Down the road of memories

Human

Elle POV

I couldn't believe that 4 years had passed since I left Los Angeles. I hadn't been back since I went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University except for my father's wedding 3 years ago since he had moved to Chicago at the same time. So I'd fly to Chicago during the Christmas or Easter holidays, and the few times I saw Lee during medical school were in Baltimore or San Francisco. He even came to see me once with Rachel in Paris during my internship.

I had never stopped at the thought of coming back to Los Angeles, even though it's the place on the planet that I still consider home. I had rebuilt my life elsewhere. The emergency department at Los Angeles Medical Center is one of the best in the country. When I was accepted as a resident, it was an offer that was impossible to refuse.

So, within a week, I packed up my few possessions that I had brought to Europe and flew back across the Atlantic and back home. Of course June and Matthew Flynn were over the moon that their little girl came home and since my return was decided quickly, they offered me to come and live with them until I found a new place. Lee was extremely excited for me to come back to Los Angeles and Rachel told me she was relieved to have someone who could calm him down with all the details of the upcoming wedding.

I had been back in Los Angeles for 1 week to start my residency in emergency medicine. What I've realized during this week is that the urgency is... like being in a war zone every day. In my first week in this world, I was grateful for the distraction of emotions that my medical school graduation, my departure from Europe and my return to Los Angeles brought me.

I was thinking about this during the little 2 minutes of tranquility I had all day in the middle of code black. Dr. Grant Browns approached me while I was waiting for an ambulance at the hospital drop-off area.
-Ready for your first experience as an ambulance doctor, Dr. Evans?
-Totally, Dr. Browns!

He tilted his head and laughed softly.
- What's so funny?
- Dr. Smith has never seen a medical resident in charge of an ambulance in her first week. We're all wondering where you're coming from, Dr. Evans! You are much more advanced in your ability to care for patients than many of us!
-I lived and breathed medicine for 6 years! On humanitarian trips, it is easier to learn when you tell yourself that the person would die even if you did nothing.
- It would appear! Dr. Levis asked your friend, Lee Flynn! You have a reputation for putting your heart and soul into it when you put yourself into something.

Anthony Levis' father is president of the hospital and one of the golf partners of Matthew Flynn, Lee's father. Anthony and Lee know each other without being great friends, but I know that some information leaked about me before I arrived at the emergency room a week ago. Matthew was very happy to tell Dr. Levis, Sr. that his little girl was starting her residency at Los Angeles Medical Center and of course Anthony called Lee for more details. That's how I feel like everyone in the team knows me.
-What did you ask Lee Flynn about me?

Grant Browns looked at me with a smirk.
-You wouldn't have had a boyfriend for the whole of college and medical school.

I sighed softly, I couldn't believe Lee had taken the liberty of telling my colleagues this detail. It wasn't really the kind of conversation I wanted to have with Dr. Browns and Dr. Levis who had spent the week flirting with me since I arrived in Los Angeles. But, I knew they were going to keep asking until they got the answers and Lee is so good at gossiping. I liked to be more in control of the information myself.
-I had a boyfriend in high school who was one of my best friends, we broke up at the end of the summer before I left for USC. I dated one guy while in pre-med school and another guy at Johns Hopkins.
-And why, it didn't stick for any of the 3.
-Do you really want to tell me about my love life on the hospital emergency room drop-off area, Grant?
-I don't think it's a secret that I like you, Rochelle. I'd like to know what I need to do to date you. And since we're in the emergency room of the Los Angeles Medical Center in the middle of code Black, I'm taking the time I have.