CHAPTER 7

"You're awake..." I heard a soft, familiar beautiful voice talking to me while stroking my hair.

"Mike..." I said peacfully, still not opening my eyes. I knew that's him. I heard a small giggle and my heart wanted to explode. How can I be so into this guy?

"How are you feeling?" He was still talking to with his soft voice which was making my body melt. He stopped stroking my hair and I finally opened my eyes and sat up.

"I am okay but my ribs hurt." I said weakly. He kissed me on my cheek barely touching my face, just that I can feel his fresh breath on my skin. Fresh mint. His breath always smells like fresh mint.

"I missed you on our date." He said playfully, letting me go, and looking straight in my eyes. His eyes were shiny and wattery, it looked like he is genuinely worried.

"Oh stop it." I said shyly covering my face with hands. I heard he chuckled.

"So, what the doctor said? I mean, your mom?" He smiled widely from ear to ear like he did something bad. Well, no, he didn't do anything bad. Anything bad at all. I smiled too, feeling redness all over my face.

Besides going on a date with his student.

"How-?" I looked at him puzzled.

"Well my... I mean, I heard she is a Director here." He smiled acidly. Did I heard something like -My...- or? He just mixed the words, nothing else. Right?

"Oh..." I said a little worried. What if he wanted to say my girlfriend? Or my wife? But then again, he had sex with me, our meeting in a hallway of the school, asking me on a date, and his behaviour towards me... No way he has someone. Right?

"Hey ho Jess!" Hannah came into my room making Mike go little further away from me. I backed off a little bit too, and I shook my head trying to stop me from overthinking this. "Oh please, don't have to hide." She smiled and winked to him, making him giggle. I rolled my eyes and sighed annoyingly.

"Hannah." Mike nodded and smiled to jer, showing his perfectly white teeths.

"I just came to see you before I go to our apartment." She came by my bed and hugged me. I moaned, twitching. "Still hurts?" She backed off with her I am sorry-face.

"It's ok, don't worry." I smiled at her encouraging. "How's your date with George?" I smiled to Hannah and she cheerfully sat on my bed. She almost started talking when we heard Mike's cough. For a second, we forgot he's there!

"I will leave you girls alone ok? I can't hear about my student's relationship." He said suppressing the laughter. We didn't said anything, just smiled. I looked down, slightly emberresed.

"Sure teach." Hannah said smiling widely and I slowly hit her under her ribs. "What? I can't call him Mike, I don't know him that well as you do. I can't call him professor because I heard all about his body. So..." I covered her mouth with my hand. I instantly blushed and smiled acidly.

Can she just stop talking?!

"She's joking. I didn't talk about your..." I swallow a big dumpling as I remembered all the times I talked to Hannah about his every ab by ab. "...Body." I said as I smiled awkwardly, trying to sound somewhat casual. Hannah tried to say something but I was still holding my hand on her lips, which I pressed harder this time.

"I understand, I'm hot!" He winked at me and came by my bed. "I'll be right back." As he leaned forward, ignoring the fact that Hannah was sitting on my bed, kissed me slowly on my forehead and walked out of the room. I let Hannah go because my whole body sunddenly became numb!

Wow!

"Hot? Sexy as fuck!" She stated when he closed away the doors.

"Shhhhhh! He can still hear you!" I said gently hitting her on her hand. She giggled and I laughed too.

"So. George and my date." She started talking as she sat up straight on my bed.

"Yes." I nodded impatiently.

"We went to some bar I didn't knew even exists. He was soooooo sweet!" She started blushing and I giggled. "We talked about how he decided medicine, about her childhood-"

"Gorilla?" I interrupted her. She looked at me seriously.

"She is not like that at home! George said that she is the most perfect mother you ever wanted! Not strict at all! She is the kindest person ever!" I looked at her shockingly.

"No way!" I opened my mouth widely.

"Yes way, dude!" She repeated my gesture.

"Then?" I looked at her puzzled, making her giggle.

"Well, he touched my hand and somehow, we kissed." She said as she covered her face with hands.

"Cute!" I said clapping my hands like I'm a small kid.

"No, I didn't want that to happened!" I barely understood her because she still had a covered face.

"What? Why?" I started shaking my head disappointingly.

"I like him. I do. But I need to focus on my medicine now, you know..." She started explaining.

"Hannah. No, you sound just like my mother!" I said to her, as I sighed deeply.

"I don-" She tried to talk but I didn't let her.

"I know what you're doing. You are trying to chase him away even though you like him. Just because you don't let anybody in." I said and I took her hand. She looked at me with her sad, puppy eyes.

"I can't..." She said weakly and barely audible.

"You will." I said trying to sound commanding. The one thing I got from my mother.

"Maybe If we will be just friends first..." She started talking and I nodded. I know what she's trying to say. Friends first, lovers later. Smart. This is a big step for her and I am really proud of her.

"Just friend huh?!" George entered my room with a disappointed look.

"George, no..." Hannah stood up quickly.

"She didn't..." I tried to explain.

"Spare me." He said angrily and shut the door very strongly behind him.

What just happened?

"Hannah..." I said to her lightly. "Come here." I patted the spot beside me on my bed and she sat there again.

"What will I do now?" She asked me. I could see in her eyes she's going to cry.

"Don't worry. I will solve this." I hugged her. "We must go." I said to her when I looked at a clock. Big, important meeting to attend.

"Oh, yes..." She said listlessly. She helped me to stand on my feet. It hurt and I moaned but I couldn't stop. I must go to that meeting or my mom will kill me in my sleep.

"Baby, it will be okay." I hugged her but soon, the pain stopped me. I sat on my bed.

"You okay?" Hannah asked me worried.

"Fine enough." I sighed deeply and stood up again. So, lets go.

***

We entered a big room with a hundreds of seats and a stage. Like some theatre. I looked across the room and I could see some students sitting on their chair, waiting the meeting to begin. On the stage, there was 4 chairs. I looked at Hannah puzzled and we sat in the 2nd row. Almost every student looked at me. I could hear them saying: Look, Miller's daughter. or She will definitely be an intern here, her mom is like the President of this place or even Wow, what happened to her ribs? as they saw my bandage all across my chest. I was started blushing so as we sat, I try to hide my face.

"Fellow students and future interns!" My mom came near the microphone. We all sat up straight in our chair. We were all ears, including me and Hannah. "You are here to be our future. This hospital takes a new interns every years hoping to make a better surgeons." I rolled out my eyes. If she continue to talk like this, we will fall asleep.

***

I think I slept a little during her speech. I smiled to myself and looked towards stage.

"I present you the best Cardiological Surgeon in Seattle and further, the woman who literally holds a human heart in her hands, and in the future, your boss accept me, Ann Dupont."

Hannah and I looked at each other and then the woman with long brown hair tied back in a ponytail approached the microphone. She was the most beautiful woman I ever seen, and that's not my own opinion, every eyes in this room was looking at her perfectly shaped body and the most gorgeous smile they ever seen. She was wearing a white/yellow half-opened shirt so that you could saw edges of her white push-up. So classy, so modern, so perfect, so Dupont!

"Sister?" I whispered softly, and barely audible to Hannah without taking my eyes off of her.

"She better be!" Hannah said into my ear still looking at her. I felt my heart was about to pop out. I felt a fire going through my body from my toe to my head. I even got shakes on my head.

His wife?

I took my breath. She better be his sister!