bet!" I just said and we laughed. A picture of Carter came up in my head, of course.
"Tell me about it", Denise continued and we kept smiling. I really like this girl, she's a bit like me! Want to talk about guys. And I really wanted someone to talk about guys (Carter with other words) with right now.
"My teacher, oh, you should see him!"
Denise looked surprised and just clapped her hands a bit. I wasn't feeling very tired anymore. But if I'm right, we were almost at the hospital. Denise would get off later.
"Really, I have to see him! I totally go for doctors!" she laughed and I came along. I loved this!
"Don't get the wrong picture now why I want to be a nurse!" she laughed and I couldn't stop loving this.
The cab stopped by the entrance of the ER and I really didn't want to get out in same time I wanted it so bad.
"Have a nice day Jojo!" Denise said when I got out of the car. I gave her a smile.
"You too, we will talk later!"
I closed the door and looked in front of me on the entrance, day two.
I went into the lounge excited as a little girl. I couldn't wait to get to work.
I saw Dr Covac sitting by the table looking like a corpse. I could guess he had worked all night.
"Good morning", I said and walked up to my locker.
"Hey." He tried to sound nice, but he really just sounded exhausted.
"Night shift?" I asked taking off my coat and scarf and gave Luka a fast look.
"You got that right", he sighed and I took on a white coat before closing my locker.
"But when are you off then?"
I couldn't understand why he still here. It's torture for cry sake.
"In one hour", he sighed and I walked up in front of him and felt sorry for him. He looked really bad, but also not at the same time.
"But I'm going to ask Weaver if I can go home, it's seams quite calm right now", he said when he was up and walked to the door. I just smiled and followed him out. Now I was going to find Carter.
I walked up to the board there a hundred of people were by now.
"Hi Jojo!" Jerry bursted out and winked back with a smile. Jerry is a cool guy, big and funny.
Besides Jerry that peaked in some charts, Carol sat down looking tired in some papers, Chunni and Yosh was talking fast gossip that you even couldn't hear what they were saying.
But where was the one I was really looking for? Here it just was a bunch of nurses.
Suddenly when I had stood there leaning against the board with everyone staring at me Weaver was besides me.
"God morning, ms Anderson, looking for Dr Carter?"
"Yeah."
She just smiled at me. Kerry is really a nice woman, even if you get irritated on her being so bossy all the time.
"He hasn't come yet, sorry", she said smiling and took off her glasses.
Carter was late? That asshole, he's never late!
"You can be with Dr Malucci while Dr Carter is getting out of bed", Weaver said and smiled constantly. She was having a very good day or what?
Malucci? God, how is that going to be? He's far from as professional as Carter. But he looks good, but the same again, far from as good looking as Carter.
"I will help you find him."
Weaver took my arms and we walked past this crowd of nurses by the board. It seamed like they had a gossip-talking-meeting.
I followed Weaver into exam five there Malucci stood and stitched a young guy on his arm. They both started to stare at me like hungry hyenas.
"Malucci, ms Anderson get to be with you for a while", Weaver told Malucci by the door and I walked up besides him. He kept staring at me.
"Why, Carter doesn't want her?" Malucci said smiling at me. He's a real flirter and I had a strong feeling he was going to flirt the hell out of me.
I kind of enjoy it. He's a good looking guy but I rather be with Carter right now (don't get the wrong picture about that line.)
"No, he just overslept", was Kerry's answer before walking away.
"Too bad for him, but the better for me", Dave said and still looked at me with a smile. Now I was certain he was flirting! I knew what he was doing, I couldn't resist blushing.
"You know, Carter can be a real prick. You are going to see that, believe me! Malucci laughed and now continued stitching his patient that just stared at me, at my breasts!
I regretted that I took my yellow top (that shows a lot of skin) today. Guys would stare all the time, but maybe they would do that anyway.
But I really took it on with Dr Carter on my mind.
Carter ran into to the ER breathing like a dog and looked on the clock, eight! He had overslept? He! And an hour too, what was the deal with him?
But he had such a problem to get to sleep last night, he didn't know why. But he kept on having Jojo on his mind. He had thought about when he gave her a lift, and asking her to call him John. Now he thought he had been crazy, he doesn't let who else call him John at work. What was he doing? He felt strange all the time, and now oversleeping. Something was really bad.
But now he had Jojo on his mind, she had been waiting for him for an hour. He felt so embarrassed.
Now he had really made an bad first impression on her. But why did that bother him so much anyway, what Jojo really thought about him?
"Hey, where the hell have you been?" Weaver screamed at him by the board when he was about to run in to the lounge before her seeing him.
"I overslept, I'm soo sorry!"
Weaver just looked at him angry.
"Just hurry now, you have a student!" she reminded and Carter was fast in the lounge running to his locker.
After throwing in his clothes and taking on his white coat in a fast roe he was rushing out to the board. Weaver still looked at him disappointed.
"Jojo is with Malucci in exam five", she just said without looking at him and he was fast on his way over there. Malucci? No, not him.
Suddenly the door the exam room opened fastly when I just stood besides Malucci. He had just overwhelmed me the last hour with comments. I was getting tired there and his patient started to bug me more and more.
But my rescue just came in. Carter rushed in with messy (but sexy) hair and tired eyes. Although I was quite disappointed in him I liked him panting like a dog.
"I'm so sorry, Jojo!" he panted after every word and leaned himself against the wall.
"Carter, we have been totally fine without you", Malucci said with a wide smile. I didn't agree with him. Now I just wanted to slap him, he's so dumb even thinking I had been enjoying his constant flirting for the last hour.
"It's good that you are here, Malucci didn't get me to do anything."
I was walking out past Carter without seeing Dave's reaction on my comment, but I could tell how it looked.
I really felt good saying that. He just has to get the picture that I think it's annoying. And that I'm not here to hear a doctor giving me comments a whole hour, I'm here to learn. Now I was so happy that Carter had come.
Just after me walking out Carter was behind me and I turned around to him. He gave me a smile. Now, this I like!
"Malucci has been a pain?" he asked with a smile like he understood what had been going on the last hour. He knew.
"Yes, he just flirted with me constantly!" I said sounding indignant and Carter just kept on smiling.
"Don't care about him, he's like that."
I know he's like that of course, I know much about him.
"Come on, let's get to work then, sorry for being late", Carter said and we started to go down the isle.
"Late night?" I asked curious, I'm curious in everything about Carter.
"Not really, just having problem sleeping", he said smiling. I constantly looked at him, of course. Especially when he looked back and that was almost all the time.
"I get you on that!" I said. Really, I had problem sleeping yesterday too, of course. It had been one of the weirdest days of my life.
"Hey Carter, can I steal Jojo for a minute?" someone suddenly yelled behind us and we turned around. There a couple of metres away Carol stood. I just sighed inside, would I never get be with Carter?
"Yeah, sure, but I think I need her soon!" Carter answered. In the same time I was kind annoyed about it I really liked it. It felt like everybody wanted my help, like I was popular. And I really enjoyed Carters answer. You can take the word "need" in many ways.
I could imagine all doctors and nurses arguing in lounge who would have me to assist them in the afternoon. Nooo, that's just funny thoughts.
I was like a little girl leaving her mom to go to the dentist when I took a step closer to Carol. Carter just gave me a smile, that made it all worse, god damnit! But I smiled even more back before I walked away.
This would be the last time I was turning my back against him. I mean, turning away from a guy like that, that's a sin! And by now I have much to confess.
When I came up to Carol I was curious why she wanted to steal me. The thought that just everybody liked me was a reason I didn't want to believe.
"I need help with a patient, a quite odd one", Carol said smiling and I smiled back. Weird patients, funny. Those aren't gone from the show after all.
"He doesn't want to be treated by me, because I'm not blonde."
I started to laugh a bit and Carol came along.
"You were the only blonde I could find", she continued and I laughed more. This was a positive thing right? I got the chance to treat a patient for my own on my second day.
We walked in to an exam room were a middle aged man laid in bed. He needed an IV and a check in his throat. He had problem breathing because of his cough. I could make it.
"Mr Sandrew, my name is Jojo Anderson, I'm gonna help you a bit", I said to him when we walked up to his bed on each side. He just smiled at me and my hair.
"Finally you get some service at this hospital", he said griny and Carol and I just looked at each other. It started to sound like this was a hotel or something.
"Well, now I just going to check your throat", I said after a while and the man smiled at me again. Weird man with weird demands.
Carter walked down the isle with a patient by his side. It was a young man that had slipped in the stairs and needed to be stitched. Now this was a great time to see how Jojo could handle stitching. She had been with Carol a long time now, so he could go and get her, he wanted to go get her too, but without admitting it for himself.
"Just wait here kid, I'll be back", he said to the young man that limped with his hurted leg and Carter let him sit down on a bed in the exam room.
"I'm not a fucking kid!" he yelled and Carter backed out of the room quickly. He got the feeling that guy didn't like him.
Carter walked around looking for Jojo by after like five minutes he saw her and Carol in an exam room through the door window and she was talking to the patient with a chart in her hands. From there she looked like a real doctor. And the patient smiled at her all the time, with respect. He had never got that respect in his student years and not even as resident some times.
He walked in and the three of them looked at him.
"Doing good?" he asked and Jojo just nodded with a smile.
"Now rest Mr Sandrew, I'll be back later and we can look at your test results", Jojo said to the man that after smiling now looked a bit angry.
"How long will you be gone, I don't want to be left with a stupid nurse", he said and Jojo just turned around and walked up to Carter.
"You will do just fine, now I have to take care of some other patients for a while", she continued but he kept looking angry.
Now Carter really could say Jojo was as professional as a real doctor. You could not guess she was a student.
When they walked out Jojo just shook her head while smiling at Carter. He smiled back.
"What was the deal with him?" he asked and Jojo just laughed a bit.
"He just let blondes treat him" she answered and laughed some more. Carter hung along.
"I guess he got satisfied with you" he said and Jojo just nodded while laughing some more.
"I'm sorry to tell you, but I have another difficult patient I need you to help me with", Carter said after a while smiling at Jojo.
"I get the feeling he despise me, but I don't think he will have something against you."
Jojo took that as a comment.
"I can try", she said before they walked in to the exam room.
"Mr Todd, this is medical student Ms Anderson, she's gonna stitch you", Carter said and I looked at him fast. Stitch? I have never done that on a real patient before.
"Hello there, you can call me Jojo, I don't really like my last name" I said after a while to the patient and left Carters look. I could do it, I know I would.
The young man just smiled at me and I looked back smiling at Carter. He smiled a bit back. I'm a magical worker with people.
The young a bit cute guy was very nice to me and kept giving me comments that I was really doing good and about my hair. Even when I washed his leg.
Carter was just standing behind me constantly when I stitched the leg, it was a pretty deep cut.
"Do you have to be in here?" Mr Todd suddenly asked and looked up annoyed at Carter.
I gave Carter a quick look before looking back at Mr Todd. He looked like a real collage boy.
"Because he's my teacher, and he checks how I'm doing", I said defending Carter and the guy just looked like he hadn't understood.
"For me you are doing just fine!" he said and I could hear Carter sigh behind me.
"This is my second day here, so he can't just leave me so soon", I continued and felt like to stick that needle in his leg. He was so annoying.
"That's right", Carter said and I saw him giving me a small smile when I gave him a quick look.
Mr Todd just looked down and kept being quiet. Thank god.
The time that was left with me finishing stitching was very quiet but Mr Todd kept staring at me. I didn't want that little boy staring at me like that; it would be more than comfortable with Carter staring instead. Hell, I'm staring at him like a freak.
"Now you are finished and all set up Mr Todd", I said when I stood up and him getting out of bed. He was too fast on his feet.
"Can I have you number?" he suddenly asked when me and Carter was about to walk out. We both looked at each other for a moment before looking at the young guy that just looked seriously at me. I stopped the laugh in my throat.
"No, you will do just fine without me, just take it easy in the stairs!" I said before walking up with Carter right behind me. When we came out Carter looked like he was about to laugh.
"I can guess you get that stuff all the time?" he said and I was surprised. Why did he think that? I just shook by the thought of why he guessed that.
"Why?" I just asked curiously and now Carter looked away and stuttered without getting anything out.
"You know why", he said after a while with a smile. I was getting crazy! What was that? I couldn't even ask myself what it was. Flirting!?
"No I don't really", I said. I was kind of mean, putting him in such an embarrassing situation. I can guess what he meant by that, but I just want him saying it.
"Carter!" suddenly someone yelled and we saw Weaver and Dr Green rolling a barrow in to the ER.
"Come on!" he said before running after them. I just stood there a few seconds before realising Carter had said that to me. I was going in helping with a trauma. I was terrified but ran as fast as I could after them into a trauma room. This was a whole new world to me.
I ran into the ladies room for workers and was fast washing my face with water before looking at myself in the mirror. That trauma had been terrifying. It was so much blood and the man's chest was wide open. He had suffered a serious car accident. I wasn't prepared for that, this was so new to me. And now I just felt like to throw up.
The man didn't survive in the end, he was too seriously wounded. Carter and Greene tried for almost ten minutes to get him back, but it was useless.
I wasn't really use to this at all. I had never seen such a trauma before. I saw it all happen. All this blood made me sick.
But I have heard a thousand of times it can be like this when you're not use to this, the first time. I hadn't really believed I was gonna feel like that myself, but now I did. I couldn't stop thinking about that man and his wife that stood right outside the trauma room.
Suddenly when my face was all wet somebody knocked on the door. I was immediately drying my face with my coat.
"Are you okay Jojo?" I heard a familiar voice, Mark. I was quickly by the door and saw Mark in front of me looking serious. I wish I didn't look upset, did I?
"I'm fine", I just lied and putting my stethoscope right. He didn't stop looking that serious. He knew what I did in the ladies room. Of course he did.
"It's alright, it was your first time, everyone has experienced that, even me."
I gave him a smile after a while and felt better. It was good to hear that, because, to tell you the truth, I was kind of embarrassed that I had just run away before anyone noticed.
"You didn't get him back did you?" I asked when Mark had given me a pat on my shoulder before we're going down the isle. He just looked at me shaking his head.
"He was too seriously wounded", he said later on and I just nodded looking a bit sad.
"But you can't let every patient make you sad, that will break you."
I was glad Mark was giving me advices, I needed them. Carter hasn't done that, yet.
"I understand", I said and we exchanged smiles before coming to the board and I noticed Jerry's smile at me and I smiled back. He had a crush on me or something?
When I had leaned over the bench with Greene besides me I saw Elizabeth Corday walking up to the board. I was surprised in the middle of all this reality. I almost forgot it for a moment that I was in a show. But now I saw Elizabeth and forgot all about that trauma.
Mark was fast walking up to her and they shared and quick kiss. I smiled; I knew they still were together.
Suddenly when I at least knew they both walked up to me.
"Hey, this is surgeon Elizabeth Corday, Elizabeth, this is med student Jojo Anderson."
He introduced us, I had no expectation. I shook her hand and she gave me a friendly smile. That's what I call a beautiful lady. She really is, I've thought of it a couple of times. I can't get why not every doctor is running after her. I guess Mark is one of the most decant men in here.
"Hello, I've already heard much about you. They were right; you got such a sweet face!" Elizabeth said before letting go of my hand. I was surprised! Did the whole hospital talked about that!? My looks!?
"Oh thank you very much, I didn't know you all talked about me", I said before the three of us noticed Carter in front of us. He had been hearing everything.
We all laughed a bit, even Carter. So I guess he had heard our conversation.
"Anyway, I guess you get to be with me in the OR sometime", Liz said not stop smiling. I didn't too. She's so nice.
"I look forward to it", I said before Liz was walking away with Mark. So I was left alone with Carter, I didn't mind, at all.
"Are you alright?" he asked walking a bit closer to me. I stared at him as usual. It's impossible not to. Specially when he comes closer.
"Yes, I'm fine. Just needed to collect myself" I said honestly thinking about what Mark had told me. It wasn't anything to be embarrassed about.
Carter gave me a smile and I kept staring at him like a one-year-old-baby-curious-about-everything.
"Can you handle helping me with some patients?" he asked looking worried and I liked him concerning about me, no, I loved it.
"Yes, of course I can", answered and we started walking after a while and Carter showed me a chart and told me about the patient we were gonna "deal" with. Another difficult one.
Carter just stood in front of that middle-aged woman sitting down on a stool with Jojo in front of her putting a bandage on her wrist. She had broken it.
Carter just wondered why he even stood there; Jojo was doing great all the time, on her very own. She had been that with every patients. And today she had dealt with a deep cut in somebody's arm, a broken leg, a broken wrist and a hand with a cut finger. She didn't need help with any of them. He felt like he was teacher to a doctor. This was almost useless.
Even if Carter had been aware of this for almost two hours, that he could leave her with her patients, he was still here. He didn't admit this for himself, but he just stayed, because he wanted to. It was just something about her he couldn't get enough of. And now without thinking about it he just kept looking at her when she treated her patient. It was very nice just standing there staring. He hadn't noticed her yellow top until now. Until now after just noticing her curly hair for the last five hours.
Now they were off in an half an hour. Carter really couldn't believe it himself, but he didn't want to quit yet.
I was rushing into the lounge. In the minute I got off I felt my stomach hurting like hell. And I mean hell, this was an emergency. I hadn't got the time to go to the bathroom in the whole day, by that, twelve hours. And I could feel the tiredness coming up to me like a ghost in a horror movie. I had to go to the apartment really fast even thought I didn't really liked leaving the ER. But man, I can't stand it either. I've been working since seven o'clock and now it's seven o'clock in the evening!
When I opened my locker I felt like to throw up, I hurried a lot more taking on my coat and my hat and my gloves. Lucky I was alone in the lounge, because I sure looked like a freak putting on my hat over my eyes.
But just when I putted the hat right on my head somebody walked in. And when I had another attack in my stomach I saw it was Carter. Great.
"Are you alright?" he said worried and hurried up to me after seeing me folding myself in middle almost falling to the floor. It really hurt, now more than before! Damn that lunch today that I ate in the cafeteria by noon. I ate it in five minutes after getting a chance when two traumas came in. Carter said I wasn't needed so I could go taking care of some other patients. Because the ER was totally packed with people needing help. It had been like this for ten hours!
But I just had to get some food so me feeling guilty made that visit in the cafeteria really short. Because I was told to go helping a patient. I still felt bad about it. But I'm planning on forgetting it.
I had my arm around my stomach and I started to feel dizzy. This was horrible.
"My stomach hurts", I whined and Carter looked like he didn't know what to do and just stood in front of me with his hand in air near me. He couldn't even touch me.
"Here, sit down", he finally said and laid his hands on my shoulders. I didn't have the time to care about it because the pain was so bad. I sat down on a chair and kept holding my arms really tight around my stomach.
Carter rushed over to the sink and held up some water in a glass before sitting down in front of me reaching the glass to me. I putted his hand away with mine while groaning really loud. The pain wouldn't stop. It felt like an alien was about to eat its way through my stomach in any minute.
"I can't drink", I groaned and closed my eyes really hard. I begged to god to get that pain go away.
"I will get you a painkiller", I heard Carter say and I quickly opened my eyes and saw him rushing out the door. I quickly closed my eyes again and felt the sickness coming up in my throat. This was it, I was gonna throw up!
But suddenly I felt dizzier and soon it was totally pitch black.
Carter rushed back to the lounge and everyone by the board looked with confused looks at him when he went into the lounge.
He was about to hell up one pill in his hand when he saw Jojo lying with her head on the table. He rushed over to her and bended down in front of her and shook her a bit.
"Jojo?"
He shook even more but she wasn't responding. He took up her head with a hand and banged on her a bit on her cheeks with the other. He felt the fear grow in him. She was unconscious. He felt her pulse on her neck, it was normal. He was fast by the door and looked at everyone at the board. Carol, Mark, Chuny and Jerry.
"Jojo past out!" he yelled and Mark and Carol was fast on their way to him. He was returning in back to Jojo and laid one hand under her ties and the other on her back before carrying her up in his arms.
In the minute he was about to walk out Mark and Carol were rushing in. They fastly backed out when Carter came with Jojo in his arms.
"Lay her here!" Carol told Carter and rolled over a bed. Carter laid her down and in the same second he laid his hands on her cheeks Mark was putting him aside.
"Let me look at her." Mark said and started to check Jojo's eyes with a flashlight.
"Go get an IV!" he told Carol that rushed away. The whole board stared at them and it was totally quiet. While Mark was checking everything he could on Jojo when Carter just stood besides him wanting to help. But he knew Mark wouldn't let him.
"What's wrong?" Jerry said when he had walked up to them looking worried at Jojo.
"She's totally dried out", Mark said giving Carter a short look before rolling up Jojo's arm.
Soon Carol was back with that IV and Mark was fast getting in the needle in her arm. When he was finished and Carol hell a glass of water through Jojo's mouth they just stood there in front of her staring.
"Did she eat lunch today?" Mark said after a while and looked at Carter that was totally lost in his mind just staring at Jojo.
"I don't know." he said.
"Did you give her any brake?"
Mark started to sound angry and Carter felt like Mark were blaming him.
"Of course I did!" he said angrily. He couldn't believe Mark was doing this. The others were just quiet looking at Jojo waiting for her to wake up.
"I've seen that she have worked constantly all day, it's her second day Carter. She's from Sweden, she isn't use to this!"
Carter was getting very angry. Mark was really blaming him.
"I can't believe this, I gave her plenty of brakes to go eat and drink!" Carter yelled and felt like to throw something to the floor.
"I can't believe you are saying this is my fault!" he continued and Mark just stared at him.
"I'm not blaming you; I'm just saying you should know that she isn't use to this stress. Just tell her she have to take it a bit easy in the beginning", Mark said calming and Carter calmed down himself.
"She has done a really great job on her second day, but I think she's just to anxious to work a lot that she doesn't think about her own health", he said after a while and Carter wasn't angry anymore. Mark was right; he had to tell Jojo to take it easy. He hadn't thought of it himself, he had just seen Jojo doing really good this day. She had worked so hard, surprisingly on her second day in the ER. A bit too hard.
I opened my eyes and couldn't figure out what had happened to me. But soon I remembered it all. When I got to the ER from that elevator, it had been a dream! I was lying in my bed back home in Sweden.
But in the other minute when I could see straight I saw it wasn't my bedroom, I was in an exam room. Thank god!
How did I get here? I now remembered that I had a bad stomach and felt dizzy, and suddenly it was all dark. I had fainted!
In the minute I realised it somebody walked in and I couldn't see who it was because I was still a bit dizzy.
"How are you?" I heard a familiar voice and soon I saw it was Carter that stood in front of me.
"A bit dizzy."
"You fainted, have you eaten or drink anything today?" he asked and I now could look straight at him and saw his serious look.
"Yes."
"What? When?"
Why did he ask me so much? I was immediately trying to sit up but Carter just laid his hand on my chest. I laid down again.
"Why are you asking?" I asked a bit loud and didn't really want Carter taking away his hand from my chest.
"You fainted because you were totally dried out."
I was a bit surprised. I was? After a while I realised it all. I hadn't drunk anything since this morning. It was just too god damn fun to be helping patients. I had wanted to do this since I was a child, and now when I got to do it, I didn't think about anything else.
"You have been working really hard today, a bit too hard I think. You have to take it easy in the beginning and think about yourself a bit too."
I looked up at Carter. What he had just said were words I really would pay attention to. I had made myself fainting for cry sake!
"You're right, I haven't drink so much today, I'm sorry", I said looking down. I felt guilty and embarrassed.
"It's nothing to be sorry about. I know you're anxious to get to work, I was like that myself in my student years."
Now I looked up at him again and saw his smile on me. I smiled back.
"Come on, I will take you to Doc Magoos", he said later and kept smiling. I was fast sitting up and now didn't give a shit how rough it was to get up. When I was about to get out of bed Carter reached out his hand. I took it and he dragged me up. When I got on my feet I really felt how dizzy I still was and had to lay my hand on Carters shoulder (no problem for me!).
When we got out many people came up to us asking me how I felt. By then I could stand by myself and didn't need Carters shoulder anymore.
"Take it easy, Jojo", Mark said when we came up to the board and patted me on my shoulder before walking away.
I followed Carter into the lounge and the way over to the locker felt like a long way. My legs were all tired and I could feel my feet screaming.
When we both had got on our coats Weaver walked in and up to me.
"How are you feeling?" she asked and looked at me with a worried look.
"I'm fine, just tired", I said smiling and gave myself a look at Carter before looking back at Kerry.
"Take the day off tomorrow, you need it", Kerry continued. No! I didn't want to take the day off!
"It's alright, I will just take it a bit easy", I protested and Weaver just sighed with a smile.
"You're to good to be true", she just said and I took that as a comment.
"Thank you Dr Weaver", I said when she was about to walk out.
"Anytime", she said before walking out.
When Carter sat down in front of me in the restaurant I couldn't stop staring at him. No way I was missing a day with him by just lying in bed watching TV. Hell, I don't need TV anymore!
I took up the menu and watched it for like five minutes before I made up my mind.
"What are you having?" Carter asked and I laid down the menu after him.
"Pancakes", I said smiling and he smiled back.
"Just like me."
So we ordered two meals of pancakes and two cokes. I thought it was kind of cute we ordered the same meal. Okey, cute, that's sounds a bit corny maybe. But it was something about pancakes and Carter in the same sentence.
That meal was the best I had in a long time. I was starving. When both me and Carter had ate up we just stayed talking drinking up our cokes. I actually found out things about Carter that I wasn't aware of before.
He told me stories from his student years and weird patients he had been dealing with, what music he was into to, books and movies. We found out we had much things in common and I never wanted to leave. I just wanted to sit here continue talking with Carter. It was so nice talking with him, no it was wonderful. I forgot all about that I had came here from an elevator, from a world where this hospital was a show.
I told much about my life in Sweden. The hospitals over there, music and friends I missed. Carter was very curious about how it is in Sweden. I can guess. And I was curious about America and mostly Chicago.
We even came up to boyfriends and girlfriends. I was curious if he still were with that Roxanne girl. But he wasn't. He said he had broken up with a girl a while ago. That was she.
He told me a bit why, that I already kind of knew. Then I told him a bit about myself. That I hadn't had a boyfriend in like two years because I was so busy with my studies. Then he said something I will never forget.
"I bet doctors have been interested in you."
I didn't know what to say, and he just smiled at me. Was he meaning something by that? Whatever it was more it certainly was a comment.
"Well, I don't really know", I said laughing a bit and he came along. I can say I want doctors to be interested in me, but I don't know if I dare. Maybe it will be all wrong to say that to my teacher that is a doctor. But I'm a riskful person, so what a hell. Maybe it will pay off.
"But I would not mind", it came out of me and then I felt my heart beating a bit faster. Carter just leaned himself back and just stayed quiet staring at me smiling. I smiled back of course and leaned back myself. Inside my head I was crazy running around screaming yes really loud in the restaurant. That Carter made me crazy, and he gave me more and more comments that made me crazier by every time. He was so hot right now I didn't know what to do. I had to control myself after all. And the way he looked at me, that hair, those eyes and those clothes!
Then we stayed a bit longer when the clock was about to turn ten and continued talking about ourselves and things we had been experiencing while the snow was pouring down outside. I was happy, I can certainly say.