I made another chapter. How could I? At least I'm outta writer's block. Haha.
Enjoy, fellas.
P.s. "Someone call the doctor" is a reference to a lyric in a Kpop song, Overdose (not a Kpop fan tho)
At the diner across the hospital where LA city cops frequent along with hospital staff, Riley and a couple of her colleagues came in on their lunch break, where Riley suddenly falls into someone who could be "special".
"Alright, since Riley had only a handful this morning, let's have more today!" Joy then pressed buttons on the control panel causing Riley to feel hungry, but not as hungry as if she came from fasting.
"Gosh, I'm starving, I wonder what they have..." Riley said to her friends, since she had eaten only a handful at home.
Riley and her 4 colleagues, Sandra, Barbara, Lyudmila, and Maya then proceeded to their seat, where a waiter quickly approached and handed out menus, at the same time
"So girls, what are we having today?" Barbara Velasco, a 29 year-old Puerto Rican paediatrician colleague of Riley, asked.
They then said their orders and then Lyudmila Yazova, a 28 year-old Russian born to an immigrant family who works as a paediatrician like Riley, called the waiter and placed their orders.
Meanwhile in headquarters
"Ugh, did I just see on the description of her food that there's broccoli on the steak? What a phony!" Disgust cussed, causing her to press some buttons on the control panel, making Riley think twice of what she had ordered. She realized she's overlooked the description of her order on the menu and she wanted to call the waiter, only for Joy, in her head, to cut Disgust off and Riley just shrugged it off.
"Ladies, I'll just wash my hands" Riley then marched towards the bathroom. She was twiddling her thumbs on her phone, checking for e-mails and social network notifications. Having overlooked both doors, she unwittingly made her way into the male restroom, to which she bumped into a police sergeant who just washed his hands, causing Riley to trip, her phone dropping screen-first and her purse's bottom landing on a puddle of water.
"Woah!" The sergeant shrieked and both the lawman and the doctor looked at each other awkwardly, in which the Anger of the lawman burst out.
"You entered the wrong bathroom, gal! If you weren't busy on that stupid POS phone Instagramming or whatever you'd actually know you're entering the men's room!" The sergeant's Anger cussed, causing him to furiously push a lever only to be cut off by Sadness, who felt sympathy for Riley and handled the lever instead.
Meanwhile Riley's Disgust and Sadness handled the lever together, causing her to be a bit disgusted and embarrassed at the same time.
"I'm so sorry, miss, are you hurt?" The sergeant sympathetically asked, but at the same time, cringed to having seen a lady in the men's room. Then a yellow-coloured orb rolled down the metal tube in the sergeant's Headquarters, showing his first encounter with Riley.
"I'm okay... Oh shit, my screen's cracked!" Riley screamed a bit after discovering her phone's screen formed a little crack on the lower left corner as she helped herself up the floor and dusted herself a bit, much to Disgust being on the control panel, thinking she's a bit dirty.
"Uhm... You entered the wrong bathroom. This is the men's room." The sergeant said, then his radio broadcasted some police chatter afterwards."
"Sorry, officer!" Riley grinned embarrassingly as she left the men's room and marched for the ladies' room. She then washed her hands and returned to her seat, where their order was quickly placed on the table.
"Pretty quick, huh?" Riley quipped, then the sergeant passed by, looking at her from head to toe and returned to his table with his partner.
They then chewed on their meal and in between was a chitchat, until they finished.
"The bills are on me, ladies. No worries." Barbara then took out her wallet, pulled out an $50 bill and left, leaving a note saying "keep the change ;)"
"Roger, dispatch, 279 X-45 responding code 2 to report of~" The sergeant replied to dispatch on his radio, only to be cut off by Riley who accidentally bumped into him again while examining her phone's cracks.
"You again?" The sergeant recognized Riley, who stood dead on her tracks to which Riley replied, feeling embarrassed, "Yep."
"Look, officer, I'm really sorry I bumped into you, I wasn't looking~" Riley quickly added in a fast pace, to be cut off with a gentle "I'm sorry too, in fact I should be the one sorry, lady. I'm sergeant Lawson, by the way. Nathaniel Lawson." He then introduced.
It's Sadness and Fear behind the controls this time, to which Riley responded "Riley. Riley Andersen. I'm a paediatrician just at the hospital across." She pointed out.
"Police Sergeant I, Los Angeles Police Department. Rampart Division."
"Isn't your division with the so-called scandal or what?"
"Well, yeah. Our station had that controversy."
"Is that your partner? He looks Malay." Riley pointed out to Nathaniel's partner who was drinking a carton of apple juice.
"I'm Luis Posada, Filipino-Puerto Rican. I'm born to a Puerto Rican father and I was born here in L.A." They shook hands, and then Nathaniel, who then realized he had to respond to a domestic dispute call, simply told Riley, "Ri, I'll just be off for a while, okay? And don't call me sergeant or whatever, I have a name, just call me Nathan for short!" The lawman and the doctor furiously blushed at each other.
He and Luis then marched into their car and drove off without any lights or siren, to which it was a Code 2 emergency.
"That guy's kinda hot." Disgust, hands on the lever, muttered to herself.
"But you're hotter than blue flames!" Anger chuckled, only to get playfully slapped by Disgust, to which Fear squeaked "Ayyyyyiiiiiieeee" and Joy taking pictures of Disgust and Anger awkwardly together.
"You mean twat, do you think so?" Disgust blushed furiously, in which Anger replied "you do look so, sweet broccoli."
Riley and her colleagues then marched back to the hospital where they reported to their respective departments. As she came back to her office, she retreated to her seat and placed a water bottle next to her keyboard, as she pressed the start button on the CPU and logged on again after being locked for a while.
Meanwhile, in Lawson and Posada's patrol car, they were chit-chatting about what they had eaten, and Lawson's experience in the men's room. Luis is driving the car and Nathan is seated next to him, wiping the barrel of his shotgun.
"Holy fucking shit, dude, I didn't know that lass would actually cross my path back at the bathroom."
"Well, she's beautiful, she looks good for ya."
"I'm still thinking.."
They then pulled up on a house where the domestic dispute call was reported.
At 7 PM, it was some of the doctor's dismissal time, in which Riley left off. She was picked up by her parents whom she called.
"How was your day, Riley? How many kids have you accommodated to?" Her father asked, in which Riley is trying hard not to make any mention of Nathan, the cop she bumped into back at the diner.
"About 4. And Meg is in LA, he's getting married to a cop, and they have a baby already.." Riley groaned as her head was leaning on the window, trying to relax.
"Oh, nice! What's his name and how many months?" Jill asked.
"Nolan and he's 2 months old."
"Nice, any pictures?"
"None, unfortunately." After a quick 20 minutes of driving to their Tujunga house due to a rare light traffic along the way, they retreated into their home, in which Riley had changed into her house clothes, replacing her 1.5-inch heels with slippers and removed her touch of makeup, and proceeded downstairs for dinner.
"Seafood pasta? For dinner?! Holy bok!" Riley gasped at one of her favourite food next to pizza, seafood pasta which was spaghetti smothered in marinara sauce with headless prawns and 3 mussel fish on the side. **Bok means "shit" in Turkish.**
"Made by me specially for the monkey!" Bill joyfully replied, to which Jill cut off jokingly "You just bought the seafood, I made everything!"
"Okay mom, dad, whatever, the bottomline is that you both made it and it's delicious." Riley chuckled, and then they began to chomp on their meals like there is no tomorrow.
Decide if the last dialogue is a cliffhanger or what, but I'd say it's no cliffhanger, nothing much interesting on the last part I say.
Hope you enjoyed. I just wanted to make it quick since I was feeling sleepy by the time I made this.
~themonument343