Protect Me

Doctors Apt.

We pull up to the doctors office and sign in. We sit in the waiting room.

"When do you get that thing refilled?" Harry gestures to my tank.

"Today."

he nods.

"Parker Micloy, the doctor will see you now." a nurse smiles.

We make our way back to the office and the nurse switches out my tank and takes my blood pressure, pulse, and temperature.

"Dr. Syde will be with you in a couple minutes." she says and leaves.

"Remember when I gave you that guitar?"

"Yeah."

"Are you ever going to play again?"

"I don't know."

"Sorry, I just want to hear you play."

"Good morning!" Dr. Syde walks in.

"Hello"

"You must be Parker, and who is this young man?"

"Harry." Harry says and reaches out a hand to shake.

"Well Parker, we'll be seeing each other rather often now." he states. He's a young doctor, and I must say handsome.

"Yeah...i guess." I say

"so we are going to do a blood test, see what kind of chemotherapy or radiation you need, see how severe this is, and see when we can schedule oxygen refills." he sighs dramatically.

"You up for a roller coaster?"

I nod and Harry takes my hand.

"Ok, here we go."

--

"I can't believe you." I roll my tank to the passenger seat of Harry's car and slam the door behind me.

"Parker, he was eyeing you! Then he went and felt you up!"

"He's a doctor Harry! He was testing my heart rate!"

Harry starts the car. He thought it was a good idea to punch the doctor across the face because he touched, near, my breasts.

"You're so oblivious! he was obviously thinking of how many different ways there are to bend you over that chair!"

"That's not true!"

"You can't say you didn't see his boner, Parker."

"Unlike you I'm not a pervert do I can say I didn't see it!"

"You didn't have to be a pervert to see it that's how huge it was!"

"Shut up!"

Silence.

"Me coming was a mistake." he says coldly.

"Me being with you was a mistake." I whisper barely audible.

"What?"

Harry pulls into my driveway. I get out of his car dragging the, now heavier, tank. I open the door and Harry trails behind me.

"What did you say Parker?"

"I didn't say anything!"

"Parker,"

"I didn't!"

"Parker!"

"I said being with you was a mistake!" I scream and tears pour out.

He sighs.

Wooooow.

"Parker...im-"

instead of ignoring him and interrupting him, I leave. I go sit in the sofa and turn on the tv.

He sits next to me and puts his arm around me, nuzzling his head into the crook of my neck.

"I'm sorry." He says

And tears keep coming and won't seem to stop.