Ch. 9 Forgive and Forget

1 hour after the wedding was suppose to start

Lu: was that Ben Lana! In an angry voice

Lana: yea baby

Lu: what did he say! And don't lie to me!

Lana: He said that he doesn't think that you love him like he loves you and he said he loves you with all his heart and he's sorry for putting you through all this pain and he just hung the phone up…I tried calling him back but he cut his phone off…im so sorry honey

Lu: crying uncontrollably Lana I can't believe this is happening to me… I give up on love I really do cuz shit like this happens every time I fall in love with somebody!

Lana: holding Lu while she breaks down its ok baby let it out I promise he will come

Lu: you don't know Lana

Lana: oh I promise you baby he will come

1 hour later…

Lu finally stopped crying she goes around asking for Lana but nobody knows where she is… but right when Lu was about to ask Dana if she had see Lana… Lu sees Lana yelling out her name from the sunroof of Ben's limoLu started crying

Lu: yelling what are you doing Lana! The limo stopped and Ben got out the car

Ben: tears coming down his eyes Lu I'm so sorry… can you please forgive me, I love you with all my heart will you still marry me?

Lu: tears coming down her face how could you not think I didn't love you? Ben I love you so much and yes I will still marry you…they hug each other

Ben: come on Lana I got this beautiful woman to marry

Lu: smiling whispering to Lana Thank you so much

Lana: whispering back your welcome baby

Ben and Lu walks to the alter

Priest: Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to bring this man and this woman together in holy matrimony… Do you Ben take this woman Luisa Magdalena Delgado to be your lawfully wedded wife to have and to hold for richer or poorer in sickness and in health till death do you part?

Ben: looking in Lu's eyes and putting the ring on her finger "I do"

Priest: Do you Luisa take this man Benjamin Sanders to be your lawfully wedded husband to have and to hold for richer or poorer in sickness and in health till death do you part?

Lu: smiles while a tear crawls down her cheek looking in Ben's eyes "I do" placing the ring on his finger

Priest: With the powers vested in me, I pronounce you Mr. And Mrs. Benjamin Sanders. You may now kiss the bride

They kiss then while they were walking to the car everybody started throwing rice on them then they climbed in the limo and drove off with a sign on he back that said "Just Married"

They dropped by the house to get some clothes for the honeymoon that Ben told Lu that he was taking her on but all Ben wanted to do was show Lu the surprise he had for her at the house… So they walked in house and they went into the bedroom and Lu saw an envelope that said " To: Mrs. Sanders"

Lu: what's this?

Ben: open it

Lu opened the envelope and it had a letter in it and it said: "Luisa I love you so much and I want to spend the rest of my life with you I want to grow with you I want to have children with you and I'm so sorry that I hurt you and made you cry and I promise I'll never make you cry again I will always be there for you when ever you need me and I promise I'll keep you happy for as long as you live…Love your hubby Ben".

Ben: please forgive me I don't want to see tears in your eyes I just want to see you smile please forgive me baby

Lu: Do you really mean that you want to have children with me?

Ben: of course! I meant everything in that letter

Lu: I forgive you baby! Hugging him so are we still going on our honeymoon?

Ben: Oh I meant to tell you that all your friends even Dr. Jackson at the clinic and Dana put some money together and gave us a honeymoon in Jamaica

Lu: Omg really!

Ben: yup and we need to hurry and pack cuz the flight leaves in an hour

Lu: yay! I can't wait; I have never been to Jamaica before

Ben: it's beautiful you're going to love it

Lu: I know I am cuz I'm going to be with the love of my life

Ben: yea me to they kiss we're going to have fun let's get packing

1 week later…

Lu and Ben is back from their honeymoon and Lu is back at the clinic

Lana: good morning Mrs. Sanders

Lu: laughing good morning Lana

Lana: so how was the honeymoon?

Lu: it was great and I want to thank you and the others for sending us to Jamaica

Lana: no problem baby we just wanted yall to have the time of your lives together

Lu: we did!

Lana: that's good…cuz you really needed it

Lu: yea I did…so who's me first patient

Lana: Sierra Carter Handing Lu her file

Lu: turns around and calls Sierra Carter

Sierra: Hi doctor I'm glad I can finally get away from my job to see what's wrong with my body

Lu: it's Lu…call me Lu so what's been going on with your body

Sierra: I've been waking up in the middle of the night having chest pains and I can't breathe sometimes and sometimes when I'm at work I get out of breath really easily

Lu: examing her where do you work at?

Sierra: at Wal-Mart on 93rd Avenue I get the products off the backs of the trucks and place them in storage

Lu: I know Joyce Davis that works there I delivered her baby

Sierra: Oh really I know her, she's trying to become a manager

Lu: Good for her! So I'm going to take some blood to see what's wrong and just come by 2marrow and I'll give you the results

Sierra: Ok I will! See you 2marrow Sierra walks out Lu's office and to Lana's receptionist desk

Sierra: Hi I need to schedule to come in 2marrow at 9:30 am

Lana: ok and what's your name Honey

Sierra: Sierra Carter

Lana: All right see you 2marrow

Sierra: thanks bye

Right when Lu was about to come out her office Dr. Jackson comes in

Dr. J: Can I talk to you for a second Dr. Delgado?

Lu: Sure, what's up?

Dr. J: Well first off congratulations and I hope you and Ben had fun on your honeymoon

Lu: thank you, yea we had so much fun and thank you for sending us to Jamaica

Dr. J: no problem but what I want to talk about is Ben

Lu: what about him

Dr. J: Well I want to know if you'd think Ben would want to work here, I mean if he hasn't found a job already

Lu: no not yet, that's a good idea I'll ask him when I get home tonight

Dr. J: Ok thank you and congratulations again

Lu: thanks Dr. Jackson

Later on that night...

Lu comes home

Lu: honey! I'm home

Ben: Hey how was your day back at work

Lu: good… Dr. Jackson wanted me to ask you if you would like to work at the hospital

Ben: well since I haven't found work yet I'll come by the hospital 2marrow and talk to him

Lu: ok so do you want to

Ben: I don't know

Lu: what don't you know! We'll be working together

Ben: yea that's what I'm afraid of

Lu: ha-ha not funny I think you should take it

Ben: why so you will know where I'm at, at all times?

Lu: of course!... no cuz you know I trust you but didn't u like working at the hospital

Ben: yes very much that's why I'm going to talk it over with Dr. Jackson 2marrow

Lu: oh ok… well I'm really tired so I'm going to go take a hot bath and go to sleep

Ben: ok I'm going to be in the study goodnight… He kisses Lu and they walk opposite directions

The next morning…

Lu walks in the clinic

Lu: good morning Lana

Lana: Good morning, Lu… is Ben going to take the offer.

Lu: Lana how do you know that Dr. Jackson offered a job to Ben

Lana: Lu you're talking to Lana here I know everything that goes on around this hospital

Lu: Yea well, he said that he's coming here today to talk to Dr. Jackson

Lana: oh ok so what do you think about this?

Lu: I think it's going to be great working with my husband… wow that sounded weird

Lana: ha-ha get used to it and you better not let him distract you from your job either!

Lu: Oh Lana!

Lana: Well the girls are waiting for you and after chat room Sierra Carter is coming back in for her results

Lu: oh yeah I'm glad you reminded me

Lu goes into chat room

10:00 AM

Chat room is over

Lana: handing Sierra's file to Lu and also giving the MRI file to Lu Sierras waiting for u in the office

Lu: ok Lu goes into her office

Lu: Hey Sierra

Sierra: Hi Lu… just tell it to me straight what's wrong with me

Lu: umm... I'm sorry Sea but you have lung cancer

Sierra: what? How? I don't even smoke…I'm not even around people that smoke, Lu am I going to die

Lu: Sea you get that out your head right now…and you can get lung cancer even if you don't smoke but that's the common way to get it though

Sierra: So what's going to happen Lu?

Lu: well I'm going to have to admit you, I'm going to run some test on you, and then we'll see where it goes from there

Sierra: tears coming down her face I'm scared Lu

Lu: Don't be honey everything is going to be all right

Later that day…

Ben goes up to Dr. Jackson's office

"Knock knock"

Dr. J: come in

Ben: Hi Dr. Jackson

Dr. J: Oh hey Ben and you can call me Robert

Ben: Well Robert I heard you wanted to talk to me

Dr. J: Yes, I do I wanted to see if you would be considering taking a job here

Ben: How much will you pay?

Dr. J: A very good amount…more then Octavian Systems did

Ben: Ok and you don't care that Lu and me will be working together

Dr. J: No not at all as long as I don't catch yall doing anything and make sure none of the patients here catch yall either

Ben: laughing of course not we won't let you catch us

Dr. J: so is your answer yes?

Ben: Ummm… yea y not

Dr. J: good Welcome to the team he shakes Ben's hand

Ben: Thank you… So when do you want me to start

Dr. J: If you want to you can start right now but if you don't want to u can start 2marrow

Ben: No I think I'll start right now… but first I want to go and tell Lu the good news

Dr. J: Ok I'll have my assistant page you when we need you

Ben: ok so he goes to see Lu

Lu was sitting at her desk looking at Sierra's file trying to figure out what's going with her

Ben: peaks his head through the door Luisa! Carrying out the A sort of in a playing voice

Lu: Hey Ben

Ben: hey He walks over to where she was sitting and kisses her

Lu: so did you talk to Dr. Jackson yet?

Ben: yup!

Lu: and…

Ben: and I said yes

Lu: really! Very excited when do you start

Ben: today Dr. Jackson said that he'd page me when he needs me

Lu: I'm so happy for you…we should celebrate tonight

Ben: ok where do you want to go?

Lu: I should be asking you that

Ben: well since u hate going to fancy expensive restaurants that's where we'll be going

Lu: well since it's your day I'll go

Ben: well thank you for letting me have my way

Lu: laughing don't get use to it

Ben: Believe me I won't…so what were u looking at when I came in

Lu: I was looking at one of my patients file Sierra Carter, she has lung cancer but she says she doesn't smoke

Ben: you know that lung cancer isn't just the cause of smoking

Lu: I know but this just doesn't make any sense to me

Ben: can I go look at her?

Lu: sure

They walked to Sierra's room

Lu: Hi Sierra this is Dr. Sanders and he's just going to take a look at you

Ben: hi Sierra like Lu said I just want to take a look at you just to see what's going on

Sierra: ok

Ben: Ok Lu was right even though I didn't doubt her…I just wanted you to have a 2nd opinion

Sierra: yea I understand

Lu: I'll be back up her to check on you

Sierra: ok thank you Lu and you to Dr. Sanders

Ben: no problem bye

Lu and Ben walked out

Ben: Lu I know you said she said she doesn't smoke but unless she has an identical twin, I seen her smoking outside while I was coming to your office

Lu: really! Why would she lie about smoking don't she know that she's just hurting herself! I can't believe this! All this worrying I've been doing and she's been smoking this whole time and I cant believe she would still smoke after I told her she had lung cancer!

Ben: yea I know its messed up Lu but just calm down and take a deep breath before you go talk to her

Lu: ok she took a deep breath and just sat down behind her desk Her office phone rings

Lu: Hello? Yea he's right here…ok I'll tell him

Ben: Dr. Jackson needs me don't he

Lu: yeah

Ben: ok ill be down here later

Lu: ok bye they kissed and Ben went on his way

Later that day…

Ben: so did you talk to Sierra yet?

Lu: no cuz I know if I would've talked to her today I would've went off on her… so I'm just going to talk to her 2marrow so I can sleep on it… so how was your first day

Ben: It was good but it felt weird not being the boss of Dr. Jackson

Lu: yea I'm still not used to it laughing

Ben: smiling well we still need to celebrate

Lu: of course lets go home and get dressed

Ben: lets take my car

Lu: so somebody can brake into mine…I don't think so

Ben: who would want to brake into your car?

Lu: Ohh! You got jokes…well we can drive our own cars home then we can take your car ok!

Ben: ok let's go

The next morning…

Lu: turned over in the bed it's a shame we didn't get to go to the restaurant last night

Ben: I know but we still had fun last night smiling

Lu: today I have to talk to Sierra and see why she's been lying to me

Ben: do you want me to be with you so I can calm if or when you get angry

Lu: No I promise I'll stay cool… are you going to work when I go in

Ben: yea

Lu: ok Lu jumps up and runs to the bathroom well I got the bathroom first

Ben: awww come on Lu you know u use all the hot water

Lu: opens the door well come and take a shower with me

Ben: well I think that can really save water and we'll still have hot water left for tonight! Smiling

At the clinic

Lu and Ben walk in

Lana: well hello you two lovebirds, yall look refreshed!

Lu: smiling good morning Lana

Ben: I'll see you later Lu and remember what I said, be calm when you talk to Sierra

Lu: I will, see you later Ben kisses Lu on the forehead and then leaves

Lana: why is he telling you to be calm when you talk to Sierra?

Lu: cuz I found out that she has lung cancer and when I told her she told me that she didn't know how she got It cuz she doesn't smoke and she's never around smokers and she's been lying to this whole time so I'm going to go talk to her in a few

Lana: omg Lu y would she hurt her self more by lying that doesn't make any sense

Lu: I don't know why but I'm about to find out now

Lana: ok tell me how it goes

Lu: ok Lu walks up the stairs to the hospital room

Sierra: Hey Lu did you find out how I got it

Lu: yeah I found out how but I think it would be better if I hear it from you

Sierra: what are you talking about Lu?

Lu: dont play games with me Sierra cuz I dont like liers and I damn sure dont like playin games getting really annoyed

Sierra: ok letting out big sigh ok fine...yes i do smoke, I've been smoking for 6 years, but what i don't understand is how did you find out

Lu: don't worry about how I found out, Ill just say i got connections, but what i dont understand is why did you lie about not smoking, your only hurting yourself, and since you lied your lungs have gone without the treatment it needed and there is no way to help them now

Sierra: so does this mean I'm going to die

Lu: well it's a possibility... but I'm going to try and get you on the top of the donor list it may take to long though

Sierra: I'm so sorry Lu i didnt want this to happen

Lu: why'd you lie about it Sea

Sierra: she starts crying cuz my mom died from lung cancer so did my dad and my twin sister is on her death bed right now as we speak at home in Ohio and i was really scared that's why I lied

Lu: swallowed really hard I'm so sorry but by lying your hurting yourself and may even be killing yourself

Sierra: i don't even know why i lied all i can say is that I'm really sorry

Lu: ok well I'll be back up here to check on later

Sierra: ok I'm sorry Lu i really am

Right when Lu was about to walk out the room the heart monitor starts beeping and Sierra was lying on the bed grasping for air, Lu runs to the side of Sierra and 2 nurses ran into the room

Lu: I need a a PT, PTT, CBC, and let's get a chest x-ray on her

So the nurses run Sierra down the hallway on the gernie

Later that day...

Ben: going into Lu's office hey

Lu: with a big sigh Hey

Ben: you look very tired

Lu: that's cuz i am

Ben: what happened with Sierra

Lu: well she confused and right when I was walking out the door she stopped breathing

Ben: o really is she all right

Lu: yea for now but I cant get her on the top of the donor list so i dont know whats going to happen to her

Ben: I'm sorry, lets go home so you can get rest

Lu: ok

Ben helps Lu put her coat on and they walk out the clinic together