What Happened When We Met

The Night of the Broken Hearts III

Timmy and I got to the house. He sat down on the couch and I went upstairs to change. I was going to stay in the hospital all night, so I chose some joggers and a hoodie to wear. And since I planned to work the next morning, I grabbed my scrubs.
I ran downstairs and saw Timmy asleep on the couch. I sat down by his side and he immediately woke up. He rubbed his face and stretched his arms.
"I'm sorry, are you ready?" he sat up.
"Yeah, but let's wait until you're completely awake," I smiled and leaned back, "how are you doing?" I asked him.
"Well, you know Effie is my best friend and I'm obviously worried" he shrugged his shoulders.
"But you've said multiple times that you like her, or did you not?" I felt like I was invading his privacy, he had always been the shy one in the group.
"Well we've been talking for a while, and we've always said that we're only friends. She said she liked me too the day of the party, but then she told me maybe it was just a friend thing and we were both confused, its probably true, so now I'm just going to wait and see. I just don't want it to ruin our friendship" it was interesting that he opened up to me.
"Oh, I understand" I didn't know what else to say. We got up and went to the car. He started driving.
"How about you and Jimmy?" He asked after we were silent for about five minutes.
"I don't know Timmy. I'm still mad that he didn't tell me you guys were leaving, and he has never told me that he likes me so, I honestly don't know anymore"
"Things are way too complicated right now" he nodded.
We got to the hospital and everyone was asleep on the chairs in the waiting room. Jimmy wasn't there, so he probably was still with Effie.
Timmy sat down and I walked to Effie's room.
I opened the door and Jimmy was asleep on the blue chair that was by the bed. I got out and closed the door. I walked back to the waiting room. Alaska and Seattle were gone. Alice and Emma were standing up.
"Timmy said he and Jimmy are staying, we're going home. Got work tomorrow" Emma said. I nodded and they started walking away. Alice and Ronnie were holding hands. It seemed like everything was going a little better. I sat down by Timmy.
"It's funny how tragedy brings people together" he told me looking at the couples walking away.
We stayed there silently for some time. I fell asleep.
When I woke up, I was leaning on Jimmy's shoulder, he was asleep too, he looked so peaceful.
I got up and he opened his eyes slowly. I smiled at him and he smiled back.
"I'm going to change, I need to work" I told him.
"Isn't today your day off?" He asked, I was surprised that he knew my schedules better than me.
"Yeah, but I don't want to be home alone, and I don't want to leave Effie by herself" I responded.
"Well, Timmy said he's going to stay all day" he shrugged his shoulders, "and I can take you home if you want."
"Okay, let me go see Effie" he stood up and walked by my side silently. We got to Effie's room and I knocked. She didn't respond so I just opened the door. The room was empty. Jimmy had a confused look on his face.
"Let me go look for Sloan" I told him.
"I'll come with you" he responded and I nodded.
"Do you know where Dr. Sloan is?" I asked an intern that was often on my service.
"He's in O. R. 3" she indicated.
"Okay, let's go" I dragged Jimmy to the elevator.
"Where are we going?"
"To the operation room" I gave him a smile.
We got to the gallery, we didn't have scrubs so we couldn't get to the actual O.R.
"Wow" Jimmy said as soon as he saw that Mark had a patient with an open face on the table. Sloan looked up and smiled at us.
"Hello Helena, want to come help?" he said without taking his eyes off his patient.
"I'm off today, do you know where Effie is?"
"She's with Timmy," he chuckled, "she wanted chicken, so he took her out to eat?"
"Why would you do that? She is sick!" I raised my voice.
"You need to relax, she's okay. She will get sick if she stays in that room too long. Besides, Timmy is taking care of her. Trust me" he looked straight at me.
"Okay, I'm going home. I'll be back at eight. And if she's not here, I'll kill you Mark" I smiled.
"Don't worry" he gave me a sweet smile.
We walked out and headed to the parking lot.
"Want to go get breakfast?" Jimmy asked as he opened the car door for me.
"Sure, if you want" I answered dryly, I wasn't really hungry, but I hadn't eaten. Jimmy just nodded and started driving. He didn't say a word, neither did I.
When you're in the car, sitting by your "best friend", and you can't think about anything else but that kiss he gave you when you were drunk, or the fact that he is leaving and he didn't tell you, the only option that seems reasonable is to stay silent as long as possible.
Everyone that knows me good enough, knows that I cannot keep my mouth shut, I always talk my mind, and being there without saying a word, made me awkwardly sleepy.
I fell asleep for I don't know how long. I started to hear a voice sing slowly.

When I'm asleep
And then I dream that I'm your only one.
Can we create something beautiful and destroy it?
Nobody knows
I dream about it.
It's in my imagination

I opened my eyes and saw Jimmy looking outside the window with a bag of Taco Bell on his lap. He stopped singing.
"Did you get me anything?" I asked him with a hoarse voice.
"Quesarito and Quesalupa" he smiled.
I opened the door and walked out of the car, Jimmy followed closely. I dragged him upstairs to my room and we sat down on the bed. He handed me the bag with my food and turned the TV on.
After finishing my food, I stretched my legs and Jimmy placed his head on my lap. I ran my fingers through his hair. His breath started slowing down. In no longer than ten minutes, he was already asleep.
"We did create something beautiful, and we destroyed it, it's time to let go" I whispered.