1 - Nightshift

Melody’s POV

“Everyone has something they’re not proud of, but you don’t have to be ashamed over it either, you know,” I smiled at Elaine as I sit at her kitchen island.

She scoffs, “Seriously, are you saying you feel no shame in doing a one and done with Charlie last night?”  She removes the cupcakes from the oven and sets them on the cooling rack.

The cackle that left my throat was loud, “Nope,” popping the P, “he deserved it, coming on to me like a love sick pup at his own engagement party, what else could I do,” I shrug.  Eyeing up the cupcakes and then snatched one off the rack.  I take a bite, “he’s lucky I didn’t tell Carla, she’d skin him alive,” I arch a brow, “these are delicious.”

She shakes her head, setting the bowl of icing on the counter, “I’m just saying one of these days you’re going to screw the wrong guy and 1 or 2 things are bound to happen.”

I held up a finger as I swallowed the last of the cupcake, “your right, the 2 things about screwing the wrong guy are 1, the guy who can’t get the job done or 2, thinks, I’m his Miss Wright,” I chuckled.

She shook her head, “no, 1, has a girlfriend or mate that cares about him sleeping around or, 2 you fall hard for a guy that is just like you, a one and done.”

My eyes went wide, and my hand clutched my chest, “you kiss your baby with that filthy mouth of yours,” I shook my head, “never going to happen.”

She bites into a cupcake, frosting melting off it and moans, “hmm, so good,” she looks at me, “just be careful, that’s all I’m saying, not everyone knows that your promiscuity isn’t intended to take their man away from them.”

“Yea, I just like to sample it then put it back into their box, you know like we use to do with chocolates in the valentines hearts,” I giggle.  “I don’t go after men, especially the ones around here, most I know and are aware they’re committed in a relationship, but even so, it’s just a one and done, no strings, no commitment and no seconds, no harm, no foul right?”  I burst into laughter, “it’s not like I screw every guy I meet anyway, not everyone gets a sample of all this you know.”

She arch’s her brow and lower’s her voice, “what you going to say to Carla, if she asks, I mean we’re all going on a cruise next week, she knows you and how you are?”

I smirk, “I can only tell her the truth,” she’s my friend and should have kept a tighter leash on her man, not to keep me from him, but him from me, I shrug, “I’ll tell her, just how lucky her ass is, Charlie’s has a nice package to deliver,” I wiggle my brows.

She slaps my shoulder, “Gross, he’s my brother, remember.”

I slide off the stool and kiss her cheek, “too bad you’re not his twin brother, I’d do you too,” I laugh as I head for the back door, “see you in a few days, I’m starting my 3 on tonight,” I open the door and she shouts out before it closes.

“Behave.”

I laugh as I drive to the hospital, I haven’t behaved in years as far as normal social society thinks anyway.  I shake my head, it’s fine for guys to fuck whomever they want and walk away, or have multiple partners and it’s all accepted, but let a woman decide, she wants variety or not be committed to just one person and oh my God, what a whore.  Fuck all those social norms, or all the closet want-to-be me out there, I’m not hurting a single person, I don’t force anyone to put their dick in my pussy.  Elaine knows I’ll behave, but not as she or anyone else thinks I should.

I walk into the Emergency Room through the ambulance ramp automatic doors, yea security doesn’t like that we do that, but they get over it easily with a quick wink and an eyelash flutter, hell they’ll forget their own names if you blow them a kiss.

I open my locker and realize I need to take some of this stuff home, then close it and put my snacks in the lounge, grabbing one of my juices I head for Lisa.  She goes over each patient with me, “Room 3, an elder woman, possible UTI waiting on lab results.  Room 2, fracture right Ulna, x-ray just came back needs to be put in a splint, pain meds and released with referral.  Room 1,” she sighs heavily, and I cock a brow to her, “he’s been in a car accident, waiting on CT scan results of any internal injuries, already stitched up the gouges in his lower left leg and upper right thigh,” her cheeks blushed and now she’s piqued my curiosity and I pull her into the side hall.”

“What aren’t you saying Lisa?”

She rolls her eyes, “he’s the packs Alpha, he’s the most gorgeous man I’ve ever laid my eyes on and I mean that,” she looks around, “he has a woman in there with him, she was in the accident as well, but received no injuries.” 

I smile, “good to know that we have a GOD in Room 1, I’ll do my best not to bother him,” I roll my eyes and walk to my COW (computer on wheels) and then go to the supply closet and get a splint and head for room 2.  I enter and find a young woman, sitting there in pain, fracturing the Ulna can be a defensive break and the way she keeps eyeing the big guy in the corner of the room, I’m guessing this is just that.  I set the splint and retrieve her pain meds and discharge papers with her referral to an orthopedic to put a cast on her arm.  I can’t do anything to stop what I think is happening to her unless she asks for help.

I check on Room 3, and my sweet elderly lady is sound asleep, her results have come back, and she indeed has a UTI and is in need of IV antibiotics.  I go to the med room and retrieve it and administer it through the port that they placed earlier upon her arrival.  I shut the door quietly and looked at the COW for Room 1’s results.  I pull up the CT scan and no internal bleeding and he is good to go, I know my rooms will be full again shortly, it’s an ED and nighttime.  I knock and walk into the room and his monitor’s begin to beep all at once, I head for them, seeing his blood pressure and heart rate elevating to unsafe levels and too quickly and hit the code blue button with my free hand as my foot hits the stretcher pedal putting it in a flat position immediately.  The RESUS team floods the room, and I pull his woman out of the room shutting the door behind me.