Chapter Four
They both grabbed their coats and headed out of the door. Luka sensed that Abby wanted to talk, but he didn't push her, knowing that she would share her thoughts when she was ready. He also hung back a bit, letting her decide where she wanted to go, where she felt comfortable, whilst also giving her space to think about what she was going to say.
Abby led Luka through the park and down alongside a river. Eventually, she sat down on a bench looking out over the water, and Luka sat down next to her. She sat quietly for a few minutes, deep in thought, before speaking:
"Carter sprung it on me last night that he's going to Africa and he doesn't know how long for. He never asked me what I thought about it, which tells me that he has no respect for either my opinions or me. He wouldn't listen to a word I had to say last night, so I threw him out of my apartment."
"And this morning?" He questioned.
"I was late, and then when I did get in, Morris gave me the worst patients he could find on the rack as punishment for being late. One of these patients, a kid, decided to vomit all over me, so I had to go back to the lounge to change. Whilst I was doing that, Carter crept up behind me and asked me if I had forgiven him, and when I implied that I hadn't, he told me that he didn't see why I was acting in the way I was. I told him exactly why, and then shouted at him to piss off, which is when you entered the lounge." She replied.
"Well after that, you cried yourself to sleep, and I left you on the couch in the lounge and told Neela to keep an eye on you, whilst I went to see Kerry. On my way back, I bumped into Carter as well, or rather he bumped into me."
"What did he want?"
"He wanted to talk to you, so I told him that he couldn't because you were in an unfit state to even work from his previous discussion with you. So then he seemed worried about what you had said to me."
"What do you mean?"
"Well he asked me what you had said about that discussion and he looked flustered, but I just told him that you'd told me nothing because you had cried yourself to sleep. I don't think he believed me though because his response was 'Oh, is that so?' and he said it really sarcastically. I just told him that I had to go because I was taking you home, which he wasn't happy about, and insisted that he could do that, but I told him that he'd done enough damage for one day and walked away." Luka explained,
"Wow! Anyone would have thought that he was jealous of you,"
"That thought did cross my mind, but I don't know what reason he has to be so, we're friends." He said,
"Yeah we are," Abby replied.
She held her hand out to him, and he took it. They just sat there for a while, enjoying the silence. When it began to get dark, Luka stood up, and pulled Abby up too, and they started walking back towards Abby's apartment.
By the time they got there, it was dark. They entered the block and made their way up to Abby's apartment. When they got there, they found that someone was waiting outside of her door, he turned round, it was Carter…