Disclaimer: I do not own ER or any of its characters. The only one that I own is Jessica "Jess" Graham! Yeah, she came out of my head :)
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The day passed by quickly for the first time in several weeks, but wasn't that that Abby had on her mind. Abby haven't seen Jess since she left her home again by the morning and went to her own apartment. Everybody said that Jess didn't seem to be okay but she seemed perfectly normal the last time Abby saw her that day. Maybe she called Kem back... But Kem said it was nothing urgent so nothing bad could've happened... So WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON?
Abby couldn't take those questions off her head and couldn't think of nothing else... The curiosity and worry were eating her inside. She needed to know what happened.
Abby was laying on her couch looking at the ceiling, still with the clothes she used during her shift. She wasn't exactly comfortable but she just didn't want to move. She just wanted that all went away. The responsibility of her job, the bad reviews of her performance, her worries about her mother, her brother, Carter and her friends... She just wanted to sleep and forget about everything that...
Knock, Knock.
Someone was now knocking at her door.
"Maybe if I stand really quiet, they'll think that I'm not home and go away." Abby closed her eyes and stood still.
Knock, Knock.
"Abby! If you're there open up, please!" Jess's voice came from outside and Abby stood up immediately and ran to the door.
Jess was standing there and she was looking like shit. Her long brown hair that used to have pretty waves was now wet and kind of messy. Her sweet brown eyes had huge shadows around them and she wasn't with the pretty smile that she always had on. Jess had always been a beautiful girl but now Abby could see the effects of whatever was happenig on her friend's face.
"Thank God, your home." Jess said, going inside and throwing herself on the couch. She sat down and put her elbow on the couch's arm, resting her head on her hand. "I didn't' want to give you more trouble than I already did this weekend... But I need to talk to someone."
"No problem, I'm actually used to it. Now, what happened?" Abby said, locking the door.
"Everything. My day officially sucks."
"Can't be that bad."
"Oh, believe me, it can. First of all, the hangover. I'm not sure of how much I drank last night but, mixed with the events of the day, it was enough to make me look like this." Jess pointed to her face.
"Yeah, you're pretty bad." Abby laughed.
"Thank you for the soothing words." Jess let out a small giggle, showing the beautiful smile she usually had.
"Anytime." Abby felt a little better for making her friend smile. "But it can't be just the hangover to make you feel like that."
"And it isn't. The shift was crazy, trauma after trauma, I almost couldn't breathe. And last but not least..." Jess stopped talking and had a worried expression on her face.
"What?" Abby now listened carefully.
"Kem." Jess took a deep breath. "She called me yesterday while we were out. You heard the message on the answering machine this morning, haven't you?"
"Something maybe." Abby lied without even blinking. "What she wanted?"
"Tell me the news. Actually one new. I know I should be happy but... I can feel that there's something wrong...
"What is going on Jess?" Abby was truly worried.
"She and John... They are... They are coming to Chicago."
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Ok, I made some deep changes on the original chapter, but I think it turned up okay!
I intent to balance the fic by creating different parallel stories so that it won't be so centralized on Abby's story. What do you think?
PLEASE R/R !
Kisses!
