"Good afternoon Miss Mayu!"
"Good afternoon Mayu!"
"Hello Mayu"
"Hi Mayu"
"Mayu!"
Mayu took a took a deep breath before she turned to look at the person speaking. You're the fifth one now [trying to be friendly with me], she silently complained.
"Good morning Ben!"
"What time is your shift today? Are you about to go home?"
"I'm on the morning shift. I guess I got a pile of luck with me. Ehehe," the male nurse smiled back. He's obviously trying to get her attention but she's not in the mood for any of that right now. She can't even find the time to speak to anyone right now. She felt so exhausted today. Maybe because she's now getting transfered from the operating field to the emergency room. Compared to the operating rooms that can only be utilized as scheduled, the emergency room caters a number of patients a load times more.
She accepted her brother's job offer since she really has nothing to do now. Anyway, she won't be losing anything if she goes back to the hospital. She's a nurse after all. Her grandfather made sure that she won't cheat her way out of this as well. He said she will only receive daily allowance and get her salary by the end of the month like all their employees.
He's most probably trying to be one step ahead of her. She once exploited this kind of opportunity before. He asked her to take up med after her college graduation from nursing. She obediently went to school until prelims but after she was given the entire amount of her school fees, she took off and traveled around the country. When she came back, she started working at the hospital.
Not bad, she thought. He's being careful now, she thought of her grandfather. She also thinks she can get new ideas just by mingling with patients. Not that she'll let out information about them but rather she'll get to see a lot of human behaviors and responses.
She'll be hitting two birds with one stone (1) this way. She's smiling silly to herself while marching out of the hospital when one of the nurses yelled at her to move aside while running towards her. She's helping push a stretcher towards the hospital. A doctor followed suit who's rushing to take his robe off before he stopped and spoke to her.
"Please prepare for emergency explore lap (2). We got a serious car crash here." and he just left her gaping there. The doctor did not bother talking to anyone else anymore. Shit, I'm already out. She hurriedly went back to the nurses' station and swung her bag.
"Milly, look after my bag please," she said before running towards the clean room (3).
"Alice." (4)
"Kelly." (4)
"Metz." (4)
"Richardson." (4)
"Mayu."
Mayu felt all eyes staring at her while she hands the retractor to the surgeon. She shrugged her shoulders. The rest of the team focused back on what they're doing except for the head surgeon.
"What?" she lazily asked. I'm so hungry now. It's almost eleven when she glanced at the clock by the door. I did not notice we've been operating for five hours now. Which means I've been fasting for five hours, too. Uhuhu. Holy week is still too far but why do I feel like I'm getting crucified.
"Are you alright Mayu?" he asked while stitching up the patient's insides.
"I'm hungry." She bluntly replied. Her co-nurses and the doctors started giggling at her complains. They're more relaxed now knowing the patient has stabilized. Hmp! If my stomach rumbles here, you'll all be dead. I'll put you all on this operating table, she continued complaining in her mind.
"Oh no, Kris. We made Mayu hungry. She may reduce our pay because of this," one of the surgeons joked as they laughed. The head surgeon seemed touched and kindly looked at her. She stucked out her tongue. They won't see it anyway as all of them are wearing masks.
"You can take your break if you want, we're almost done here anyway."
"It's fine doc." She saw his expression changed, he looked amused. Grrr. I hate you big brother. Had you not asked me to return at the operating room, I may be having a feast at home now while I'm watching anime. I'm really itching to punch you now. On second thought, I think your face is really pretty for such a damage so I'll just yell at you later on. She grinned to herself.
"We'll do the inventory afterwards, Mayu. Especially you've already gone overtime."
"Overtime? What are you talking about? Isn't it supposed to be normal?" she joked. Her colleagues laughed with her. There's truth in what she said anyway. One can't escape it on this kind of profession.
Actually, she's already gone overtime even before the operation as some paperworks needed to be completed before she can transfer to the emergency room. It's supposed to be completed by the next shift but her colleague called in late due to her child running a fever. She volunteered to do it as the woman has been good to her since she came back to practice. She may not want to accept it but she's actually enjoying the job again.
"Mayu."
"Mayu."
"Mayu."
"Mayuuuu!!!" she annoyingly grappled whoever it was that yelled on her ears and rained that person with determined punches. She knew a little bit of martial arts when her brother brought her along while courting a martial arts student. She was his best excuse trying to catch the girl's attention. Hmm, I wonder if they hooked up.
She sat ultimately making her opponent keep her down on the floor. She did not let this person easily win, she started biting back. She just heard her brother's laughter echo in the room, so it was him all along! She sat up straight and glared at him.
"Yes? You have a problem?" but instead of responding, he still kept on laughing. She's about to growl at him when he finally spoke.
"Ah, you never change. You always cheat." then he roared laughing again. Suddenly she felt like listening to his laughter, he's contagious. She then felt her shoulders shaking from laughter. They've been laughing and joking around when her brother spoke again.
"Are you really not coming back?" he asked. She looked at him, he didn't look serious, he looked sad though. She wondered why.
"I already did." There goes the hurt look again, he always has this look everytime they discuss her return to the hospital. Somehow she felt like her brother thinks she is shutting him away and just leaving him with all the responsibility.
"You don't have to look sad, you know," she reached to touch him.
"Huh?"
"Everytime we talk about this, you looked sad." He looked alarmed.
"I'm not..."
"Fine. Go ahead and deny. But you can't deny you're getting old," and she tried to make him laugh again while tickling him.
"What? Hahaha. Stop it.Hahaha." she stopped.
"But seriously, don't think that I'm leaving all the responsibilities to you. I'm still your little sister, always looking up her brother. And I will always support you," he sighed and smiled.
"Yeah, I guess I'm still your older brother." he stood up and left her room.
"Of course you are! Do I look like your older sister? You're the old geezer here." he saw him turn around with knotted eyebrows so she got ahead and locked the door before she she swung herself back on her bed and erupted in more laughters.
She heard him loudly knock on her door but she did not dare opened it. He's just gonna hit her if she does. However, his knocks became loud banging and he's now also screaming behind the door. She's starting to get annoyed again so she walked towards the door and opened it. She has not even taken a breath to yell at him when he yanked her outside her room.
"I was just joking." she raised her hands in surrender and closed her eyes, trying to brace for impact in case he does hit her.
"Get the car ready!" she frowned.
"You have your own driver's licence and the contract has already been completed three days ago..."
"Gramps is having a stroke," that's the last word she heard and everything went whirlwind.
1. Get two results in one shot.
2. Process of opening one's abdomen to check if there are problems inside and make necessary reparations if needed.
3. Place to clean and try to 'sterilize' oneself before doing any procedure in the hospital.
4. These are all medical instruments.