Someone Special by Teresa Roman

Author:Teresa Roman [Roman, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

After a few days off from work I couldn’t wait to go back. Work was the only thing that distracted me from thinking about Jude. The day started like any other. I woke up before the sun was even out, threw on my scrubs, combed my hair, ate a quick breakfast and dabbed on some lip gloss before rushing out of my apartment.

It was overcast that morning, which only made my glum mood worse. But I managed to cheer up after arriving to work. Maybe it was the box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts that Dr. Singh had brought in. I could easily eat three of those in one sitting, especially the chocolate iced ones. Or maybe it was because Eric wasn’t there. Every time I saw him I couldn’t help but wonder why I hadn’t realized what an arrogant little ass he was before I’d gotten into bed with him. And I also wondered if things between me and Jude would be different now if Eric and I had never gotten together.

The first two hours of my morning brought the usual. Two patients with chest pain, a teenager with an asthma exacerbation and a little girl who broke her arm after falling off the monkey bars at school. We had no ER tech that early in the morning so I put the girl’s splint on myself. When I finished, I headed down the hallway in search of Lisa, the physician assistant who was caring for the girl, so I could tell her I was done. I was almost all the way down the hall when I heard someone banging loudly on the ambulance entrance doors.

Those doors were meant for the paramedics and police only, and they knew the code to get in. Annoyed, I hit the button that opened the doors ready to give whoever was behind them a piece of my mind. The main ER entrance was only a few feet away and clearly marked. But as the doors slid open I realized why the person behind them had been banging. A panicked man with a small, totally unresponsive child in his arms rushed in. Tears streaked his face. “Help me,” he cried out as he ran toward me.

I quickly turned my head and called out, “Someone get a gurney now.”

Things happened so quickly after that. Dr. Singh, who must’ve heard me yell, ran out of the office just as one of the nurses came out of a room with a gurney. The sobbing man placed his child down on it.

“What happened to him?” Dr. Singh asked.

“I . . . I was backing out of my driveway.” He didn’t need to finish the story. I knew right away what had happened. My heart sank as he kept talking. “I didn’t see him. I was running late for work. I thought he was in the house. With his mom. Oh God.” He was crying so much it was hard to get every word. “And then I felt myself hit something.

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