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CHAPTER 3

Ray groaned and turned over to stop the beeping coming from his alarm. He stood up and felt a wave of nausea pass through him.

"Well that's what you get for having one to many beers," he thought as he stumbled into the kitchen contemplating calling in sick. He quickly decided against it, he didn't need to deal with shit from Weaver.

He was pouring himself a bowl of Lucky Charms when Neela's door swung open.

"Morning!" Lalita said brightly as she crossed the room to join him.

"Morning," he chorused wincing in pain at her overly chipper voice for 7 in the morning.

She gave him a knowing glance.

"Hangover?"

He nodded.

"Well I have the perfect cure," she stated making her way into the kitchen.

A couple of minutes later she remerged and set a glass of a milky looking solution in front of him.

Ray gave it a weary look.

"Should I be scared?" he asked.

"No questions just drink it," she informed him.

He gave her another weary expression before distastefully picking it up and downing it in a gulp. His lip curled in disgust after he finished it.

"What the hell was in that?" he exclaimed.

"You don't want to know," Lalita informed him.

Her eyes lit up brightly as she spotted the box of Lucky Charms in front of him.

"Thank god! I thought I was going to have to eat Neela's crap!" she said grabbing the box.

Ray laughed.

"If it weren't for your looks you could've fooled me that you were her twin," he stated.

She gave him a look that said she thought he was the most idiotic person in the world.

"You don't actually believe all that twins are alike…mumbo jumbo crap?" she asked.

"Guess not anymore," he told her.

"Good because Neela and I couldn't be more opposite, I mean I love my sister to death but we're like peanut butter and jelly. I was the rebel in school she was a grade A student, I take everything step by step she has her whole life planned, I travelled the world she went to medical school… catch my drift?" Lalita asked.

"More than you know it," Ray said with a deep sigh he was in the exactly same position as Lalita when it came to Neela…well except that Neela wasn't his twin sister…needless to say he and Neela were thorough opposites.

Lalita glanced at him with an odd expression.

"How?" she asked.

He frowned.

"How, what do you mean how?" he asked.

"How do you understand what I'm saying?" she asked him.

"Shit!" he rattled through his brain trying to find a good enough excuse without telling her he had feelings for her unavailable sister.

"No reason…" he finally stated meekly.

She nodded but cast another curious look in his direction.

He decided he needed to change the subject fast.

"So…how come you turned up here so…I dunno out of the blue?" Ray asked.

For a second he thought he saw a darkened look flash through her face but in an instant it was gone.

"No reason…just thought I'd come up here and surprise visit my sis," she replied hastily.

Ray nodded but this time it was his turn to cast a curious look in her direction he wanted to ask her more but he didn't feel like he was one to pry…yet.

"Okay…well I better get ready for work otherwise Weaver will be on my ass, by the way thanks for the drink strangely I think it worked," Ray said standing up.

"Yeah, no problem I told you it would," Lalita said a smile returning to her face.

Ray nodded again before making his way out of the room. Something was up and maybe he couldn't ask her but she sure could ask her sister.

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"Bag him and send him up to surgery," Neela said peeling off her latex gloves as she exited the trauma room.

"Hey Neela!" she heard someone calling her.

She spun around to see Ray walking up to her.

"Hey," she told him with a smile.

"Can I uh…talk to you for a second?" he asked.

"Yeah sure, what's up?" she asked as he fell into stride with her.

"Well I was talking to Lalita earlier…and uh I asked her how come she'd turned up like that last night…and the answer I got from her was kind of like a mixed signal," Ray said.

Neela looked up at him startled.

"What did she tell you?"

Ray looked up at her in surprise by her sudden change in tone.

"Well uh nothing…she just said she wanted to visit you…why is something up?" Ray asked.

Neela looked up into his eyes which were full of confusion and concern she wanted to tell him, she needed to tell him she had been walking through a living hell since Lalita had told her last night…but still she couldn't betray her sister no matter how much she wanted too.

"No of course not," she told him hastily.

"Neela…" Ray began he may not know Lalita well but he sure as hell knew Neela and he could tell when she wasn't telling the truth.

Neela's pager went off.

She couldn't help but feel relieved as she glanced down at it.

"Listen I have to go Ray I'll see you at home," Neela said quickly hurrying off leaving Ray staring at her retreating back with a frown on his face.

Now he was positive something was up and he was going to make sure he found out what it was.


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