The Marine's Girl

Chapter 1: The put upon Girl

Friday, 03:40am

*Alarm buzzing*

Looking at my night stand trying to get my cell phone and immediately turning it off. I'm the type of person who doesn't get out of bed as soon as I wake up looking at the ceiling. It has been my room since I was in grade school, the little glow in the dark stickers that I put on the ceiling was still there. The wall is still pink and as girly as it was. My parents always had this fear that I would turned up to be a lesbian. Growing up with my all boy cousins and being the only girl in our clan and of course being the only daughter. Nothing was change since I left it. Me and my accidental best friend Katie decided to rent a unit near our work, since both of our house was a thousand miles away from the hospital. We also both hate waking up early just to get to the hospital early. I'm a nurse, it's not my dream to become a nurse, but I need to follow the legacy of our family. Which is to be on the health care field. Most of my cousins are doctor. We can even put our very own primary hospital.

Tip toeing to the bathroom, trying not to bump anything that would make noise. Ready to take my morning bath. Looking at my reflection on the mirror, seems like nothings change the girl I saw on the mirror when I was teenager is still the girl I'm looking right now, a little bit chubbier though. I open the shower I can feel the water running from my head down to my body.

Stepping out of the shower and getting out of our house, I even forget to say goodbye to my mom. Bad egg! I took the cab that would take me to the hospital. There's a lot of cab than jeepneys in our place. I ask the driver to drop me at the nearest train station. I don't want those people from the hospital to see me in a cab. I don't want them to think I have enough money and I don't deserve the vacancy for the nurse I position. Few minutes later I heard my phone beeps and it was from my Katie. "yo,yo, goin to the hospital now. Don't forget my breakfast. Love u. xx " My ever dearest best friend Katie, I remember I owe her a week of breakfast since I ask her to pay my credit bill. Katie hated that I spend more money on makeup that I can't even pay my credit bill and sometimes even the rent. I'm a complete make up junkie and I don't just buy any kind of makeup. I collect the high end ones like Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Georgio Armani, Shu Eumura etc. There's even a time that we went on a catfight because Katie throw my train case out of the unit because she was talking to me and I'm paying no attention to her.

That's the advantage of being Katie. Fight now, Reconcile later. Katherine Bell Flores a.k.a Katie. 27 years old, bitch who loves cat more than anything else. We met at the hospital, she's already one of the regular staff nurse. We went to the same college, but we only discover it during my first week in the ward. We fell close to each other right away. Engaged to his 8 years boyfriend Drake, they were both saving up for Katie's dream church wedding. She's a fitness buff wannabe I've always seen her doing burpees and faint before she could finish a set. I also know that sometimes she sneak of the unit to eat her favorite comfort food which is cheese curls and cola.

It was exactly 5:00 when I arrived at the train station, it was about to open. This is also one of the reasons why I want to leave the house early because people still smells good. Unlike when you travel on late afternoon, believe me you wouldn't like what you're going to smell. Rushing from the guard to the flat form of the train, so I can be able to get the first trip. 'whoa, what an early cardio exercise' I said to myself.

Arriving at the hospital, smiling and greeting everyone I meet. First rule on the hospital always give courtesy. The hospital that I am in is also the same tertiary hospital where I practice my profession when I was still on college. It was my least favorite hospital because It's the most toxic hospital I've been. No doubt until now, it's still as toxic as ever. I enter the lobby and I heard someone greeted me