May
On the western
side of Pepperstock Green was the quiet residential estate known as Hill Bank,
and in one of its quiet roads, was the home of the Lawson’s, where Nurse Mia
lived with her Parents and her younger siblings.
She was the
oldest and, as her mother kept reminding her, was still single, which wasn’t
for the want of trying on her part.
The problem was
when you worked shifts it was difficult to have a social life and meet new
people, but although she wondered sometimes why she was alone she wasn’t
unhappy, she didn’t feel diminished by her unattached status.
But there were
many times when she wished she could change her Facebook status to “in a
relationship”.
She had plenty
of friends and two sisters, all of whom took turns at throwing single men in
her direction, but she evaded most of them and of the ones she didn’t evade,
none of them turned out to be keepers.
As she was a
Nurse at the Pepperstock and District Hospital,
Doctors always tried their luck of course, but news and reviews of doctors
travelled fast along the nurse’s grapevine, so they generally knew who to avoid
and working in the Emergency Department meant that patients weren’t an option.
She liked the
ED though, and there was one regular visitor that she had her eye on, PC Jamie
Osborne, and she had been applying some intense flirting for several months,
however she had not been able to get anywhere with him, but she was determined
to persevere.
In fact on one
Thursday evening in May, Mia, who was tall, skinny
and freckly with straw coloured hair, thought she had made a breakthrough, his
partner PC Koenig, was taking a statement from a mugging victim and Jamie was
stood by the nurses station, and as she had just finished stitching a nasty
scalp wound, Mia decided to go and flirt with him again.
As she was tall
it made a nice change for her to talk to a man who was taller than her as Jamie
was six feet plus and she had always had a weakness for
red hair, and his was very red.
It was a very
busy shift in the ED and she should have felt a bit guilty under the
circumstances, and very unprofessional, because she was flirting with him
shamelessly and she couldn’t help herself, as she inclined her head to one side
and played with her hair and behaved like she did when she was still at school,
and fully expected it not to get her anywhere, when his demeanour changed and
it looked like he might be about to say something that was giving him a dry
mouth.
So, she held
her breath expectantly, but before the words came out a group of rowdy drunks
came in and he had to leave her to go and separate two scuffling revellers, and
she had to return to cubicles, and that was that.
But by the end
of a busy shift he returned and this time he sought her out.
“Hi Mia, I’m
looking for a Mrs. Tweed, Emily Tweed”
“Hello
Constable.…” she began, and was about to start flirting, when she had another
thought “She’s been admitted”
“Do you know
which ward?” he asked
“I’m going up
myself, so I can show you if you like”
“Great” he
responded
Thankfully the
lift was there waiting, it was only three floors, but she was feeling a bit leg
weary.
“Thanks for
doing this” he said
“No problem, my
pleasure” she retorted and was momentarily distracted by thoughts of pleasure
as the lift began to ascend
But her
unprofessional thoughts were abruptly halted when the lift started rattling and
shaking and threw the pair of them, nose to nose, into one corner.
“Well, this is
fortuitous” she said and kissed him.
“That was so much better than flirting”
“I can’t argue
with that” he said “especially as I’ve wanted to do that for a while”
“Really? me
too” she concurred “Seconds then?”
His reply came
in the form of a kiss, and it was even better than the first and only came to
an end when the lift started moving again.
By the time
they had reached the floor they wanted and emerged from the lift they had a
dinner date for Saturday evening.
And after
showing him to Mrs Tweed’s ward she returned to ED, but not in the lift, she
skipped down the stairs instead.
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