Chapter 2
Dr. Loreali Matthews sat spinning in her chair down at the ER floor. She was best friends with some of the nurses and that night was her ER duty. So far it had been a boring, uneventful night and the girls sat drinking their coffees and watching the LA nightly news. On tonight was a story about a 12-year-old girl winning the longest time ever watching TV. Obviously, the news was in desperate shape to find something interesting. Loreali decided to get a bag of Cheetos out of the new snack machine the ER had received. The last snack machine always gave you the wrong snack.
Suddenly the phone rang and Christy, Loreali's closest friend, jumped up. Loreali turned her head and gave her a confused look.
"Possible Tib-Fib coming in, could be a broken ankle also," Christy said quickly getting everything ready for the patient.
Loreali sighed in relief, she was tired of never having any orthopedic injuries at night, it seemed that the only people that came in during the night were either sick children or dead people. Quickly putting on gloves, she grabbed her equipment and proceeded to the ER Ambulance door.
A few minutes later the ambulance pulled up and they quickly pushed the man through the automatic doors.
"Hey Keith, Bill, what's up?" Loreali asked the men while joining them beside the stretcher. She looked down at his leg to get an idea of the location of the injury.
"Possible Tib-Fib and broken ankle, we splinted his leg and put an IV in and gave him a dose of morphine. Normal stats for his age. You know, same old broken leg." Loreali was definitely used to having Tib-Fib fractures. She probably thought it was one of the highest reoccurring injuries she's seen.
"Ok, do the usual X-Ray Chris, quickly, we don't wanna give this guy too much pain." Loreali noticed she was staring at the man. She was attracted to him, a lot. He had the most beautiful dark curly hair she's ever seen. Oh yeah, and chocolate brown eyes that could melt your soul. She sighed and Christy hurried off with the men to take the X-Rays.
Loreali stopped and turned around to see an older man who had tears in his eyes.