A/N: So here's chapter 2. Thank you so much for your reviews guys. Honestly they really do make my day! This is a little short, I know, but I'm kinda busy with school, final exams you know. Hope you like it.
Chapter 2
"Just one last patient and I'm out of here." I say picking up my last chart of the day.
"You're gonna examine, treat and dispo this patient in ten minutes?" Ray asks, raising his eyebrows.
"You're keeping close track of my schedule now?" I ask with a grin.
"I have to." I raise my eyebrows at him. "I'm taking you out to dinner so my schedule has to match yours." He says with his trademark smirk.
"Excuse me? You're taking me out to dinner?" he nods. "Who said I wanna go?"
"Don't you?" he asks putting an innocent face. I again raise my eyebrows at him. "My treat." I think about it. Dinner with Ray? "C'mon, Abby, you know you want to." He insists with a smile. Ok, this is just a meal with a friend. There's nothing to it.
"Ok, but this is just dinner. It's going no further than that." I say.
"Of course not." He says. I roll my eyes at him.
"Meet you in the lounge in ten?"
"Doubt you're gonna street this patient this fast."
"Wanna bet?" I say with a smirk.
"Twenty dollars?" he says offering his hand for me to shake.
"You're on." I say shaking his hand.
It's been a few weeks since that episode on the roof. Ray and I are getting closer as friends. He's really fun. We've been having lunch and coffee together and that was enough to start the rumor mill again. It's been just coffee and an occasional lunch. This is actually the first time he asks me out to dinner, though. But I don't think he asked me out, asked me out. This is gonna be just dinner with a friend, nothing more. Or it was gonna be. My patient needs a full work up and a million exams. This is gonna take forever. Damn. Guess I'm not having dinner with Ray after all.
I go into the lounge and find Ray on the couch reading medical journals. He looks up at me with a smirk.
"You're late." I roll my eyes at him and sit down next to him.
"Here's your twenty bucks." I say handing him the money. "My patient needs a full work up. Rain check on dinner?" I ask leaning my head back on the couch, closing my eyes. I'm tired.
"You want me to wait? I can wait until you're finished with this patient." I open my eyes and smile at him. He's sweet.
"No, go home, get some rest. We'll go out to dinner some other night, ok?
"Ok. See you tomorrow?" he asks getting up.
"Yep. Bright and early." He chuckles putting his jacket on and closes his locker. I get up and head to the door.
"Night, Dr Lockhart." He says.
"Good night, Barnett," I say pushing him out the door as we leave the lounge. Some nurses look at us oddly, probably wondering what we were doing in the lounge alone. Great. Here we go again…
So the rumor mill really is back at County. Everyone keeps looking at me and Ray funny. I didn't mind at first but this is getting really creepy, not to mention annoying.
I'm in the lounge finishing some charts when Susan walks in. She puts her stethoscope on the table and goes over to the coffee machine to pour herself some coffee. Then she sits on the couch and looks at me for a minute.
"What?" I ask. She's freaking me out staring at me like that.
"I've heard some interesting rumors." She says taking a sip of her coffee.
"Really? About what?" I ask even though I know what this is about.
"About you and Barnett." She says
"Oh."
"Isn't there anything you'd like to share with the audience?" she asks excited.
"No." she gives me a look. "There's nothing going on between me and Ray, Suse. You should know better than to believe those stupid rumors." I say shaking my finger at her.
"I do know better. That's why I came to you first." She says with a smile. "So there really is nothing going on?" I shake my head in the negative.
"Sorry to disappoint you." I say with a grin.
"Too bad." She says. "Because he is kind of cute." I look at her and laugh. "What? He is!" she says laughing.
"Don't let Chuck hear you saying that." I say. She laughs.
"So what are you doing tonight?" She asks throwing her cup in the trash.
"Going out." I say trying to end it at that. But it's never that easy with Susan.
"Oooh. Hot date?" she asks grinning.
"Not exactly. It's hardly a date at all." I say.
"Oh. Who are you going out with?" she asks. Oh boy. That's exactly the question I was avoiding. I take a deep breath.
"Ray." I say and she bursts out laughing. "What?"
"And there's nothing going on, huh?" she says, her eyes sparkling with amusement. I glare at her.
"No! There is nothing going on! We're just friends!" I say annoyed. Great. Now they'll have something more to gossip about.
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