"I honestly don't know how some guys have the nerve. Can you believe that? Can you honestly believe that?" I vent to Meredith in the locker room while pulling on my scrubs. "Ever since I became an intern my love life has been screwed. Hey, isn't that funny."
"What's going on?" Cristina asks, walking into the room and taking a seat on the bench as she began to get ready for the next forty eight hours.
"Alexa's fiancee is possibly a jerk." Meredith replies, eyebrows raised as she closes her locker and leans against it. I sit with my head in my hands before running a hand through my hair and looking at her. She gives me a weak smile and I smile back.
"Why, what did he do?" Cristina frowns.
"It was our anniversary yesterday and we were supposed to go out for dinner, but remember there was an accident and a bunch of people got rushed into surgery and we all had to stay," I begin, and the anger begins slowing bubbling inside of me again. "I rang him and I explained to him that I was sorry and that I'd make it up to him, but there really wasn't anything that I could do. Well, when I finally got home, I did what I usually do. I hang up my coat and make sure all of the lights are turned off. Then I went upstairs and went into our bedroom and he wasn't there."
"That's not so bad." George interjects, shrugging his shoulders.
"I rang him and he answered after a few calls, he told me that he was out at the bar with the guys and that he'd be back late. But the entire time he kept telling somebody in the background to stay quiet and it was another girl. I can't get her voice out of my head, her telling him to put the phone down and come back to bed. At least, I think that's what she said." He fell silent.
"What a douche. Do you want me to punch him?" Cristina offers and I laugh, shaking my head.
"No, we have patients to attend to. You can always punch him afterwards, though." I laugh as Dr. Bailey opened the door, tapping her foot on the floor as she waited for us. We quickly got up and followed her out of the room and down the corridor as she began giving us orders.
"Alright, Grey, O'Malley, you two need to go and prep the patient in 103 for his heart surgery. Yang, you're scrubbing in. Karev, Green, you're with me." Karev and I tried to keep up with Dr Bailey and listen to what she was trying to tell us, as well as avoiding the doctors and patients coming at us in the hallway. "You two need to keep an eye on some of the patients from yesterday. There's three that went through major surgery and you need to make sure that their levels don't drop and that they wake up, just check on them every hour or so and attend to them. Then there's Mr. Anderson, just came in this morning, is going to need a CT scan. If you have any problems, page Doctor Shepherd, I'll be in surgery."
The first person we went to check on was Mr. Anderson, who had been complaining of constant headaches, drowsiness and sickness.
"Alright, Mr. Anderson, how are you feeling today?" I ask as we walk into the room. His wife is clutching onto his hand and you can almost see the fear in her eyes and I smile at her in an attempt to calm her down.
"Same as before." He replies, and I look at his chart.
"Have you eaten or drank anything since you got here?" He shakes his head. "Well we're going to take you in for a CT scan to check what's going on so that we can give you more detail and tell you where we're going to go next. Do you have any questions?" Alex asks as I fill out his chart.
"When will we find out if something is wrong?"
"A couple of hours, the second we find something out we'll let you know." I assure. "We're going to do our best to help you."
We take Mr. Anderson to the CT scan room in radiology and I make myself comfortable in the viewing room in front of the computer. Although it won't take long for us to figure out what it is, it'll take us a while to interpret the results exactly and get a third opinion on it from an attending before we can tell them. Alex finishes preparing him and walks into the room, taking a seat on the chair next to me.
"Are you alright?" He asks, reclining and looking at me.
"Yeah, I'm just tired. I had a long night and I had to wake up earlier this morning so that I'd get here on time." I sigh, leaning onto the desk so I could rest my head in my hands.
"Why, what happened?" He frowns.
"I don't want to talk about it. Why do you care so much, anyway?" I joke, but he takes it seriously.
"I'm just making sure you're okay. Do you want me to go and get you some coffee?"
"Only if you're getting one. And if you see Dr. Shepherd, bring him with you so we can check. This should be done by the time you get back."
After he leaves, I watch the screen intently and wait for something to show up, but I can't help but have my mind wander back to Alex. He has never really shown any interest in what's going on in my life - or anybody else's, for that matter - before, so why did he have the sudden change of heart? Although, none of us had really taken the time out to properly get to know him because he conveyed a rather arrogant and conceited persona.
"Hey, are you alright?" Addison Shepherd asks, walking into the room. I gave her a little hug and nodded. "I have a c-section patient here now, are you in when you're done here?"
"Definitely." I had become close friends with Addison Shepherd, although it appears wrong to some because I am also friends with Meredith, but she assures me that it does not bother her and that it is alright. In fact, Addison was the first person I called last night after I hung up on Jack; she talked me through a panic attack and she came to pick me up this morning.
"Come to me when you're done then, yeah? What are you doing in here anyway? What are you looking for?" She takes a look at the screen just as an image appears that confirms all of our suspicions. "Do you know what that is?" She asks me, because this is a teaching hospital.
"Well this here, it's internal bleeding, which was caused by the tumour here." I say, pointing to the screen. "It's just a small tumour and it looks easy to remove, but if we leave it much longer then it'll press on the brain and it'll be an even bigger problem. It's not cancerous but if it grows anymore then it'll press on important parts of the brain."
"That's right, now how do we treat it?" Dr. Shepherd questions, glancing at the screen before looking at me and nodding with a smile.
"Surgery to remove the tumour and bleeding, then we check on him and make sure that the tumour doesn't come back." I state.
"Good, great work Doctor Green, Karev. I want both of you scrubbing in on the surgery, I'll schedule it in for a couple of hours." Dr. Shepherd announces.
"One of us needs to keep an eye on the patients from last night." I inform him. "Dr. Bailey's orders."
"...and she's taking care of a c-section patient with me." Addison intervenes.
"I'll find someone to take care of the patients from last night. Karev you can watch them until the surgery, Green, take care of the c section, scrub in with us when you're done."