Away From The Rain. [ON HOLD]

CHAPTER ONE.

     "What do we got?" I asked.

     "12 year old girl, got smashed between two boats, sailing accident." Dr. Ray told me. I reached for a pair of gloves when someone behind me took them away from me.

     "Mine." I groaned.

     "Sorry." She whispered as I took another pair.

In a quick step we walked out to receive the ambulance with the girl.

     "Why are you following me?" I snapped as I noticed that the same woman, who took my gloves, had stepped on my heel.

     "I'm your intern today." She explained out of breath

     "Oh. Hello intern. Do you have a name?"

     "Jordan Grace." A shy smile appeared on her lips as she put on the gloves.

     "Nice, I like girls with boys names." I felt Dr. Ray stare on me. "What?"

     "Just stop." She said annoyed. Lindsay was always fun and easy to annoy.

     "What? I do, it's hot." Dr. Ross, the intern of Lindsay, was clearly amused by our conversation by judging the grin on his face.

Lindsay ignored me after hearing the sirens get closer. We got ready to take over the girl as fast as possible.

     "She moved her toe, so the Tibial nerves are probably still intact, right? So do you think you can actually save the foot?"

     "We first have to check it, but there's a chance."

I heard the conversation of Jordan and Lindsay while I was pushing the patient to the elevator so we could get to the OR.

     "You should stay here, this might take a while." I stopped Jordan.

     "But I was the one who saw her toe and I think I have the right to get into surg- I get it, you probably need me somewhere else and- got it. Great." The doors of the elevator closed leaving her outside.

     "You could have let her in. standing in the back and observe or something."

     "Why?" I said dry.

     "Because she has joy. I like joy. Excitement, happiness."

     "Well it's too late. I already told her no."

     "Ass."

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The surgery went well. We still had to wait a view hours till the patient would be able to speak to us and make sure she could actually move her feet again. I told Lindsay to go find the girls parents and tell them the news.

After cleaning myself from the surgery I went in direction of the coffee shop. It was late and I still had three hours and one surgery left, I could already tell that three hours would feel like six. I crossed the street and almost reached for the door handle when the woman on the other side turned the –open- sign over to –closed-

     "Come on! You have to be kidding me." I raised my voice at the red-haired woman. "Just one coffee. Please."

She raised her shoulders and gave me a –I'm sorry, but not going to happen- look. How I hated that look. That was not the first time she gave me that look. I turned around and was about to cross the street when I bumped into a woman a bit smaller than me with brown wavy hair.

     "I'm so sorry." I told her as I held her shoulders so she wouldn't fall.

     "I'm fine." She said raising her hands.

     "I'm sorry Dr. Grace." I took my hands off her. "Where did you get that coffee from?"

     "I was the last to get one. They just closed the shop."

     "Yes, I see that. I just wanted to get one."

     "Well, I guess not everyone gets what they really want. Do we?" I knew what she was doing. She was still pissed because I didn't let her come with me into the surgery.

     "Whatever." I said cutting her off and crossing the street. I wasn't in the mood.

Walking towards the medical records to get a tablet and check which patient was next; I bumped into Dr. Grace again.  

     "Hey Noah, your intern brought you a coffee." Lindsay looked Jordan into her eyes. She hesitated.

     "Yes, here." I took the coffee a little uncertain but then took a huge sip of it. Lindsay and Jordan exchanged looks again. "I was wondering, if it would be possible to be part of your next surgery." Jordan asked with a light sparkle in her hazel eyes.

     "That's not going to happen, but thanks for the coffee. And hey, you could bring me a coffee more often, that was great."

     "Wait, Dr. Parker please. Why wouldn't you let me be part of a surgery?" Jordan walked next to me.

     "Have you scheduled the day of tomorrow yet?"

     "Uhm no, I haven't had the chance to-"

     "That's why. You first have to work through the hard, less exciting stuff, before you get to do the exciting stuff." I said placing the tablet on a counter near by.

     "But I could do it after-"

    "Are you kidding me? No way. Stop whatever you where doing and do it now. Tomorrow starts in three hours and you haven't done your work yet." The conversation was over for me, when I heard crying? Was she freaking crying? "No. Don't."

     "Sorry." Jordan dried her tears with her hand. "I told myself I wouldn't let me do this but I can't seem to stop.

     "Look I'm not supposed to be this person, I don't fail. I was honored student of my high school, I was first in my class of Harvard, how am I not getting this? I somehow became the looser intern. I blew the opportunity with Dr. Summer and clearly I pissed you off somehow."

This conversation was turning longer than expected and I really had to run.

     "Are you done?" I asked annoyed. She looked at me confused, maybe angry? "You are getting rejected because you're an intern. That's what interns do, that's the best way to learn. And no I'm not pissed at you, I'm just not very good at this advisor thing, I might have screwed things up with other interns the past years."

     "You mean Leo." She looked at me.

     "Yeah him."

   "And Tina, and Susan, Abbey, Daniel, Jack." 'Stalker much?' was all I could first think of and by judging her look, she was now pleased by giving me that response. And her teards had already stopped flowing. "See, you should know that I learn really fast, I won't screw up."

     "I should go." I left without any other word to her. If I hadn't been pissed, I was now.

Interns aren't always easy to handle. Tina was lazy, Susan was whiny, Abbey was downright depressing, Jack was annoying and Daniel... who the fuck was Daniel?

And that's the thing. The key on being a successful intern, is for you to stand out in a certain way in order to get noticed by others, you got to give up some things because you can't have it all. Sleep, friends, a normal life. You sacrifice it all for that one amazing moment. That moment when you can legally call yourself a surgeon.

But you should know that there are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile. And then there are the days, where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then, there are the sacrifices that you can't even figure out why you're making.

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