Ever so slowly, I lowered my mouth to the lime. As I did so, I felt the brush of her lips on mine.
Just a touch. Just a breath, and it ignited fire in my veins.
And at that moment, I forgot a lot. My heart stopped, my breathing quit, my thoughts cea...
「twenty-three✧couple's therapy..?!」 tw: small mention of ed
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The day passed quickly. For our last internship day, Augustus and I were partnered up to do rounds for the nurses in the hospital. We checked up on patients, checked on their labs and their charts, and made sure they were being administered the correct dosages of drugs and such.
Everything was going smoothly until our last patient, a boy around our age that just got out of surgery.
"Hi," I greeted after knocking on the door and hearing his answering 'come in'. Augustus and I filed into the small room, and I grabbed his chart. "How are you, Tom?"
I read over his information. Thomas "Tom" Harrison. He was twenty-three, 5'10, with dark hair and light eyes. His skin was olive, and freckles dotted his nose and his cheeks. He just came out of surgery to get his appendix removed: appendectomy.
"Good, thank you. Who are you?"
"I'm Emilia, and this is Augustus. We're at a summer camp and we're just doing rounds for the nurses. We're acting as interns."
"Summer camp? How old are you?"
"Nineteen," I responded, feeling slightly uncomfortable but understanding where he was coming from. If I was in his position, I'd want to know the credentials of random people coming into my room as well. "Augustus is twenty."
"Ah, I see. You two are planning on going into medicine?"
"Yes," I answered, not missing the way that Tom's eyes dragged over my body. From the stiffening of Augustus beside me, I figured that he didn't fail to notice Tom's wandering eyes either.
"What branch?"
"Tom, you're the patient. It's inappropriate to ask us too many questions. Let Emilia proceed," Augustus said sharply.
Tom's eyes narrowed in on Augustus, as if just now noticing him. "I was just getting to know the two people who randomly came into my room, claiming that they're in place of my nurses. Pardon me for wondering," he responded with an equal sharpness.
Augustus completely ignored him, and instead grabbed the chart from my hands. "Are you feeling any pain?"
Tom clenched his jaw before responding, "No."
"Have you gone to the restroom?"
"Excuse me?"
Augustus glared at him. "Have you taken a shit yet?"
I covered my mouth immediately to stop myself from laughing. Then I shoved Augustus with my elbow, to which he didn't even budge.
Tom's eyes were bulging, flicking back and forth from me to Augustus. "Um..."
