Kaden's Luna

Chapter Two

Chapter Two – Night Howlers

Time moved on very quickly and before I know it, we are already two months into the first semester. Currently, I am in one of my classes which is all theory based. I prefer the practical side of nursing more because taking down notes for an hour literally bores me to death.

The clock ticks by ever so slowly, as if taunting me, knowing that I'm itching to get out of this class. I doodle on the margin of my page aimlessly, wondering what I'm going to get up to today since I have no work. I'm on placement at a nearby hospital until March and it requires me to give four days out of the week to patients. On top of that I must come in for classes, so most of the time I sign up for daytime shifts at the hospital since I can't afford to miss anything.

The placement is great and I'm learning so much just by assisting doctors when they would examine their patients or sit on the side-lines and take down notes. I have quickly learned the correct way to dress a wound, treat infections, take blood samples and watched on as scans were conducted. There are many things I am restricted from, obviously as I'm just a student and not a real employee.

But there is one thing I don't like about the job and that is my supervisor, Henry. He is a burly man, probably in his late forties and likes to make sure my time at the hospital is akin to hell. I am 100% sure he is a pervert because he has put me in uncomfortable situations more than once...while he watched.

I have not told anyone either that I am working a longer shift than I should be. Once he started making me do his errands and small things that I felt like shouldn't be a part of my job, I confronted him only to be shut down by a threat of a bad report.

If I don't pass this placement with good grades, then I won't be able to graduate. At first, he was lovely and even let me off early but when the time to switch a placement was over, it was then that he turned into the devil himself. My only wish is that I make it out alive with good grades.

The sound of the bell ringing has me jumping in my seat slightly which causes Maddox to snicker. I send him a playful glare before packing up my things and following him out of the lecture hall and into the bustling crowd of students either making their way to or from their lectures.

"Will you ever stop daydreaming in class and actually pay attention?" Maddox teases, draping his arm across my shoulders.

"Nope!" I exclaim cheekily, grinning when he laughs loudly.

"Do you want to head to the café for break before our next lecture?" He asks and I agree, my tummy already growling in hunger.

We walk down the stairs and into the busy cafeteria where students seem to hang out nearly every hour of the day. Although the café itself has opening hours, it is still open for students to sit around and chat between lectures.

Maddox and I grab a blue tray before starting our hunt for food. There is the salad bar which I stop at to get this amazing Mediterranean salad that only the University sells, before grabbing two slices of pizza and chips from the hot food section. I add a smoothie with it before joining Maddox at the checkout.

I chuckle at the sight of his tray. You can't even see the blue colour of it because it's packed with his favourite ham sandwich, four pizza slices stacked onto a plate with chips at the side, two packets of candy with a bottle of Coca Cola.

He winks at me before paying the woman at the counter. "What? I'm a growing boy."

I laugh and nod before paying for my own food and following him to one of the empty tables. We sit down and immediately dig into our food. I smile in content when I take a forkful of the salad. Looking up when I hear something tear, I am greeted by the sight of Maddox popping a piece of chocolate in his mouth before offering the pack to me.