Here is chapter 6, I hope it's any good! : )
Part (6/10)She was still speechless. But then she realised that he got her hesitation wrong.
"No, sorry! I love you too, John! I was just surprised, you have no idea how long I have been waiting for that moment!", she answered. They were standing in front of each other, both with huge grins on their faces before they kissed again. They were both very happy, finally where they wanted to be for so long.
"Okay, we should go back to step one. How about dinner tonight?" he asked after catching his breath.
"That would be great! At 7?"
"Yeah, at my apartment?"
She was laughing. "Of course, where else?"
"We could also go out."
"No, your apartment is fine!"
Then they walked hand in hand to their lockers to change and go home.
7 p.m., John's apartment
That was a funny first date. She was at his apartment almost all the time anyway during the last days, since Brian beat her. But this was their first "real" date. And she was already excited. What she was waiting for so long finally happened, John Carter told her that he loved her. And this time she even told him that she loved him, too.
She was completely lost in wonderful thoughts when she heard the doorbell ring. She went over to the door to look through the spyhole. It was Carter. He had gone over to the restaurant across the street to get something to eat. He seemed to be impatient.
"Oh, so you finally decided to let me in, huh?", he said joking.
"What do you mean?" she asked innocently.
"I've been standing in front of the door for at least 5 minutes and I rang the bell about 10 times. I hope the food is not cold now."
"Really? I'm sorry, I think I was daydreaming." she said embarrassed, looking down to the floor.
"So, what were you dreaming of? Or who?" he asked with a smile on his face. "Or wait, don't tell me. I couldn't stand it if it was not me you were dreaming of." he added, smiling even more now.
"In fact, I was dreaming of ... George Clooney!" she said with a serious face. "Kidding, of course it was you." she said shyly.
"Funny!" he said, walked closer towards her and kissed her deeply. "Let's eat now, I need some food. I was almost starving while I was waiting for you to open the door.", he said with a grin.
After dinner they sat down on the couch and watched tv until they fell asleep in each others arms.
They could hardly keep their lips apart and their hands off each other for the rest of the week. They have both never been that happy before. Abby could even almost forget Brian. Only at nights she felt the fear again that he could come back and hurt her again. But since she still stayed at John's apartment she knew she was safe with him around. She didn't even feel the urge to have drink anymore. But she still attended the AA meetings, with John at her side.
About two weeks later, ER, admit desk
Kerry Weaver was lost in thoughts, looking through some charts, when she heard the phone ring again, the millionth time.
"Can some pleeease answer the phone?!", she almost screamed, obviously stressed. But when she looked up she saw that there was nobody around, except a few patients.
"Okay!", she said and picked up the phone. "Weaver!", she almost shouted. "Yes, she is, but I don't know where. - Important? Do you know what important is? My patients are, and I have to work now! - Okay, I will see if I can find her, hold on." She put down the phone and looked around again. A few patients were staring at her now, but still no familiar faces. Suddenly she saw Abby walking around the corner.
"Abby!", she called her. "There is someone on the phone for you."
"Thank you.", Abby said and hurried to the phone, she didn't want to make Kerry even more angry than she already seemed to be.
She picked up the phone: "Abigail Lockhart. - What? Are you sure? How could that ... - Yes, thank you, I will." Then she let the phone fall down on the floor.
Abby had a shocked and scared face, that made even Kerry worry about her. She was staring at her.
"Abby, what's wrong?", she asked, but Abby was already on her way towards the lounge, with tears in her eyes.
Suddenly John appeared at the charts to put Mr. Smith's back to the others. "Hey, Kerry, what are you staring at?", he asked her confused, following her eyes to the lounge. "Seems like you can't wait to get out of here, huh?", he joked.
"That's funny John! I will laugh later, okay?", was all he got as an answer while Weaver was still staring in the same direction.
He was not interested in an argument and was just about to walk away when he heard Weaver's voice again.
"John, wait! Abby just received a phone call. I don't know what happened, but she was very upset and stormed off into the lounge. Maybe you can take care of her?", Kerry asked John, now in a calm voice.
He ran over to the lounge without saying a single word.
