Destined Love (Jenlisa Adaptation)

Part 16

"Rosé, can you give the guy a seventh shot of titanus and contact the lab about the results of the blood culture and clotting test?"

"Of course." Rosé leaned over, resting her elbows on the counter, and looked intently at Jennie, who was making notes on a patient's chart. Jennie had been alarmingly quiet all morning, and sometimes it even seemed as if she was avoiding everyone and Rosé in particular. "Is something wrong?"

"Brown recluse bite."

Rosé barely held back a sharp reply. "Except you have a patient who was bitten by a spider."

"Nope," Jennie replied succinctly, not looking away from the brief statement for the college student who'd decided it would be really nice to spend last night in the park with his friends. Now all he had to remember that night by was a hangover and a palm-sized inflamed area on the inside of his thigh. With any luck, the bite would go away without permanent skin damage.

"Where's Lisa today?" insisted Rosé. "Shouldn't she be out on the day shift?"

Jennie looked up, her eyes flashing with irritation. "Is there some reason you think I should know where she is?"

"Um... how about you're the head of the emergency room, and you make the work schedule?"

"She'll have a couple days off," Jennie slammed the metal tablet with the card and tossed it into the compartment labeled <Reviewed>. "Who's next?"

Rosée wiggled an eyebrow, but said nothing.

"What?" said Jennie with an effort, unable to ignore her friend's steady gaze any longer.

The answer to her was silence.

"In case you hadn't noticed," Jennie pointed out with feigned patience in her voice. "We've got a lot of patients here. So maybe we can concentrate on work for a while after all, okay?"

"Oh, of course. Here's if we had a surgeon who could help us, we could probably take care of the boy in exam room ten with the chin cleft and maybe even the elderly lady in room twelve who fell and seems to have broken her femoral neck."

Jennie gritted her teeth and mentally counted to ten. "I'll examine a possible hip fracture right now. Can the head nurse take care of the dissection?"

"Yes, Dr. Kim," Rosé replied sweetly.

"Thank you." Jisoo pulled out the patient's card in room twelve and withdrew.

Jennie hadn't slept well, she had woken up tired and was now on edge and badly out of sorts. As soon as she could get in touch with someone in administration, she set up an appointment with one of the hospital's lawyers, a specialist in medical malpractice. Of course, the closest free time she could count on was tomorrow morning. And that meant the earliest she could get an answer for Lisa wasn't until tomorrow afternoon.

Two days. Two days isn't that long. It's just a little bit.

Despite the fact that Lisa had only been working in the ER for a short time, after only a couple of hours without her, Jennie couldn't help but notice that she felt like something important was missing. The feeling echoed in her with a nagging ache that made Jennie irritable, distracted, and dissatisfied.

Stop making it seem more important than it is. It's just a regular crazy Monday. No one wants to spend the weekend in the ER, but now, suddenly every minor sore spot is a disaster. It has nothing to do with Lisa not being here today. I certainly don't miss her. I mean, I miss her expertise. But I don't miss her.

Satisfied that things weren't going so badly, Jennie pulled back the curtain, and with a smile on her lips, entered the small exam room. She glanced at the card, and then at the elderly woman on the bed. "Ms. Richards? My name is Dr. Kim. Can you tell me what happened to you this morning?"