July 8, 2008
Bri adjusted her blouse as she sat at her desk, bullshitting her way through all the useless files everyone kept dropping on her to sift through for them. She was on her wits end with the mind numbing secretarial duties she was being forced to do by the doctors and nurses who just tended to ride her off as a ditz. She glanced up as her office door opened. "Dr. Banks."
"Ah, Katarzyna." The handsome dark haired man smiled down at the brunette. "I came here to talk to you about being my mentee, it's my thing to pull in a resident. Take them under my wing, I think you have the potential to be an amazing surgeon, we just have to groom you." He took a seat across from her desk and smiled at her. "What do you say?"
"Oh, wow!" The brunette smiled and nodded. "I thought you were just going to take me on as another resident, not a in training doctor…"
He smirked. "I was until I saw you at work with the test bodies… I was very impressed with the nose job you did."
"Dr. Banks, that means the world to me, hearing you compliment me." Bri felt herself blush.
"Please, call me Lucius." Lucius leaned forward in his chair and lightly rested his hands on the desk. "I'll set up your schedule and have my nurse walk it over… I'll see you around Katarzyna." He stood up and left the office as quickly as he had arrived.
She relaxed in her office chair as her heart beat slowed back down, this was the moment she had worked so hard for. The acknowledgement of her skill from a surgeon she idolized, a man who just weeks ago had signed her on to be just a resident was now having her be his was going to learn from the best in the world. "Finally."
"Hey." Lucius walked back into her office. "I wanted to see if you wanted to grab lunch… I know it's almost your lunch break Kat."
"Yeah, sure." She logged out of her computer and stood up. "You're the first person in this place to reach out to me." She grabbed her purse and looked over to him to find him staring at her intensely. "What?"
He smirked at her. "Nothing, I just never had the chance to take a good look at you… You're what? Ukrainian? Russian?"
"Russian." Bri replied proudly.
"Ahh, I can hear it now." Lucius nodded and pulled open the door for her. "After you Katarzyna."
"You can call me Bri or Brianna." The brunette stated as they walked through the office, earning curious glances from her coworkers.
He shrugged and hit the elevator button. "I actually like Katarzyna better, it's a beautiful name if I do say so myself."
"Alright." Bri smiled as she hit the button for the first floor. "Where are we grabbing lunch anyways?"
Lucius smiled as they walked out of the building and towards the parking lot. "I was thinking Mexican or Italian… You have a preference?"
"Not really, I'm quite fond of both." She paused in front of her car. "Which car is yours?"
"This one." He pointed towards an all black Bentley sitting next to her Audi. "It was my birthday present to myself."
Bri admired the sleek car with a wide smile. "Way to make my car look like a damn toyLucius.." She shook her head as he opened the passenger door for her. "I could really use one of these cars in my life."
"It's a smooth ride." The handsome doctor smiled as he pulled out of the parking lot. "Your Audi looks good, it's a good starter car… The other residents are taking the bus to work or driving little messed up cars."
"Starter car?" She glanced at him. "I'm offended, I actually started off with a BMW, then moved to a Benz before dabbling with an Aston Martin a few weeks. I settled with this car because I have a special lucky Lamborghini that I absolutely love but it's just not practical enough to drive especially when I have my niece Monica in town."
He chuckled. "I didn't mean to offend you, I just didn't know it wasn't your first car…"
"What kind of person gets their first car at twenty-five?" Bri studied his profile.
"Excuse me." He looked at her and made a clucking noise with his tongue. "I don't know, normal ones who are putting themselves through college and pick paying rent over car notes. I didn't get my first one until I was that age."
"I was sixteen when I got my first car." She smiled. "It was a silver BMW with my initials on the back window, birthday gift."
He chuckled. "Oh, you're one of those rich girls are ya?" He pulled into the parking lot of the Mexican restaurant, cutting the car off. "Tell me more…"
Bri sighed and sagged into the plush leather seat. "I grew up in Russia, vacationed all over Europe… Came to the states, lived in Queens… My family is one of the largest arms dealers in the world. I was privileged but I didn't let it get completely to my head."
"Is that why your last name sounds familiar?" He opened his door and watched her do that same. "That's pretty cool… Why'd you choose to become a plastic surgeon though? Don't tell me Dr 90210 inspired you or I'll have to rethink the offer I made you."
"It is… I decided to become a plastic surgeon after I had my nose broken when I was fourteen and the doctor had fixed it." She touched her nose and frowned. "This wasn't the initial result, I had it broken a few years ago during a coffee shop mishap."
Lucius reached out and touched her nose. "That's an easy fix if you ever want it to happen."
"I've tried to get it fix, the doctor I went to said it would be a risky surgery." She took a seat as her phone started to chime, she looked down at the screen and smiled as she started to read the text from Juice. "I'll schedule a consultation with you soon if you can actually fix it."
"So you're a rich soon to be cosmetic surgeon, who drives around in an Audi… Should I assume you have a weird obsession with diamonds?" Lucius shook his head as her eyes went wide. "You are, aren't you!"
Bri blushed and nodded. "Yeah, guilty as charged. I love furs and diamonds… What about you? Do you have any weird obsessions?"
"My weird obsession is breaking noses in the operating room." He looked at the menu before looking back at her, studying the way her grey eyes quickly scanned her menu. "I don't want to seem too forward but do you have a boyfriend? I saw the way you smiled at your phone when you received that text…"
"He's not my boyfriend, we have a extensive past, we just went on our first date… We're taking it day by day." She shrugged as she set her phone down on the table face down. "Do you have a girlfriend? Wife? Kids?"
"No, I'm very happily single with no kids. I'm a young dude Katarzyna." Lucius closed his menu and flashed a grin at the gorgeous Russian. "Lucky man whoever he is…"
Bri rolled her eyes. "No way you're single! Look at you…"
The man blushed. "Thanks, I get that reaction a lot… My job keeps me occupied, takes a special woman to realize that, to accept it. I tried dating a nurse, I would not recommend that shit. Dating in the office is a big mistake."
"I will try to remember that but I don't think I'd date anyway, they all write me off as a secretary… I don't get it though." She sighed and smiled at the waitress before reciting her order quickly and listening to Lucius do the same.
"It's because you come off as a rich girl… No one takes you seriously because they feel like they're working harder than you… I assume your schooling is paid for, no student loans, no part time job." Lucius grabbed the young woman's hands and slowly rubbed his thumbs over her knuckles. "You have to stand up for yourself, you're working just as hard as they are, you can't let them treat you like less because you could afford to focus on just school without wondering how to pay for it."
Bri frowned and looked at the man. "I don't know how to be anything other than what I am now… How do I shed my rich girl image? Pretend to be a struggling medical student when it all comes easy to me? If it were up to me, I'd shoot everyone that I'm doing the residency with."
He laughed. "If I hear about them all dying, I know what happened…" He dropped her hands as his own phone started to chime, he looked at the screen before texting a quick reply. "Or prove to them why you're there… You're one of the best young doctors we have in our program, so let them know why you're being picked over them to be my shadow."
"Pretty sure they'll assumed I fucked you to get the spot." She tapped her nails on the table and looked around the tiny restaurant. "I've been living here for a few years and have never encountered this place, ever."
"Hidden gem." He shrugged. "You better not come here with anyone else, this is my secret spot that I'm sharing with you… You can't share it with anyone else."
Bri held her hands up. "You don't have to worry about it… I don't even know who'd I even bring here anyways."
He shook his head as the waitress set their food down in front of them. "Don't tell me you're the only child as well…"
"No! I'm the second youngest…" She looked at her plate of tacos and smiled. "I have a younger sister, some older sisters and older brothers."
"I have two older sisters who used to enjoy trying to dress me up in their clothes." Lucius shook his head as he watched Bri basically drown her tacos in hot sauce and lime. "That can't be too healthy… That amount of hot sauce."
Bri met his eyes. "So?" She took a bite of her taco and smiled. "It's good, not everything needs to be healthy… You're not a health freak right?"
"No, but I do workout and try to eat healthy." He smiled at the brunette. "Is that going to be problem for you?"
"No as long as you don't try to push it on me we're fine… I already workout and eat somewhat clean so I'm good." She smiled at him once more as she started to eating her tacos again. Her mind wandering to Juice and what he was doing.
July 9, 2008
"Juice." Bri nudged him in his side as she attempted to untangle herself from his heavy limbs. "Juice!"
"Go back to sleep." Juice looked at her through one eye and smirked. "Why are you trying to get out of bed for anyways?" He tightened his grip around the woman's waist and dragged her even closer to his body.
The brunette yawned. "I have to take Monica and register her for real school, I don't want her to be homeschooled… I need her to be sociable and not just with adults… It's weird that a six year old's best friend is a man in his forties."
He nodded his head as he buried his face in her hair. "You still smell like after a rain storm… How the fuck is that possible?"
"I don't know." She shrugged and flipped around to stare at him. "I don't smell that… Still to this day I cannot pick up that smell, to me I smell like vanilla and melon." She sniffed her hair and sighed.
Juice let her go. "You do smell like rain though." He sat up and watched her slink out of the giant bed. "I can't believe we slept together without sleeping together."
Bri smirked as she pulled on a pair of yoga pants. "I don't know what to wear to sign her up for school… Should I wear mom looking stuff or doctor looking stuff? I sure as hell can't wear a Bri outfit because it'd show too much skin."
"I'm coming in!"
"See, it's like she knows when I mention her." The woman pulled a shirt over her head as the door swung open, Monica strutting in and Monster on her heels. "What's up Moni? You excited to go to real school?"
Monica shrugged, her green eyes trained on Juice. "What's he here for?"
Bri shrugged. "I needed someone to cuddle with and he was the one I thought of when you denied me little one… Why do you have a problem with Juice?"
"Maybe…" She cut her green eyes away to look into dark grey ones. "Aleksandr doesn't like him so I don't like him either."
"Ah." The brunette frowned. "I think you should get to know Juice, he's a fun guy. Isn't that right Juice?"
Juice sat up and looked between the similar looking brunettes and smiled. "Yeah, I'm pretty cool Monica… I hope you and I can be friends, it'd make me happy."
Monica nodded and walked over to the bed and climbed up. "What's with your hair?" She ran a small hand over his mohawk and frowned. "Why not grow it or shave it all off? It looks so silly!"
"Yeah, it looks silly." Bri stuck her tongue out at the man.
"I love it, it gives me character. It's how my hair grows now… The tattoos on the sides of my head keep me from growing hair there!" He chuckled as the mini version of Bri smiled at him.
She shook her head. "That's so weird! Is that why Happy has no hair? Because the tattoo on his head keeps him from growing any?"
"Yes." Juice laughed. "That's exactly why he has no hair. He's cool though, isn't he?"
Monica stitched her brows together in thought. "He was cool until he was mean to Bri… I have to take her side and not like him."
"I like Happy we're just not friends because he likes name calling." Brianna looked at Monica as she shoved her feet into her sneakers. "You can be friends with Happy if you want to be, I just probably won't be his friend."
"Really?" The young girl bounced off the bed and wrapped her arms around her aunt's legs and squeezed tightly. "I can hang out with Jacey and her meanie face?"
"Yes my dear you can." Bri laughed and picked up the girl. "First, we have to get you in school. Then we can go shopping and get you what you need to start school in September. You'll love going to a real school, you'll make so many friends Monica Hohrykova."
"I'm going to go tell Aleksandr!" She dropped from Bri's grip and bolted out of the room without even a goodbye.
"You're really good with her." Juice grabbed the brunette's waist and kissed her lips softly. "You ever think about having kids of your own?"
"All the time." Bri smirked and kissed him softly. "I somehow caught baby fever but I want to finish up my residency and be in a serious relationship before I commit to raising a child with someone."
He nodded and smiled. "Yeah? I'll keep that in mind then." He laced his fingers through hers as he rested his forehead against hers. "We'll be serious in no time Brianna."
Starting to build friendships and relationships... Let me know what you thought.
