AN: This is what I think should happen in the episode 1x08.
"Hey Jude, do you want to go to the banquet with me?" Nic asked. Obviously, Jude said yes.
Chastain Memorial Hospital was hosting its annual banquet which was for charity/ donation from rich people. And she thought it would be a good place to have a date. For the heck of it. What she didn't know was that Conrad had passed by as she asked Jude. Conrad was hurt. He knew that she was looking for someone, but really Jude. Conrad decided it would be best to avoid Nicolette. Only talking to her when need be, but he did his best by eating lunch by himself talking to himself which he felt was normal and by not bothering to go the Banquet tonight. He wasn't going at first because of Dr.Bells lies but this gave him more of a reason to not dress up.
Time Skip, Four Hours Later...
Nic and Jude walked straight to the cafeteria where the banquet was being held. Nic saw Conrad pass by and she waved but he didn't wave back. He had been doing this all day. She knew that she hurt him by her choices, but she was trying to move on. Why couldn't Conrad understand? She held her head high and walked in forgetting about all of this drama from early today. While Conrad, on the other hand, was working three patients at a time. Since they were understaffed the Residents and workers were working overtime because they can't just leave their patients. As he started walking two men came in with a man. He looked to be bleeding and they chose Conrad and literally forced him to work on the man. They threating him and others in the hospital. He had never had to do surgery solo on a patient he normally had someone with him. But he couldn't afford to lose this man, too many lives were on the line including his. But really why did this have to happen on one of the worse days of Conrad's life.