Chapter fifteen – You will know.
It had been about a week since that infamous night with Audrey and Ray. She hadn't seen him since, he had left the next morning with his band for some trip somewhere, she was iffy on the details. She sat at the admin desk rocking on the small chair day dreaming about that night, she knew it wasn't right, that she shouldn't date an intern but she couldn't resist him, he made her feel at peace with the chaos of the world. She watched John and Abby walk in casually from their vacation out in the tropics, John had taken Abby for a week cruise down to the sunny beaches of California. They were such the perfect couple, they seemed so blissful together.
"AUDREY! We had a WONDERFUL time! We have so many pictures to show you." Carter pulls out a few shots of him and Abby, they all seem the same, them two kissing on the beach, kissing on the boat, kissing in the restaurant. Abby mostly wears a flowery bikini top with a wrap around skirt, Carter mostly wears his opened Hawaiian shirt over his black swim shorts. She is happy for them, just a little sad herself.
"That's great John. Seems wonderful"
"You okay!"
"I don't know, you and Abby it seems so easy. I'm glad for you two, but at the same time I can not help but be jealous because I mean I just can't go ahead and decide for Ray. How do I know! For you it seemed so obvious!"
"Aud, Remember how un-easy it was for you to convince me to ask out Abby. I know because when I look into her eyes I know I want to look into those same eyes ten years from now and when I'm old and sick and I'm the one lying on the gurney I want her to hold my hand and kiss me tenderly…"
Audrey smiles delicately and grabs a chart . She understood him, she didn't really want to answer though
"Well I'm off to 'treat and street'" Carter nods and also grabs a vacant chart
A few hours of 'treat and street' pass, Parker is back at the admin desk in her own little piece of world rocking again on the small chairs.
"Dr Parker, can I see you in private?"
She lifts her eyes to see a seemingly very tired Ray Barnett stare back at her seriously, she so absorbed by staring into his face than she loses balance on her chair and falls back.
He runs to her to make sure she is okay; she's perfectly fine except for the bruised ego.
She points him off to the small office which was assigned to her. She locks the door as they enter. She is anxious and very nervous about what Ray is about to say, she expects a whole romantic scene where he declares his love to her.
"I wanted to ask you if I could become like a peds/ER resident next year, if I could be under your 'service'" Audrey didn't know how to feel, here she is expecting to be taken away in a wave of romance and he asks for a rotation!
"Errr. Sure. Yeh."
She passes him a few forms for him to fill out, he takes them grabbing her hand partly accidentally, he doesn't let go. They gaze at each other, their faces gradually advance followed by a deep passionate kiss. At that moment Audrey pulls back looks into the eyes of the man in front of her and thinks 'this is the eyes I want to look into in thirty years and the hands I want holding mine when I am sick…'
Ray mumbles something, barely audibly. She doesn't know much of what he said but she heard the word 'love' and by the glitter in his eyes she knows its good. She walks over to him to embrace him and kiss him another time.