Crystal Hayslett, a talented doctor from Memphis, TN gets hired at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She meets a group of gifted, friendly, and sometimes nosy, co-workers. The glue of that group is Devale Ellis, a surgeon of two years. Deval...
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"Girl I know what I saw."
"No you don't." Zena said as she wiped down her desk. "What makes you think they're fucking around?" She asks me.
"Because I just know." I say crossing my arms and looking away.
I know coming and telling Zena what I just saw is a risk. But I had to get it off my chest and talk to someone. She is the person I talk to the most at this hospital. I feel like I can trust her. I think with all the drama with Morris and Nicole she's staying quiet. But now Nicole is stepping into my territory and I don't play about what's mines. I literally just kissed him and then he didn't have the decency to tell me that he's fucking her. I should've known though. He's best friends with Morris. Birds of a feather... you know the rest ...
"First of all Devale likes um— thicker women. He also likes black women, not model-like Polynesians." Zena said rolling her eyes.
"Yeah that may be true but I still don't know if I can trust him." I say shaking my head.
"You know how you always try to make it clear to me that Morris isn't technically my man?" Zena says using air quotes.
I roll my eyes, "Yeah what about it?" I ask her.
"He's not your boyfriend Crystal. You know men take advantage of that grey area all the time." Zena said. "I guess that was my mistake, not making things clear." She told me.
"Hey nothing that jack ass did is your fault. He's just a bad person in general." I say shaking my head. "Look I gotta go finish filing these papers." I tell Zena.
She looked at me and nodded her head as I walked off. My phone started buzzing but I left it in my pocket. I think it's Devale trying to contact me, so I haven't even looked at my phone since I saw him in that hallway with Nicole. I don't know if I overreacted or not. But, Zena is right, Devale isn't my boyfriend. I guess I got a little too territorial early on, but the kiss was so good I just got a little jealous thinking about him putting his game on another woman.
I got to my office and opened the door, a person sitting in the chair next to my desk scared me half to death.
"I didn't mean to scare you." Devale said. "But you didn't give me a chance to explain myself down there and didn't appreciate that." He said shaking his head.
I looked him up and down before closing my office door.
"Did anybody see you come in here? What is your problem?" I ask him.
"What's your problem? I take you on a date, tell you how much I like you, and then we kiss, now I'm a liar and you can't trust me?" Devale said looking confused.
"I think that we should talk about this after work." I suggest.
"No I want to talk now." Devale said raising his voice a little bit. "I'm not sleeping with Nicole and I haven't been sleeping with anyone these past few months because I've just been working on myself. Is that going to be hard for you to believe?" He asked approaching me.
