IT'S JUST A CONTRACT

Where is she even?!

  I get to work exactly 2 minutes to my shift and head straight to my office to get into my uniform. I check on my patients and head to the break room, I see David and wave at him, he usher's me over to where his seated.
  "Hey, how was your weekend?"he asks as soon as I'm sitted next to him
  "It was awfully"
  "Why? Did something happen?"
  "Not really"
  "Okay,I know for a fact that that smile was fake andd that you've been out of it since the beginning of last week"
I say nothing so he continues speaking
  "Look...I'm not gonna force you to talk about it or anything like that,but if you do need to talk,I'd totally be willing to listen and I hope you that you do remember that"
  "Thank you David and of course I remember, You're my best friend after all"I say resting my head on his shoulder.
  "Why're you thanking me? if I ever needed to talk you know that I'm gonna come running to you anyways"he replies and we both start laughing.
David's been my best friend since our second year of college. We were in the same group for a project, we hit off and have been best of friends ever since. After college we didn't really get to see each other alot for a while since he was too busy working his ass off and I was busy trying to get my hospital and orphanage running,but once I was done I invited him to work for me and he said yes without hesitation. It just feels so nice knowing your support system is just around the corner. And under normal circumstances I would have told David about the whole zailah thing but I Just couldn't bring myself to tell him about this because he's been having a fall out with his girlfriend daphne recently and even though he's trying his best not to show it,I know that he's having a really hard time, I mean they've been together for as long as I've know him,so,I know for a fact that If they ever broke up it'd ruin him.
We chat a little more and he heads off to his shift while I head to my office to take care of my actual work.
  If you're wondering why I'm working as a staff in my own hospital, it's because I studied medicine because I love it,The idea of taking care of and saving people's lives just makes me immensely happy. It's a feeling I've never really been able to phantom. At first I got into clinical medicine because I lost my mom to a health issue while I was younger but with time I fell in love with all the diverse medical terminology and how a single successful research could save millions of lives. Besides the whole owning a hospital of my own was my dad's idea,that's why at age 27 I own and manage a hospital.
  I clock out of work at exactly 6pm as always and decide to go from a walk at the park instead of heading home right away,I really don't want to see to Zailah. She wasn't home when I left earlier today and I heard from Stacey that she'd left really early in the morning because something came up at the office and that she'd probably be home early,so I'm gonna stall a little,grab dinner and then head home.
  While having dinner though I get an idea on how to get out of this situation 'I'm just gonna irk her till she can no longer stand me and sends me away, it's that simple. I shouldn't be avoiding her, I should be trying to find out about her and spending all the time I possibly can with her'. I quickly rush my pasta dinner and head home. I get home though to find that Zailah hadn't returned yet,so I head to my room and get ready for bed.
   Once I'm in bed I start thinking of ways to Irk her, from what I've seen so far she's pretty tyrannical so she'll probably get pissed if I don't do things her way. I think I'll start with that and try to find out more about her. I dail Stacey and ask her to come wake me up by 8am tomorrow if I'm still asleep,I play around with my phone before going to bed.
  A week has gone by and I haven't run into zailah even once no matter how early I woke up or how late I stayed up, it was like she didn't even live here. Another week passes by like that and I still am unable to see,so it really begins to bother me, 'how the fuck am I supposed to carry out my plan if I can't even see her? Ugh!!'
Later that night at dinner I decide to ask Stacey if she knew anything about it.
"Hey Stace, Ms zailah hasn't been back in a while, do you have any idea why?"
"Oh!...it happens sometimes. When there's a huge problem at work she ends up spending days or sometimes week's on end at work or flying between cities or even countries"
"Damn, she must have it hard"
"Yeah, she does and when it's all finally over she comes back very exhausted, but she..."
Stacey is interrupted by panicked steps and whispers so she excuses herself and takes off.
"Wonder what that's about"I mutter to myself and continue my meal. On my way back to my room I see a doctor attending to someone, they're not really passed out but they seem to be in alot of pain from the multiple injuries on them so I peek in a bit and make eye contact with them. 'It's zailah,holy shit.'I think as I turn around to take my leave and scurry back to my room. 'How did she even get those injuries? Was she kidnapped or something?'