A Time For Love (A Time For Love Series-Book 1)

A Week

STEF POV 

It had been going on a little more than a week since Bird and I moved into Lena's apartment. It was going pretty well, and I felt like the two of us were settling in. Bird still wasn't sleeping very well and was just plagued with night terrors and horrible dreams, but I could pretty much say the same for myself.  It had nothing to do with Lena's apartment, nothing at all, and I was hoping they would subside some and give Bird and I a damn break.

I did enjoy being here and even if the new nurse my brother and Lena had found for me turned out to be an asshole I was working hard and trying my best at everything Lena was showing and teaching me. I wasn't a dick by any means, and I wasn't trying to be a challenging patient, but I guess at times I still had a mouth on me when I felt someone was being a shit and when I was just purely frustrated with myself.

I had lost patience with the nurse, and for starers she didn't know how to read the fucking blood pressure machine right. Plus she had poked me damn near five times before she found a vein to draw blood. At that point I snatched it from her fucking hand and flung it across the room because I wasn't trying to be her damn gueina pig or someone she could practice on.

Hell, I probably could have handled the entire thing better but I didn't, and I guess I was human. Unfortunately Bird had heard me go off and I had to talk to her and let her know it wasn't okay for me to speak that way to anyway. Ever. I was going to be her mother and I really needed to control my outbursts.

FLASHBACK

"What the fuck is your issue, huh?!! How many fucking times do you plan on sticking me in the arm before you know what THE FUCK you are doing? HUH! You think I want my arm filled with holes because you don't know how to draw blood!" I scream at this young girl as she looks at me horrified.

"I..I had a hard time finding a vein. They..they don't stick out so much and-

"I'd have better luck drawing my own blood then to have you do it! Yesterday you couldn't figure out the damn blood pressure machine and today you don't know how to take blood!  Just give me the damn thing and I'll do it my freaking self! Freaking idiot!!"

"Stef, what is going on? Is everything okay?" I turn to see Lena in the doorway as she walks over to the both of us.

"I won't be spoken to this way. I just won't. She is so rude Miss Adams."

"I wouldn't need to be rude IF you knew how to do your FUCKING JOB! YOU come in here and call me RUDE! YEAH!! GET THE FUCK OUT! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE and learn how to draw blood!!"

"Stef, Stef." Lena whispers as I look toward the doorway seeing Bird as I rub my forehead feeling a headache come on ." I'm gonna see her out. Be right back, but breath okay?" Lena whispers as she shows the nurse out and I look over at Bird again who is still standing in he door way staring right at me.

"I'm...I'm sorry baby. I..I'm sorry. Come..come here." I whisper softly as she nods her head and slowly walks into my room taking a seat on my bed. "I..um..I shouldn't have talk that way to her...and...and I'm sorry you..you heard me."

"It's okay Mama, you just want a nurse who understands you. That's all."

"Yeah..but..just...I need to...to not talk to people that way. And you..you don't either. Oh..okay." I grab her hand now as she nods her head. "Okay...go...go finish your..your work."

"Okay, Mama."

FLASHBACK ENDS

Now of course Lena was looking for another at home nurse and I felt badly giving her more shit to do, even if she reassured me I didn't need to feel this way. How could I not? I had been here a week and already making her life more difficult.