"Because I work and I can afford it plus I know the festival sold out of tickets on the first day."
I heard him laughing. "I hate to burst your bubble but every hotel is booked and I’m not sure if you will be able to get three airline tickets?"
"Well I guess we won’t be going."
"Come on Cadence," I could hear him a little flustered. He sounded like a little boy that wasn’t getting his way. It was actually kind of funny and cute.
"I can arrange a private plane to pick you all up and I have a home in Buckhead that is not far from me. I also have a car you can use."
"How long have you been planning this?
"For two weeks," he said. I bet he was smiling on the other end.
"I thought we were taking a break?"
"The hearing is next week. I should know something. I’ve been a good boy and I need a little fun, Cad."
"I don’t want to mess up anything Evan."
"You won’t. Please put me out of my misery and come. That is all I am asking for. I miss my friend."
"Haven’t you talked to me just about every night?"
"Yea, but I miss seeing your face in person, not on a screen but having you sitting next to me enjoying the moonlight."
"So if I come we will enjoy the moonlight? A candlelight dinner? A movie? A real date?"
"You can have whatever you want, just say the word and you will receive."
"You promise Evan?"
"I promise," he said."
I took a deep breath. "Only if you can get me one more ticket. My sisters don’t need to be alone in a strange house in Atlanta while I am galavanting around a city with a handsome man and you have to at least let me pay you back."
"I can get another ticket for your friend and you don’t have to pay me back. Just being in your company is good enough or me."
"Evan either let me pay or I’m not coming."
"Fine! Have it your way but you are going to have dinner with me!"
"Okay, that seems reasonable."
"What am I going to do with you?" He said sounding defeated.
"Keep being my shoulder to cry on," I said sitting in the hallway.
"Of course always."
"I gotta go Evan, I will call you later."
"Okay, I will talk to you then, goodbye." We hung up and I put my phone in my pocket. I walked back in the room watching Marci stack the boxes back up.
"Did you find the pictures?"
"Yeah, I did. Thanks for helping."
"No problem Marci. I need to study some of my materials for my class tomorrow so I better go."
Marci walked over to me and gave me a hug. "Okay sweetie. I will see you on Tuesday and we can go through the checklist." Marci and her checklists.
"Okay, I will see you then."
~~~~~~~~~
It was Friday morning. No mind blowing sex dreams so I would be fine for the day. The picture still bothered me so I brought it with me to the hospital.
"Cadence this morning you will monitor the ER and I want you to do a patient trace where you will follow a patient from the time of check in until discharge or transfer then you will be attending the cardiology meeting at noon. I would also like you to either attend or listen on the plant ops conference call at two pm," Mr. Barrett said.
After he gave out assignments we disbursed and headed out to our respected destinations. I was glad that David didn’t come to morning check-in. Since our last encounter I wasn’t sure I actually wanted to face him. I finally made it to the ER. I checked in with the nurse and I told her what I was doing. I just needed to interview a potential. I looked around and took a deep breath. I saw an older guy sitting in the waiting room.
"Hello my name is Cadence Montgomery and I work for hospital administration. Do you mind if I follow you through your visit? We are trying to improve our processes to make this a pleasant experience for you?
The guy looked up. He looked familiar. "James Horton?"
"The one and only. Look at you as pretty as a picture," he said smiling at me.
What are you doing here James?" I said taking a seat next to him.
"I’m a diabetic. My blood sugar was low and my doctor sent me down here."
I use to have the biggest crush on James Horton when I was in middle school and high school, he was the captain of the football and track team. He use to be absolutely gorgeous. Tan skin, muscular built and dark eyes made him dreamy. But know he looked sick. The once dreamy guy now had grey hair and muscles no more.
"I’m sorry to hear that, James."
"I have been living with it for years. I’m use to it. Sure I don’t mind you following me. It’s nice to have a familiar face here. My wife left me about six months ago, so it’s just me."
"Well we are going to take good care of you." I followed James through and took my notes. It didn’t take too long before he was seen and released. We had promise to stay in touch but you know how that goes.
I made it to the cardiology meeting. Dr. Jeffries was the chairperson. I listen in and took notes. We ate lunch and after the meeting I stopped Dr. Jeffries.
"Dr. Jeffries can I speak to you in private?"
"Of course Cadence. We can go to my office." We talked about the meeting and how my internship was going. Moments later we reached his office. We were greeted by his office staff.
"Have a seat, Cadence." I looked around and he had pictures and degrees all over the wall. His desk was clean with a few files stacked nice and neatly on the file cabinet.
"What can I do for you?" He sat back in his black leather chair.
"The night I came to see Lilly in the hospital you said I looked like her. What did you mean?"
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