My Romeo

Chapter 7

I wrap my one hand around her and the other on her stomach, I place my palm under her t shirt gently pressing on her stomach. She grips my arm closing her eyes

"Nandini murthy?" I hear a nurse call

"Right here" I say

"Come over here, lets get you an iv and some blood tests"

I pick nandini up taking her to the chair, I place her on the chair and stood right there caressing her hair, her head leaned onto my stomach

"No that will hurt" nandini says smacking the nurse's hand away when she grabs a needle

"Ma'am you can't do that, I have to take blood and put an iv in to give you fluids before getting a ct scan" the nurse explains

"No" nandini says

"Nandini look over here, look at me" I said

"No" she repeats

"Look at me now" I demand

She frowns looking at me, I lift her chin up before I indicate the nurse to prick her

"Ahhh" she cries grabbing me

"Im sorry" I whisper

she whimpers in my stomachs the nurse puts in the iv in her attaching the glucose  to it.

"Go back to the waiting room, I need the glucose to the second line before she can go to the ct room and the ultrasound room" the nurse tells me

"Sounds good" I said

i was about to pick up nadnini but she smacked my arm away

"Go away you terrible human" she said grabbing onto the iv stand walking to sit

I sit beside her and she turns away from me, little sniffles leave her lips making me sigh, she is dramatic sometimes.

"Nandini"

"No, you are supposed to my friend, my Romeo but you go and side with her, that nurse who wants to prick me two time. She isn't even the prettiest" she complains groaning in pain

i chuckle hearing her explanation but I am not going to lie when I say  my heart did this weird thing when she called me her Romeo.

"They have to nadnini" I say

"Doesn't matter, see I feel better we should go home" she says

"Stop it" I say grabbing her arms before she could yank the iv out

"It hurts" she sniffles

"Come here my Juliette" I whisper to her picking her up placing her in my arms

I moved the glucose beside her and let her rest her head on my bicep while I rub her stomach to ease the pain, I swear to god this is so weird

"This isn't even helping" she cries fisting my t shirt

"It isn't supposed to, its glucose nandini"

"Is it cancer" she asks

"Nandini don't even mention shit like that" I raise my voice for some reason, I hated the thought of it

"Im sorry" she whispers

"Its nothing of that sort, its a simple stomach ache or food positioning why would you think that"

"My mom, she mhm she had cancer" she whispers

Shit, I shouldn't have raised my voice at her at all.

"Nandini"

she shakes her head closing her eyes in my chest holding onto me

"Im sorry baby" I whisper kissing the top of her head

"What if I have it too?" She cries

Is this why she is so scared? because I know for a fact it is probably food poisoning or an allergy or something like that

"You don't, look up at me" she lifts her head up opening her tearful eyes to look at me

"It's not that I promise, it's just a small thing. Navya said you had cottage cheese strawberry clusters"

"I did" she says

"It was probably bad" I say

"So It's not something serious" she asks

"Not at all, don't think rubbish. You are fine"

"I will buy you coffee if im okay and if im not you buy me coffee" I chuckle a bit other weirdness

"Nandini you"

"Are great, yes sir I know, mhm can you do that again please?" She asks making em realize I was massaging her stomach

I did it again and she hums in satisfaction holding me.

"I hope you don't have a girlfriend" she says

"Wow, after being in my arms for almost 3 hours, you are asking this?"

"Yup" she says

"No I don't, and if I did this wouldn't have been good"

"Nope because im planning on coming over every time my stomach hurts so you can give me a massage"

"I don't got time for this" I say but immediately realized it came out very hash

"Keep your stupid deflection in the head, I am in pain and you are nice and are going to give me a massage every time I need, ill give you a back massage too okay" she says kissing my chin

"Mr boyfriend, get her here for a second" I hear the nurse

"And now I am dating you, great. In pain and dating perfect" she says gripping my t shirt as I carry her to the chair again

She looks at the glucose thing and does a couple things in her laptop before checking Nandini's fever

"Go back and wait for a bit longer, you are only at the first line" she says

"Take this out of me now" Nandini glares at the nurse

"Nandini" I say

"What" she replies

"Quiet" I mumble carrying her back

"You can't be so aggressive with her"

"Why? Od you like her?"

"No baby, its not that, she is going to make you sit here longer if you agree with her" I say

"Arghh god, why did I eat those stupid things" she groans in my chest

as I sit there with my back leaning against the chair caressing her hair I couldn't think of any reason why I called her baby, I mean sure she looks sweet and has chubby cheeks like a newborn but I have never used such an endearment before not even for my ex who I thought id end up with for the rest of my life

It wasn't just the fact that I let myself call her baby, the other thing is the nurse called me her boyfriend yet I didn't deny or say anything actually. And god, the stupid grin in my head when she asked if I liked the nurse, god, shit man. What am I doing?