Chapter 3
Shaun and Claire walked into the lab.
"Do you have our results?" Claire asked the male nurse on duty.
"Yes," the nurse replied handing Claire the results.
"Thank you," Claire said taking the results and handing the male nurse a gift certificate. "Here's the gift card to Chilli's like I promised."
"Claire," Shaun said shocked. "You bribed him to get our results quicker?"
"Morgan does stuff like that all the time," Claire said. "I'm just trying to keep up with her."
"You don't have to bribe," Shaun said. "Bribing is wrong."
"Says you," Claire said. "When this residency is over, you're sure to get a job here. For Morgan and me, it's different. It's between me or her."
Shaun began to walk off.
"I'm sorry," Claire said. "I'm not mad at you. It's just, Morgan always has me worked up."
"Okay," Shaun said. "Okay."
Claire looked at the results.
"Well," Claire said. "It seems that our teen patient has chlamydia."
"I knew it," Shaun said. "I was right."
Shaun and Claire walked down the hallway to a room where a female teen patient and her mother were waiting.
"Your daughter has chlamydia!" Shaun hollered.
"Chlamydia?" the mother asked before looking at her daughter.
"Yes!" Shaun exclaimed with a smile on his face. "She will need to be on antibiotics. I'll go inform Addison."
Shaun walked off and Claire stayed behind.
"I am so sorry about Dr. Murphy," Claire said. "He's autistic and sometimes lacks the proper communication skills."
Meanwhile, Shaun walked over to where Addison was looking through some charts.
"Addison," Shaun said. "A patient has chlamydia and needs a prescription of antibiotics."
"Okay," Addison said. "Thank you for informing me."
A few minutes later, Addison walked into the room where Claire was still with the patient and the patient's mother.
"Claire," Addison said. "You can go on lunch."
"Thank you," Claire said.
Claire walked out and Addison handed the prescription to the patient's mother.
"Here you go, Ma'am," Addison said.
"Just to let you know," the mother said, "we're never coming to this hospital again."
"May I ask why?" Addison asked.
"Dr. Murphy is very insensitive," the mother said. "He cheerfully told my daughter about her diagnosis!"
"I'm very sorry about this," Addison said. "I will talk to Shaun and get this sorted out."
"You better," the mother said. "I donate a lot of money to this hospital! One more experience like this, and the donations will stop!"
"Thank you, Ma'am," Addison said. "I assure you that I will talk to Dr. Murphy immediately."
Meanwhile, Shaun, Claire, Morgan, and Alex sat at a table in the cafeteria eating lunch.
"So, Shaun," Alex said. "What happened to your hand?"
"Oh," Shaun said. "Yeah. I was helping Betsy find her sister's cat and the cat scratched me."
"Who's Betsy?" Morgan asked.
"She's this girl who lives in my apartment building," Shaun replied. "She has blonde hair and blue eyes. She wants to take me to dinner to thank me for helping her find her cat."
Everyone at the table looked at Shaun.
"What?" Shaun asked.
"So you and Betsy are going on a date?" Claire asked.
"No," Shaun replied. "She asked if she could take me to dinner at this new restaurant to thank me for finding her sister's cat and I said yes."
Shaun got quiet and began nervously fidgeting his fingers.
"You guys are right," Shaun said. "I am going on a date."
"I think it's good that you're finally moving on from Lea," Claire said.
"Who's Lea?" Alex asked.
"Shaun's girlfriend who moved to Pennsylvania," Claire replied.
"Here's some advice," Alex said. "Wear that suit you wore to the fundraiser."
"Okay," Shaun said.
"And wear cologne," Claire said. "Women like it when you wear cologne."
"Okay," Shaun said. "Okay."
"And whatever you do," Morgan said, "do not be yourself."
"Morgan!" Claire shouted.
Shaun looked at Morgan.
"I really don't like you," Shaun said in a calm tone. "Time for me to get back to work."
Shaun got up and put his tray on the dish return. As he exited the cafeteria, Addison approached him.
"Shaun," Addison said. "We need to talk."