Turning Page || Levi Ackerman

18: Stand Still

Hello everyone.

I'm late but I'm here nevertheless lol. Also it's like 2:30 am, and I'm dead tired, so please do let me know if there are any grammatical errors present.

I've gotten a little lazy about posting songs to listen to while reading the chapter. (For this chapter in particular I don't even remember the song I wrote it to.)

But yeah do let me know if you're reading experience is incomplete without the songs (or if you don;t care about them.) Your feedback (of any sorts) always makes me be better.

Anyways I hope you like the chapter! 

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DEC 846

The temperature is getting colder, and the sun is drowning under the horizon. Another day is close to its end, and an exhausted sigh escapes Mae's lips as she looks over at the orange sky.

Her eyes are shutting close with tiredness, and her back aches from the hard cot she has to sleep on. The air has gotten icy, and she wishes she could make herself a warm cup of soup and take a day off for once.

2 hours more, she tells herself.

2 more hours before she shuts the clinic and heads to the tavern.

The clinic she sits in is quite big. Beds are stacked, running along the wall. And three desks are placed in the center, with some significant space between them all. It's where the doctors sit.

And usually, there's one patient resting on the bed as well.

But none of Mae's coworkers are here today. There's no one on the bed. The clinic feels cold and she feels lonely. It's one of those days where she really misses her parents.

And she hopes someone drops by to distract her from the pain, because she's tired of re-reading the same book again and again.

Luckily for her, knocks do resound on the wooden door. It swings open, and a lady limps inside, keeping all her weight on one foot as she drags the other forward.

She looks quite young. Probably in her mid-twenties. And Mae is quick to get distracted by the big bouquet of roses in her hand.

"Hi doctor." She smiles warmly. And Mae gets up, helping her to the closest bed.

"Hi, how are you doing?" She takes the bouquet of flowers from the lady's arm and places it on one of the center tables. And then she helps her take a seat on the bed.

"Thank you so much, doctor... My name is Ella, by the way. It's my first time here."

"Hi Ella, I'm Mae. Tell me what's wrong? What happened to your leg?" Mae says, as puts her stethoscope around her neck.

"Oh! Silly me, slipped on some milk I dropped while cooking..., it's probably nothing. But, Joseph, my lover insists I need to get it checked," Ella blushes. And then timidly she says, "he's so over the top isn't he?"

And Mae frowns, Ella's words leaving bitterness in her stomach.

She puts the ends of the stethoscope in her ears. "We'll check the basics first, your heartbeat, your blood pressure... close your eyes please... and take a deep breath."

And Ella follows, closing her eyes,and taking in deep inhales.

Yet all that Mae's eyes can focus on are the love bites splattered over Ella's neck. She flaunts it in her sweetheart neckline dress.

Even her skin has this glow, that only loves sparks. Envy pricks Mae's heart.

And she knows that Levi is busy as hell. She knows that he hardly finds time for himself, and she also knows that she isn't dating an ordinary man who can make her his world.