Heart of Gold

Chapter 2

"Mazey stop running, you might fall!" I yelled at her and pushed the trolley fast enough to catch up with her. We were buying school supplies, I had gotten her in a private school I had to spend nearly two hundred thousand just to get her in. Thank god for trust funds. Kyle's insurance had come and the money that my parents had left for his trust fund but he refused to take it all came into my account. I even opened an account for Mazeys college and whatever she needed had it all set up thanks to Trish and Dr. Steins help.

"Can I have this?" She pointed at the Monster Inc. back pack and lunch kit. She didn't like the girly things she liked monsters but was scared at night time. She did love butterflies and that's how I had decorated her room. I went on my tippy toes trying to reach the back pack but couldn't reach. A shadow came behind me and pulled down the pack.

"Thanks." I turned. Dr. Heart. I said with hatred.

"Dr. Gold, it's so nice to see you again." He smiled and I moved away from him.

"I can't say the same." I said bitterly.

"I know we got off on the wrong foot." He said.

"Mazey! Dont touch that!" I yelled and she moved away from the big pencil.

"I think we should bury the hatchet." He continued.

"You know where I want to bury that hatchet? In your skull." I pushed pass him.

"We work at the same hospital you cant ignore me forever." He said raising his eyebrow.

"I sure can try." I pushed the trolley away. He strode beside me. "How did you even find me?" I asked.

"It's pure coincident." He smiled.

"Can you leave?" I asked in frustration.

"I want forgiveness for being a jerk." He said.

"Look we work together we dont have to be friends you just have to do your job." I told him, picking up cereal.

"But I want to be friends." He said.

"I have enough friends." I took up a few chip bags.

"I asked about you at the hospital and everyone had great things to say about you." He said. "You can't be nice to everyone and be mean to me because of a few things I said." He continued. "I'm sure not everything I said is untrue." He finished and I looked at him in the utmost shock.

"You keep shoving your foot further down your throat." I picked up a few Oreo bags Mazey loves cookies.

"Be honest." He smiled like he knew something I didnt.

"Be honest about what?" I asked confused.

"A few things I said they were true."

"None of it was true, you know absolutely nothing about me you only assume that because I am beautiful and a doctor I slept my way through medical school and the hospital." I was offended.

"Well not actually the hospital, but medical school yes?" He questioned.

"I wish I had a cup of hot liquid to throw at your face." I said angrily.

"You stained my jacket and scrubs." He said as if I was going to care.

"I really don't care." I said. "Oh and for your information I didnt sleep with anyone to reach where I am now, I did it on my own now leave me the hell alone and don't you ever speak to me again the nerve." I pushed him and went to the cashier and checked out my items.

"Okay I am sorry." He apologized when I was packing the items in the trunk of my car.

"I really don't care." I said. "We work in a hospital together we see each other there and we may end up doing a few surgeries together but other than that avoid me like the plague." I used my finger and poked his chest.

"I think you secretly like me." He smiled.

"Are you sniffing glue?" I asked.

"That was a joke." He smiled.

"Good bye." I fastened Mazey in the car then opened my door.

"I'll see you Monday." He said after I closed my door.

"Don't stalk me." I said driving off.

"Aunt Kasey who was that man?" She asked.

"A pain in the butt." I said unknowingly.

"Pain in the butt?" She asked.

"Don't let me hear you curse." I looked at her in the mirror.

"But you just cursed." She pointed out.

"Yes but it was an accident, its not right to curse." I told her.

"So if I shouldnt curse does that mean its wrong for you to curse too?" She asked.

"Yes its wrong to curse, so if you hear other people cursing tell them its wrong." I told her.

"Okay." She gave me a toothy grin. I opened the gates to the colonial style mansion that was left to me after my parents death. Mazey helped me unpack her stuff and the grocery. I made her a vegetable pizza and I gave her some ice cream after her nagging me for the whole dinner. She had her head resting on my legs when she got up and looked at me.

"Aunt Kasey, now that I have no mommy or daddy does this mean youre my new mommy?" She asked.

"If you want me to be." I brushed her hair.

"I love you like I love mommy and daddy." She played with the loose thread of her shorts.

"I love you too." I kissed her forehead.

"Can I have another cookie please?" She asked.

"I feel so used." I tackled her to the couch and tickled her and she laughed until she had the hiccups. "If you eat another you won't sleep tonight and you will have nightmares and youll have to come sleep with me in my room." I explained to her.

"But I like sleeping with you in your bed it smells nice." She wiped her nose.

"One cookie and that's it." I could never say no.

"Yay." She squealed.

"Then you have to have a bathe, brush your teeth and then go to bed." I told her.

"Okay are you going to bathe too?" she asked.

"After I put you to bed." I told her.

"Okay good." I looked at her.

"What does that mean?" I asked.

"It's good to bathe." She ate her cookie. "I have another teeth coming out, see?" She shook her front teeth.

"Soon you will be wishing for your front teeth for Christmas." I teased her.

"But I can buy another with the dollar from the tooth fairy." She continued shaking it.

"Don't touch it." I pushed her hand away.

"Can I go bathe now? I don't want rubber ducks I want the butterflies." She dragged me to her room, it still had the paint smell but it wasn't  as bad as before. I stripped off her clothes and let her splash around in the tub and play aeroplane with the butterflies and submarine. I kept to my word and gave her, her cookie when she was bathed, she fell asleep in my lap while she watched Sponge Bob. I carried her to her room and placed her on her bed. I sat on the chair in her room and hummed to her as she slept.