What Do I Do Now
The next day Lucy woke up feeling a little energized. She then remembered the previous days events when she sat up and felt the soreness of the abortion. She didn't have second thoughts though. She knew that she wouldn't be able to handle the pregnancy let alone the raising of the child. She didn't have time to eat healthy enough as it was. She looked to her right to see a sleeping figure with brown hair. She didn't have to think of who it was. His face was towards her but under the blanket. She uncovered it to find an expressionless face that soon awakened from the light. He fluttered his eyes a little bit then saw Lucy and immediately woke up. "Hey Luce"
"Hi, how'd you sleep?"
"Good how bout you any soreness nausea?"
"Um not that I can think of but if you go take care of a few sutures I might be able to think of something Dr. Carter" she joked.
"Give me a little credit I'm worried about you" He pulled her down next to him. She gladly accepted the invitation and wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
"I know, but, there's nothing to be worried about. I'll be fine I'm just a little sore"
"ok, if you say so. But, now that we've got that out of the way, I've got work"
"I know I'll see you later?"
"You bet, I'll call you"
"I know you will." he got up out of bed and got dressed really quickly after a quick shower. The man seemed to be in a big hurry. He was out the door in 20 minutes flat. Lucy timed him.
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Work seemed to fly by.......slowly. Trauma after trauma and still he found that every time he glanced at the clock it had not even been a half an hour.
"Mark the time!" rang Chuny's voice as the woman began to arrest. She caught Carter looking at the clock with her. "Carter I can tell time thanks though- 11:43:28" she said keeping up two records at the same time.
"Carter grab compressions" Mark ordered. "Charge at 200"
"Clear!" Lily announced
The body hit the table after the shock. Still though she arrested
"300. Clear"
Same thing
"360. Clear"
A steady heartbeat came to the monitor. Another life saved.
"Mark the time, 11:44:02" Chuny finished her timing of the life saving process.
"Good job everyone. Carter my office 20 minutes"
"Sure Dr. Greene" He knew he'd be asked why he didn't try to involve himself in the trauma more. Reason being he didn't even call out an order. He just took them. Like a med student. That wasn't usually his style. Carter liked to be in control as much as possible but when he was a medical student that wasn't really too much. Today he had dropped his style and the trauma could've been dealt with successfully without him there. That was how little he was involved. The nurses did more.
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Meanwhile Lucy found nothing to do. She was too sore to do any Tae Bo and frankly she couldn't stand to have another glass of water or any liquid for that matter. She had been told to have 12 glasses of water today but she was sick of water on her 5th glass. So she grabbed a good book, a blanket, and her slippers and sat on her apartments balcony and read. It was slightly chilly, hence the blanket, but the sun canceled out the wind chill on her 24th floor apartment. Though she lived in the city it seemed to be quiet outside. When she looked down not only was there major traffic though, she managed to spot 2 accidents on the road. They looked major. 'Carter could be handling one of them now' she thought. The portable phone was ringing in her kitchen. She got up and brought it outside to answer. The voice messaging machine wasn't on. "Hello?" she said her voice somewhat raspy from having no one to talk to.
"Lucy? did I wake you up?"
"No I just haven't talked much today"
"Oh so how's your day going?"
"Slow you?"
"Well you know same ol' same ol'. So someone told me you had surgery what happened?"
"Jen, nothing happened I had a small prroceidure done that's all." If Jen knew she had an abortion she would give Lucy this HUGE lecture on how she was a convicted murderer in some peoples eyes.
"Well what was it about?" Jen was also a lawyer so she wouldn't give up on the question or finding out what Lucy had been up to.
"Um, you don't want to know"
"Come on I can handle it"
"I'm not a killer ok"
"Lucy you had an abortion???" she sounded shocked but not mad.
"Yea Jen, but spare me the lecture I'm not in the mood ok?"
"I won't lecture you"
"You wont?"
"No, that's your business Lu but tell me come on how's life? How's work?" she sounded casual until the next sentence where she showed profuse curiosity "Who's the father? anything come on"
"Jen" Lucy said in a small groan
"What?! I just wanted to know is he cute?"
"Sort of but I'm not with the father"
"Lucy what aren't you telling me?"
"Ok listen, so I'm with this guy, a doctor-"
"Cute?"
"Very. So anyways we were pretty serious, and then we just broke up. So I got back together with my former teacher-" she was interrupted again.
"Oh the tall fair and gorgeous one?"
"Yea.....I think" Carter was tall maybe tanner than fair but he was beyond gorgeous.
"What do you mean how many of your teachers did you screw?"
"I didn't sleep with him while he was my teacher!"
"Oh that's right you two just swabbed a little bit of spit"
"Jen"
"Fine in better words, tonsil hockey!" She laughed at the medical crack
"Jenny!" she laughed wit her. "It's Carter ok. But back to my story, so I get together wit him and as we're coming back from him visiting his friend and me with my mom, we find out I'm pregnant but with the other guys kid"
"Ooohh Steven Spielberg should hear about this! It'll be a great movie!"
"Shut up!" She laughed again this time feeling the soreness in her stomach tense even more. "But yea so I decided to get an abortion since it's his kid and plus I don't want it or the pregnancy package"
"I see it now"
"See what?"
"The nominations......'And the winner for best dramatic storyline..' the movie will have made that category it's an academy award winner really I have to tell ya!"
Lucy's call waiting went off.
"Jen its the other line I'll call you in 20"
"K bye" Lucy switched to the other line still in some laughter. "Hello?"
"Luce? what's so funny?"
"My friend Jen just called you know the lawyer?"
"Oh yea. So anyway how're you doing?"
"Good you?"
"I don't know I have to go to Mark's office in a few minutes"
"What'd you do?" She showed a little concern
"Kept looking at the clock I guess I just wasn't as involved in the traumas and I betcha he's just worried"
"Ok if that's what you think"
"Yea. So what've you done today?"
"Mmm just reading"
"Drank anything?" He hinted at the directions.
"John, If I look at let alone drink another glass of any type of liquid I'll hurl!"
"I take it you didn't drink 12 yet?"
"5 or 6 but I'm ok"
"Alright. I'll be over there in a couple hours"
"Ok, I miss you"
"Me too Luce bye"
"Bye" she hung up. She just wanted to relax now but she'd told Jen she'd call her back. Luckily Jen was called to court ASAP and she would call Lucy back 'when she got the chance' said her secretary. For Jen that meant a few hours. It wasn't her fault though, Jen was pretty reliable, its just her job kept her from doing anything out of the courtroom. Lucy hadn't known many of Jens friends now that she was a full fetched lawyer. She had few relationships and only managed to hang on to close friends though she devoted any time she had to them. She loved her job though. Lucy figured she'd wind up marrying some kind of law document or something corny like that. Not to be mean but that was just how much she loved 'defending the law and justice for which this nation was made to uphold' she would say as her job description. Lucy returned to her reading. Figuring out people was too hard and strenuous for now so she figured she'd let the author of 'Blood and Chocolate'! do it for her. These people were so strange it was a soap opera she couldn't put down though. How he felt he could dominate her and she being a rebellious teenager was beyond her but still she pressed on. The phone rang again. It was Jen. Lucy wanted to hurl the phone off the ledge of the balcony she wasn't in exactly what you'd call a talking mood..............
