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Rick looked around the room one more time, making sure he hadn't forgotten anything. He finally got the Okay from the doctor to go home.
"You're progressing quite well . Even better than expected." Dr. S had said when he came in for his last check-up a couple of days ago. "I want to run a few more test but I think you should be able to go home by the end of the week."
Rick was pulled from his memory when Lori knocked on the door. "Ready?" She asked with a smile on her face.
"Almost. Amy wanted to say good-bye before I left." He looked up at the clock. "She should be here any minute."
Lori nodded her head. "Alright I'll go start on the paperwork. Join me when you're done?"
Rick nodded his head and with that Lori left.
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As Lori walked to the front desk last night's conversation with Shane popped into her head.
"So what are we going to do with Rick?" Shane asked.
"What do you mean?" Lori replied not looking up from her task of cutting carrots.
"You know what I mean Lor." Lori twitched her noise when he called her that. She wasn't very fond of the nickname.
"He's my husband, Shane. He's coming home."
"It's gonna be awfully crowed don't you think?" He took a swig from his beer.
Lori set her knife down. Slowly she turned to look at him. " I think for the next couple of days you should go back to you place."
Shane just stared at her, saying nothing.
Lori shook the memory from her head bringing herself back to the present. The night ended with Shane saying how unfair she was treating him now that Rick woke up. Lori knew she was & she hated herself for it. The guilt bubbled so strongly in her she was having a hard time putting on a smile for Rick. Of course she was happy her husband was coming home but her situation with Shane made it feel dirty.
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A few minutes after Lori left Amy walked in.
"How are you feeling, Rick?" She asked, cheery as always.
Rick smiled. "Good, thanks to you."
"I did nothing. It was all you. I didn't even have to fight you into therapy which isn't something I can say often." Amy waved her hand at his compliment.
"Don't cut yourself short sis." Rick's felt his heart jump into his throat. Could it be?
"Oh, Rick I brought my sister to work today. I wanted to show her what I do. Rick this is my sister, Andrea." Amy stepped out-of-the-way & showcased off her sister.
Rick had to clench his fist to stop himself from running to her. Andrea looked amazing. She had a glow on her that Rick had never seen before.
"Never seen ever." He reminded himself. "You've never met this woman before."
"Nice to finally meet you." Andrea held out her hand. "Amy has been talking about her protegé none stop."
Rick shook her hand. "I feel like I know you from how much Amy has been talking about you."
"Whatever she's been telling you is a lie. Unless it was good things."
Rick laughed. "It's been a little bit of both."
"OK, enough talk before I really get in trouble." Amy jumped in. "I'll miss you. I hope to see you again." Amy hugged him. "But not in here." She clarified backing away from the hug.
"You too, Amy. Well I better get going. I'm sure Lori is done with the paper work."
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"Well now I see why you talked about him so much." Andrea said, watching Rick walk down the hallway.
"Andrea! He's married." Amy gave a mock horrified look to her sister.
"What did he do to be in here?"
"Got shot. There was a third gun man in a car chase they had two years ago. No one knew about him until he shot rick."
"car chase? Shootings? Apparently this Podunk town is a more interesting than I thought."
Amy playfully but not so gently smacked her sister's arm. "Come on, Andrea. This place isn't so bad."
Andrea bit her tongue from saying anything. She was here to visit her little sister which she didn't get to do as often as she liked and she wasn't going to ruin it by making snide comments.
"I still don't understand why you picked here of all places. Amy, you got some really good offers from some amazing hospitals."
"Do you remember that quarry we had that picnic in a couple of summers ago?" Amy asked as her and her sister walked the halls. "When you and I did that road trip back to school?"
Andrea thought. She remembered the road trip but not the picnic. "No. Should I?"
"You and I fought when we first started. I thought the whole way was going to be like that. But then you and I stopped in this town. We were getting some food to eat along the way but someone suggested we try that quarry. So we got what we needed and we went there. We fished, than ate what we caught."
Andrea suddenly remembered. "That's when we figured out Dad knew how different we are & how much he loved us."
Amy nodded her head & smiled. "When we got back on the road we didn't argue once. Not even over the radio. Growing up we were never close. Too big of an age difference. But now? You're my best friend. Whenever anything happens you're the first person I want to tell."
Andrea linked her arm with Amy's. "You're my best friend too. I love telling you everything about my day."
Amy squeezed her sister's arm. " I know you'll think it's silly but this place brought us closer together. I knew from the moment we hit the road again I wanted to come back. I knew I belonged here."
Andrea smiled. "No I don't think that's silly." The two of them laughed and wiped the tears they pretended they didn't have. " Now how about some lunch?"
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