Doctor & Nurse

Chapter 8

I wake to a cold couch, the blanket is tucked around me, a note left on the table from Tobias. The note reads:

Tris-

Sorry, I needed to leave, but I got a page from the hospital that said it was urgent, and that I was needed in the OR right away. I will call you when I can. Thank you for being there for me last night. You looked peaceful in your sleep so I didn't want to wake you to tell you when I was leaving. You look beautiful in your sleep, by the way.

-T.

P.S.

Did you know that you talk in your sleep? You said some very interesting things last night.

I groan as I finish reading the letter, wondering what the hell I said while I was sleeping. I thought I had outgrown that habit. I hope I didn't say anything too embarrassing last night with him here. I don't even remember what I was dreaming about last night or even dreaming about anything in particular. Knowing that there is nothing that I can do about my talking while I sleep, I shower to get ready for the day wearing, my favorite white jeans, black shirt with daisies, and I add a yellow sweater to the outfit, in case it is cold out.

Chris demands that we have a girl's day, that we go out to get manicures and pedicures, as soon as she sees me leave the bathroom. I know the reasoning behind her wanting to spend a day with me. Her girl's day is code for I'm going to grill you about Dr. McHotty. As much as I love Chris, I don't really want to talk to her about Four and about what we talked about last night. Chris and I go get manicures and pedicures as she wants, and she grills me about Tobias, asking every question under the sun about him. I try not to tell her anything, but she is able to get some things out of me eventually. She wants to know all the juicy details about the night before, and she isn't happy when I refuse to spill the details to her.

To placate her, I tell her about Four, finding me in the park at the bridge, us having Chinese food, bringing the food back to our apartment, and watching a movie together. She rolls her eyes at me as she says, "I know there is more. There has to be." She continues to prod me for more information, and she tries to get it out of me, but I say, "Chris, Four shared some personal things with me that I don't feel comfortable sharing with you, nor am I at liberty to share because they aren't mine to share."

"Fine." She groans, "But, I know something happened between you two."

"Fine, he kissed me on the cheek," I whisper, feeling my cheeks heat as Chris squeals with delight saying, "I knew something happened." After revealing that Tobias kissed me on the cheek, she drops the subject of Four and me, talking about the club last night. Chris talks about how Uriah, finally got the confidence to ask Marlene out. I giggle as I say, "Well, it took him long enough."

Chris laughs as she shakes her head saying, "You should have seen Marlene. She was so happy once he asked her out. She was beginning to give up hope that Uriah would ever ask her out."

"You know Uriah though. He is clueless when it comes to women," I say as I roll my eyes.

Time Skip

Today at clinical is pure hell. Marcus is in a bad mood, he threatens to fail each of us, making it so we won't be able to graduate come spring. I haven't seen Tobias much this week, except for at lunch for a few minutes. We never get to talk during lunch as he always looks rushed. At the end of a particularly trying clinical day and week, I am getting ready to leave the unit. I am happy it is the weekend, and I hope that I will be able to find Tobias before I leave, to talk to him, that he will have time to talk to me, since neither one of us have seen each other, since the night we fell asleep on the couch together.

"Tori, I'm leaving," I say, waving at her as I go to walk off the unit. Instead of Tori returning my wave back, she runs up to me saying, "Dr. Eaton is looking for you in room number 227, concerning a patient. You can't leave yet!" That is funny, I think to myself, that patient got discharged several hours ago, and that room is empty. What is he doing in there? I hurry into the room to find Tobias standing there looking handsome as ever with a bouquet of flowers in his hands.

"You wanted to see me?" I smile at him as I eye him, wondering what he is up to.

He smirks at me as he says, "Tris, Nurse Prior, will you be my girlfriend?" I stand there dumbfounded, wondering how he knew that I wanted a relationship with him. I questioned if I really wanted a relationship with him. I never really wanted a relationship with a guy like this before, and the thought scared me a little. Who was I kidding, Tobias was all I basically thought about. Hell, I was dreaming about him almost every night. I loved being around him and talking to him seemed easy like breathing air.

I return his smirk, as I say, "Dr. Eaton, Four, Yes, I would love to be your girlfriend."

I see a few nurses standing in the doorway, watching our interaction. I look at them for several seconds, wondering what they are looking at, as I smile, and lower my voice, whispering, "Yes, Tobias, I would be honored to be your girlfriend." He smiles at me, as he hands me the flowers, kissing my cheek.

As he pulls away from the kiss on my cheek, Tobias looks at me with a frown on his face as he says, "Tris, I hate to have to do this, but I need to run. I will pick you up on Saturday for a date. I will text you with the time and the details." He runs out the door before I can say another word to him. I walk off the unit in a daze. As I am walking down the stairs to the lobby, I see a note attached to the flowers that, I stop to read it in the stairwell. It reads:

Tris-

These flowers aren't nearly as beautiful as you are, but they were the best that I could do. You have made me the happiest man in the world today. I can't wait to introduce you as my beautiful girlfriend to my other friends. I brought you an outfit. I hope that was okay. Chris helped me with it, and she has it. I would like you to wear it on our date on Saturday at noon. I will see you then.

-Tobias

As I am walking down to the lobby, smiling like a crazy person, Chris squeals when she sees the flowers. She says, "Finally, that boy asked you! I told you that he had it bad for you."

I smile at her and jokingly say, "Shut it, Chris," as I start walking toward the door to go to the car, Chris laughs from behind me. Once we get into the car, Chris is bursting with information about how great the outfit is that Four picked out, and how she has already figured out what to do with my hair and makeup. I can't sleep that night thinking about my date with Tobias the next day. I am excited to see him again, wondering what he has planned for us to do.