Four Chambers: Power of the Matchmaker by Julie Wright

Author:Julie Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Heart Stone Press
Published: 2016-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Nope. I hadn’t imagined Miss Pearl. She seemed like my personal shadow. I never saw her bothering any of the other students, but she trailed after me as if someone had stitched her to my heels.

She chattered nonstop about Everett. She listed his qualities to me backwards and forwards as if she planned on giving an exam later and wanted me to get an A. But she was never around when Everett and I came anywhere near each other. She just vanished, as I’d come to find she had a way of doing. If she hadn’t been my superior, I would have asked her to haunt someone else for a while, but since she arrived at UMASS with the intention of surveying the staff and probably reporting back on her findings, I remained positive and helpful and resigned to the fact that she had made me her go-to girl.

When I brought her up to the other students, they raised their eyebrows at me in a way that made me feel stupid. They were right. Complaining about a superior ran a med student aground faster than anything else. Even a crummy student who remained positive was likely to get better placement for residency than a brilliant student with a craptastic attitude.

But I really wanted to complain, and not just about Miss Pearl, but about Everett’s girlfriend Liz, too. Liz hung out more and more at the hospital.

Couldn’t she wait in the car instead of in my territory?

Her continual loitering led me to feel great surprise to find Everett alone in the hall, leaning up against a wall and looking down at his phone.

A quick check around us proved that he really was alone . . . except for me.

“Everest without an S,” I said.

He looked up from his phone. “Andrea without an E.”

He looked so tired that all my sympathies pinged with understanding. I was so tired too. So I slumped against the wall next to him and looked down at his phone. “Candy Crush?”

He laughed. “Nope. More like soul crush.”

I straightened. “What happened?”

“My sister’s business is opening a new location this weekend. My mom demands that I be there.”

“Don’t you want to go support your sister?”

He laughed again; only this time the sound that came out dripped with acrimony. “I might if it was left up to me to make my own choice. But our mother shoving me feels . . .” he scratched at the back of his neck in agitation. “Feels like shoving.”

“I’m sorry. I know what family obligations are like.”

“You’re one of the few who do. Most people think I’m just being a jerk, but they don’t get it. You have to live with my family to really get it.” He sighed. “It would be better if I didn’t have to go alone.”

It shouldn’t have made me brighten. It really shouldn’t have. But it did. “No Liz?”

He shook his head and glanced down the hall at a couple of orderlies laughing about something we probably didn’t want to know about.

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