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Chapter 4: MEMORIES OF THE PAST
Lu poured herself a cup of coffee and sat down at her desk, glad for a few moments to herself. At only 10:00am, she knew it was going to be a long day, and an even longer night. She knew that this particular Wednesday would be longer than most.
She leaned her head back in her chair and closed her eyes.
"Jonas, please don't leave me too." Lu whispered. She bit her lip. People are always leaving, she thought to herself.
The first person to ever leave her had been her father. He had left shortly after she had been born.
Ten years later, her mother had died of breast cancer, leaving her with Isabel, her grandmother.
At the age of sixteen, her boyfriend, Bill, had run out on her when she had told him that she was pregnant with his child.
"I'm not ready to be a father," Bill had said. "I'm leaving for college next year."
Scared and alone, and with the help of her grandmother, a sixteen year old Luisa Delgado had dropped out of school to give birth to her son, Marc Antonio.
After the birth of her son, Lu had struggled to raise and child and put herself through med school. She hadn't had time for much of a social life.
The past five years had brought into her life several good relationships, but each had ended abruptly.
Jack had decided to break up with her after meeting Marc, stating that he wasn't ready to be a father, especially to someone else's kid.
Then there had been Harry. Lu smiled as she thought of Harry, remembering that she hadn't like him at all the first time she had met him. To her, he had appeared to be arrogant and obnoxious. His daughter Erin had been Marc's girlfriend.
But Erin's mother had started trouble, saying that Harry's relationship with Lu was a bad influence on Erin, and had threatened to sue for custody.
So with no other choice, Harry had had to break up with Lu, and Erin had had to break up with Marc.
Then it was Mickey. She and Mickey had gone to school together. They had been brought together when he had brought his mother in to seek medical care. Lu had diagnosed her with cancer, and was there for him when she had died.
Their friendship renewed, they had quickly become a couple, spending every spare moment together.
But the life of a doctor and a firefighter didn't always make it easy. But still, they had made it work.
Tears streamed down her cheeks as she thought about Mickey. She had loved him very much. And not only had he loved her, but he had cared for Marc. He understood that Marc was first in her life, and if he wanted her, he needed to accept Marc also. And Mickey had.
Mickey had been taken from her at the hand of her patient, a hand that had pulled the trigger on the gun, hitting him with the bullet that had been meant for her.
Then it was Ben. Ben had asked her to move to Florida with him, but she couldn't leave the clinic and her patients. So he was out of her life too.
And now, she faced the possibility of losing Jonas. In the months that they had been seeing each other, they had become very close, despite their very different lives and backgrounds.
Lu gingerly fingered the ring on her left hand, the ring that Jonas Ray had slipped on her finger just three days earlier while she slept.
"Give me your answer when I come back from Rio on Thursday." He had said, giving her his award winning smile as the elevator door closed, leaving her staring with excitement at the ring on her finger.
And now, he was missing. Would he come back to her, or would he be gone forever too?
"I can't lose you too, Jonas." She whispered, her voice trembling. "I love you." Lu jumped as her pager interrupted her thoughts. Lu glanced at it.
"The ER. Pull yourself together, Delgado." Lu told herself firmly as she hurried from her office, slamming the door shut behind her.
