Missing You Already Ch. 01

There are points in your life when you know that things are going to change. Some are really small really trivial things and others can a total hairpin curve on the direction your life was going in. Waking up I could already tell this one going to be one of those points. My alarm woke me up in the morning so I could go to work, but I had that whole feels like you've got hair all over your tongue things going on so I decided to stop and grab some coffee. Just as I was walking in I accidentally bumped into this girl and made her drop her cup. "Oh my god I am so sorry, here let me help you with that." I said grabbing tissues and bending down to help her.

"Hey no big deal it was an accident," she replied.

"Well let me get you a new drink, that's the least I can do." I used my best sincere voice

"Well that would be very nice, my name's Emily."

"Pleasure to meet you Emily, the names Lee." I announced

We walked back up to the counter and I bought us drinks. I told her I had to get to work and left on that note. God damnit! I should have asked for her number! I'm always like this when it comes to women, stupid and clumsy. I went through the whole day thinking about her and what could have been. I decided to go talk to my buddy Zach about it. I really should have mentioned it earlier but Zach and I are both really close friends and residents at a hospital in Columbus. A resident is a one step above intern and one below real doctor.

"Hey Zach you got a minute, I need to talk to you about something." I said as I approached him in the break room.

"You need help with a patient?" he asked me

"No, I, well I did it again." I struggled with the words

"Did what again?" he had no idea what I was talking about

"Well this morning at the coffee shop I met this pretty girl who seemed to be into me and I just blew her off and came here." I admitted to him

"Oh my god, you're a real Casanova aren't you. How many times are you going to do this before you learn? When that happens get the girls number, remember my first rule?" he asked me

"Always get the number" I chanted in an emotionless voice

Zach is what you would call a ladies man and always has a girlfriend. In medical school he was the one who partied hard and I was the one who studied hard, it's always been like that since I can remember. But as a result I'm the better doctor and I never let him forget it. When you work at a hospital as a doctor you need help from a lot of different people. So as a result you become friends with a lot of people. Other than Zach my best friend at the hospital was a nurse named Jenna. She was one of the few women I felt comfortable around and we hung out regularly.

"Hey Jen I'm gonna need Mr. Burke's vitals and could you get a CT on Mrs. Reid?" I asked her, I was really swamped today and needed all the help I could get.

"Sure...hey Lee, could you please come out with me to a party tonight. I just wanna go out and I don't need guys hitting on me all night. Plus I'm pretty sure you could use a night on the town as much as I could." She said to me

I had to think for about half a second before replying, "Sure I'll go with you, you're probably the only girl I'll be going out with any time soon anyways." Man this coffee girl thing was really getting to me.

"Hey I know what I know what we can do. Tonight we are gonna find you a woman. I'll help you find some hot chick you can screw all night long." That is exactly what I loved about Jenna, she was just like one of the guys.

"You're too good to me, you do know that right. Fine we'll go on a chick mission tonight. As soon as we get off work we'll go." I told her as I walked away

I went through rounds and finished my day pretty ordinary. At least according to Jenna I had a night of meaningless sex to look forward to. But she and I both knew I didn't do that. I always feel guilty for like a week every time I have a one-night stand. I met Jenna at the entrance to the hospital and we set out on our mission.

"You should stay in your scrubs tonight, it'll help with the ladies." She told me

"I was going to, I don't know I guess I just really like the respect you get from people you get when they know you're a doctor." Replied back

"Well good, let's get going shall we?"

I drove us to one of the bars me and her usually hang out at and we sat down and ordered us a few drinks. I scoped the place out and there were some really attractive girls around but something in me just didn't want to hook up tonight.

"You see any hot little thing yet?" Jen asked me

"Me and you both know I don't wanna do anything tonight." I angrily replied back to her

"Well you don't have to be mean about it Dr. Berg" she called me Dr. Berg when she was mad at me

"Well I'm sorry 'bout that, as an apology I'll go buy the next round." I said getting up from my seat

"Your damn right you'll buy the next round." She shot back at me

I walked over to the bar and ordered our drinks and while I was waiting for them I felt someone tap my shoulder.

"Hey handsome." I heard some anonymous woman say to me

"I'm here with somebody." I said as I turned around not wanting to pick up some girl tonight. But as I turned around I noticed this wasn't some girl, it was Emily!

"Well in that case I better get going then." She said

"No wait I'm not with somebody, well I am "with" somebody but not in the sense that..."

"Ok, ok I understand what you mean. So what have you been up to since the coffee incident?" she asked

"I'm sorry when I'm around beautiful girls I tend to act like an idiot. You know I have been kicking myself since the incident that I didn't ask you for your number. Anyways I'm just here hanging out with my friend from work." I told her

"Thanks for saying I'm beautiful and I notice you're a doctor, cool. You know I totally would have given you my number too. But I guess tonight you're just gonna have to work for it." She said in a very coy tone of voice.

"Let me buy you a drink...again. Then you can go meet my friend."

"You know that would be just about perfect." She replied

We walked back to where me and Jenna were sitting and to my complete surprise when I sat down Jenna didn't see Emily and the first words out of her mouth were, "Hey Lee I just saw some girl that totally wants to fuck you."

"Jenna this Emily she's the girl I told you about at work today." I said through barred teeth

"Oh, very nice to meet you Emily. I hope you know Lee has been really beating himself up about what happened between you two." She told Emily

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you too Jenna. So where's this girl that's going to fuck Lee, I've got to see if she's prettier than me." Emily said back

"Trust me she's not. So is this a date between you two because I could totally get out of your hair." Jenna told us

"You're no probl..." I was cut off by Jenna jumping up and going over to some guy and proceeded to engage him in conversation.

"Well I guess that matters settled." I said, "So just for reference is this a date or what?"

"Well stud I guess that just depends." She replied in a sexy voice

"Well I guess it's a miracle that we both ended up in the same place tonight. If I didn't know any better I'd think you were stalking me." I told her

"Well if you play your cards right I just might start." She said while brushing up against my arm

"God you are beautiful." I told her, "Why would you ever waste your time with me."

"Because I've been in a few relationships with huge jackasses and believe it or not you a the first guy I've met in a long time that was a real gentleman. Plus it really doesn't hurt that you keep calling me beautiful." She answered

"Well I'm glad you think I'm a gentleman, and I'm surprised you wouldn't be more used to hearing that you're beautiful, because you really are." I said to her still not believing this girl was interested in me

"There you go being so sweet again...sooooo I guess we should get started with the small talk. What do you do?" she asked me even though she knew the answer

"Well I'm a nurse," I saw her almost choke on her drink, "I'm just kidding I'm a doctor at hospital downtown."

"Wow, he's funny too." She said regaining some of her composure

"Well I like to think so, so what do you do?" I was obligated to ask her

"I work at a clothing store downtown, it's a really cool place. I really enjoy working there, it's like I'm doing something I like and I'm not broke so I guess my life is good right now." She told me

"Well that's really good for you, I wish I could say the same thing about my life right now." I admitted to her

"Why what's wrong with your life," she leaned in to look at my ID badge, "Dr. Berg."

"Well as for the doing something I enjoy, I really like helping people and not to brag but I'm pretty sure that saving lives is right up the alley of helping people. But the job is extremely demanding which leaves little time for an active social life, hence why I have no girlfriend. And as for the not broke part, let's just say if I was in debt up to something on my body, even if I stood on Shaq's shoulders I wouldn't be able to see the top of my debt." I told her

"Wow, that's some pretty heavy stuff man. I can't even imagine how stressful that must be for you. Well you should enjoy yourself tonight, here I'll help you get started." She said as she leaned over and gave me a little peck on the lips

"That's very generous of you, I'm starting to have a good time already." I said as I downed the rest of my beer

I probably drank my own weight in beer last night. It's all pretty much a blur to me. I remember Emily and I got along extremely well and we both had a lot to drink. I woke up the next morning with the biggest headache I've ever had in my life and just assumed I got drunk last night, came home and went to be end of story. But as I stretched out on the bed I hit something with my arm, what the hell is that...Oh my god! It was Emily. I remembered us getting smashed last night, we must have come back to my place and had sex. I totally panicked and got dressed and left for work. I didn't even shower or clean myself up, I just bolted.