High School Love Story

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Doctor Carrie

Great, this employment questionnaire is gonna take so long.

Okay, name and title... Carrie... Walker... M.D.

Okay that was simple, Where did you get your degrees from?

Bachelor of Science in Biology, University Of South Carolina, 2002

Passed MCAT in November 2002

Passed first section of USMLE in July 2004

Passed NBME licensing test in 2006

Graduated from Medical University of South Carolina in 2006

Completed residency specializing in Cardiac Medicine through Springs Memorial Hospital in 2011.

Okay, that's over

Previous job experience...

Cardiologist at Springs Memorial Hospital 2011 to present.

Position applying for...

Cardiologist at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC

Okay, I'll finish this later.

"JOHN, COME IN HERE" '

"WHAT DOCTOR CARRIE, I'M BUSY!"

"JOHN IF YOU DON'T GET IN HERE I WILL TAKE YOUR PHONE!"

John walked in.

"What, mom"

"Christmas is in two weeks and you haven't told me what you wanted yet"

He never does, he's impossible to shop for.

"Well, mom, to be honest I don't want anything"

"Nothing?! Why ever not?"

"I just can't think of anything I want, that's all"

He was tired. Depressed, and he appeared hungover, but I wasn't going to say anything. Not because I was a bad mother, but because he'd been through alot, and he was eighteen, so he would probably just argue with me about it. I loved him, and I was worried about his health, but I knew my baby, and he wouldn't do anything rash.

"Mom, snap out of it"

"What?"

"You haven't said anything in like six minutes"

Oh, I guess I just got caught in a trance.

"Baby, I'm getting you something for Christmas, whether you tell me or not."

"Whatever. Can I go to the movies with Alec and Lion?"

"Sure, baby, be home by one."

"Okay, bye mama."

He walked out, but he turned around.

"I love you, Doctor Carrie"

"I love you too, son."

Behavior like this from him was abnormal, he normally wouldn't say something like that. I became very worried.

I waited until he left the house, then used the tracker on my phone to follow him. He never went by either Alec or Lion's house.

Maybe he's meeting them there.

But then his car stopped, and turned off.

He was at Mila Whitman's house.

John knew exactly how I felt about Mila Whitman. I thought she was a floozy and a harlot. John loved her, and she broke his heart, and I hated her for that.

I wanted to go there. I wanted to tell them both off, and to beat up that girl's mother for raising such an awful daughter. But, I didn't, I am a doctor. I am above that.

Unfortunately, so was John. He just didn't realize it.

I went back home and finished my job application, I turned on the TV and started to watch the news.