After hours

Chapter 19

Evangelina's POV

"Should I call?" he asks for the billionth time.

"Just call."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure just call."

"Really?"

"Oh my god Jacob! Just call him already!"

"Okay, okay." he laughs.

I stand there while Jacob calls his brother.

"Okay he's coming over for dinner."

"See it wasn't that hard."

"Yes it was!"

"Oh whatever." He kisses my neck making me laugh.

"Alright I have to go to work. Love you." i tell him.

"Love you."

Rounds go by fast with my existing patients. I get scheduled to assist a valve replacement, a appendicitis, and a brain tumor removal.

I was going to be late for dinner.

Great. I better call Jacob.

~

"I'm home!" I call coming into the house. Strange, there was laughter coming from the living room.

"Oh, hey babe. We were just watching the game. He only just got here."

"Hi. We met briefly the other day. I'm Evangelina but call me Evi."

"Hello, I'm Justin." He extends his hand and I shake it.

Crying came from the girls rooms.

Jacob's POV

"I didn't realize you had children?"

"Yes, let me go get them." i say waking to their room. "This is Scarlett and Nikki. They are almost seven months old." I grab their plates and began feeding them. "So how did you get in contact with our mom?"

"When my dad hit your mom almost a year and half ago-"

"Wait. Your dad? Hit my mom?"

"Yes, that's why he is in jail." Justin's expression hasn't changed.

"Are you heartless or something jeez? At the funeral, you didn't cry. When you told me that we were brothers, it seemed casual to you. Right now when you just told me that your dad almost killed our mom, you have a straight face."

"I-I don't share my feelings to anyone."

"Mhm."

"Anymore questions?"

I say the first thing that comes to mind, "Uh-Do you have a girlfriend?"

"Gosh, no. I don't see the reason to be settled down-"

"Ah hem. We are settled down. You are 34. You should be with someone. It's the best thing in the world to cherish someone and love them."

"Eh," he shrugs.

"So you are a doctor?"

"Yes a heart surgeon, Evi is a surgical resident. So where do you live?" i ask him.

"I live in New Orleans. The best place in the world."

"That must be fascinating."

"You bet, you should come with me soon."

"Yeah, ha if I don't die."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"I have cancer."

"Oh my." He says and Evi drops her fork and it clatters on the plate. i shouldn't have said it that way.

"Yeah and Evangelina is pregnant with our third."

"Jacob, that is horrible."

"Eh, it'll be okay."

"And if it isn't?"

"Then I'm dead."

"Babe please don't say that," Evi says and i gently squeeze her thigh giving her a small smile.

"Eh. I've lived more than I have ever with you and the twins."

"Oh," Justin says.

"Don't worry, you are going to live." Justin gives me a huge hug. "Thanks for dinner. I need to catch my plane. Call me whenever you are in New Orleans. Get better."

And with that, Justin lets himself out and drives away. I didn't know what to think. I have a brother. This is so overwhelming. I just find out that I have a brother, my mom is gone. I could die, and Evi is pregnant with our baby. I make myself a glass of bourbon and go outside to the balcony.

"You know, technically you're not supposed to mix alcohol with your chemo right?"

"Well tomorrow is my last dose and frankly I don't give a shit what they say."

"Jacob."

"I'm sorry. I've been a jerk lately." I pull her into a hug.

"It's okay," she says, hardly a whisper.

"Are the twins asleep?"

"Yeah. They're getting so big, and they start to cry when I leave the room."

I kiss her soft pink lips."You're such a good mother."

~

Evangelina's POV

"Today, each of you will be assigned two interns. Just as two of you were assigned to a resident last year." Dr. Montgomery says. "Alright Sanchez and Pearson you are with Dr. Stevens. Would you follow her please."

I wave my hand and a guy and a girl come towards me.

"Alright I'm doctor Stevens-"

"We know who you are." The girl says.

"Excuse me?"

"Your the intern that got pregnant and married the heart surgeon, but he's like dying or something."

That bitch.

The other guy was frozen with fear.

I like him.

"Alright, you can sort through patient archives all day. You will be scrubbing in with me on a brain tumor removal."

The guys face lights up and the girl gives me a scowl.

This is going to be fun.

~

"My interns are idiots!" I yell plopping down in the bed next to Jacob. "Actual idiots. The guy can't even do a suture! And the girl is such a bitch."

"Alright, clam down. Just think Christmas is almost here."