A Million Tears (Wish 2)

4 - The monk

After the fiasco on Saturday night, Brenna had sworn off dating. Her little sister came to see her the following afternoon.

"I'm still recovering, so let's just watch a movie." She was fine physically but seeing Brown again had put her in a funk.

Mia was happy to chill. "So Bren, how was the hospital? Were you scared?"

"No, not scared, but it freaked me out. Do you think I could have laid on my floor for days with no one noticing?"

"No! Come on. Don't think like that."

"When I asked the doctor, I could tell he thought it was strange I don't have anyone I speak to every day. Do you?"

"Um, yeah. I live with Mom and Dad."

"And Aidan lives with Sage, so it's just me, the old maid with her cat."

"Oh, get over yourself! You're not old."

"I had the worst date last night."

"I find that hard to believe, because you've had some pretty bad ones." Brenna rolled her eyes, even though her sister was right. "So tell me about this doctor."

"What doctor?" Play dumb.

"The one who has you worried because we don't talk every day."

"He's the doctor who works in the ER."

"Is he single and cute?"

"I didn't ask for his Facebook status."

"Maybe he's on Facebook. Let's look him up." Mia pulled out her phone. "What's his name?"

"I don't want to look him up!"

"I'll figure it out." Mia tapped on her phone.

"Stop! Mia whatever you're doing just stop!"

"Come on. For once in your life have some fun." She scrolled and kept saying things like no and maybe. "Okay. There are some possibilities here. I ruled out some, because you would have told me if he was old... er. Of all of them, the one I think is the best looking is this one."

Mia held out her phone and on the screen was a professional headshot of Brown. Under the Emergency Medicine heading was his face and Noah P. Gentry, MD and his bio. She wasn't sure what she thought his name was, but Noah surprised her. It was a fine name, but she expected something different.

Mia smiled like she had after she returned from meeting Sage for the first time. "I'd say this is him, since you can't pull your eyes off the screen."

Brenna was ready to argue, but Mia was busy on her phone again. "Oh poo! He's not on Facebook."

It didn't surprise Brenna. She knew nothing about him, except he was a good kisser and went to dinner on Saturday night with his mother, but she couldn't imagine him posting pictures on Facebook.

"Oh well, you'll just have to get sick again. Maybe you'll slice your finger or something. Get a knife!"

"Don't be an idiot. You cut yourself, you're the one who likes him so much."

Brenna also knew he wasn't working, because he worked the night before, but she wasn't sharing her information.

"He's closer to your age, although older guys are more mature. His bio says he graduated from medical school at Brown. Good school."

Desperate to change the subject she asked Mia about her job and listened to everything her younger sister hated about her position.

"Update your resume and look for something else."